Re: New Orthography for slaleg ekryn

On Tue, 17 Jun 2003 13:14:52 -0400, Matt Trinsic <trinsic@...>
wrote:

>Morning,
>I have gone ahead now and finally created a standard orthography for my
>language. I had never considered it to be very important before, as its
>not really a part of slaleg ekryn. Most of my written work was done in
>the con-script. Now that I've joined this list though, it seems I am
>typing the words a lot more, so I thought it was about time to come up
>with some standard.
I have a similar (but not identical) problem with 'Yemls. My "con-script"
is actually typeable since it happens to be the same as the upper and lower
case letters. The problem is that hardly anybody can read it. I've been
trying to come up with an alternate orthography for posting to the list,
but haven't come up with anything really good.

Jeff Jones

PS. interesting system!

>The syllable template is a plain (C)V(C). Although
>the language has a number of consonant clusters that are monophonemic
>and only count as a single consonant.
>The consonant <orthography> and their /phonemes/ are:
><kr> /kr/, <z> /z/, <fl> /fl/, <v> /v/, <th> /T/, <k> /k/, <f> /f/,
><n> /n/, <þ> /D/, <d> /d/, <t> /t/, <g> /g/, <tr> /tr/, <s> /s/,
><sl> /sl/,  <l> /l/
>
>The vowels are a bit more complicated. There are only six of them, but
>they each have two phonemes. All noun words use one set of phonemes,
>while all verb words use the other set. Their <orthography> and /noun
>phonemes/ /vowel phonemes/ are:
><u> /@`/ /3`/, <y> /i/ /e/, <i> /aI/ /V/, <o> /u/ /o/, <e> /I/ /E/,
><a> /{/ /O/
>
>Because of this, the only difference between the word for food /flIt/
>and the word for eaten /flEt/ is the how the vowel is pronounced. In the
>con-script, this alteration is represented by a diacritical mark. In the
>orthography, it will be represented by an apostrophe before the final
>consonant of all verb words. For the times when a verb is used as a
>subject or object, the verb is prepended with a <o>, while retaining the
>verb vowel phonemes.
>
>~Trinsic