Some refinements. Comments are welcome!<\/p>\n
The new orthography uses the following letters and digraphs
\n (examples are standard English):<\/p>\n
Vowels:<\/p>\n
ee,y\tbeet, need [1]
\n i\t\tpit, dig
\n ae\t\tmade, slay
\n e\t\tbed, kept
\n a\t\tcat, mad
\n u\t\tluck, pluck, sub [2]
\n oo,w\tfood, moot [1]
\n eu\t\tbook, put
\n oe\t\ttoe, rode
\n o\t\tpot, caught, clod
\n ie\t\tbuy, pie, fly<\/p>\n
(Update: ‘a’ is pronounced ‘u’ word-finally.) <\/p>\n
Diphthongs:<\/p>\n
ue\t\tuse, yule [3]
\n ou\t\tloud, cow
\n oi\t\tboy, roil
\n or\t\tsnore, pour, lore [4]
\n ar\t\tare, par, bar, star
\n ur\t\tpurple, lurk
\n er air, hare, lair<\/p>\n
Consonants:<\/p>\n
b\t\tBob
\n d\t\tdad
\n g\t\tagog, gig, *never* age
\n p\t\tpop
\n t\t\ttot
\n k\t\tcake
\n x\t\taxe, *never* xylophone [5]
\n v\t\tverve
\n dh\t\tthen, the
\n f\t\tfluff
\n th\t\tthin, think
\n h\t\that
\n z\t\tzoo
\n zh\t\tleisure, pleasure
\n j,jh\tjudge [6]
\n s\t\tsass
\n sh\t\tshush
\n c,ch\tchurch [6]
\n l\t\tloll
\n m\t\tmom
\n n\t\tnone
\n ng\t\tsinger, *never* longer, which is ‘longgr’
\n w\t\twow
\n y\t\tyay
\n r\t\troar<\/p>\n
Rules<\/p>\n
The indefinite article is ‘a’ or ‘an’.<\/p>\n
The plural morpheme, and the present 3rd-person singluar verb
\n ending, is ‘ez’. This will pretty much always be written ‘z’ (see
\n below).<\/p>\n
The past participle ending is ‘ed’, almost always written ‘d’. As a
\n general rule, the new orthography should be proactive in regularizing
\n past participles: ‘keepd’, ‘sleepd’, etc. Is it too early in this
\n process to use ‘seed’ and ‘beed’ for ‘seen’ and ‘been’?<\/p>\n
Word-final voiced consonants may be written without a preceding
\n vowel.<\/p>\n
Not sure whether (or where) to allow gemination. Perhaps before word-
\n medial stressed syllables?<\/p>\n
Notes:<\/p>\n
[1] ‘y’ and ‘w’ are substituted for ‘ee’ and ‘oo’ in syllables that
\n are both short and unstressed. Note that the pronouns ‘I’ and ‘me’
\n may be used instead of their new equivalents ‘Ie’ and ‘my’, for
\n sentimental reasons.<\/p>\n
[2] Unstressed vowels are spelled with their regular counterparts.
\n ‘u’ is only used where it retains its value in a stressed syllable.<\/p>\n
[3] Some dialects pronounce ‘tune’ or ‘news’ with this diphthong;
\n the orthography will only use this digraph for those cases where it
\n is in the majority of dialects.<\/p>\n
[4] Non-rhotic dialects will just have to grin and bear it.<\/p>\n
[5] ‘x’ should never be used for the plural of a word ending in
\n ‘k’. Thus (std) ‘socks’ -> (new) ‘sokz’.<\/p>\n
[6] The two are equivalent, and may be chosen simply for aesthetic
\n reasons. <\/p>\n
Example:<\/p>\n
Tw bee, or not tw bee, dhat is dh kwestchn:
\n Wedhr tiz noeblr, in dh miend, tw suffr
\n Dh slingz and erroez v outraejus forchn,
\n Or tw taek armz agenst a see v trublz,
\n And bie oppoezing end dhem. Tw die, tw sleep,
\n Noe mor; and bie a sleep tw sae wy end
\n Dh hart-aek and dh thousnd nachrl shokz
\n Dhat flesh iz er tw, ‘tiz a konswmmaeshn
\n Devvoutly tw by wishd.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Some refinements. Comments are welcome! The new orthography uses the following letters and digraphs (examples are standard English): Vowels: ee,y beet, need [1] i pit, dig ae made, slay e bed, kept a cat, mad u luck, pluck, sub [2] oo,w food, moot [1] eu book, put oe toe, rode o pot, caught, clod ie … Continue reading “Mor Orthografy”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}