The Aurentine Greek alphabet
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Aurentina’s secondary script
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[comments] aut The historic presence and influence of the Greek community in Aurentina led to the development of two scripts for Aurentine: the Latin and Greek scripts. In modern times, the Latin alphabet is used to write Aurentine in day-to-day life, but the Greek script is still maintained for ceremonial and historic purposes.
The two alphabets maintain a largely one-to-one correspondence, with transcription between the two being a matter of mere replacement. The Greek alphabet had to be modified for use in Aurentine and was thus used during the colonial era as a means to transcribe messages which Aurentine speakers wanted to obfuscate, elevating the Greek script to a place of a national pride and cultural identity among Aurentines.
[top]Differences between the Hellenic and Aurentine Greek scripts
The Greek alphabet, representing sounds from a different Indo-European branch, had to be modified to fit the orthographic and phonological patterns of Aurentine.
- Xi and psi are omitted;
- Digamma, generally in the form of Latin “f”, is reintroduced to represent Latin “v”;
- Koppa, generally in the form of Latin “q”, is reintroduced to represent Latin “h”;
- The “ou” ligature is promoted to a full letter (named “nutte”, related to the English “knot”) representing Latin “u”;
- Upsilon represents its classical sibling “y”;
- Eta and omega are reinterpreted as Latin “ä” and “ö” respectively; and
- Iota and upsilon can take a diaeresis to represent Latin “j” and “w” respectively.
[top]Correspondences
| Latin | Greek | Latin | Greek | Latin | Greek | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aa | Αα | Hh | Qu qu | Κϋ κϋ | |||
| Ää | Ηη | Ii | Ιι | Rr | Ρρ | ||
| Bb | Ββ | Jj | Ϊϊ | Ss | Σσς | ||
| Cc /k/ | Κκ | Kk | Κκ | Tt | Ττ | ||
| Cc /s/ | Σσς | Ll | Λλ | Th th | Θθ | ||
| Ch ch | Χχ | Mm | Μμ | Uu | Ȣȣ | ||
| Dd | Δδ | Nn | Νν | Vv | Ff | ||
| Ee | Εε | Oo | Οο | Ww | Ϋϋ | ||
| Ff | Φφ | Öö | Ωω | Yy | Υυ | ||
| Gg | Γγ | Pp | Ππ | Zz | Ζζ |
[top]Collation order
αλφε /ɑ/ | βητε /b/ | γαμμε /ɣ/, [g] | δελτε /d/ | επσιλον /e/, /ə/ | διγαμμε /v/ | ζητε /s/ | ητε /æ/ | θητε /t/ |
ϊοτε /i/, /j/ | καππε /k/ | λαμδε /l/ | μυ /m/ | νυ /n/ | ξι /ks/¹ | ομικρον /o/ | νȣττε /u/ | πι /p/ |
κοππε /Ø/ | ρω /r/, [ɐ̯] | σιγμε /s/, /z/ | ταυ /t/ | υπσιλον /y/, /ʋ/ | φι /f/ | χι /x/ | ψι /(p)s/¹ | ωμεγε /ø/ |
Aurentine- loanwords only
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