Old Qgam Script
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An outline of the Old Qgam Script
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1. Old Qgam Script
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3. Proto-Qgam Script
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The Old Qgam script is a vertically-written, phonetic script used to write
Old Qgam. It is the direct ancestor of the Modern Qgam Script, and contains several letters and ligatures that have been discarded in the simplified modern script.Following is a list of the consonants used in the Old Qgam script:
/p/ | /b/ | /m/ | /t/ | /d/ | /n/ |
/s/ | /z/ | /k/ | /g/ | /ŋ/ | /ʔ/ |
/ɕ/ | /w/ | /ɻ/ | /l/ | /ʎ/ | /x/ |
/t͡ɕ/ | /d͡ʑ/ | /ç/ | /j/ | ||
Consonants generally connect upwards to preceding letters. Exceptions include the letter , which only connects upwards on the right side, the letters and , which do not connect upwards, and the letter , which does not connect to any letters.
Most letters connect downward only on the side which carries a descender or endpoint, e.g. , , and connect downward on the left only, while , , and connect downward on the right only.
The letter may connect on both the left and the right, while the letter connects instead in the middle, but only to letters with flat tops.
The letters and lose their horizontal top strokes when connecting to a preceding letter.
The letter loses its top stroke whenever it connects upwards, and takes different forms depending on which side it connects.
The letters , , , and lose their top strokes to form ligatures with any preceding letter that has an entirely flat bottom.
The letter h becomes a diacritic () when immediately preceded by p, t, or k:
Following is a table of all vowel letters:
/ä:/ | /e:/ | /e/ | /ä/ | /i:/ | /i/ | /o:/ | /o/ | /u/ | /u/ |
With few exceptions, vowel letters connect to preceding consonant letters:
| tā | šā | cā |
Confusingly, while the letters ā/ ī, ō/ ū, and o/ u are mirror images of each other and represent different vowel sounds, the letters ē, e, i, and a are consistently mirrored simply for aesthetic reasons, in order to connect with the previous letter.
| nā | nī | hō | hū | bo | bu | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| pē | ļē | ĝe | de | wi | si | za | ya | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Old Qgam script does not indicate word boundaries, and consonants able to connect to preceding vowels will do so, whether they are part of the same word or not:
| Qgam | kā gā | ā mašra |
The letters w, y, and r take on special forms when following vowels, and will connect to them whenever possible:
The Old Qgam script employs no punctuation. Words are not separated by spaces; spaces instead carry the functions of both commas and full stops. The writing direction is top to bottom, left to right.
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| Taĝ yā smogwāna to tsadu tsadu yē ygun. Hiĝ paĝ ā abālsar sab. | |
| The way is long and the difficulties are many. But I can wait. |
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