Vadi: Difference between revisions

The ''Širkattarnaft'' was insufficient in representing Vadi phonology and phonotactics, as evidenced by the numerous digraphs, spelling anomalies and irregularities found throughout the texts.  Schumann and Iyyaħmi use two different Romanized systems for glossing purposes.  Schumann's system, devised in the 1970's, is based on a slightly modified version of Spanish, as it is his native language and moreover, he felt the Spanish orthography represented the phonology of Vadi accurately.   

|  a, ã, á, e, é, i, í, í, o, ó, u, ú, b, p, f, v, d, ð, t, g, k, n, m, l, ɬ, r, z, s, s̺, š, h, w, y

Both Iyyaħmi and Schumann do employ IPA to represent the actual phonology of the textual material, but even here both Vadists diverge, as the IPA of Iyyaħmi reflects his more recent work on how the ''Širkattarnaft'' was used to represent Vadi phonology and phonotactics, whereas Schumann maintains Iyyaħmi's analyses are problematic, but he is among the minority.  Today, the consensus among Vadists is that Iyyaħmi's analyses are more accurate.  Tashunka's IPA for the most part agrees with Iyyaħmi's; where the two diverge will be noted.  

In this article, Tashunka's system will be used alongside Iyyaħmi's romanization.  The authors of this article believe that this presentation will simplify glosses by leveraging Tashunka's romanization, while indicating where consonantal mutations take place via Iyyaħmi's system. Schumann's system, being the older and the less accurate one of the two, when it appears will be noted.