Eiwi Romanisation
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Explaining the romanisation of Eiwi's phonemes
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1. Eiwi Romanisation
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CONSONANTSAlmost all the consonants match up very well to English and/or European languages with a latin based writing system. [j] was used instead of [y] because [y] is used for a vowel sound.
/ɹ/ = r
/l/ = l
/j/ = j
/w/ = w
The exception being /ʍ/ which does not have an English equivalent (except for maybe if you're trying to say 'cool whip' Family Guy style). Initially it used the grave accent diacritic which looked like this:
/ʍ/ = `w
however, many programs had trouble displaying this character. Its treated as if the letter and the diacritic are different characters. This was creating many difficulties including displaying the diacritic and the conscript letter for /w/ together instead of the conscript letter for /ʍ/. So it was changed to this:
/ʍ/ = h
The orthographical and phonological relationship still makes sense, but aesthetically I preferred [`w]. It also better displays the relationship between /w/ and /ʍ/ as it is the same phoneme, but one is the unvoiced version as indicated by the diacritic.
VOWELS
Non-diphthong vowels correspond to the most commonly used Latin letter that doesn't include any diacritics.
/a/ = a
/ɪ/ = i
/ɒ/ = o
/ɛ/ = e
Diphthongs with a front vowel onset and a mid or back vowel coda use the acute accent diacritic [◌́]. Visually, it represents the sound moving towards the back of the mouth.
/ɛə/ = á
/ɛɒ/ = ó
/ɪə/ = ý
For diphthongs with a near-close near-front unrounded vowel as the coda, the umlaut/diaeresis diacritic [◌̈ ] is used. The dots are reminiscent of the tittle on the letter [i]. I considered using an overdot, but the umlaut is more common and easier to type on an international keyboard. Note that no letter is used more than twice and is not used more than once with a diacritic. This was both a stylistic choice as well as a practical one.
/eɪ/ = ë
/aɪ/ = ï
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