Aug28 –  A Constructed Language

Aug28 Phonology and Orthography

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Letters and Sounds

The tables show the relevent phonetic symbols (in IPA) with the corresponding orthographic (romanization) symbols. The orthography is phonemic. The 14 letters used are:
a c e h i k l n o q s t x z — b d f g j m p r u v w y aren't used.

In the following tables, an asterisk * indicates that the letter is used for more than one sound.

Vowel Qualities and Quantities

There are 4 short vowels and no diphthongs; all vowel sequences are disyllabic.

Vowels

	front										central		back
high	i	i	-								-		-
high-mid	-										-		-				ɤ	o	-
low-mid	-						ɛ	e	-		-		-
low	-										-		ɑ	a	-

Consonant Qualities

There are 10 consonant phonemes using 18 phones.

Consonants

		labial				coronal						dorsal								guttural
nasal	voiced	-				-		n	n*	-		-		ŋ	n*	-				-
stop	ejective	-				-		t'	t	-		-		k'	k	-				-
	voiceless	-				-		t		-		-		k		-				ʔ	q
	voiced	-				-		d		-		-		g		-				-
affricate	ejective	-				-				t͡ɕ'	c	-								-
	voiceless	-				-				t͡ɕ		-								-
	voiced	-				-				d͡ʑ		-								-
fricative	voiceless	-				-		s	z	ɕ	s	-						χ	x	h	h*
rhotic	voiced	-				-						-						ʀ~ʁ	h*	-
vocoid	voiced	-				-		l	l	-		-								-

Phonotactics

There may be additional phonetic variations.

The following rhyme types appear:

light: -V
heavy: -VC

• An onset is a single consonant or null.
• The glottal stop becomes null between vowels and isn't written initially.
• The voiced allophones of t, k, and c appear only between vowels while the ejective allophones appear only as codas.
• The consonant h is [h] when in onset position and uvular as coda.
• A coda nasal assimilates to a following onset: [n] appears before t, n, c, q, h and [ŋ] appears otherwise.
• Fricatives (except h), n, and l may be geminated.

Prosody

Stress is determined by weight factors: the ultima is stressed when it's heavy; otherwise, the penult is stressed.

Writing System

The writing system provides a letter for each historical phoneme. There are 10 consonant letters, 4 vowel letters (which appear under the consonant letters), and 1 null vowel mark   u. The glottal stop letter q also becomes null between vowels.

Consonant & Semivowel Letters

labial

coronal

dorsal

guttural

nasal

voiced

-

-

n

n

-

-

ŋ

n

-

-

stop

ejective

-

-

t'

t

-

-

k'

k

-

-

voiceless

-

-

t

-

-

k

-

ʔ

q

voiced

-

-

d

-

-

g

-

-

affricate

ejective

-

-

t͡ɕ'

c

-

-

voiceless

-

-

t͡ɕ

-

-

plain

-

-

d͡ʑ

-

-

fricative

voiceless

-

-

s

z

ɕ

s

-

χ

x

h

h

rhotic

voiced

-

-

-

ʀ~ʁ

h

-

higher vocoid

voiced

-

-

l

l

-

i

i

-

ɤ

o

-

-

lower vocoid

voiced

-

-

ɛ

e

ɑ

a

-

-

Example: nekoquta nekoquta [nɛˈgɤʔ.tɑ] [NE'GOQ.TA].

Aug28 Keyboard Mapping Table

Aug28 (US) Keyboard

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CapLck							A  a				S s				D d				F f				G g				H h				J j				K k				L l				: ;				"  '				Enter
Shift									Z z				X x				C c				V v				B b				N n				M m				< ,				> .				? /				Shift
Ctrl				(func)							Alt																										Alt					Ctrl				(arrows)

This has been copied from the Aug18A pages. This keyboard assumes that the Aug28 font is simply mapped onto the ASCII alphabetic values. The 1st symbol on each key is for the shift-key value.

page started: 2018.Aug.29 Wed
current date: 2018.Sep.03 Mon
content and form originated by qiihoskeh

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