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Menu 1. The background of the Terredaic script in it's use 2. The Terredaic consonantal table 3. The Terredaic vocalic table 4. The Terredaic tonal table 5. Terredaic punctuation

[edit] [top]The background of the Terredaic script in it's use

The Terredaic script was developed by a crown princess in the State of Terredae in around 1000BC, and before that a logographic system was in place. This phonetic system was originally a phonetic guide to the old Terredaic logographic systems before it gradually replaced the script in it's entirety. It was created by the crown princess to help aid the population in reading the original logographs to increase literacy, however unintendingly, the script later dominated the original logographs by 1150BC. This script is supposed to be a logic based writing system where related consonants, vowels and tones having a related pattern.

[edit] [top]The Terredaic consonantal table

[b]	[pʼ]	[pʰ]	[s]	[sj]	[z]	[zj]
b	ḃ	p	s	ṡ	z	ż
d	ḋ	t	ṱ	ț	ḓ	ḑ
[d]	[tʼ]	[tʰ]	[t͡sʰ]	[c]	[d͡z]	[ɟ]
g	ġ	k	ĉ	ȼ	ĵ	ɉ
[g]	[kʼ]	[kʰ]	[t͡ʃ]	[t͡ɕ]	[d͡ʒ]	[d͡ʑ]
ḥ	h	ḣ	š	ś	ž	ź
[ɣ]	[h]	[x]	[ʃ]	[ɕ]	[ʒ]	[ʑ]
v	m	f	þ	x	ð	q
[β]	[m]	[ɸ]	[θ]	[ç]	[ð]	[ʝ]
ṇ	n	ṅ	c	y	w	j
[ɲ]	[n]	[ŋ]	[ɠ̥]	[j]	[w]	[ɥ]
r	l	ċ	ç	ẏ	ẇ	ʝ
[ɾ]	[l]	[t͡s]	[ʔˠ]	[ʔʲ]	[ʔʷ]	[ʔᶣ]

(no consonantal value)
ʌ

Typically the arrangement above is the normal arrangement above. However, the collation order goes as this: bḃpdḋtgġkḥhḣvmfṇnṅrlċsṡzżṱțḓḑĉȼĵɉšśžźþxðqcywjçẏẇʝʌ

[edit] [top]The Terredaic vocalic table

All the vowels are in diacritical forms, placed on top of consonants. In this table, the null consonant ʌ shall demonstrate the placement of the vowel diacritics. ʌ may be replaced by bḃpdḋtgġkḥhḣvmfṇnṅrlċsṡzżṱțḓḑĉȼĵɉšśžźþxðqcywjçẏẇor ʝ.

[a]	[ɛ]	[aɪ]	[aʊ]	[ɒ]
ʌa	ʌə	ʌä	ʌă	ʌâ

[o]	[œ]	[ɔ]	[oʊ]	[ʌ]
ʌo	ʌɵ	ʌɔ	ʌŏ	ʌô

[ɪ]	[i]	[ɯ]	[ʊ]	[u]	[y]
ʌi	ʌĭ	ʌî	ʌu	ʌŭ	ʌû

[e]	[ei]	[oi]	[ɛɪ]	[œi]
ʌe	ʌë	ʌö	ʌӛ	ʌӫ

(no vocalic value)
ʌъ

[edit] [top]The Terredaic tonal table

[˧]	[˧˥]	[˧˩]	[˥]	[˩]	[˷˩˥]	(no tonal value)
ɂ	ƨ	з	ч	ƽ	ƅ	ø

In the summary, dictionary, and anything using the phonological set of Terredaic Script uses ʔ̥ as a tone indicator (to accommodate the Terredaic Script rendering because tone diacritics on letters that CWS set aside as the only tonal indications, just won't work with Terredaic) so ʔ̥̄=[˧]=ɂ, ʔ̥̌=[˧˥]=ƨ, ʔ̥̂=[˧˩]=з, ʔ̥́=[˥]=ч, ʔ̥̀=[˩]=ƽ, ʔ̰̥̌=[˷˩˥]=ƅ and ʔ̥ itself, is of no tonal value as well as ø.

[edit] [top]Terredaic punctuation

The punctuation of Terredaic consists of 6 basic shapes . , ‘ ’ ?and ! . Other sets of punctuation are added with extensions.

period	comma	left primary speech mark	right primary speech mark	question mark	exclaimation mark
.	,	‘	’	?	!
:	;	“	”	‽	…
colon	semicolon	left secondary speech mark	right secondary speech mark	quexclaimation mark	ellipsis
-	/	(	)	‼	⁇
hyphen	solidus	left bracket	right bracket	irony mark	rhetorical mark

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