Verse:Mwail/Old Gloob: Difference between revisions
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==Orthography== | ==Orthography== | ||
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[[Image:ŧā́thimā́ script.jpg|right|thumb|Themsarian script in the ''ŧā́thimā́'' style.|240px]] | [[Image:ŧā́thimā́ script.jpg|right|thumb|Themsarian script in the ''ŧā́thimā́'' style.|240px]] | ||
The standardized Themsarian alphabet, variants of which are used to write other Talsmic languages, is a native alphabetic script with 28 letters in addition to diacritics for vowel length and tones. In the earliest texts vowel length and tone were not recorded; diacritics for these were first devised for religious and official purposes and gradually came to be universally mandatory. In texts meant to be sung (e.g. poetry or hymns) the tone marks are substituted with various cantillation marks that 'correspond' to the tone. Tone is generally ''not'' assigned when transcribing foreign words. | -->The standardized Themsarian alphabet, variants of which are used to write other Talsmic languages, is a native alphabetic script with 28 letters in addition to diacritics for vowel length and tones. In the earliest texts vowel length and tone were not recorded; diacritics for these were first devised for religious and official purposes and gradually came to be universally mandatory. In texts meant to be sung (e.g. poetry or hymns) the tone marks are substituted with various cantillation marks that 'correspond' to the tone. Tone is generally ''not'' assigned when transcribing foreign words. | ||
The alphabetical order is as follows: | The alphabetical order is as follows: | ||
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#'''L:''' ''luccé'' 'pericarp' | #'''L:''' ''luccé'' 'pericarp' | ||
#'''G:''' ''gávthe'' 'throat' | #'''G:''' ''gávthe'' 'throat' | ||
#'''C:''' | #'''C:''' ''cár'' 'human' | ||
#'''H:''' | #'''H:''' | ||
#'''B:''' | #'''B:''' | ||