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GD11

Most of the glyphs of this type are easy to identify. Not only have they a front view but they have also other identifiable characteristics. Therefore I have as GD11 sorted Aa5-28, Ab3-28 and Ab7-50:

The head is enough for identification.

When the head is alien the rest may be enough though, e.g. Ab4-37:
Alien heads are sometimes looking as if the bird belonged to another species, e.g. Ab7-69 and Ab8-13:

But they belong under GD11 anyhow.

There is a problem when a GD11 type of beak exists on a totally different type of glyph, e.g. Ab4-65 (GD17):

Cfr the left - from us seen - top 'flipper'. Such an easily missed sign is not reason enough to sort a glyph under GD11.

Similarly, what possibly is an 'undulating wing' - a sign of a variant of GD11 - may exist in other types of glyphs, e.g. Aa5-72 and Ab7-84 (GD63), without that being enough reason to sort them under G11 too:

The hyperlinks to GD54 and GD58 have been inserted because these types of glyphs are located there:

 

Aruku Kurenga (B)

In Aruku Kurenga we can see Bb7-34 and other similar glyphs which I have listed under both GD11 and GD15:

Whereas e.g. Bb7-2 is sorted only under GD15:

The characteristic GD11 head has always led me to classify the glyph as GD11 in addition to what the rest of the glyph may lead to (for example GD15 in Bb7-34).

 

Mamari (C)

Ca6-13 has a strange GD11-similar head (possibly a joke as the head seems to be composed from other signs) and it is therefore classified as GD11 (and as GD17):

In Ca6-28 only the head and neck of the GD11 bird is shown:

Two other examples of problematic glyphs which I have identified as GD11 are Ca4-21 and Ca4-22:

On the other hand, the strange but similar Ba1-41 (in Aruku Kurenga) has a 'fish' tail and only the wings may associate to GD11, by reason of which I have not classfied the glyph as GD11:

A clear example of GD11 - on the other hand - is the beautiful Ca5-15:

 

Échancrée (D)

Missing parts of the GD11 bird, whether obliterated by time or intentionally left out by the writer, do not alter the principles of classification. Da5-104, Da5-107, Da6-108, Da6-117 and Da7-111 are therefore listed under GD11:

           

 

Keiti (E)

Eb2-23 and Ea7-29 have been listed as GD11 (in addition to GD15) due to the rather obvious signs of being compounds:

  

Another interesting compound (involving GD53) is offered by Eb7-15

 

 

The rest of the texts

The texts above have been used as a kind of 'test ground' to see if the definitions could be used.

For the rest of the texts the same principles have been used, although less stringently. The experiences gained have been relied upon rather than what is written above about what characterizes the glyph type.

There may be a few extra glyph added, which would not have been so with a strict application of the written definitions. On the other hand there has been no attempt to ignore glyphs which according to the written definitions ought to belong to the glyph type.