From: Michael Everson (everson@evertype.com)
Date: Fri Oct 25 2002 - 13:20:36 EDT
At 00:30 -0400 2002-10-25, Robert wrote:
>Another language alphabetic script that reads left-to-right
>vertically from top-to-bottom is Sarati, another of the fantasy
>scripts from the late J. R. R. Tolkien's *Lord Of The Rings* book
>series.
Perhaps "another of the scripts J.R.R. Tolkien devised for his
fictional universe". (He's not late. He died in 19.)
>Featured in Sarati are the consonant symbols (sarat) that form the
>backbone of the vertical reading line; the vowels are small marks
>that go on either side (left for before, right for after) of the
>involved consonantóthe name *Illuvatar* (for example) would be
>written thus in Sarati:
We haven't roadmapped Sarati yet, by the way.
-- Michael Everson * * Everson Typography * * http://www.evertype.com
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