Latin Abugida
This is a description of what I call the Latin AbugidaA). It was born from the desire to see how it would look.
While it’s essentially a work in progress, I don’t know if I’ll ever return to update it.
The letters
The sounds that the letters represent are borrowed from English-7, which is also the source of the vowel system.
The ‘potentials’ group is a list of latin letters that could be used in the system. They could either be used to represent sounds, or serve as short-hand. The criteria for inclusion was whether I thought they looked cool or not.
- Consonants
- Mm
- Nn
- /ŋ/
- Ŋŋ
- Pp
- Tt
- /tʃ/
- Ↄↄ
- Kk
- Alt: Cc
- Bb
- Dd
- /dʒ/
- Jj
- Gg
- Hh
- Ff
- /θ/
- ÞÞ
- /ð/
- Ðð
- Ss
- Zz
- /ʃ/
- ſſ
- /ʒ/
- Ʒʒ
- Ww
- Ll
- /j/
- Yy
- Rr
- Carrier
- ı
- Vowels
- /ɪ/ (i)
- ◌̈
- /ʊ/ (u)
- ◌̖
- /ʌ/ (ù)
- ◌̄
- /ɒ/ (o)
- ◌̥
- /æ/ (a)
- ◌́
- /ə/ (è)
- ◌̗
- /ɛ/ (e)
- ◌̀
- Long Vowels
- All diacritics + ◌̧
- Diphthongs
- Represented with the vowel + a carrier and the other vowel.
- Letter Combinations (Shorthand)
- Qu-
- Qq
- -re/-er
- ꝛ(?)
- /kʃ/
- ?
- Potentials:
- Ᵹᵹ (Insular G)
- Ⅎⅎ (Claudian Letter for ‘v’)
- Ⱶⱶ (Claudian Half H)
- Ꝛꝛ (Rotunda R)
- Ꞃꞃ (Insular R)
- Ꞅꞅ (Insular S)
- Ꞇꞇ (Insular T)
- Variant for T
- Ꝣꝣ (Visigothic Z)
- Variant for final z
- Ꞗꞗ (B with Flourish)
- Ꞵꞵ (Beta)
- Ƨƨ (Reversed S)
- Variant for Z
- Ʌʌ (Turned V)
Examples
This is a short list of examples, enlarged to make them easier to see.
Serif = s̀r̈f
Refrain = r̈fr̀ı̈n
Maid = m̀ı̈d
Romantic = ṛı̖ḿnẗc
Maiden = m̀ı̈d̗n
The = Ð̗
Bang = B́ŋ
Chance = Ↄ́nts
Jack = J́k
Tanged = t́ŋd