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===Cyrillic script=== | ===Cyrillic script=== | ||
*Consonants: б, ц, д, ђ, ф, г, ы, ј, к, л, љ, м, м̀, н, п, ғ, р, с, т, o̴, в, х, з, ѕ | *Consonants: п/б ф/в м̀/м; t/d þ/ð ł/l; c/ß s/z r/n; к/g x/q ħ/ʒ (yogh) | ||
б, ц, д, ђ, ф, г, ы, ј, к, л, љ, м, м̀, н, п, ғ, р, с, т, o̴, в, х, з, ѕ | |||
**o̴ is the old Cyrillic letter fita, an "o" with a tilde through it, derived from θ.[http://www.omniglot.com/writing/cyrillic.htm] | **o̴ is the old Cyrillic letter fita, an "o" with a tilde through it, derived from θ.[http://www.omniglot.com/writing/cyrillic.htm] | ||
**On the conlang list θ will be used. | **On the conlang list θ will be used. |
Revision as of 12:58, 14 February 2007
This article describes a variety of simple clues one can use to determine what conlang a document is written in with high accuracy.
Ayeri
- Orthography: ptkbdgmnvshrly aāeēiīoōuū (older transcriptions use c for k)
- Non-ASCII: āēīōū (ạẹịọụ ạ̄ẹ̄ị̄ọ̄ụ̄ have also been used in older transcriptions)
- Unused ASCII: cfjqwxyz
- Dipthongs: au, ay, ey, oy (also uses 'iy' frequently, but that is no diphthong)
- Common words: ang, sira, eng, le, si, yam, ya
- Common morphemes: -ang, -aris, -reng, -ley, -yam, -ea, -iya, -ara, -in, -on
- Other common features: Words can get quite long due to its agglutinativeness.
Calénnawn
- Non-ASCII: áéíóú àèìòù ë ðñ and $ or š
- Unused ASCII: jk
- Diphthongs: aw, iw, ow, ay, ey, oy, uy
- Digraph: ii
- x and q are common
- Words starting with f- or s- (like f-qúba)
- Words of more than one syllable contain at least one acute accent
- Common one- and two-letter words: a, e, i, h, o, on, so, se, fh, el, en, iw, fa
Ebisédian
- ASCII orthography:
- Uses w, y, 3 and 0 as vowel letters
- Upper- and lowercase consonants are distinct (e. g., K vs. k)
- Use of double vowel letters to indicate length: 00, ww.
- Use of apostrophe after vowels to indicate stress: 00', yy'.
- LaTeX orthography:
- Use of ø and ɜ as vowel letters
- Multiple diacritics over single vowel letters, up to 4 (macron, acute, tear-drop accent, subscript tilde).
- Subscript tilde to indicate nasality.
- Tear-drop accent in vowel-initial words (looks like a superscript opening left single quote)
- General:
- Common single-word sentences with i in the last syllable.
- Common words: Ke, ve, ke, je, re (always clause-final), keve, tømø, tɜmɜ, timi, tama, tumu.
Germanech
- Non-ASCII: Ää Öö Üü Éé
- Digraphs: ch cj dj gj tj tz
- Common words: a de ez ést héz il la las los
Minza
- Non-ASCII: ċ č ł ŋ ö ř š ż ž
- Unused ASCII: q w x
- Digraphs: ch, gh
- Combinations: ië, yö, uö, öy, -h after vowels, łř, nř
- Common words: ai, ba, ċi, die, en, fi, ida, ja, kam, keh, ła, łu, min, nu, öych, ři, šei, šö, vö, yn, zmi
Qþyn|gài
- Non-ASCII: Þþ|ǂáíúýàìùỳ
- Unused ASCII: bpmfvweoczj
- Combinations: nq qþ rq ql tl hh nǂg n!g n||g ǂk ái áu úi íu ài àu ùi ìu
- All words start with a consonant and end with a vowel
- Very long words
Regimonti
Regimonti is a Romance language with vocabulary based on classical Latin rather than Vulgar Latin.
- Its name is "Rumanşa" in Regimonti
- Latin Alphabet with three additional characters: è, ņ, ş which make the following sounds: /E/ /J/ /S/ respectively.
- Diphthongs: ai, au, oi, ua
- common words: unu, una, lu, la. First person singular pronoun: O
- Listen to the Babel Text in mp3 format
Sasxsek
- 7-bit ASCII characters only.
- All upper case or all lower case letters, no mixed case.
- Unused punctuation symbols: ; " ? !
- Unused letters: C, Y.
- No doubled letters.
- Empenthetic X (=/@/) used to in compounds.
- Single bracket quotes: < >
- Apostrophe to break up numbers or long words to make them more readable: 1'000'000
- Colon used for abbreviations: k:m: (=kilxmitros)
- Proper name marker "li".
Senjecas
Latin script
- Consonants: p/b f/v m/ɱ; t/d þ/ð ł/l; c/ß s/z r/n; к/g x/q ħ/ʒ (yogh)
- c = /ts/; ß = /dz/; к = Greenlandic kra
- On the conlang list: ħ = jh, к = k, yogh = j, ł = lh, ɱ = mh, r = rh, ß = dz
- Breve under or over to indicate labialization: ğ, ð̬
- On the conlang list: labialization indicated by ü
- Cedilla under or apostrophe over to indicate palatalization: ç, g̓
- On the conlang list labialization indicated by ï
- Vowels: i, e, a, ø, o, u; with acute accent: í, é, á, ǿ, ó, ú; with double acute accent: i̋, e̋, a̋, ø̋, ő, ű
- On the conlang list double acute accent replaced with circumflex
- Weak vowels: æ, ɶ, ı
- On the conlang list ı = ï
Cyrillic script
- Consonants: п/б ф/в м̀/м; t/d þ/ð ł/l; c/ß s/z r/n; к/g x/q ħ/ʒ (yogh)
б, ц, д, ђ, ф, г, ы, ј, к, л, љ, м, м̀, н, п, ғ, р, с, т, o̴, в, х, з, ѕ
- o̴ is the old Cyrillic letter fita, an "o" with a tilde through it, derived from θ.[1]
- On the conlang list θ will be used.
- Breve under or over to indicate labialization: г̆, б̬
- Vowels: и, е, а, ѫ, o, у; with acute accent: и́, é, á, ѫ́, ó, ý; with double acute accent: и̋, e̋, a̋, ѫ̋, ő, y̋
- On the conlang list ø will be used for ѫ yus.
- Palatalization is indicated with the iotacized vowels: i, є, я, ё, ю; palatalization does not occur before ѫ. This is not a rule, it just so happens.
- Weak vowels: ь, ъ, ў
Greek script
- Greek consonants:
α β γ δ ε ζ η θ ι κ λ μ ν ξ ο π ρ ς σ τ υ φ χ ψ ω ϊ ϋ ϋ ό ύ ώ
Tatari Faran
- Uses subset of Latin alphabet: a, b, d, e, f, h, i, j, k, m, n, o, p, r, s, t, u.
- Unused letters: c, g, l, q, v, w, x, y, z.
- No capitalization, not even in proper names.
- Glottal stop in words, indicated by apostrophe (').
- ts used as a digraph.
- d is always word-initial, and r is always medial.
- The only consonant clusters are double consonants beginning with m or n.
- Common words: ka, kei, ko, sa, sei, so, na, nei, no, ei (never at the beginning of a sentence); e (never at the end of a sentence); da (always follows a word ending in -n).
Terzemian
Latin script
- Non-ASCII: Åå Čč Ǧǧ Ňň Öö Šš Üü Žž
- Unused ASCII: Jj Qq (except in foreign names)
- Vowel Harmony groups:
- Aa Ee Ii Öö Üü
- Åå Oo Öö Uu Üü
- Aa Åå Ee Oo Öö
- Sentences generally start with a word (the verb) beginning with a multi-consonant cluster
- Verb may have a, e, or ö prefixed to the initial cluster
Cyrillic script
- Non-Russian: Ғғ Ңң Өө Ўў Үү Һһ Ωω
- Unused Russian: Ее Щщ Ъъ Ыы Ьь Юю Яя (Ыы sometimes used for non-harmonic or non-Terzemian vowels in foreign words)
- Foreign names not originally written in Cyrillic may occur in Latin orthography
- Vowel Harmony groups:
- Аа Ээ Ии Өө Үү
- Ωω Оо Өө Уу Үү
- Аа Ωω Ээ Оо Өө
- Sentences generally start with a word (the verb) beginning with a multi-consonant cluster
- Verb may have а, э, or ө prefixed to the initial cluster
Arabic script
- Not in Standard Arabic: اً څ چ اِ گ ڽ اَ اَِ هَِ ۆ ژ
- Standard but not used: ة ث ج ح ذ ص ض ط ظ ع ق ى
- Vowel Harmony groups:
- ا اِ هِ اَِ هَِ
- اً اَ هَ هَِ
- ا اً اِ اَ اَِ
- Sentences generally start with a word (the verb) beginning with a multi-consonant cluster
- Verb may have اِِ ,ا, or اَِ prefixed to the initial cluster
Þrjótrunn
- Non-ASCII: ÁÐÉÍÓÚÝÞÆÖáðéíóúýþæö
- Unused ASCII: cqz
- Combinations: pp tt kk gj ggj kj kkj
- Frequent words: ún únn á í eð er þiss þissi þissa