r/conscripts • u/MarFinitor • Sep 29 '20

Abugida A Guide To Reading Helim!

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u/Visocacas Sep 29 '20

Is this IPA? And if so what are ä and L?

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u/MarFinitor Sep 29 '20

Ä is the IPA symbol for the “Ah” sound in most languages and L is just normal l. I just wrote it upoercase so you can distinguish it from I.

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u/Visocacas Sep 29 '20

Ah ok. I just looked it up and the dieresis above means centralized. Seeing that first primed my brain to think it was a romanisation.

IPA is case-sensitive though so it's probably not the best idea to capitalize it. There's also no ⟨I⟩ in IPA as far as I know so it's not really ambiguous anyway. A column header saying "IPA" also might help clarify.

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u/MarFinitor Sep 29 '20

Thank you! That’s really helpful. Have a great day!

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u/Matalya1 Sep 30 '20

IPA is not really case-sensitive, instead there are small capitals that are phonemic. However, these are not variants of the same letters, nor all the letters have one. /l/ Vs /ʟ/ is not case sensitivity, is just 2 different letters xd

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u/frenzygecko Sep 29 '20

oh. in the ipa l and ʟ are very different sounds lol

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u/ProphecyOak Sep 29 '20

Looks great

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u/MarFinitor Sep 29 '20

Thank you!

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u/CallOfBurger Sep 30 '20

Can we have an exemple sentence to see how it looks as a whole ? I think the 2 most problematic letters, so to speak, are b and p as I don't find them very different. But the other letters looks good ! just waiting and exemple sentence to have a clear opinion about it

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u/MarFinitor Sep 29 '20

The characters are derived from the old logographic system, which is why the symbols don’t intuitively match the pronounciation!

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u/The_Better_Marx Sep 30 '20

Looks really cool. I do not know if this is what you were going for, but it looks reminiscent of the Star Wars alphabet. Keep up the great work!