Lej characters

Description

The Lej characters are used to write Lej.

History of creation

The Lej characters were devised as needed when translating. The list of characters below is from a five-page document derived from the original Lej sources.

Stage 1: Initial creation

Stage 2: Sort by category

Stage 3: Collect characters from previous documents

Stage 4: Draft character list by ID (incomplete scans)

Stage 5: Finalise character list by ID

Reading characters:

Character	Notes
a		ʟ		v		ı		ᴎ	Actually looks like a reversed lowercase n but that's apparently not in Unicode	ᴀ		ɦ	Looks like an h with a line coming straight off it, this is a Unicode approximation	d		n		ꜷ		ↄ	} List of characters Glyph ID Class Definition Reading 2173 Sign I aʟ 2174 Sign Category 1 2175 Sign Category 1 ncuı(?) 2176 Sign I 2177 Sign Child vıᴎ 2178 Sign Cookie 2179 Sign Circle 2180 Sign Teach 2181 Sign Line 2182 Sign Specifically 2183 Sign Bibliographic 2184 Sign Database 2185 Sign With 2186 Sign You 2187 Sign Math 2188 Sign Project 2189 Sign Is 2190 Sign And 2191 Sign Fractions 2192 Sign Nifty 2193 Sign Draw 2194 Sign 2195 Sign Of 2196 Sign To 2197 Sign 2198 Sign Category 2 cuıᴎ 2199 Sign 2200 Sign 2201 Punctuation Full Stop 2202 Sign Update nced 2203 Sign For 2204 Sign 2205 Sign 2206 Sign 2207 Sign 2208 Sign Category 4 cuınin 2209 Sign 2210 Sign 2211 Sign 2212 Sign Compound circles and lines that don’t touch 2213 Sign 2214 Sign 2215 Sign 2216 Punctuation Comma 2217 Punctuation Hyphen 2218 Operator And 2219 Sign 2220 Letter A 2221 Letter B 2222 Letter D 2223 Letter E 2224 Letter Open E 2225 Letter F 2226 Letter G 2227 Letter H 2228 Letter I 2229 Letter K 2230 Letter L 2231 Letter M 2232 Letter N 2233 Letter O 2234 Letter P 2235 Letter R 2236 Letter S 2237 Letter 2238 Letter C 2239 Letter T 2240 Letter U 2241 Letter 2242 Letter Schwa 2243 Letter Voiced SH 2244 Letter Y 2245 Letter H 2246 Letter Z 2247 Sign Plural 2248 Sign Singular 2249 Sign Singular 2250 Sign On ↄuc 2251 Sign In 2252 Sign Under 2253 Sign Over 2254 Sign Behind 2255 Sign To right of 2256 Sign To left of 2257 Sign Under but touching ucu 2258 Sign To right of but touching cu 2259 Sign To left of but touching 2260 Sign Yes vᴀc 2261 Sign By, using uᴎuc 2262 Sign Cook (verb. note: looks like it was at some point drawn with vertical lines inside the box) ꜷↄ 2263 Sign Sort (verb.) ꜷↄıc 2264 Sign Dear 2265 Sign 2266 Sign 2267 Sign 2268 Sign 2269 Sign 2270 Sign 2271 Sign 2272 Sign 2280 Letter A 2281 Letter B 2282 Letter D 2283 Letter E 2284 Letter Open E 2285 Letter F 2286 Letter G 2287 Letter H 2288 Letter I 2289 Letter K 2290 Letter L 2291 Letter Schwa 2292 Letter Dipthong connector 2293 Letter M 2294 Letter N 2295 Letter O 2296 Letter P 2297 Letter R 2298 Letter S 2299 Letter T 2300 Letter U 2301 Letter V 2302 Letter 2303 Letter C 2304 Letter /\ 2305 Letter /\ 2306 Letter O 2307 Letter 2308 Letter ‾ 2309 Letter Z 2310 Letter 2311 Sign Translation 2312 Sign Schedule 2313 Sign Piano 2314 Sign Fencing 2315 Sign Archery 2316 Sign Tap dance 2317 Sign Ballet 2318 Sign Art (visual) 2319 Sign Art (sonic) 2320 Sign Art (motion) 2321 Sign War 2322 Sign Class 2323 Sign Lesson 2324 Sign Symbol 2325 Sign Scrap paper 2326 Sign Competition 2327 Sign Letter 2328 Sign Information 2329 Sign Taste 2330 Sign Inward Smile 2331 Sign Outward Smile 2332 Sign Lej 2333 Sign Outward Smile 2334 Sign Outward Smile 2335 Sign Outward Smile 2336 Sign Not 2337 Sign 2338 Sign 2339 Sign Of 2340 Sign Sunday 2341 Sign Monday 2342 Sign Tuesday 2343 Sign Wednesday 2344 Sign Thursday 2345 Sign Friday 2346 Sign Saturday 2347 Sign January 2348 Sign February 2349 Sign March 2350 Sign April 2351 Sign May 2352 Sign June 2353 Sign July 2354 Sign August 2355 Sign September 2356 Sign October 2357 Sign November 2358 Sign December 2359 Sign Present 2360 Sign Past 2361 Sign Future 2362 Sign Any tense 2363 Sign This 2364 Sign These 2365 Sign Those 2366 Sign That 2367 Sign Empty 2368 Sign Accidentally 2369 Sign Cup 2370 Sign Mug 2371 Sign Bowl 2372 Sign Plate 2373 Sign Spoon 2374 Sign Fork 2375 Sign Knife (butter) 2376 Sign Knife (paring) 2377 Sign Knife (for citrus with sharp point) 2378 Sign Knife (for citrus with round point) 2379 Sign Cleaver 2380 Sign Bowl (cereal) 2381 Sign Bowl (soup) 2382 Sign Bowl (rice) 2383 Sign Fork (four tines) 2384 Sign Fork (three tines 2385 Sign Fork (two tines) 2386 Sign Cheese slicer 2387 Sign Cake tester 2388 Sign Teakettle 2389 Sign Teapot 2390 Sign Teacup 2391 Sign Knife (chef’s) 2392 Sign Understand 2393 Sign Write 2394 Sign Make 2395 Sign Want 2396 Sign Stab cɦ(?) 2397 Sign Enclose 2398 Sign Translate 2399 Sign Read 2400 Sign See 2401 Sign Play 2402 Sign Sign 2403 Sign Love 2404 Sign Contain 2405 Sign Teach 2406 Sign Teach 2407 Punctuation Full Stop 2408 Sign Stab 2409 Sign You 2410 Sign 2411 Letter Voiced SH 2412 Punctuation Interrogation Mark 2413 Punctuation Semicolon 2414 Punctuation Colon 2415 Punctuation Opening Quotation Mark 2416 Punctuation Closing Quotation Mark 2417 Punctuation Digit Separator 2418 Punctuation Opening Parenthesis 2419 Punctuation Closing Parenthesis 2420 Punctuation Exclamation Mark 2421 Sign At the time of 2422 Sign Can 2423 Sign Be 2424 Sign Or 2425 Sign And 2426 Sign Specifically 2427 Sign Hooray 2428 Sign Yes 2429 Sign No 2430 Sign Some 2431 Sign That 2432 Sign For 2433 Sign From 2434 Sign With 2435 Sign To 2436 Sign Which 2437 Sign Concerning 2438 Sign (possessive) 2439 Sign Okay 2440 Sign You 2441 Sign You (plural) 2442 Sign I 2443 Sign We 2444 Sign He/She/It 2445 Sign They 2446 Digit Zero 2447 Digit One 2448 Digit Two 2449 Digit Three 2450 Digit Four 2451 Digit Five 2452 Digit Six 2453 Digit Seven 2454 Digit Eight 2455 Digit Nine 2456 Sign Outward smile 2457 Sign Love 2458 Sign Can 2459 Sign Or 2460 Sign Or 2461 Sign Or 2462 Sign And ┤ Sign (continuation of verb) - A character shaped like ┤ is at the end of File:LejDocument.scan.2.png and captioned as such, but is missing from the next collected characters. Not sure what that's about, or if it was intentionally omitted.