Friday, January 09, 2004
IPA in Unicode
Yes, this is a post both about Unicode and about my conlangs.
Stofonian, like English but unlike either Elosian or Knarrian, uses more sounds than the 26-letter basic Latin alphabet can represent. (The sounds of Stofonian were of course based on the sounds of English, since I invented it when English was the only language I knew about).
It would be cool to use IPA when transliterating Stofonian on the web.
stɔfonɪl ɛlɪkælnst tɑ sɪnɪst
But its just too much of a pain to mess with all of those HTML entities. You could always use "ASCII IPA":
stOfonIl ElIk&lnst ta sInIst
But that looks even funkier. (Not to mention that vowel pronunciation varies quite a bit in Stofonian anyway) So we'll stick with good old inexact Romanization. At least it lets us use capital letters.
Stofonil Elikalnst to Sinist
(translation: "Stofonian Empires and States", ie., first and second level divisions of the Stofonian empire)
Stofonian, like English but unlike either Elosian or Knarrian, uses more sounds than the 26-letter basic Latin alphabet can represent. (The sounds of Stofonian were of course based on the sounds of English, since I invented it when English was the only language I knew about).
It would be cool to use IPA when transliterating Stofonian on the web.
stɔfonɪl ɛlɪkælnst tɑ sɪnɪst
But its just too much of a pain to mess with all of those HTML entities. You could always use "ASCII IPA":
stOfonIl ElIk&lnst ta sInIst
But that looks even funkier. (Not to mention that vowel pronunciation varies quite a bit in Stofonian anyway) So we'll stick with good old inexact Romanization. At least it lets us use capital letters.
Stofonil Elikalnst to Sinist
(translation: "Stofonian Empires and States", ie., first and second level divisions of the Stofonian empire)
