Transliterating Callenian - eshus
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noviceconlangersSo, I've started working on an alphabet for Callenian, and in doing so, I'm coming across some transliteration issues.
(1)My accent/English in general on the letter "a" (it's at least five different sounds off the top of my head)
(2)Beginning long consonants. For instance - Oonet, which means mountain-range (mass-of-mountains, world-of-mountains). That's oo, as in boo or moon or soon.
When you stretch that out into a long word - Oonetkabyee, for instance (mountain+big+REALLY), you end up with some awkward lots-of-double-letters.
Ūnetkabyē is how I tried to transliterate it to make it shorter, but I'm not sure it's any easier to read.
(3) Consistency. I don't think the names currently in the series have any consistency. See words - http://reiassan.wikispaces.com/Words
When I do a final draft of Rin & Girey, I'd like to have all the Callenian words transliterated the same way. So I have to figure out what that way should be.
What I have been doing do far is spelling it out as it makes sense to me at the moment, but, well, "Zaide" (Z-eye-duh) obviously doesn't fit, for one.
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(1)My accent/English in general on the letter "a" (it's at least five different sounds off the top of my head)
(2)Beginning long consonants. For instance - Oonet, which means mountain-range (mass-of-mountains, world-of-mountains). That's oo, as in boo or moon or soon.
When you stretch that out into a long word - Oonetkabyee, for instance (mountain+big+REALLY), you end up with some awkward lots-of-double-letters.
Ūnetkabyē is how I tried to transliterate it to make it shorter, but I'm not sure it's any easier to read.
(3) Consistency. I don't think the names currently in the series have any consistency. See words - http://reiassan.wikispaces.com/Words
When I do a final draft of Rin & Girey, I'd like to have all the Callenian words transliterated the same way. So I have to figure out what that way should be.
What I have been doing do far is spelling it out as it makes sense to me at the moment, but, well, "Zaide" (Z-eye-duh) obviously doesn't fit, for one.
Babble babble
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Date: 2012-02-22 07:45 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-02-22 02:26 pm (UTC)I realized another example last night - Perizja - is that last sound an -uh or an -ah? Also, that J is totally inconsistent with anything else.
Thinking out loud
Date: 2012-02-22 02:54 pm (UTC)You've got Arinya, Tatya, and Alaszia. Alaszia looks closest to Perizja; are they pronounced the same?
Re: Thinking out loud
Date: 2012-02-22 02:56 pm (UTC)(Alaszia is another problem, I keep pronouncing that with a long a and the system doesn't *have* a long a)
Hrrm. Perizja is almost Per-ih-sha.
Re: Thinking out loud
Date: 2012-02-22 03:31 pm (UTC)Re: Thinking out loud
Date: 2012-02-22 03:40 pm (UTC)Re: Thinking out loud
Date: 2012-02-22 03:53 pm (UTC)