> Evans' syllabary for Ojibwe consisted of just nine symbols, each of which could be written in four different orientations to indicate different vowels.
I've always have trouble remembering .. Graphemes .. signs .. that only have orientation differences. For example Japanese maマ and muム . L<ess than and >grater than. I think this Cree script would be a challenge for some people. ᐆ ᐋ which way was o and which was a again.
More recently I was trying memorize Korean script and come up with some visual mnemonics for the same things. ㅏㅓ which is 'a' and which is 'oe' ㅗㅜ which is 'u' and which is 'o'. I resorted to drawing the letters on top of an vowel articulation map of the mouth, and discovered that korean script was designed to correspond exactly to this.
Armenian is absolutely full of these. There's ս, ո, մ, and ն (one word that has three of them is տոմս, pronounced as "toms"). Also Գ and Ժ. And Ի and Կ, also looking similar enough.
I've always have trouble remembering .. Graphemes .. signs .. that only have orientation differences. For example Japanese maマ and muム . L<ess than and >grater than. I think this Cree script would be a challenge for some people. ᐆ ᐋ which way was o and which was a again. More recently I was trying memorize Korean script and come up with some visual mnemonics for the same things. ㅏㅓ which is 'a' and which is 'oe' ㅗㅜ which is 'u' and which is 'o'. I resorted to drawing the letters on top of an vowel articulation map of the mouth, and discovered that korean script was designed to correspond exactly to this.