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eldin raigmore

How many characters are in your conscript?
16 or fewer?
17 to 64?
65 to 256?
257 to 4096?
4097 to 65536?
More than 65536?

(In case the numbers look weird to you, they're powers of 2.
2^2=4
2^4=16
2^6=64
2^8=256
2^12=4,096
2^16=65,536
2^24=16,777,216
2^32 > 4096 million)

Adpihi's script could have up to 2^28 ~~ 256 million characters, but it doesn't have that many; there's some redundancy.
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langover94 · Joined: 21 Aug 2007 Posts: 509 Location: USA

Do the number of characters include capitals?
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eldin raigmore · Posted: Sat Jul 12, 2008 6:02 pm Post subject:

Hemicomputer · Joined: 04 Feb 2008 Posts: 610 Location: Calgary, Alberta

Holxûs:
19 consonants, 8 vowels, 1 voicer dot, an arc-shaped diacritic, 5 punctuation.
Total: 34

Cohkao(new one, to replace Nzoegao):
EDIT AGAIN: It now has 30 letters, 1 diacritic, 2 punctuation
Total: 33

Kae:
Nothing on paper presently. It's going to use "logograph blocks", so each root would have a character, and these are combined into blocks to form the words. So, that would mean A LOT of characters.
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Aert · Joined: 03 Jul 2008 Posts: 354

Aert: Romanization: 41 + capitals = 82 (26 base letters, 15 accented letters), although 2 are rarely used.
Punctuation: the usual, so I guess 7
Numerals 0-9
Total: 99

Aert script: (no capitals) 45 (4 nasal vowels on their way out).
Punctuation: 6 so far: apostraphe, brackets, hyphen, long hyphen, and a number indicator, which may be on it's way out.
No official numbers yet, the letters are used with the number indicator alongside them to say this is a number, not a word Wink

Total: 51

Tolkien_Freak · Posted: Sat Jul 12, 2008 8:39 pm Post subject:

It's confusing to count for Raitolïiihøste.

There are 4 vowel letters (which are notably smaller than the consonants but don't quite count as 'diacritics') and a symbol indicating rounding, but the vowels can be combined with each other to create what amount to single glyphs.

Consonants are facing one way to be unvoiced, flipped to be voiced, and a little sort-of-diacritic-but-sort-of-not-thingy is added to indicate nasal.

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Serali · Posted: Sun Jul 13, 2008 12:35 pm Post subject:

Oh boy.....ok let's see:

Käläli:

Has 35 letters 36 if you count the vowel carrier

Lahubo: 26

Kuropi:126

Talari: 30

Namari: 37

Tali: 39

Should keep going I have over 200 pretty scripties to go through..... Mr. Green

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Tolkien_Freak · Posted: Sun Jul 13, 2008 1:20 pm Post subject:

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Lorošae has 54 phonemes, the period, and a gaggle of other morpheme characters and logographs for very common words. I estimate that 200 of those exist.
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Serali · Posted: Mon Jul 14, 2008 12:03 pm Post subject:

Aert · Joined: 03 Jul 2008 Posts: 354

Did a new one I hope to get onto the computer sometime Wink

that has a total of 5150. The vowels modify a base consonant: short vowels are diacritics/accents, and middle/long vowels are additions on the side of the consonant. The side determines where in the word the long vowel comes. Theoretically it's possible to have 4 sounds in a character, but these are rarer (it would also increase the total to 65000.)

eldin raigmore · Posted: Sat Jul 19, 2008 5:27 pm Post subject:

Aert · Joined: 03 Jul 2008 Posts: 354

Nope, I voted 65-256 because that's the one I'm mainly using right now. I don't know who did the <65536 vote

Serali · Posted: Sun Jul 20, 2008 3:23 am Post subject:

eldin raigmore · Posted: Sun Jul 20, 2008 8:14 pm Post subject:

Aert · Joined: 03 Jul 2008 Posts: 354

I posted my 65-256 character script earlier ( http://www.flickr.com/photos/28228492@N05/ Chamr).

I'll write out a couple examples of the 5150 character script (so as not to overwhelm anyone including me Wink

). It's a simple idea, it's just putting everthing together that gives a wide range of possibilities.

Serali · Posted: Mon Jul 21, 2008 5:43 am Post subject:

Aert · Joined: 03 Jul 2008 Posts: 354

Here you go, sorry it took so long, I forgot my password Confused

http://www.flickr.com/photos/28228492@N05/2708524821/

Serali · Posted: Mon Jul 28, 2008 8:03 pm Post subject: