Re: Zetowvu / Ezotwuv (new conlang)

En réponse à Tristan <kesuari@...>:

>
> i y       1 0      M u
>     I Y  I\ U\    U
>  e 2     @\  8     7 o
>            @
>   E 9    3  3\     V O
>    &       6
>     a *            A Q
>
> Using 0 for } is reasonably rare and a bit naughty because it's hard
> to
> tell the difference between 0 (zero) and O (capital o) in many fonts.
I actually never saw it.

> Not to say that there aren't fonts that don't really distinguish
> between
> 1 (one) and l (small L). Using * for small caps OE ligature is
> something
> I just made up on the fly to fill the hole; the symbol is rare enough
> that I doubt it's ever come up at the same time someone's used & for
> ash.
>
Indeed. I personally just swap & and {.

>
> For a while, Christophe (and others?)
Plenty!

 was working on his own ASCII IPA
> because X-SAMPA is unaesthetic and lacks good mnemonics, and other
> ASCII
> IPAs don't represent the entire IPA with simple characters. I don't
> know
> what happened to it in the end; it probably fell onto a backburner and
> then dropped behind the oven. Of course, knowing my luck, Christophe's
> been working hard at it and is about to start using it tomorrow...
>
LOL. Well, actually I still have it constantly with me. But it's in a beta
version that I want to enhance before showing to the world. The basic rules of
the system are set, but I just have difficulties finding the right mapping of
characters for them (I always end up with stupidities like using ^ for voicing :
(( ). Maybe I should present the rules to the world and let the majority decide
which characters to use for what...

But the main idea, which is to get 95% of the IPA transliterated at most with
single letters and digraphs with reasonable mnemonics works, using a system of
agglutination and of expansion of the use of actual IPA diacritics. It's a kind
of transcription which should you needn't learn by itself. If you know the main
rules and the IPA itself, you should be able to infer correctly the form of the
transliteration (and if the rules allow more than one transliteration possible,
they are all correct :) ).

Christophe.

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