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| 魚 || fish || pisc(is) || || Fisch || さかな | | 魚 || fish || pisc(is) || || Fisch || さかな | ||
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| 男 || | | 男 || male, man || || || || おとこ | ||
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| 母 || mother || mater, matr(is) || || Mutter || はは | | 母 || mother || mater, matr(is) || || Mutter || はは | ||
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| 舌 || tongue || lingu(a) || || Zunge || した | | 舌 || tongue || lingu(a) || || Zunge || した | ||
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| 冬 || || hiem(s), hiem(is) || || || ふゆ | | 冬 || winter || hiem(s), hiem(is) || || || ふゆ | ||
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| 風 || wind || vent(us) || || || かぜ | | 風 || wind || vent(us) || || || かぜ | ||
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| 狼 || wolf || lup(us); vulp(es) || || Wolf || おおかみ | | 狼 || wolf || lup(us); vulp(es) || || Wolf || おおかみ | ||
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Revision as of 06:34, 30 September 2004
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Hangraphy (maybe 漢抓?) is a system for representing Indo-European roots with Han characters (漢字, hanzi). After having done so, we can add a kind of okurigana for inflections and such and we have a readymade scheme to represent all Indo-European languages. Oversimplificated? You betcha.
For an example, we can take the numbers, which are pretty basic.
| 1 | 一 | *oi-[no-] | en: one, ru: один, la: unus, etc. |
| 2 | 二 | *dwo- | en: two, es: dos, grc: δύο, ... |
| 3 | 三 | *tri- | en: three, fr: trois, de: drei ... |
| 4 | 四 | *kʷetwor- | en: four |
| 5 | 五 | *penkʷe | en: five |
| 6 | 六 | *(s)(w)eḱs | en: six |
| 7 | 七 | *septem | en: seven |
| 8 | 八 | *oḱtō | en: eight |
| 9 | 九 | *newn | en: nine |
| 10 | 十 | *deḱm | en: ten |
Since words get borrowed about so much, some diverse words in a language may be spelled with the same zi, e.g. 一 goes in English words derived from "one", such as "alone" or "only", but it also goes in words of Latin origin such as "unique" or "union".
Of course some of these words inflect, so the Latin word for "one", for example, won't just be 一, but perhaps something like 一us, 一a, 一um.
Characters
| English | Latin | Greek | German | Japanese | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 飲 | po(tus) | の(む) | |||
| 耳 | ear | aur(is) | Ohr | みみ | |
| 食 | eat | ed(o), ed(ere), ed(i), ed(itus) | た(べる) | ||
| 目 | eye | oc(ulus) | Auge | め | |
| 父 | father | pater, patr(is) | Vater | ちち | |
| 魚 | fish | pisc(is) | Fisch | さかな | |
| 男 | male, man | おとこ | |||
| 母 | mother | mater, matr(is) | Mutter | はは | |
| 女 | queen | おんな | |||
| 雪 | snow | nix=nic(s), niv(is) | Schnee | ゆき | |
| 涙 | tear | lacri(ma) | なみだ | ||
| 舌 | tongue | lingu(a) | Zunge | した | |
| 冬 | winter | hiem(s), hiem(is) | ふゆ | ||
| 風 | wind | vent(us) | かぜ | ||
| 狼 | wolf | lup(us); vulp(es) | Wolf | おおかみ |
English Words
| 食ible | edible |
| 舌ist | linguist |
| 父ician | patrician |
| 魚es | pisces |
| 男ile | virile |
Latin Words
| 飲飲o, 飲飲ere, 飲飲i, 飲飲itus | bibo, bibere, bibi, bibitus |
| 食ibilis | edibilis |
| 父icius | patricius |
| 魚ina | piscina |
| 飲io | potio |
| 飲to, 飲tare, 飲tavi, 飲tatus | poto, potare, potavi, potatus |
| 男ilis | virilis |
