forumadmin, Administrators
2,041
edits
Ithkuil: Difference between revisions
→Past versions
mNo edit summary |
|||
| Line 309: | Line 309: | ||
Ithkuil uses a morphophonemic script because characters convey both phonetic and morphological information. Its use is closely tied to Ithkuil's grammatical system, which allows much of the phonological aspect of words to be morpho-syntactically inferred. Those parts of an Ithkuil word whose pronunciation is predictable are not written, whereas the characters used to indicate the pronunciation of the unpredictable parts of a word also convey the grammatical information necessary to reconstruct the implicit phonetics. Words are thus written in a highly abbreviated manner, particularly useful for the highly inflected, occasionally elongated words of the Ithkuil language. The script is also used alphabetically for transliterating foreign words and mathematical expressions.<ref name="orthography">[http://www.ithkuil.net/11_script.htm ''A Philosophical Design for a Hypothetical Language''– Chapter 11: The Writing System]</ref> | Ithkuil uses a morphophonemic script because characters convey both phonetic and morphological information. Its use is closely tied to Ithkuil's grammatical system, which allows much of the phonological aspect of words to be morpho-syntactically inferred. Those parts of an Ithkuil word whose pronunciation is predictable are not written, whereas the characters used to indicate the pronunciation of the unpredictable parts of a word also convey the grammatical information necessary to reconstruct the implicit phonetics. Words are thus written in a highly abbreviated manner, particularly useful for the highly inflected, occasionally elongated words of the Ithkuil language. The script is also used alphabetically for transliterating foreign words and mathematical expressions.<ref name="orthography">[http://www.ithkuil.net/11_script.htm ''A Philosophical Design for a Hypothetical Language''– Chapter 11: The Writing System]</ref> | ||
== Past versions == | <!--== Past versions == | ||
===Original Ithkuil=== | ===Original Ithkuil=== | ||
| Line 534: | Line 534: | ||
|} | |} | ||
The 14 diphthongs of Ilaksh were {{IPA|/ai̯/}}, {{IPA|/æi̯/}}, {{IPA|/ei̯/}}, {{IPA|/əi̯/}}, {{IPA|/oi̯/}}, {{IPA|/øi̯/}}, {{IPA|/ui̯/}}, {{IPA|/au̯/}}, {{IPA|/æu̯/}}, {{IPA|/eu̯/}}, {{IPA|/əu̯/}}, {{IPA|/iu̯/}}, {{IPA|/ou̯/}}, and {{IPA|/øu̯/}}. All other sequences of vowels were pronounced as separate syllables. | The 14 diphthongs of Ilaksh were {{IPA|/ai̯/}}, {{IPA|/æi̯/}}, {{IPA|/ei̯/}}, {{IPA|/əi̯/}}, {{IPA|/oi̯/}}, {{IPA|/øi̯/}}, {{IPA|/ui̯/}}, {{IPA|/au̯/}}, {{IPA|/æu̯/}}, {{IPA|/eu̯/}}, {{IPA|/əu̯/}}, {{IPA|/iu̯/}}, {{IPA|/ou̯/}}, and {{IPA|/øu̯/}}. All other sequences of vowels were pronounced as separate syllables. | ||
--> | |||
==Possible advantages== | ==Possible advantages== | ||