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Marina
Garone Gravier
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Elaboration
of a typographical letter style torepresent indigenous languages (case study
for the Otomí / Ñhañhu language)
The
process of acquiring a system of writing in a culture that originally had
no alphabet is a fertile field for multidisciplinary research. This study
concerns a pre-Hispanic culture of Mexico, the Otomí. Through the
analysis of different written source material from the colonial time to
the present, problems are detected that have resulted from changes in notation,
and new methodological guidelines are thus proposed for the development
of a font that contains the signs (practical and phonetic) for the representation
of the language.
”he who has not undertaken painstaking work in knowing the characters
of the language, will be poor in intelligence: poor in efforts to write
with purity: poor in efforts to speak it: poor in what he wishes to understand”
Luces del otomí, p. 84, 1893.
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