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Another oldie. I think this was originally going to be an abjad--I wrote out the vowels separately at first, and they are smaller so I guess they were supposed to be diacritical marks on consonants. It was clear right away that that wouldn't work, so now they can appear separately. Actually, they seem to turn up wherever, which doesn't make it easier to tell the difference between a vowel and a part of a consonant. Not literally all over the place, but wherever there's white space between two consonants you can write a vowel. As you can see in the writing sample above, I tried to keep things as tight as possible. Sample text is article 1 of the UDHR.

Since it's nearly illegible, I suppose it would be mostly useful for aesthetic or atmospheric purposes. Can be used for English. Doesn't distinguish between many vowels, so be prepared for homographs that are pronounced differently. ai=aj, oi=oj, and au=aw.

I had some fun developing the order. Starting with bætʃ was my first decision, then I started moving letters around based on the type of sound they represented. First time I really messed around with order since highschool; in those days, I'd write letters on playing cards, shuffle the deck, then write the letters in the order I drew the cards. In this case I kept the traditional Levantine order as a backbone, and formed some semi-logical groupings while maintaining what I considered an entertaining level of disorder.

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Another oldie. I think this was originally going to be an abjad--I wrote out the vowels separately at first, and they are smaller so I guess they were supposed to be diacritical marks on consonants. It was clear right away that that wouldn't work, so now they can appear separately. Actually, they seem to turn up wherever, which doesn't make it easier to tell the difference between a vowel and a part of a consonant. Not literally all over the place, but wherever there's white space between two consonants you can write a vowel. As you can see in the writing sample above, I tried to keep things as tight as possible. Sample text is article 1 of the UDHR.

Since it's nearly illegible, I suppose it would be mostly useful for aesthetic or atmospheric purposes. Can be used for English. Doesn't distinguish between many vowels, so be prepared for homographs that are pronounced differently. ai=aj, oi=oj, and au=aw.

I had some fun developing the order. Starting with bætʃ was my first decision, then I started moving letters around based on the type of sound they represented. First time I really messed around with order since highschool; in those days, I'd write letters on playing cards, shuffle the deck, then write the letters in the order I drew the cards. In this case I kept the traditional Levantine order as a backbone, and formed some semi-logical groupings while maintaining what I considered an entertaining level of disorder.