Georgian orthography: Difference between revisions

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Hah, seeing all sorts of weird orthographies I wondered why no one suggested a Georgian orthography. (well, actually, I didn't wonder, but I do so like the squiggly alphabet)

Here's just a list of correspondences. It was fairly simple, however I had to grab Q'ar for y. Of course that was a basically random decision.

Period and comma I think map fairly easily onto Georgian, maybe'd have to use the paragraph-ender punctuation for the period and just the Georgian comma or period for the comma.

http://members.tripod.com/ggdavid/georgia/language/anbani.htm

' = Hae
a = An

b = Ban
c = Shin

d = Don
e = En

f = P'ar
g = Gan

i = In
j = Zhar

k = Kar
l = Las

m = Man
n = Nar

o = On
p = Par

r = Rae
s = San

t = Tan
u = Un

v = Vin
x = Khan

y = Q'ar
z = Zen

Feel free to improve (there's plenty of room for improvement--- I only know a little Georgian). -- djin

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-What is '''.'''?
+Hah, seeing all sorts of weird orthographies I wondered why no one suggested a Georgian orthography. (well, actually, I didn't wonder, but I do so like the squiggly alphabet)
-A pause in Lojban. Otherwise a period, or a little funny dot. [[jbocre: When are pauses mandatory|When are pauses mandatory]]
+Here's just a list of correspondences. It was fairly simple, however I had to grab Q'ar for y. Of course that was a basically random decision.
-As [[jbocre: The Book|The Book]] says in Chapter 3, when a pause is required, the minimal pause is a glottal stop. You are, of course, allowed to pause longer if you wish.
+Period and comma I think map fairly easily onto Georgian, maybe'd have to use the paragraph-ender punctuation for the period and just the Georgian comma or period for the comma.
-Many other languages, including English, use glottal stops. If you are an English speaker, say the word "if" in isolation (or any other word that starts with a vowel). The tiny catch in your throat before the vowel is a glottal stop.
+http://members.tripod.com/ggdavid/georgia/language/anbani.htm
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+*' = Hae
+*a = An
-Next question: why is '''.'''? ''Why that symbol? It is often written as ', but ' was taken.''
+*b = Ban
+*c = Shin
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+*d = Don
+*e = En
-And another: doesn't a little '''.''' magically/[[jbocre: nature atur|nature atur]]ally appear, for instance, when you cut into or out of a recording while a vowel is being played?
+*f = P'ar
+*g = Gan
-Yes.
+*i = In
+*j = Zhar
---So how does one deal with that in lojban?
+*k = Kar
+*l = Las
-Um, no problem.  It just works.  Remember, '''.''' doesn't mean "glottal stop," it means "pause," and glottal stop is an allophone of pause.  When you cut into or out of a recording, there is '''silence''' from the recording before the incut or after the outcut--that's what cutting in/out means.  Therefore, there is quite '''correctly''' a pause/glottal-stop/Lojban-dot in that place, and if we were transcribing the sounds, a period would be completely appropriate to write there.  Note also, that the period is never mandatory to write (though the pause may be mandatory to say), so long as you have at least spaces in the right places.
+*m = Man
+*n = Nar
+*o = On
+*p = Par
+*r = Rae
+*s = San
+*t = Tan
+*u = Un
+*v = Vin
+*x = Khan
+*y = Q'ar
+*z = Zen
+Feel free to improve (there's plenty of room for improvement--- I only know a little Georgian). -- djin

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