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 *oi-[no-] en: one, ru: один, la: unus, etc.
2 *dwo- en: two, es: dos, grc: δύο, ...
3 *tri- en: three, fr: trois, de: drei ...
4 *kʷetwor- en: four
5 *penkʷe en: five
6 *(s)(w)eḱs en: six
7 *septem en: seven
8 *oḱtō en: eight
9 *newn en: nine
10 *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

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
*oi-no-, one, unique one, an, a unus, una, unum
*dwo-, two two duo, duae
*trei-, three three tres, tria
*kʷetwer-, four four quattuor
*penkʷe, five five quinque
*s(w)eks, six six sex
*septm̥, seven seven septem
*oktō(u), eight eight octo
*newn̥, nine nine novem
*dekm̥, ten ten decem
*km̥-tom, hundred hund[red] centum *Is this unfair to the langs who form their hundred another way? Are there any?
*wī-ro-, man were[wolf] vir
*gʷen-, woman queen; quean
*man-¹, man man
*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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