Hangraphy
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- This is a project anyone can contribute to.
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: δύω, ... |
3 | 三 | *tri- | en: tree, 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".