History: Alternate Orthographies

Source of version: 12 (current)

See also ((Lojban Ideography)) !!!Latin *A ((Loglan))-compatible orthography for the purposes of rapproachment with the ((TLI)) has been proposed: [http://balance.wiw.org/~jkominek/lojban/9602/msg00071.html] . Since the rapproachment never eventuated, the proposal is in limbo. *((And Rosta)) is notorious for using (''but only prior to the baseline and publication of ((Codex Woldemar|Woldy))!'') and ((Mark Shoulson)) is still sympathetic to, ((apostropheless alternative orthographies)). *It's been proposed to use acute accent marks instead of those ugly capitals in order to mark stress. It's not ASCII, but it's still Latin-1. '''I assume you mean one of { ` }?''' ** Accute = /; grave = \. *((Capitals as letter names)) *How about ((Lojban calligraphy))? !!!Extant Scripts *((The Book)) describes a Cyrillic orthography for Lojban, devised by ((Ivan Derzhanski)). The equivalences are as you'd expect; ''y'' is represented by the hard sign (as in Bulgarian). As originally designed, ' was represented by the soft sign, but in the Book ' is used unchanged. Period and comma are also unchanged. *Adam & .aulun. have given us a ((Hebrew Orthography)) finally based on Yiddish writing conventions (proving to be best for Lojban). *I propose an ((Arabic Orthography)) -- mi'e filip. ** ( one is documented [http://groups.google.com/group/lojban/browse_thread/thread/1fe6b70c875c3a2b|here] ) *((kreig.daniyl.)) has written an orthography for ((estrangela)). *A ((Katakana Orthography)) is being mooted. *About to lose his last sense for rationality, .aulun.'s pondering about a ((Hiragana)) script for Lojban. :( **How about mixing Katakana and Hiragana? (!) -- tk1@despammed.com *While we're having fun with strange scripts, how about a ((Mongolian)) orthography? *Speaking of Mongolian, here's another [http://www.angelfire.com/folk/sm0p/lojban-bithe.html|Mongol orthography.] **(To be precise, it's a ((Manchu orthography)).) *And there's also a ((Devanagari orthography)) now. *Perhaps we should try a ((Hangul)) orthography. **Eek, you just beat me to suggesting it! **Sorry! [http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/mesg/smileys/4.gif] *How's about a ((Georgian Orthography))? *((jbopomofo)) !!!Fictional Scripts *The [http://www.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/u/relipper/tolkien/rootpage.html|Tolkien] script [http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/4948/tengwar/index.htm|Tengwar] has been ((Tengwar|proposed as another way of writing Lojban)). The proposal originally came from prominent ex-Lojbanist [http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/|Eric Raymond], which has made its repute spread far and wide. **__((Why Tengwar?))__ <- [[discussion on whether this is a Good Thing] *The ((Apollonian alphabet)) has also been proposed. *((pne|I)) have also played around with a ((Verdurian orthography)). See also ((Technical Issues With Alternate Orthographies)). !!!Original Scripts *((Original lojban orthography|Proposal for a totally original orthography for lojban)) *Lindar's [http://groups.google.com/group/lojban/msg/9a0a9c276e6f8f1f|larlermorna] *[https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AiofPj-7nZpwdHppa3oxU2hGUDdQSWxmZDhaWTdBaUE&hl=en&authkey=CJyrpOQD|ctino's version] of [http://www.ccelian.com/ElianScriptFull.html|Elian script] !!!Related silliness * ((R2D2 Lojban)) * ((Proper Lojban Orthography))