Tuesday, November 10, 2015

provisional phonetics (outdated)

So, I've gotta start somewhere...
 The (provisional) alphabet:

 a á c ć e é f f' h h' i í j j' k k' o ó p p' r ŕ s ś t ť u ú z ź

 There should be twice as many consonants as vowels,  if I counted correctly. The diacritic or, when I couldn't get a diacritic, the apostrophe, represents a voiced sound when used on a consonant, and with vowels it's mostly just arbitrary; it usually indicates merely a sound that is not the same as Latin and the like.

a: as a in father
á: as a in apple
c: as ch in cheese (ĉ)
ć: as g in gem (ĝ)
e: as e in pet
é: as e in the (schwa)
f: as f in fruit
f': as v in vain
h: as th in thin
h': as th in this
i: as i in machine
í: as i in insect
j: as sh in ship
j': as s in pleasure (ĵ)
k: as k in kitten
k': as g in gas
o: as o in code
ó: as o in cold
p: as p in party
p': as b in bug
r: like a trilled/rolled r, but unvoiced
ŕ: trilled/rolled r, as in Spanish
s: like s in soap
ś: like z in zebra
t: like t in time
ť: like d in dark
u: like oo in food
ú: like oo in book
z: like z in pizza or nazi
ź: like dz in adze

Vowels are named by their sound; consonants by their sound + i (ci, ći, fi, etc)
Actually, I don't much like this system and will probably change it. It seemed like a great idea when I first came up with it, but I'm having a hard time getting by without the letter m. Also, I don't so much like the way this one looks...


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