Your description (absent of any images) reminds me of dominoes. However, I was imagining an invariant base (like Hindi). I can't even begin to imagine 7 different bases. You should see what I'm coming up with in my mind... It looks like plants—specifically, some of the more plantish glyphs in the Bodoni Ornaments font (http://www.fonts.com/findfonts/detail.htm?productid=168246).
Myself, I'm not a fan of straight featural scripts, but if I were to guess (as a reader of the script), I'd assume the base was the manner, and the modifiers the place. This is because I take the base to be more important than the modifiers (visually), and to me, [s] sounds more different from [t] than [t] does from [p] (if you follow my logic).
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Date: 2011-04-20 07:17 (UTC)Myself, I'm not a fan of straight featural scripts, but if I were to guess (as a reader of the script), I'd assume the base was the manner, and the modifiers the place. This is because I take the base to be more important than the modifiers (visually), and to me, [s] sounds more different from [t] than [t] does from [p] (if you follow my logic).