ConScript/Manwaesheamewaanasho

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Contents 1 Manwaesheamewaanasho 1.1 Origins 1.2 Charts 1.3 Sample Text

Manwaesheamewaanasho

A ConScript by J. S. Burke

Origins

Internal: Created by Kayasata He-uplifts-us to standardize writing of the Noyahtukah dialects. He is said to have taken significant inspiration from the syllabary of the Ozoloshemawam. The full story is told in the Reference Grammar of the Noyahtukah Language.

External: It began as a glyph-based system in the mid 1990s, using borrowed and morphed Indian symbols, mostly of Miami-Illinois origin; it became a syllabary around 1997. The current incarnation of it dates to 1999, and resulted partly from my first encounter with Cree syllabics on the Cheyenne reservation a year before. I've continued to refine the letterforms.

Notable Features:

• A syllabary whose letters rotate to indicate attached vowels;
• Written in vertical columns from left to right;
• Cursive.

Used to write: The Noyahtukah dialects; altered forms were used to write Hanoa?tsi, Shashuska and Ohi?opa, the daughters of Noyahtukah

Charts

Cursive Forms in Series:

http://www.sedesdraconis.com/images/conscript/manwaeshseries.jpg

Full Chart for Cursive Forms:

http://www.sedesdraconis.com/images/conscript/manwaeshcursive.jpg

Angular Forms in Series:

http://www.sedesdraconis.com/images/conscript/manwaeshaseries.jpg

Full Chart for Angular Forms

http://www.sedesdraconis.com/images/conscript/manwaeshangular.jpg

Sample Text

http://www.sedesdraconis.com/images/conscript/manwaeshtext.jpg

Transliteration:

Ozolotaako; Noyahtukah

Translation:

'They-dwell-afar'; 'I-create-sounds-by-mouth'

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