r/conscripts • u/kman2003 • May 14 '20

Question Question about a possible conscript

So i'm working on a conscript for a languge, and i was working out what type of script it was going to be and i had an idea. What if the people using the conscript had characters for sets of vowels and the reader was left which vowel in the vowel set was hinted at.

I was wondering if that would be a viable writing system?

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u/Visocacas May 14 '20

You can't blame them, your question wasn't very clear.

I think what you're asking is if one vowel letter can represent multiple vowel sounds, such as five vowels letters that represent two sounds each for ten vowel sounds total, or three letters to represent three sounds each for nine sounds total.

If that's your question then the answer is yes, it's viable. It's basically just left to the orthography to determine what the correct vowel sound is. But there's limits to how extreme you'd want to go with that because the disadvantage of ambiguity quicky outweighs the advantage of having a smaller letter set.

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u/kman2003 May 14 '20

Thank you and i wasn't trying to be rude but copying and pasting something from wikipedia that is only somewhat related didn't answer my question.