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Amlin again
Sep. 19th, 2009 02:47 pmI promise I won't just make conlang posts forever.
The other day I posted an alphabet for Nimyad, and said it would be quite easy to make a font and a transliterator for it. Here's the transliterator; it will only take Nimyad input, so don't bother feeding it English. (Try "tajasel", "firinel", "marnanel", but if they're names, don't forget to put the honorific "g" at the beginning.)
I decided that as well as U+e6e5 AMLIN VOWEL CARRIER we were also in need of U+e6e7 AMLIN CONSONANT CARRIER. So both now exist. The script will add in consonant carriers for you where appropriate, but not vowel carriers (which are much more rarely needed); you can also make consonant carriers by typing "z".
Oh, this uses @font-face embedding, meaning it'll work on Safari, Opera, and Firefox versions 3.5 and above. If you're running older Firefox, or Explorer, you will need to install the font.
Edit: A couple of people asked about numerals.
Edit: There is a small set of very common words: te = the, so = move, wi = to, de = three, ca = five, which begin with a consonant and end with a vowel, and thus need two carriers. I believe this would have been fixed using a diacritic meaning "these two letters are swapped" and then writing them as "et", "os", and so on. I will add this diacritic at U+E6E8.
Edit: I've put up a simple draft of the Babel text in the Amlin script. One day there will be a simple interface which makes the words clicky, and prints the Latin transliteration down the other side. This further demonstrates the need for U+E6E8 AMLIN SYMBOL FOR INVERSION.
The other day I posted an alphabet for Nimyad, and said it would be quite easy to make a font and a transliterator for it. Here's the transliterator; it will only take Nimyad input, so don't bother feeding it English. (Try "tajasel", "firinel", "marnanel", but if they're names, don't forget to put the honorific "g" at the beginning.)
I decided that as well as U+e6e5 AMLIN VOWEL CARRIER we were also in need of U+e6e7 AMLIN CONSONANT CARRIER. So both now exist. The script will add in consonant carriers for you where appropriate, but not vowel carriers (which are much more rarely needed); you can also make consonant carriers by typing "z".
Oh, this uses @font-face embedding, meaning it'll work on Safari, Opera, and Firefox versions 3.5 and above. If you're running older Firefox, or Explorer, you will need to install the font.
Edit: A couple of people asked about numerals.
Edit: There is a small set of very common words: te = the, so = move, wi = to, de = three, ca = five, which begin with a consonant and end with a vowel, and thus need two carriers. I believe this would have been fixed using a diacritic meaning "these two letters are swapped" and then writing them as "et", "os", and so on. I will add this diacritic at U+E6E8.
Edit: I've put up a simple draft of the Babel text in the Amlin script. One day there will be a simple interface which makes the words clicky, and prints the Latin transliteration down the other side. This further demonstrates the need for U+E6E8 AMLIN SYMBOL FOR INVERSION.
