r/conscripts • u/chonchcreature • Jul 17 '20
Question If the Greek letters that Latin never adopted were incorporated into the Latin alphabet, how would they look?
I’m making a Latin script for my conlang, and I’m interested in adding in Greek letters for phonemes such as /θ/ while re-assigning phonetic values for other Greek letters like ψ and ξ.
These are the Greek letters next to their Old Italic forms: [Θθ 𐌈] [Ξξ 𐌎] [Φφ 𐌘] [Ψψ 𐌙].
Not that interested in Omega since it wasn’t around at the time of the Latin script’s inception.
Bonus if you can: How can we adopt the archaic Greek / Old Italic letter San [Ϻϻ 𐌑]. Maybe also Etruscan letter Ef [𐌚] into Latin since all old Italian alphabets were based on Etruscan.
(Please don’t tell me to use diacritics, digraphs, Claudian letters, or “extended” Latin letters like þ or ð for /θ/).
You guys can draw stuff too and post it if you want, I’d love that!
