Re: Munhan Munhan. Discuss.
Pretty, but not completely functional...
How would one make a glyph for snide or smirk?
chicken-pot Wy- 03-27-2008
Yeah.
It would lend itself pretty well to a CV(C) language, but English not so much. I emailed the creator once about how to represent /dZ/ or /tS/ and he basically said to get creative.
I suppose words like snide or smirk could be written by cheating on the syllabification /s@naId/ or /s@m@r@k/. 'Smirked' or 'strength' would get a bit silly.
I wonder if we could put our heads together and fix it. It seems like an elegant little system for languages without a lot of clusters.
It would be extremely unsuitable for Salish or Abkhaz.
OK, I tried it out and it works fairly well, actually. I think this is how you would do the two examples you mentioned. The second example is not very pretty, but still workable.
Sano- 03-28-2008
Not bad, but I still think the overall script lacks functionality and as you mentioned is best suited for strict CV(C) langs.
eldin raigmore- 03-28-2008
Aside from agreeing with all the previous posts; I'd say:
Munhan is impressive for how close it came to its goal and how well it did so. It's definitely worth looking at for ideas.
But it didn't quite succeed, IMO, in what its creator wanted, assuming I understood that correctly.
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Aside from syllable-onset consonant-clusters, syllable-coda consonant-clusters, and clusters of three or more consonants, doesn't it also lack a way to handle non-pulmonic or non-egressive consonants such as clicks? Or a way to distinguish rounding, "r-coloring", advanced-tongue-root, or nasalisation of vowels?
Or co-articulation of consonants?
Or phonemic length?
Or tone?
Maybe those were all outside the goals of the creator.
Anyway; I think it would make a fine syllabary/featurography (sort of like Hangul) for a language which didn't have any of those things mentioned above.
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