#diacritics

For example:

Read - present tense of ‘to read’

Réad - past tense of ‘to read’

Envelop - to surround

Ènvelope - paper containing a letter

Moral - ethically correct; a lesson

Morále - energy, happiness

Etc etc

Not only does it help with homophones but it could also make orthography slightly easier since we could more easily distinguish vowel sounds

-I know all of the letters and diacritics

-I know most of the letters and diacritics

-I know some of the letters and diacritics

-I know a few of the letters and diacritics

-I know none of the letters and diacritics

Thanks to @floydbolsonenjoyer for the great poll idea! I would never have thought of this one, so I appreciate the new topic :-)

On the other hand, I was reflecting when I woke up this morning on how we've run into this problem before with double-O's (think cooperation or the starker abbreviation coop, or for a milder variant involving E's, think reelect). Now historically (although it's mostly fallen out of practice quite recently) we would put a diaeresis (two dots) over one of the O's to indicate that it should be separated from the other, as in the spelling coöperation. (This is, I believe, interestingly one of the only uses of diacritics in the entire history of the English language, along with some obscure spellings of words like belovèd and diacritics occasionally kept in borrowings like piñata.)

Gerudo Language Series: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, & Part 7.

GeruLang: Diacritic & Diagraphic Characters

Ya'll, I may well have lost my absolute mind.

I have spent more time than is probably necessary creating a Gerudo numerical system & even a system of diacritics.

Send help.

Anyone who studies languages & their corresponding lexicons, can ya'll tell me if there's any merit to this stuff I made or if I'm just crazy & obsessed?

Also, for "ā," "é," & "ī," I'm thinking that the 2 different characters are differentiated by what's considered formal/proper & what's informal/casual. Perhaps the ones that are based on the original character, but upside down are considered formal, but the ones that are right-side up are informal? Because the informal ones are usually done that way due to muscle memory; the hand reacting the way that it would when writing the original character before the writer realizes it & then tacking on the accent so that the intention of the character is clear.

I've also created some digraphic characters.

Thanks.

I've actually made a font using all this, so if ya'll want it, just say so.