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| as in pool | | as in pool | ||
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! ã (''tãng, hãbby'') | ! ã<br>(''tãng, hãbby'') | ||
! | ! | ||
| u as in hut | | u as in hut | ||
|- | |- | ||
! ö (''cö'' [sic], ''miaö'') | ! ö<br>(''cö'' [sic], ''miaö'') | ||
! | ! | ||
| ou as in out | | ou as in out | ||
|- | |- | ||
! æ (''ðæ, gæo'') | ! æ<br>(''ðæ, gæo'') | ||
! | ! | ||
| aye | | aye | ||
|- | |- | ||
! õ (''jõnt, drõt'') | ! õ<br>(''jõnt, drõt'') | ||
! | ! | ||
| oy as in boy | | oy as in boy | ||
|- | |- | ||
! ä (''häm, mäjordôm'') | ! ä<br>(''häm, mäjordôm'') | ||
! | ! | ||
| a-e as in hate | | a-e as in hate | ||
|- | |- | ||
! ø (''kønig, før'') | ! ø<br>(''kønig, før'') | ||
! | ! | ||
| ö as in German mögen | | ö as in German mögen | ||
|- | |- | ||
! ü (''fü, küssen'') | ! ü<br>(''fü, küssen''<ref name="ü"/>) | ||
! | ! | ||
| ü as in German müssen | | ü as in German müssen | ||
|- | |- | ||
! å (''plåx, schåft'') | ! å<br>(''plåx, schåft'') | ||
! | ! | ||
| a as in hat | | a as in hat | ||
|- | |- | ||
! î (''wîn'') | ! î<br>(''wîn''<ref name="î"/>) | ||
! | ! | ||
| nasal "i" | | nasal "i" | ||
|- | |- | ||
! û ( | ! û<br>(''ûnçivilan''?<ref name="û"/>) | ||
! | ! | ||
| nasal "u" | | nasal "u" | ||
|- | |- | ||
|} | |} | ||
<references> | |||
<ref name="ü">These are the only two words in the early dictionary with '''ü'''.</ref> | |||
<ref name="î">This is the only word with '''î''' in the dictionary.</ref> | |||
<ref name="û">Nothing in the dictionary has '''û''', but I think the prefix '''ûn-''' used it in the very earliest drafts. | |||
</references> | |||
== Shawn's thoughts on the vowel orthography == | == Shawn's thoughts on the vowel orthography == |
Revision as of 16:12, 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 | |
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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
Original | Proposed | Sound |
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a | as in father | |
e | as in romance languages | |
i | as machine | |
o | as in float | |
u | as in pool | |
ã (tãng, hãbby) |
u as in hut | |
ö (cö [sic], miaö) |
ou as in out | |
æ (ðæ, gæo) |
aye | |
õ (jõnt, drõt) |
oy as in boy | |
ä (häm, mäjordôm) |
a-e as in hate | |
ø (kønig, før) |
ö as in German mögen | |
ü (fü, küssen[1]) |
ü as in German müssen | |
å (plåx, schåft) |
a as in hat | |
î (wîn[2]) |
nasal "i" | |
û (ûnçivilan?[3]) |
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 |