Changes in Syai

I don't know how I've come to have two blogs, but I might as well keep this one exclusively for information or a kind of diary of developments in the Syai language. With the language goes the second book I'm writing, whereby the reader gets taken to the Syai planet and gets some idea of Syai culture and the structure of Syai society as it is now, centuries after the 'Great Collapse'.

The development of the language itself has undergone something of a revolution. I have simplified and made more transparent and 'associative' its basis, and I have abandoned the old distorted Roman Alphabet addaption, where some letters had to work in an unfamiliar way. So if R.A. is used,it is used in a way easily understood at least by English speakers. This makes its use very clumsy, so the preference is all along going to be the use of the 'native' syai lettering. In fact, in using the 'native' letters, I find Syai becoming for me much more like a 'real' language. A task that is a bit beyond me at present is to get these letters into a font on my computer. My book 'Okraalom' is self-published now, giving a distant historical background to the Syai world. It is a romantic novel, entertaining in itself. Please e-mail me if anyone sees this blog and has an interest in getting a copy.