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Name Verdurian Site Verdurian - site 1 Verdurian - site 2 Script Image If image fails to load, try this link. Site Language English Author Mark Rosenfelder Script Type Alphabet Description Note that there's a one-to-one correspondence between the Verdurian alphabet and the standard English representation. This is not very naturalistic-- transliteration schemes are not usually this straightforward-- but it's a good place to start. A good alphabet can't be created in a day. This one took shape over a period of weeks, as I played with various letterforms. Note that I supplied upper and lower case forms, as in the Roman and Greek alphabets. The lowercase forms are all cursive simplifications of the uppercase forms (which are also the ancient forms). In retrospect I probably shouldn't have imitated the mixed-case system, which on our world is basically limited to Western alphabets. I should have kept the 'uppercase' forms for ancient times, the 'lowercase' forms for modern times. I tried to give the letters individual histories, as with our alphabet. The letter t, for instance, derives from a picture of a cup, touresiu in Cu?zi; n was origina! lly a picture of a foot (nega). Also note that the voiced consonants, in the uppercase forms, are simply the unvoiced forms with a bar over them (this is a bit obscured with d and t), and that the letters for are all transparent variations of each other. You'll also notice both c and k in the alphabet. This is the sort of ethnocentrism it's all too easy to fall into. Why would another language duplicate the convoluted history of our alphabet's c and k? I've reinterpreted these symbols to refer to /k/ and /q/. Influences Roman, Greek Languages Used For Verdurian Langmaker Transliteration Image If image fails to load, try this link. Submitted By Jeffrey Henning Date Submitted Wednesday, February 11, 2004 Date Edited Wednesday, February 11, 2004 Date To Headline Friday, February 13, 2004 < Utopian  Verdurian  Verentian Phonetic Alphabet >
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