Re: Phoneme winnowing continues

Hi!

"Mark J. Reed" <markjreed@...> writes:
> HT> Very interesting indeed: my language Tyl Sjok is also written using a
> HT> grid and the consonants use vertical/horizontal and the vowels use
> HT> diagonals!  Nice! :-)
>
> Well, I guess I was being more logical than creative, then. :)
Same here. :-)

> HT> If you want to see the writing, I will have to prepare a PostScript
> HT> file for you.
>
> I would like that very much.
Ok. :-)

Before I can upload something, I problably have to repair the
PostScript font renderer for Tyl Sjok.  It seems to be a bit broken
(it currently seems to adds spurious glottal stops to all palatised
syllables I think)...

But this is the ASCII documentation from the soucre code.  I should
say that a character is composed from two parts: left the semantical
part, which is not handled here, and right the pronunciation part,
which is described below.  Each syllable has the following structure:

   C(j)V(C)(CV(C))

The initial C cannot be /N/.
The middle C-cluster can only be /nt/, /ts/, /Nk/ and /kx/.
The final C cannot be /?/. (and that is exactly what the font renderer
seems to violate. grrrr.)

The palatalisation of the first syllable is marked with a dot in the
right uppermost square, I think.

// Consonants:
//
//        1   2
//       --- ---
//    12| 13|   |3       13-16: vertical
//      |17 |18 |        17-22: horizontal
//       --- ---
//    11| 14|   |4
//      |19 |20 |
//       --- ---
//    10| 15|   |5
//      |21 |22 |
//       --- ---
//     9| 16|   |6
//      |   |   |
//       --- ---
//        8   7
//
// Initial consonant:
//       12 = t    11 = s   11+12 = n
//       10 = k     9 = x    9+10 = N
//        1 = ?,    2 = h     1+2 = l
//
// Final consonant:
//        3 = t,    4 = s,    3+4 = n
//        5 = k,    6 = x,    5+6 = N
//       (8 = ?),  (7 = h),   7+8 = l
//
// Middle consonant cluster:
//       17 = t,   18 = s,  17+18 = ts
//       13 = n,            13+14 = nt
//
//       21 = k,   22 = k,  21+22 = kx
//       15 = N,            15+16 = Nk
//
//       19 = ?,   20 = h,  19+20 = l
//
// Vowels:
//   \ or / lines in the eight squares:
//
//        1 2
//        3 4
//        5 6
//        7 8
//
// First syllable:
// Stroke orientation:
//        \/
//        /\ .
//        \/
//        /\ .
// Vowels:
//    1=i  2=y        14=ei
//    3=e  4=w        32=eo
//    5=u             58=ui
//    7=o  8=a        76=ou
//
// Second syllable:
//
// Stroke orientation:
//        /\   .
//        \/
//        /\   .
//        \/
// Vowel positions are the same.

Samples will follow soon. :-)

**Henrik

Replies