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Sano- 04-20-2008
Madri
http://www.omniglot.com/writing/madri.php Madri started in the early sixties as a "secret writing" invented by Peter J. Franke in the Netherlands. First it followed the Roman alphabet, but it soon turned into a phonetic system for Dutch. Over time more characters for neighboring languages were included. After Peter studied the IPA, Madri evolved into a world wide compatible phonetic alphabet. It now contains 152 characters for vowels (mono-, diph- and triphthongs), consonants and also numerals, diacritics, suprasegmentals and combined characters. The name Madri comes from the ancient Hindu epic, the Mahabharata, in which Madri is the second wife of Pandu. It seems a bit bulky and unrefined to me, but it does cover a large portion of sounds...although I've never been overly excited about phonetic writing systems this one has a slight aesthetic appeal.

chicken-pot Wy- 04-21-2008

Reminiscent of SE Asia scripts. I wouldn't be too happy with it if my language had /ɯ/.

eldin raigmore- 04-22-2008

I'd say the various characters are too hard to tell apart.

beidhsiocann- 05-02-2008

It is a bit hard to read. But it also looks like it was done with a marker, and the scan is rather messy. Still, some more development could improve it. Agree about /ɯ/, heh

chicken-pot Wy- 05-16-2008

The creator of Madri recently showed up on Omniglot forum. http://www.omniglot.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=577

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