Handwritten orthography of gjâ-zym-byn (gzb)

My earliest handwritten alphabet used a circumflex for the letters represented with an x-digraph and a caron or haček for the letters represented with a q-digraph. Later on these letters mutated as in rapid writing I merged the accent mark and the letter into a single glyph.

The accent marks above are only used in writing proper names. (Syllabic consonants, in particular, can't occur in native gzb words.)

Since late 2006, I've started creating logographic or morphographic glyphs to represent some of the most common words and morphemes, based on a corpus frequency analysis. I started with the most common morpheme, the verb suffix {-zô}, and after getting used to the new glyph for it, started working my way down the frequency table, and getting used to using one new logogram before making a new one. There are eleven such so far, not all of them illustrated here (updates to follow; I don't have constant access to a scanner).


Main {gjâ-zym-byn} page
Phonology
Syntax
Derivational morphology
Semantics
My conlang page
My home page
Last updated February 2012