Thanks to everyone for all the comments. I'm really encouraged to know that others think there may be some kind of deliberate design in glyph shapes, rather than it just being coincidence, or glyphs chosen at random, selected due to the authors familiarity with Latin characters and similar.
MarcoP, thanks for your link to Fontanas Cipher... I'm going to spend some time reading up about this when I have an evening free to digest it all in one go.
RenegadeHealer, thanks for your kind words. You could be absolutely right with your thoughts with the twins; I admit, the ch and the qo were the glyphs which I have found most hard to place. I was loath to pair q with anything at all, as it seems to be a rule unto itself, and the fact it only appears at the start of words before o (apart from the odd anomaly) makes me wonder if it is really a 'letter' at all, but perhaps a 'modifier?' Perhaps O has a distinctive meaning/reading when at the start of words, which is different from what it means at other positions in a word, BUT the presence of q before a word which otherwise starts with O is to make the reader aware that this particular O is to be read/interpreted by its other, inner word meaning?
Anyway, thanks to everyone for your thoughts. I had a little while last night to try and organize my 'twin' idea some more last night, and actually am beginning to wonder if they are really 'quadruplets.' There are 4 gallows, 4 gallows on the double C, 4 (common) figures which look like the number 8, 4 characters which have a backward curved line that extends above the main body of text.... and yet with all of these groups of 4, they have something in common - 2 of their number can be placed in the Curve column, and 2 on their twinned Line column. Interesting....?
G.
MarcoP, thanks for your link to Fontanas Cipher... I'm going to spend some time reading up about this when I have an evening free to digest it all in one go.
RenegadeHealer, thanks for your kind words. You could be absolutely right with your thoughts with the twins; I admit, the ch and the qo were the glyphs which I have found most hard to place. I was loath to pair q with anything at all, as it seems to be a rule unto itself, and the fact it only appears at the start of words before o (apart from the odd anomaly) makes me wonder if it is really a 'letter' at all, but perhaps a 'modifier?' Perhaps O has a distinctive meaning/reading when at the start of words, which is different from what it means at other positions in a word, BUT the presence of q before a word which otherwise starts with O is to make the reader aware that this particular O is to be read/interpreted by its other, inner word meaning?
Anyway, thanks to everyone for your thoughts. I had a little while last night to try and organize my 'twin' idea some more last night, and actually am beginning to wonder if they are really 'quadruplets.' There are 4 gallows, 4 gallows on the double C, 4 (common) figures which look like the number 8, 4 characters which have a backward curved line that extends above the main body of text.... and yet with all of these groups of 4, they have something in common - 2 of their number can be placed in the Curve column, and 2 on their twinned Line column. Interesting....?
G.