Lanikel orthography: Difference between revisions
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=== Tones === | === Tones === | ||
High tone is marked with an acute accent on vowels without a diacritic. On vowels with a macron (denoting length), the macron is replaced with a circumflex (e.g. /í íː/ are ⟨í î⟩) | High tone on vowels is marked with an acute accent on vowels without a diacritic. On vowels with a macron (denoting length), the macron is replaced with a circumflex (e.g. /í íː/ are ⟨í î⟩). | ||
Mid tone on vowels is marked with a grave accent on vowels without a diacritic. On vowels with a macron (denoting length), the macron is replaced with a caron (e.g. /ī īː/ are ⟨ì ǐ⟩). | |||
Low tone is marked with an apostrophe before the nucleus. | |||
Because word-initial high tone words are most common, Iskel romanizes them differently to avoid extensive diacritic use: a high tone on a multisyllabic word is not written if there is only one high tone and it's word initial. Multisyllabic words with no tones are written as if they have a word-initial high tone. | |||
For polypthongs, tone (not including low tone because it has unusual romanization) and length are always written on the first vowel grapheme, so every vowel with a tone or length diacritic begins its syllable's nucleus. It is therefore unnecessary to use a diaerisis on such vowels. | For polypthongs, tone (not including low tone because it has unusual romanization) and length are always written on the first vowel grapheme, so every vowel with a tone or length diacritic begins its syllable's nucleus. It is therefore unnecessary to use a diaerisis on such vowels. | ||
{| class="wikitable" | {| class="wikitable" | ||
! | ! rowspan="2" | | ||
! colspan="3" | | ! colspan="3" |[[w:Front_vowel|Front]] | ||
! colspan="3" | | ! colspan="3" |[[w:Near-Front_vowel|Near-Front]] | ||
! colspan="3" | | ! colspan="3" |[[w:Near-Back_vowel|Near-Back]] | ||
! colspan="3" | | ! colspan="3" |[[w:Back_vowel|Back]] | ||
|- | |- | ||
!High | ![[w:tone_(linguistics)|High]] | ||
!Mid | ![[w:tone_(linguistics)|Mid]] | ||
!Low | ![[w:tone_(linguistics)|Low]] | ||
!High | ![[w:tone_(linguistics)|High]] | ||
!Mid | ![[w:tone_(linguistics)|Mid]] | ||
!Low | ![[w:tone_(linguistics)|Low]] | ||
!High | ![[w:tone_(linguistics)|High]] | ||
!Mid | ![[w:tone_(linguistics)|Mid]] | ||
!Low | ![[w:tone_(linguistics)|Low]] | ||
!High | ![[w:tone_(linguistics)|High]] | ||
!Mid | ![[w:tone_(linguistics)|Mid]] | ||
!Low | ![[w:tone_(linguistics)|Low]] | ||
|- | |- | ||
! | ![[w:Close_vowel|Close]] | ||
| | |í '''í''' | ||
| | |ī '''ì''' | ||
| | |ì '''<nowiki/>'i''' | ||
| | |ɪ́ '''íe''' | ||
| | |ɪ̄ '''ìe''' | ||
| | |ɪ̀ '''<nowiki/>'ie''' | ||
| | |ʊ́ '''úo''' | ||
| | |ʊ̄ '''ùo''' | ||
| | |ʊ̀ '''<nowiki/>'uo''' | ||
| | |ú '''ú''' | ||
| | |ū '''ù''' | ||
| | |ù '''<nowiki/>'u''' | ||
|- | |- | ||
! | ![[w:Mid_vowel|Mid]] | ||
| | |é '''é''' | ||
| | |ē '''è''' | ||
| | |è '''<nowiki/>'e''' | ||
| | |ə́ '''éo''' | ||
| | |ə̄ '''èo''' | ||
| | |ə̀ '''<nowiki/>'eo''' | ||
| | |ʌ́ '''óe''' | ||
| | |ʌ̄ '''òe''' | ||
| | |ʌ̀ '''<nowiki/>'oe''' | ||
| | |ó '''ó''' | ||
| | |ō '''ò''' | ||
| | |ò '''<nowiki/>'o''' | ||
|- | |- | ||
! | ![[w:Open_vowel|Open]] | ||
|á '''á''' | |||
| | |ā '''à''' | ||
| | |à '''<nowiki/>'a''' | ||
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|ɑ́ '''áo''' | |||
|ɑ̄ '''ào''' | |||
|ɑ̀ '''<nowiki/>'ao''' | |||
|} | |} | ||
High tone syllabic consonants /ɱ̩́ ń̩ ɲ̩́ ŋ̩́ ź̩ ʒ̩́ ẃ̩ ĺ̩ j̩́ ɾ̩́ ʀ̩́/ have their underdots replaced with the acute accent ⟨ḿ ń ńy ńg ź źh ẃ ĺ ý ŕ ŕr⟩. High tone /ð̩/ is written with ⟨ð⟩ instead of ⟨d́⟩, and high tone /v̩/ is written with a ⟨ŵ⟩. | |||
Mid tone syllabic consonants are written similar to their toneless forms, but with overdots instead of underdots. The mid tone /v̩̄/, however, is written ⟨ẅ⟩. | |||
{| class="wikitable" | {| class="wikitable" | ||
! colspan="2" rowspan="2" | | ! colspan="2" rowspan="2" | | ||
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|''<nowiki/>'ẓ'h'''''<nowiki/>''' | |''<nowiki/>'ẓ'h'''''<nowiki/>''' | ||
|/z̩˩h/ | |/z̩˩h/ | ||
! | ! rowspan="4" |oua | ||
|''oua'' | |||
|/ou̯a̯/ | |||
|- | |- | ||
! rowspan="2" |ql | ! rowspan="2" |ql | ||
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|''ṛr'' | |''ṛr'' | ||
|/ʀ̩/ | |/ʀ̩/ | ||
|''oüa'' | |||
|/o.ua̯/ | |||
|- | |- | ||
|''q'l'' | |''q'l'' | ||
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|''ṛ'r'' | |''ṛ'r'' | ||
|/ɾ̩ɾ/ | |/ɾ̩ɾ/ | ||
|''ouä'' | |||
|/ou̯.a/ | |||
|- | |- | ||
| colspan="3" | | | colspan="3" | | ||
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|''ŕr'' | |''ŕr'' | ||
|/ʀ̩˥/ | |/ʀ̩˥/ | ||
|''oüä'' | |||
|/o.u.a/ | |||
|- | |- | ||
! rowspan="2" |qn | ! rowspan="2" |qn | ||
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|''ŕ'r'' | |''ŕ'r'' | ||
|/ɾ̩˥ɾ/ | |/ɾ̩˥ɾ/ | ||
! colspan="3" rowspan="18" | | |||
|- | |- | ||
|''q'n'' | |''q'n'' | ||