Triparic Pronunciation: Difference between revisions
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# Rounded front vowels (ü = rounded i/fronted u, ö = rounded e/fronted o) | # Rounded front vowels (ü = rounded i/fronted u, ö = rounded e/fronted o) | ||
# Nasalized rounded and unrounded open-mid front vowels (nasal I, nasal U) | # Nasalized rounded and unrounded open-mid front vowels (nasal I, nasal U) | ||
# The schwa as in "tãng" | |||
# The odd man out is the ash vowel (hat, plåx), the near-open front unrounded vowel | # The odd man out is the ash vowel (hat, plåx), the near-open front unrounded vowel | ||
I propose: | I propose: | ||
# Maybe | # Maybe ay ey for aye, hate, boy (the latter of these three is used already). | ||
# ă for "au", because it looks like a little U over the letter.¸ | # ă for "au", because it looks like a little U over the letter.¸ | ||
# Keep ü and ö for what they are in German. So here the umlaut means "fronting". | # Keep ü and ö for what they are in German. So here the umlaut means "fronting". | ||
# Keep circumflex for these, î and û. | # Keep circumflex for these, î and û. | ||
# Use ä for the ash vowel. That's what it is in ''Finnish'', and the umlaut could still mean "fronting". And if you front the sound "a", it moves up a bit and becomes the ash vowel. | # Use ä for the ash vowel. That's what it is in ''Finnish'', and the umlaut could still mean "fronting". And if you front the sound "a", it moves up a bit and becomes the ash vowel. | ||
'''Some classic words under this new orthography:''' | |||
{|class="wikitable" | |||
|áileäd || green || ãliẽd | |||
|äpril || April || ẽpril | |||
|bröken || to need || brăken | |||
|} | |||
Revision as of 12:52, 20 March 2016
THIS IS A DRAFT. Carrie and Shawn are revising things.
N.B. Both the digraph system and the accented-character system are acceptable native orthographies, but it's bad form to mix systems within one text.
Consonants
| b, d, f, h, j, k, l, m, n, p, r, s, t, v, w, z | as in English | |
|---|---|---|
| y | as in English when consonantal | |
| g | always hard, as in English get | |
| x | x as in axe, except z at beginning of words | |
| q | Always part of a digraph "qu" for the cluster kw | |
| c | Always "k" before a, o, u; always "s" before i, e | |
| cz | č | ch as in church |
| sz | š | sh as in shoe |
| nz | ň | ny as in canyon |
| dz | ð | "dh", or th as in that |
| tz | þ | th as in think |
Vowels
| a | as in father |
|---|---|
| e | as in romance languages |
| i | as machine |
| o | as in float |
| u | as in pool |
| as in out | |
| as in aye | |
| as in boy | |
| as in hate | |
| as in German mögen | |
| as in German müssen | |
| as in hat | |
| nasal "i" | |
| nasal "u" |
Shawn's thoughts on the vowel orthography
(To be discussed Sunday night 20 March or thereafter)
So the following sounds must be accounted for: AYE, bOY, hAtE, OUt, hAt, mÜssen, mÖgen, nasal I, nasal U.
Broken down phonetically we have:
- The three common i-final diphthongs (aye, hate, boy = ai, ei, oi)
- The most common of the u-final diphthongs (out = au)
- Rounded front vowels (ü = rounded i/fronted u, ö = rounded e/fronted o)
- Nasalized rounded and unrounded open-mid front vowels (nasal I, nasal U)
- The schwa as in "tãng"
- The odd man out is the ash vowel (hat, plåx), the near-open front unrounded vowel
I propose:
- Maybe ay ey for aye, hate, boy (the latter of these three is used already).
- ă for "au", because it looks like a little U over the letter.¸
- Keep ü and ö for what they are in German. So here the umlaut means "fronting".
- Keep circumflex for these, î and û.
- Use ä for the ash vowel. That's what it is in Finnish, and the umlaut could still mean "fronting". And if you front the sound "a", it moves up a bit and becomes the ash vowel.
Some classic words under this new orthography:
| áileäd | green | ãliẽd | äpril | April | ẽpril | bröken | to need | brăken |