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The modern '''Tauro-Piscean writing system''' uses two scripts: | The modern '''Tauro-Piscean writing system''' uses two scripts: | ||
*'''Sonitos''', an alphabet | *'''Sonitos''', an alphabet, | ||
*'''Grammatikos''', an ideographic system | *'''Grammatikos''', an ideographic system and | ||
*'''Tŝinĝi''', characters of Chinese origin | |||
Here is an example of text that uses both scripts (Sonitos red and Grammatikos green): | Here is an example of text that uses both primary scripts (Sonitos red and Grammatikos green): | ||
[[Image:Sonitos_Grammatikos.png]] | [[Image:Sonitos_Grammatikos.png]] | ||
Revision as of 00:46, 21 May 2008
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| Tauro-Piscean | |
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| Type: | Alternative - uses both ideographic (Grammatikos) and alphabetic (Sonitos) characters |
| Spoken languages: | Tauro-Piscean |
| Creator: | S.C. Anderson |
| Time period: | May 2008 to present |
| Parent systems: | Latin alphabet Hangul |
The modern Tauro-Piscean writing system uses two scripts:
- Sonitos, an alphabet,
- Grammatikos, an ideographic system and
- Tŝinĝi, characters of Chinese origin
Here is an example of text that uses both primary scripts (Sonitos red and Grammatikos green):
'I build a house for you'
Usage of Scripts
Most Tauro-Piscean sentences will contain both Sonitos and Grammatikos. Sonitos are used for stems of articles, nouns, verbs and adjectives, while Grammatikos are used for inflectional endings or variants of said parts of speech.
The writing format is horizontal and read left to right.
Sonitos
Sonitos is a phonemic alphabet organised into syllabic blocks, which are called 'units'. Each unit consists of three letters or 'constituents' that are written vertically top to bottom, the initial and final of which are consonants, zero-consonants or consonant clusters and the medial of which is a vowel.
There are two types of constituent: occupational and supplementary. Occupational constituents represent either one or one of two possible consonants (the latter of which is often the voiced counterpart and marked with a 'Dakútên') and these are the same regardless of being in the initial or final position. Here is a table of occupational constituents:
The transliterations match IPA where possible. Sz stands for ʃ, gz stands for dʒ and r stands for ɹ generally, but can be an uvular sound.
Supplementary constituents are harder to learn because each one stands for one or one of two consonant clusters, but represent usually entirely different consonant clusters when in initial and final position.
