old-version-0.1

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This directory contains an earlier, unsuccessful experiment.

There were only 32 letters: 10 base consonants and 6 base vowels. Every base letter could optionally have an overline diacritic: "G" is a modified "K", "D" is a modified "T", etc.

It was cute in an algorithmic way (computer programmers do like the numbers 10, 16 and 2), but I found it slow to read, and I invented it. I think it's a failure, although these images are kept in the repository as some might find it an interesting failure.

Later versions of the alphabet have 36 letters. The 12 vowels keep the 6 times 2 concept, but the 24 (up from 20) consonants each have a unique letter.