Nasqi Syllabary

[qiihoskeh]

I've been playing around with the syllabary idea (actually an abugida, I think). This is the current version:

• 16 basic symbols by themselves,


• 16 basic symbols + 2 diacritics,


• 4 additional symbols in lieu of basic symbols + 3rd diacritic


• punctuation (word separator, sentence terminator, perhaps notations for extra emphasis (on a particular word), whispering, shouting etc.)

The basic symbols encode consonant + high/low vowel, the diacritics are added for front vowel or back (rounded) vowel.

The orthographic values shown (upper case here) are prior to most of the phonetic changes -- all those except coda consonant + /l/, I think.

The special symbols (under 3rd) occur only before /l/.

The letters are the ones bearing the closest resemblance to the actual glyph.

	none		1st		2nd		3rd
1	F	v	PI	v"	PU	v`	P	f
2	PA	p	PE	p"	PO	p`
3	Z	z	TI	z"	TU	z`
4	TA	t	TE	t"	TO	t`
5	X	e	KI	e"	KU	e`	K	w
6	KA	k	KE	k"	KO	K
7	S	s	HI	s"	HU	s`
8	HA	o	HE	o"	HO	o`
	A		I		U
9	N	n	BI	n"	BU	n`	MB	m
10	BA	b	BE	b"	BO	B
11	R	r	DI	r"	DU	r`
12	DA	d	DE	d"	DO	d`
13	Q	j	GI	j"	GU	j`	NG	g
14	GA	q	GE	q"	GO	q`
15	L	y	LI	y"	LU	y`
16	LA	l	LE	l"	LO	L

Edit: I forgot this part: there are special glyphs for KO, BO, and LO instead of the base symbol + 2nd diacritic; these are represented by K, B, and L, respectively in the table. The actual glyphs are like the base symbols, but with a loop at the top. (Also note, current music as of time of edit!)

There are some things that need to be greatly improved if I actually want to use this.