{"id":472,"date":"2011-09-24T16:16:27","date_gmt":"2011-09-24T23:16:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glyphs.webfoot.com\/blog\/?p=472"},"modified":"2018-06-30T16:23:55","modified_gmt":"2018-06-30T23:23:55","slug":"sora-sompeng-1936-ad-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/glyphs.webfoot.com\/blog\/2011\/09\/24\/sora-sompeng-1936-ad-india\/","title":{"rendered":"Sora Sompeng — 1936 AD, India"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Sora Sompeng “ih”<\/p><\/div>\n

In the history of writing systems, it is not uncommon for people create writing systems based on dreams or visions.\u00a0 It is also not uncommon for writing systems to have particular religious significance.\u00a0 It *is* somewhat rare for people to worship a writing systems, but Sora Sompeng shows there is at least one.<\/p>\n

Before 1936 AD, the Sora language — an Austro-Asian language spoken in east central India –was written with either the Oriya<\/a>, Latin<\/a>, or Telugu<\/a> scripts.\u00a0 In 1936 AD, Mangei Gomango<\/a>, the son-in-law of a charismatic community leader, had a vision of the 24 characters of the Sora Sompeng script.\u00a0 From there, he founded a religious group to worship “Akshara Brahma”, the Alphabetic Image of God.\u00a0 Nowadays, the script is mostly used for religious works, adult education, and ceremonial uses (e.g. wedding invitations), but it isn’t used much; Sora is principally a spoken language.<\/p>\n

The 24 characters are named after the 24 gods in the Sora pantheon.\u00a0 There is not a strict one-to-one correspondence between sounds and characters in the script; there are more sounds than characters.\u00a0 Perhaps if there had been more gods in the Sora pantheon, there might be enough characters for each sound.<\/p>\n

Sora Sompeng is an abugida that has abjad elements (not always showing vowels) and\u00a0 some alphabetic elements (showing vowels with separate characters instead of diacritics).\u00a0 There is a default vowel attached to every consonant, but there is no vowel-killing symbol like the virama, nor vowel-killing consonant clusters; the reader has to figure out from context if there is a vowel there or not.\u00a0 To get a different vowel than the default, a vowel character is written.<\/p>\n

Links: Wikipedia<\/a>, Omniglot<\/a>, Unicode proposal<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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