Cinian orthography
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Orthographa cinyena
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[comments] pvsorthography Cinian orthography, although quite regular, is based off of etymological principles modelled on Latin, French and Italian. It is (with few exceptions) very easy to decode, with any one spelling having only one possible pronunciation, however most of the difficulty arises when encoding. For example, "lengga" can only possibly be realised as /ˈlɛ̃ga/, however it could be written as "lingga", "lenga" "lengue" etc.
[top]Voclí
Cinian has 5 basic vowel glyphs, <a e i o u>. Two other digraphs are also considered vowels; <ov> and <av>. Since stress is important in Cinian (due in part to the unstressed vowel reduction), when the stress is placed irregularly, an acute above any vowel indicates that that is the stressed syllable. Most cases of the acute in Cinian are because of deleted word-final consonants (such as in "cidá", where the word-final <t> was deleted), but sometimes it is also used to distinguish homophones ("e" "and", "é" "[he/she/it] is").
[top]Consoneni
The Cinian alphabet includes 19 consonants: <b c d f g h l m n p q r s t v w x y z>. Of these, <q w z> can only occur in specific circumstances, <c g d t v b y> change depending on their environment, <h> is silent and only <f l m n p r s x> remain consistent.
<c g t d v> /k g t d w/ palatalise before the light vowels <i e>, becoming /ʃ ʒ θ z v/. When this palatalisation happened before a subsequent vowel change from light to dark, the digraphs/letters <cy gy ty z by> were used for the light consonants instead. If a dark consonant ended up in front of a light vowel, this was represented by <qu/cu/ch/cc gu/gh tt/tu dt/du w>, according to etymology and placement in the word (because word-initial double consonants are ugly). The letter <q> is only used in the digraph <qu> to represent /k/ before light vowels, <w> is used to represent /w/ before light vowels, and z is used to represent /z/ before dark vowels.
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