Alfunanto script: Alfuni for Esperanto
By Matthieu on Saturday, September 5 2015, 07:01 - Linguistique - Permalink
In the wake of some discussions about new Esperanto writing systems, I had the idea of recycling my old Alfuni script for the reduced scope of Esperanto sounds.
(click on the picture to download the TTF font)
- Plosives are tall, fricatives are deep, africatives are therefore both tall and deep.
- Mute are straight, voiced are crooked.
- Nasal and approximant are marked by a hook
- Vowels are small
Letters within a word can be grouped without ambiguity, which saves space. I also introduce the consonant Dz, for the sake of symmetry.
Simplifications include the combination of vowels into the consonant table, a feature that i tend now to always keep (W and U, Y and I, clearly match. H and A match in Arabic)
Here is the 1rst article of the universal declaration of human rights:
Ĉiuj homoj estas denaske liberaj kaj egalaj laŭ digno kaj rajtoj.
Ili posedas racion kaj konsciencon, kaj devus konduti unu la alian en spirito de frateco.