Elw restandardization

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Elw restandardization

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Phonemes

Consonants:

(p) b ɸ ɕ~ʂ~ʃ ʑ~ʐ~ʒ m (t) d ʁ~ɾ χ n s z l ɬ (j) k~g q h (θ ð)

Parenthesized phonemes are non-native in origin, found in loanwords
~ means allophones

Vowels:

a i u o e ə aː iː uː oː eə aːə ei
(y yː ø øː)


Orthography

Latin? Cyrillic? Coptic? Something else?
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Re: Elw restandardization

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Ideally in orthogaphy, I'd like one to keep the principle of one letter per phoneme... That's where it gets hard.

Traditional legal Elw syllable structures are:

V
VL
CV
CVL

where V is a vowel (long or short), C is a consonant, and L is a "liquid consonant" (i.e. not a stop, so not -p, -b, -t, -d, -k, -g; -q becomes liquidifed in the end of a syllable)
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Re: Elw restandardization

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So χ and q are traditionally allophones (q as an initial, χ as a final), but I expect they have been diverged due to foreign influence and loanwords and so...
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Re: Elw restandardization

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(p) = པ
b = བ
ɸ =ཕ
ɕ~ʂ~ʃ = ཆ
ʑ~ʐ~ʒ = ཇ
m = མ
(t) = ཏ
d = ད
ʁ~ɾ = ར
χ = ཧ
n = ན
s = ས
z = ཞ
l = ལ
ɬ = ཤ
(j) = ཡ
k~g = ཀ
q = ང
h = འ
(θ~ð) = ཐ

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