its beautiful and im so proud of you granny

It's how it was commonly handwritten historically. Mathematicians prefer ϱ because it's harder to confuse with p.

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Point taken, nonetheless.

 

Come up with a standardized system for transcription of languages that don't use Latin, as well as for language reconstruction and conlanging purposes.

looking forward to reading the op next time i take the time to smoke sum weed 🥳

What is the point of doing this exactly? What are you getting from it?

Why use Latin then? You could build something from a scratch instead, it would be more versatile and less confusing. It could also be less syllable-oriented, based on smaller and more distinctive sound features (like Korean script) - it's harder (slower) to write this way but easier to learn and read.

It needs to work inline with normal text, when writing in English or Slovene or otherwise, where only some words (e.g. proper names, culturally specific objects and concepts) need to be transcribed, but the rest is in normal language.

 

Autistic satisfaction.

 

Maybe I wasn't clear enough, I'm not really expecting this to replace any orthography. Being able to write German, French, Arabic, etc. is just a proof of concept.

3rd one is quite easy to read, I like it.

There's another sound which I'm not 100% sure about what letter to go with.

 

I should note that I don't want to limit myself only to letter shapes which already exist and are encoded in Unicode, but I'm also using in all cases characters from already existing scripts as a base for addition to Latin. For example, the capital of ɽ / ϱ that I want to use doesn't exist in unicode (the canonical capital of ɽ is Ɽ, and of ϱ is just plain capital rho which is identical to P), so I'm using the Percival Lowell's monogram for Pluto, which already is encoded as ♇. Georgian asomtavruli Ⴒ (corresponding to nuskhuri ⴒ and mkhedruli ტ, with unrelated phonetic value /t'/) would also be acceptable as a placeholder... А proper uppercase should be designed by inverting the Cyrillic Б or the experimental early Zhuang tone letters Ƃ and Ƌ; or by overlaying P and L.

However, almost every letter I'm using already has an existing equivalent in an existing script. Sometimes it's quite hard to find a suitable parent script for characters representing rare sounds. The voiceless lateral spirant (I'm avoiding the modern IPA distinction between a fricative and an approximant here, because the two are often allophones & there's no clear distinction between the two), in IPA /ɬ~l̥/, therefore uses a letter from one of the few scripts that natively transcribe this sound: Ge'ez ሠ, which just so happens to be directly cognate to Cyrillic Ш (by the way of Hebrew ש), therefore I use Шɯ (with a more Latin style lowercase) for this sound. Even for the abstract positionless nasal semivowel I go to hiragana for inspiration and adapt ん for use in Latin (lowercase should look like ƕ though without the ascender) – though note also similarity in shape to the tilde ~ – while the most suitable uppercase equivalent is in my opinion an inverted N, so I use Cyrillic И as a placeholder when I have to type in Unicode. (I was however also considering something like Һ. Thoughts?)

 

Now, there are two sounds for which there is no suitable equivalent in any existing script.

The first one is the lateral vibrant ("lateral R" – think of Japanese pronunciation; sometimes it contrasts with R or L or both and thus needs own letter) – there are no suitable kana which could easily be modified into a Latin letter. Eventually I decided to go with a l-r monogram, which happens to be already encoded in Unicode as 𝼑. For uppercase, options are something like a Ⱶ (a Claudian letter), or again like Һ; possibly with a R-like slanted right leg. (Some shapes of how hiragana り can be written do look a bit similar, though.)

A much bigger problem is the labial vibrant. Perhaps I should note that I distinguish trills and taps by length, not as essentially different. This is a primary phoneme, but it is exotic enough that it is only natively present as a phoneme in various West African, Melanesian, upland Southeast Asian, and Amazonian languages. The only real option I'm aware of is the song by Knorkator where they joke about inventing a letter for this sound (and proceeding to replace /br/ in German words with it): YouTube: kh9oVpAmBAc and it looks a bit similar to Ω but closed, like an O overlaid with upside-down T. See attached image. It's weird, doesn't line up with the rest of letters, and I have no idea how to lowercase it. IPA uses ʙ for the bilabial trill (unsuitable as a smallcap) and ⱱ for the labiodental flap (which is an option, but I feel it's not distinctive enough from regular v, plus the hook is weird and works better in context of IPA than with other regular Latin letters.. Either way, medieval Cyrillic izhitsa which stands for y in Greek words is also very similar and could be a suitable placeholder: Ѵѵ). The only suitable option I can think of is to repurpose the phi Фф, which is ready-made, distinctive enough, but I have no justification to use it like that. Does anyone have better ideas?