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I'm putting this here before I forget.
I've been thinking today about making a syllabary for Nasqi, along the following lines:
16 basic symbols + 3 diacritics + punctuation (word separator, sentence terminator, perhaps notations for extra emphasis (on a particular word), whispering, shouting etc.)
The basic symbols would encode consonant + high/low vowel, the diacritics would be added for front vowel, back vowel, or special.
The values shown are prior to most of the phonetic changes -- all those except coda consonant + /l/, I think.
2005.Jan.16: I fixed the HTML -- LJ was adding closing tags, but in the wrong place. A trillion curses on the creators of XHTML for their cavalier attitude towards backwards compatibility.
I've been thinking today about making a syllabary for Nasqi, along the following lines:
16 basic symbols + 3 diacritics + punctuation (word separator, sentence terminator, perhaps notations for extra emphasis (on a particular word), whispering, shouting etc.)
The basic symbols would encode consonant + high/low vowel, the diacritics would be added for front vowel, back vowel, or special.
| none | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | f | pi | pu | p |
| 2 | pa | pe | po | |
| 3 | z | ti | tu | |
| 4 | ta | te | to | |
| 5 | x | ki | ku | k |
| 6 | ka | ke | ko | |
| 7 | s | hi | hu | |
| 8 | ha | he | ho | |
| 9 | n | bi | bu | mb |
| 10 | ba | be | bo | |
| 11 | r | di | du | |
| 12 | da | de | do | |
| 13 | q | gi | gu | ng |
| 14 | ga | ge | go | |
| 15 | l | li | lu | |
| 16 | la | le | lo |
The values shown are prior to most of the phonetic changes -- all those except coda consonant + /l/, I think.
2005.Jan.16: I fixed the HTML -- LJ was adding closing tags, but in the wrong place. A trillion curses on the creators of XHTML for their cavalier attitude towards backwards compatibility.