July 23, 2003
the Krohnian alphabet: an introduction
This weblog is going to become a tutorial for the Krohnian language for a little while.
Krohnian is the language I invented for the country where my fantasy stories are set. It has its own alphabet--I considered this important for imagining how people in a foreign place would view the world. If they didn't speak English, they wouldn't use the Roman alphabet either. And if they didn't have the history we did of printing presses etc. then the way they used the written word would be different too, and the look of their letters would reflect that.
Each day I'm going to have some information about the letters themselves, the meaning behind their shape, what sort of philosophy one can gleam from them. The letter above is the letter for the sound "ah," which I've just put up tonight as an example. I'll write more about it later.
Just an example....
**snickers behind hand**
Posted by: Pollux at July 23, 2003 09:31 PMwell now, no one needs to know about the multiple restarts, the program downloads and deletes, the website navigations and the scramble to learn basic html it took to get up a SINGLE LETTER.
Posted by: eshtine at July 23, 2003 10:23 PMok, but does the sound "ah" also work for the expression "ah" as in "i get it" or "ok"
Posted by: at July 24, 2003 12:25 AMwhoops- --- last post was by kevin ----
Posted by: kevin at July 24, 2003 12:26 AMSounds like a very interesting idea!
I'm looking forward to learning another language... :-D
Posted by: Lucilla at July 24, 2003 12:08 PMI have read somewhere that Tolkien's Elvish Languages were considered by many to be improctical in that the letters were too similar and too complex for daily use. Your letters are lovely but I wonder if they would suffer from the same brand of criticism. But then again, having said this, the hcharacters of the Asian languages come to mind and they are more complex than your letters.
By the way, the Mythopeic Convention was wonderful. We were taken by bus to see the Parthenon in Nashville which contains a 40' statue of the Goddess Athena. It was a truely awesome sight.
Posted by: Fletcher at August 5, 2003 09:01 AM