#or the phagspa script

[sunriseverse]

genuinely my one regret with going into academics rather than the trades is that i can’t make my own real life san’e because i’m not a metalsmith………………..but on the other hand, if i hadn’t pursued academics, i would be stuck at the level of chinese i retained from growing up and probably wouldn’t have gotten into the field of studies i did, meaning without the resources i have access to sunrise wouldn’t have expanded and flourished in my mind and in conception and worldbuilding the way it did, so……………i guess i’ll just have to save up money to pay someone to custom forge me a copy of my made up sword from my made up alternate fiction canon.

[caesarsaladinn]

With what might be considered a professional linguist's capacity to analyze the phonetics of the other languages, [Phagspa] produced a script that beautifully meets the demands of phonetic accuracy and graphic simplicity. Some scraps of other languages of the time transcribed in Phagspa, still extant, are so phonetically precise that modern linguists treasure them as the only accurate evidence for the sounds of those languages as then spoken.

Re the recent pinyin discussion: apparently Kublai Khan commissioned a Tibetan monk to write a new universal alphabet in the 1260s, apparently it was really good, and apparently it was hardly used at all.

[coggle]

Support for 42 New Writing Systems!

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We've added new fonts for: Urdu, Adlam, Balinese, Bamum, Batak, Buginese, Buhid, Chakma, Cham, Cypriot, Gothic, Gurmukhi, InscriptionalPahlavi, InscriptionalParthian, Javanese, Lepcha, Limbu, LinearB, Malayalam, Mongolian, Myanmar, NewTaiLue, Ogham, OlChiki, OldItalic, Oriya, Osage, PhagsPa, Rejang, Runic, Samaritan, Saurashtra, Sundanese, SylotiNagri, SyriacEastern, SyriacEstrangela, SyriacWestern, Tagbanwa, TaiLe, Thaana, Vai, and Yi

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Which we think is pretty impressive!

We know people all over the world use Coggle, and we think mind mapping is a great tool to use in every language, so we try to support every writing script that we can.

If you have any feedback about the fonts we use for your native language that's always really helpful for us, as we're only familiar with a small number of them!

Posted by James, Feb 2020.