Duployan shorthand
| Duployan shorthand |
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| Type |
light-line geometric stenographic alphabet
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| Languages | French, English, German, Spanish, Romanian, Chinook Jargon, Lillooet, Thompson, Okanagan |
| Creator | Émile Duployé |
| Published |
1868 (Pernin: 1877; Sloan: 1883; Ellis: 1888; LeJeune: 1891)
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| Status | historic and hobbyist usage |
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Child systems
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Malone's Script Phonography |
| Direction | Left-to-right |
| ISO 15924 | Dupl, 755 |
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Unicode alias
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Duployan |
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U+1BC00–U+1BC9F Duployan |
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U+1BC00–U+1BC9F Duployan
U+1BCA0–U+1BCAF Shorthand Format Controls
The Duployan shorthand, or Duployan stenography (French: Sténographie Duployé), was created by father Émile Duployé in 1860 for writing French. Since then, it has been expanded and adapted for writing English, German, Spanish, Romanian, and Chinook Jargon. The Duployan stenography is classified as a geometric, alphabetic, stenography and is written left-to-right in connected stenographic style. The Duployan shorthands, including Chinook writing, Pernin's Universal Phonography, Perrault's English Shorthand, the Sloan-Duployan Modern Shorthand, and Romanian stenography, were included as a single script in version 7.0 of the Unicode Standard / ISO 10646
Duployan is classified as a geometric stenography, in that the prototype for letterforms are based on lines and circles, instead of ellipses. It is alphabetic, with both consonant and vowel signs in equal prominence. Writing is in a left-to-right direction, proceeding down the page, as in common European writing. Most Duployan letters will attach to adjacent letters, allowing a word (or words) to be written in a single stroke, without lifting the pen.
Consonant characters come in two basic styles: line consonants and arc consonants. All consonants have a shape, size, and stroke direction that do not change based on the surrounding characters. Both types of consonants are contrasted by orientation, length, and the presence of ancillary dots and dashes on or near the letter.
The line consonants come in five orientations: vertical, horizontal, left-to-right falling, left-to-right rising, and right-to-left falling; and in three lengths: short, long, and extended. Variations of some line consonants will have dots adjacent to the center of the line.
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