Phags-pa Re: Unicode and Mandombe

--- In qalam@yahoogroups.com, Michael Everson <everson@...> wrote:

>
> Orientation in this sense is not a feature of Phags-pa except
>insofar
> as it was derived from Tibetan,

The subjoined vowels reversed as part of the contextual shaping in
Phags-pa.

>and even there it has nothing to do
> with orientation in Canadian Syllabics or Mandombe.

No, I don't think there is any connection, just that certain
characteristics of the Mandombe script are not unprecedented.

>
> >While this is only a minor device in Phags-pa, since there are not
> >that many reversed consonants, it is a major device in Mandombe,

and

> >one which I find esthetically attractive,
>
> I cannot see "attractiveness" as an attribute of Mandombe.
>
> >in contrast to say klingon.
>
> Will you please give Klingon a rest? Sheesh.

Gladly. Very gladly.

Suzanne