Frenkisch: Difference between revisions

The orthography is complicated. Short vowels are marked by doubling the following consonants. Long vowels are followed by a single consonant or occasionally by doubling the vowel. Frenkisch strives for a regular spelling system. However it retains certain spelling conventions for the sake of etymological clarity and aesthetics when such conventions don't interfere too much with regularity. For example '''qu''', '''x''' and '''ck''' are used where simpler ''kw'', ''ks'' and ''kk'' would have sufficed. Often there are more than one way to spell the same sound, for the sake of etymology. For example [aɪ] is spelled as '''y''' but occasionally as '''aj'''. [ʃ] is spelled as '''sch''' but sometimes '''ch'''. [ts] is normally spelled with '''c''', but with '''ti''' in words such as '''nation''', '''patient''' and '''pretentieus'''.