Hangraphy

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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.

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Characters

I think a better approach would be to assign roots to each 字 first, and then flesh out the individual languages, rather than the other way around. The old stuff is still here, but commented out. --Vlad 02:40, 8 Nov 2004 (PST)

These assignments are not final - feel free to change if a better root fits.

zi	root, meaning	English	Latin	Greek	Sanskrit	notes
一	*oi-no-, one, unique	one, an, a	unus, una, unum
二	*dwo-, two	two	duo, duae
三	*trei-, three	three	tres, tria
四	*kʷetwer-, four	four	quattuor
五	*penkʷe, five	five	quinque
六	*s(w)eks, six	six	sex
七	*septm̥, seven	seven	septem
八	*oktō(u), eight	eight	octo
九	*newn̥, nine	nine	novem
十	*dekm̥, ten	ten	decem
百	*km̥-tom, hundred	hund[red]	centum			*Is this unfair to the langs who form their hundred another way? Are there any?
男	*wī-ro-, man	were[wolf]	vir
女	*gʷen-, woman	queen; quean
人	*man-¹, man	man
土	*dhghem-, earth	OE guma	humus; homo		मनुः (manuḥ)

Ugh, this has gotten a bit warped. I have no idea what's going on here.

|| Wass(er) || shī || しめ(る)

|- | 冬 || *ghei-/*ghiems [winter] || || hiem(s), hiem(is) || || || dōng || ふゆ |- | 風 || *H₂weH₁-(nt)- || wind || vent(us) || || || fēng || かぜ |- | 狼 || *wlkʷ- || wolf || lup(us) || λύκ(ος) || Wolf || láng || おおかみ |- | 狐 || *wlp-e:- [fox] || || vulp(es) || ἀλώπηξ || || hú || きつね |- | 牛 || *gʷou- || cow || bo(s, -vis) || βοῦς || Kuh || niú ||うし |- | 古 / 老 / 高 || *al-(t-) || old, (eld) || alt(us) || || || gǔ / lǎo / gāo || ふる(い), お[い(る)], たか(い) |- | 蜜 || *melit- [honey] || (mildew) || mel (mulsus) || μέλι || || mì || みつ |- | 雨　|| *reg- || rain || rig(are) || || regen || yǔ || あめ |- | 圓 / 丸　|| *wel- [round] || || vol(vere) || ἕλ(ιξ) || || yuán / wán || まる（い） |- | 王 || *reg- [king, rule, right] || right || rex, reg(num), reg(ula) || || Reich || wáng || おう |}

English Words

男狼	werewolf	*wiro-wl̥kʷo
男育了	world	*wiro-al²-to

Latin Words

飲飲o, 飲飲re, 飲飲i, 飲飲了us	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

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