Whoa, it’s been a long time since I’ve posted here! But what with the huge Lexiconga update, I figured now would be a good time to revisit Gobahai, update the dictionary to take advantage of the new features, and finally think about the alphasyllabary again!
This time, I’m going for a much simpler approach: using the characters that 'Oayhàoù used for its characters as a starting point, I came up with pieces representing the different phonetic sounds that could be organized together in predictable ways to construct syllables. This is inspired by a horrifyingly incomplete understanding of the writing system that Korean uses, but hey, it works for this case!
Depending on the direction that any “tails” or other features of the first phoneme’s character might be pointing, the organization has 4 different orientations, pictured with the 4 boxes. Using this, you always know what the first sound is and what the following sounds are just by looking! This way, I don’t have to build out each and every different symbol in the alphasyllabary; I just build them instead!
Now I just have to fill out the vocabulary of the language a bit more and come up with interesting sentences that would be worth writing... The first step to take is probably to finish the conlang syntax test sentence list, but that’s gonna take a while. Oh well, I guess I’ll just work on that and update if I come up with anything interesting along the way!
