Thank you for posting Neil!
It may be odd, it was based on Ethiopic.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ge%27ez_alphabetNeil Mimetes wrote:
One question: have you considered how this script would interact with your phonological constraints? For example: are word-frontal vowels possible, and if so, how are they written? Are diphthongs possible, and how would they be written?
Yes, but I have not developed them much yet. Things such as your examples, and any sound not in the writing system, would need additions to the script.
I believe frontal vowels would be represented by the h syllables, and it would simply be taught that in certain words the initial h is silent. But frontal vowels would not be very common.
I do not believe there are any diphthongs, or very few. The word would be split, and a frontal vowel would start the second part. This would be one of the few instances of a frontal vowel.
A Mayan script has it so that if a syllable ends a word its vowel is silent.
And of course English does not even consider Aleph to be a consonant, and it is implied where ever a vowel begins a word. Hebrew considers it a consonant, and uses it in the middles of words, so that we would have to split the word to pronounce it the way they do. The word Israel for example has Aleph in the middle, and we would have to spell it in two words, isra el, to pronounce it the way it is in Hebrew.
