2010-10-24 07:13, David Peterson skrev:
> The shape "X" seems common enough that it should show up in a
> variety of conscripts. I say we start a thread tracking it!

Kijeb syllabary:

ŋa /Na/ =   a simple X.
ki      =   X with a stroke at the top left arm.
tar     =   X with broken top arms.
ar      =   ditto with two vertical dots between bottom arms.
sat     =   X with stroke thru bottom arms.
pa      =   cross with stroke thru lower stem.
ka      =   cross potent.
ir      =   # with six strokes (y'know what I mean!)
mir     =   outlined +.
tir     =   swastika [^1].
ir      =   fylfot with doubled 'hands'.

several other signs (pas, ra, ŋu) are cross/X-like lke but
harder to describe in words.  You can see the lot at
<http://wiki.frath.net/Kijeb_syllabary_%28Sohlob%29>.

Since we're going over uses of the letter _x_ as well:

Sohlob latinization:    /x/         (unimaginative!)
Old Rhodrese:           /ʃ/, /tʃ/
     _tx_                /tʃ/        (also modern Rhodrese)
Euia Twas:              /ɕ/
Unnamed conlang:        /ɖʐ/
     _xh_                /ʐ/

     (I wanted to avoid the most run-of-the-mill associations
     for the 'superfluous' letters of the Latin alphabet and
     yet come up with something consistent that made sense
     for me, so this lang got:

     _c_ /ʈʂ/ _ch_ /ʂ/ _k_ /tɕ/ _kh_ /ɕ/ _q_ /k/ _qh_ /χ/ _s_
     /ts/ _sh_ /s/ _x_ /ɖʐ/ _xh_ /ʐ/ _z_ /dz/ _zh_ /z/.

     Alas I couldn't with a good conscience use anything
     other than _ph dh th_ for /ɸ ð θ/! There was no /ɣ/ but
     there was _ngh_ /ŋ/ against _ng_ /ŋg/! In case you
     wonder _j_ was /j/, _v_ was /ʋ/, _w_ was /β/ and
     the vowels were

     _e_ /ə/ _a_ /ɑ/ _y_ /ɪ/ _i_ /i/ _o_ /ʊ/ _u_
     /u/ _ey_ /əɪ/ _ay_ /ɑɪ/ _eo_ /əʊ/ _ao_ /ɑʊ/,

     and yes, it was an Indo-Iranian lang, and yes it had a
     native script too — based on Kharoṣṭhī, though I hadn't
     very good info on how conjuncts and vowel signs worked
     in Kharoṣṭhī! :-)

[^1]: I based the Kijeb syllabograms on neolithic European
signs <http://www.omniglot.com/writing/vinca.htm>, and I
simply used such as were there and didn't use such that
weren't. Like the Buddhist/Hindu swastika the Kijeb _tir_
syllabogram rests on its side.  The Indians' (east and
west!) undisfigured and quite benign symbol had a head start
by thousands of years on those 20th-century symbol-hijacking
scum whose (apparently intentionally) disfigured version
stands on its corner. Whatever the meaning the symbol had
for the neolithic Europeans it certainly had nothing to do
with its 20th-century abuse. My Sohlçan/Kiçan conculture
isn't even located in our world, and if the symbol has any
meaning for them other than the phome*ic it certainly is
akin to the Buddhist one. After all I, their author, have
taken the Buddhist refuge. Abusus non tollit usum!

/bpj