Nasqi: Orthography, Phonotactics
2005-Jan-09, Sunday 01:10![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
I've made a minor update to the orthography given in this entry in the following section:
The vowel digraphs represent long vowels and diphthongs:
These changes avoid orthographic changes to roots when different classifiers and modifiers are used. Examples:
Noagiz (You are a dog) instead of Noogiz
Noneagiz (You are not a dog) instead of Noneegiz
the -agi- part no longer has to change.
The vowel digraphs represent long vowels and diphthongs:
<ii> | [i:] |
<ia> | [i@] |
<iu> | [iu] |
<ei> | [e:] (could be [ei] ?) |
<ea> | [E:] |
---|---|
<eu> | [eu] (could be [Eu] ?) |
<ai> | [ae] |
<aa> | [a:] |
<au> | [ao] |
<oi> | [oi] (could be [Oi] ?) |
<oa> | [O:] |
<ou> | [o:] (could be [ou] ?) |
<ui> | [ui] |
<ua> | [u@] |
<uu> | [u:] |
These changes avoid orthographic changes to roots when different classifiers and modifiers are used. Examples:
Noagiz (You are a dog) instead of Noogiz
Noneagiz (You are not a dog) instead of Noneegiz
the -agi- part no longer has to change.