you might try consulting mark okrand at <mokrand@...>.

>Michael Everson wrote:
>>
>> At 00:36 +0100 2001-11-09, Lars Marius Garshol wrote:
>>
>> >That's an answer that makes sense, but it does seem that the abugida
>> >class needs a little stretching to make Cree fit into it. It doesn't
>> >seem that the designers of Cree thought the characters had any
>> >inherent vowel, but the "consistent modifications" are there.
>>
>> Yes, each character has an inherent vowel, except for the small
>> superscript finals. The rotation tells the reader which vowel it is.
>>
>> >See p. 582 of B&D, or <URL:
>>http://www.ontopia.net/i18n/script.jsp?id=tengwar
>>
>> I'd be happy to sign up to write an article on Tolkien's scripts for
>> D&B if it ever gets revised. :-)
>
>You'll see they're mentioned in § 52, but I didn't even *try* asking
>Houghton Mifflin for permission to reproduce the charts (let alone
>create fonts), thinking that since they haven't been commercialized
>anywhere, they are (quite rightly) not willing to license them for any
>use anywhere.
>
>I did, though, spend a long time trying to find *anything at all* on
>"Klingon" scripts. There's nothing in Okrand's books as they were
>available ca. 1993, nothing in any of the other ST books then available;
>I know only that they were made of wedges something like Ugaritic
>(because I saw the very first ST movie and they appeared on computer
>screens for a moment). There may have been something in the "Technical
>Manuals" associated with that movie, but they're long unavailable.
>--
>Peter T. Daniels grammatim@...
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