Achiyitqan orthography: view article

Achiyitqan romanization is straightforwards. It is phonemic and mostly follows the IPA and Americanist conventions, with a few unique flairs.

The romanized alphabet and its corresponding sounds are listed below in an English-based alphabetical order.

ʔɂ /ʔ/
Aa /a~ɑ:/
Áá /á/
Bb /b/
Cc /tʃ/
Dd /d/
Ee /e/ [ɛ]
Éé /é/
Gg /g/ [dʒ]
Hh /h/ [ɸ ç x χ]
Ii /i/ [ɪ ɨ]
Íí /į/
Jj /dʒ/*
Kk /k/
Ll /l/
Mm /m/
Nn /n/
Ŋŋ /ŋ/ [ɴ]
Oo /o/
Óó /ó/
Pp /p/
Qq /q/
Ss /s/ [z]
Ɥɥ /ʃ/
Tt /t/
Ṯṯ /t/**
Uu /u/ [ʉ]
Úú /ú/
Vv /v/*
Ww /w/
Xx /ʃ/***
Yy for /j/

*Some dialects only.
**⟨ṯ⟩ is used in the sequence ⟨ṯs⟩ /t(.)s/ to distinguish it from ⟨ts⟩ /t͡s/
***An alternative to Ɥɥ, for easier typing (especially the capital form — you might see blended Xɥ in some places).

Additionally,

letters are repeated to indicate length, e.g. ⟨nn oo⟩ for /n: o:/
(/s::/, the only overlong phone, is written tripled ⟨sss⟩)
the only digraph (excluding doubled/long forms) is ⟨Ts ts⟩ for /t͡s/
only the first of a pair/triad is capitalized (e.g. Oogaci, not OOgaci)
falling and rising tone are indicated across two vowels, e.g. ⟨ée uú⟩ for /ê: ǔ:/
occasionally, silent letters are written (these are mostly glides after consonants, and the occasional word-final vowel)

[edit] [top]Native Abugida

The Achiyitqan script is natively written in an impure abugida (a system where each 'letter' can represent a CV pair). The abugida, like the romanization, is largely phonemic. As an impure abugida, however, the paired CV glyphs are accompanied with individual C and V glyphs (due to Achiyitqan's very lax phonotactics, massive consonant clusters can emerge, as well as occasional vowel clusters).

There are also a few glyphs that represent non-phonemic "digraphs" (by the romanization's standards) : these are the /sk/ and /ks/ pairs. The plain /sk ks/ glyphs are considered standard, and arose simply because of how easy it is to combine the glyphs in question. There are also forms of these glyphs with vowel markers, but these are not considered part of the standard orthography, and only occur in handwriting.

(maybe stealing the optional /s.k/ and /k.s/ ligatures for purposeful /t͡s/ and (in

Siyatsiluq) /k͡s/)

How to use Acy numerals infographic

[there will be examples here.]

Other sections to add: history/development of the abugida. I had a cool idea.

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