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January/February 2012 Lite Challenge Entry: Touching Circles
I decided to use the large circle to encode one vowel, the upper and left circles to endcode the leading consonant (or consonantal structure) and the right and lower circles describe the trailing consonant. The consonants themselves are mostly based upon those of Tolkien's elfish languages, e.g. grouped by articulation point, voice etc...
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