Laqi Alphabet
Posted: Wed Dec 12, 2007 9:47 am
Finally, the Laqi Alphabet has been completed, as well as some basic phrases I'll be adding soon for your delectation. The observant may notice that the name of language, Laqi, contains a 'q', wheras the alphabet does not.
This is due to the 'q' being the closest exact English transliteration of how the Laqi pronounce the name of their own language, the exact name of which I have written down in the International Phoenetic System somewhere.
This is due to the 'q' being the closest exact English transliteration of how the Laqi pronounce the name of their own language, the exact name of which I have written down in the International Phoenetic System somewhere.
EDIT: I'm not quite sure which encoding is best used to display the letters for kh, oe, and the short u. All three of them are extended Cyrillic letters, which can be found in Kazakh and Azeri. I've tried Unicode encoding but IE doesn't seem to like that either. Any help? *looks for Ari hopefully*A- `a´ as in apple
B- hard `b´ as in bet
C- `ts´ or `tz´ as in kibbutz
D-`d´ as in `dot´
E- acute `e´ as in French soufflé
G- hard `g´ as in great
I- `ee´ as in need
J- `y´ as in year
K- `k´ as in kill
L- `l´ as in lemon
L- as in the Polish- soft English `w´ as in where
M- `m´ as in meat
N- `n´ as in nearly
`ny´ as in Chechnya
O- short `o´ as in lot
`oe´ as in German ö
P- `p´ as in party
R- `r´ as in really
S- `s´ as in simple
S- `sh´ as in sharp
T- `t´ as in toast
U- `oo´ as in good
ort `u´ as in tug
V- German `v´ (i.e soft `v´)
X- `ch´ as in cheese
`kh´ as in loch
ips preceeding vowel or consonant short
Z- `z´ as in zebra
Z- soft `zh´ or the `su´ in leisure