I mean scripts like Shavian or Quikscript. Are these script useful to you in your day-to-day life? How are they better than the original scripts of your language?
wingdings
ᛁᛏᛋ᛫ᛒᛖᛡᛋᛏ᛫ᚩᚠ᛫ᛟᚠᚠ᛫ᚱᚣᚹᚾᛉ᛬ᛁᛏᛋ᛫ᚠᚢᚾ᛫ᛒᚢᛏ᛫ᚾᚩᛏ᛫ᛡᚣᚹᛋᚠᛟᛚ᛫ᚻᚪᚻᚪ
Letter by letter:
Its beist of uv ruwnz. Its fun but not yuwsful haha
It’s based off of runes. It’s fun but not useful haha
I hadn’t heard about them until now. Here’s a Wikipedia article.
As a parent teaching kids to read, I’d love an alphabet that didn’t have the stupid ambiguities of current English. Trying to explain to a kid that “c” can make a few different sounds is a pain in the butt.
The writing system has its flaws too.
- I and l look the same.
- 0 and O look the same.
- Why are their two totally different cases? Q looks nothing like q and the distinction serves no communicative purpose
- Similarly, why is there printed letters and joined-up letters – two totally different ways of writing?
- Loops are sometimes merely stylistic, but some letters like say b has a loop that is essential to it.
- b and d are mirror-images, and this confuses some children
- “dot your I-s and cross your T-s” – the pen has to be lifted from the page to do this, so people don’t always bother.
Some of these might sound like non-issues to grown-ups, but they’re hard for children.
joined-up letters
Do you mean cursive?
Hindi and many other Indian regional languages frequently use the Latin script on electronic devices for casual communication.
For example, Kya haal hai -> क्या हाल है? -> how’s it going?
I don’t even know how to type the original script version.
No, I wasn’t talking about this - this is basically romanization of Hindi, because phones with Hindi keyboards weren’t a thing back then, and it kinda stayed that way.
What I meant was the constructed language system, like for example, the Bharati script, or the Manjikana system of writing.
From the perspective of a Hindi speaker Latin might as well be a constructed alphabet. It has less similarities to Devanagari than any other Indian writing system. It seems to organically fill the same role that constructed systems were meant for
