Re: an "i" for an /i/ was: Heyas all!

On Sun, 28 Mar 1999 15:04:49 -0500 Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> writes:
>Mathew Willoughby wrote:
>> What do most of you on this list use?  I've gotten the impression
>> that a Latin-based spelling, modified by the creator's own
>conventions
>> for non-Latin sounds, seems to be prevalent.
The latin-alphabet transliteration of Rokbeigalmki's "Ziifer" alphabet is
sorta complicated, because it has too many sounds to just use simple
latin-type values for all the consonants vowels and diphthongs.

The actual alphabet that Rokbeigalmki uses was made before Rokbeigalmki
existed, for the now-aborted conlang ool-Nuziiferoi (hence the name
Ziifer) /UlnuzajfROj/  ( [R] = /@<rhotic>/ ) .  This was back when i had
just started learning Spanish, but even before that i had picked up from
*somewhere* to use {a e i o u} for /a e i o u/....actually, it was
actually {e} /E/.  Probably from transliteration-schemes for Hebrew.
I used this "almost-cardinal-vowel" system for pronouncing my
substitution-code D'gijsiki, although more than one vowel next to
eachother didn't exactly fit in:
aa = /&/ or /e@/
ee = /ji/ or /ej/ (different time periods)
ii = /aj/ (i always use {ii} for /aj/, it probably comes from Hebrew,
where {yy} can mean this)
oo = /O/ or /Oj/ (different time periods)
uu = /U/ or /Uj/ (different time periods)

and, the only non-same combination:

uo = /wa/ (probably based on {o} = /a/ in English "pot, cot, rot")

So, based on this, ool-Nuziiferoi needed a transliteration....it was
pretty standard (exactly like Rokb.'s) except that because of the use of
/@<r>/ {er} as a vowel, the combination /Er/ had to be spelled {ehr}.

The rest of the transliteration is pretty intuitive, if you think like me
- which most people don't :) .
The consonants are just mostly English values and combinations, except
for:
F = /P/
DH = /D/
JH = /Z/
HH = /H/
KH = /x/
GH = /G/
NG = /n"/ (uvular nasal)

The vowels on the other hand, are pretty much almost all messed up, a
mixture of latin-style, english-style, d'gijsiki and new insanities, such
as {ai}:
A = /a/
E = /E/
I = /i/
O = /o/
U = /u/
AA = /&/
AI = /e@/
AU = /O/
II = /aj/
IH = /I/
EI = /ej/
OO = /U/
UH = /V/
AO = /aw/
OU = /&w/
OI = /Oj/


-Stephen (Steg)
 "minwen jayeh?  mimissrayim."
 "fen rayikh?  liyerushalayim."
 "ishu zawatak?  massah umaror."

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