Sa'u'o Syllabary

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Re: Sa'u'o Syllabary

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Gah, forgot to comment.

You can see the relation between the different tones now.
Although, to be honest if I were learning Sa'u'o, I'd die looking at that. That's a lot of symbols to learn! Then I'd break down and pick one symbol per syllable and use tone marks.
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Re: Sa'u'o Syllabary

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For all who wondered about the syllabary's size: The reason the tone diacritics are fused is that, for 800 years, the syllabary did not record tone; when the Archaic Sa'u'o Language experienced tonogenesis, they had various ad hoc methods of representing tone until -about 400 years latter- the mutation of letters became standard because:
1) It allows unicursal letter formation, without the need to pick up the writing instrument to write separate diacritics.

2) There originally were separate diacritics in many systems, but as time went on and the letters became graphically simplified the diacritics were seen as part of the letter.

Well, those are my reasons and I wonder what you think of them.

Thank you to all who replied.
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