Omzinesý wrote:shimobaatar wrote:Omzinesý wrote:shimobaatar wrote:Regarding vowel orthography, I'd personally go with something like this:
/i y ɯ u/ <и ӱ~ү ы у>
/e ø ɘ o/ <е ӧ~ө ӹ~ә о>
/ä ɒ/ <ӓ а>
I think Cyrillic orthographies rarely use dots. Russian has <ë> that is usually written just <e>. Udmurt has <ö> for schwa.
The distinction between /ä/ and /ɒ/ is not that of POA but rounding.
In which orthography is <ү> used?
The letters with "dots" are all used in real Cyrillic orthographies:
- <ӱ> is used for /y/ in Khanty, Mari, Komi-Yazva, Altai, Khakas, and Shor.
- <ӧ> is used for /ø/ in Altai, Khakas, and Shor, and for /œ/ in Mari.
- <ӹ> is used for /ə/ in Mari.
- <ӓ> is used for /ɐ/ in Khanty, and for /æ/ in Mari and Gagauz.
Alternatively, you could have <а а̊> /ä ɒ/, because <а̊> is used for /ɔ/ or /ɒ/ in Selkup.
- <ү> is used in Bashkir, Buryat, Kalmyk, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Mongolian, Tatar, and Tuvan. It is mostly used for /y/ or /ʏ/.
- <ө> is used in Bashkir, Buryat, Kalmyk, Kazakh, Komi-Yazva, Kyrgyz, Mongolian, Tuvan, and Yakut. It is mostly used for /ø/ or /œ/.
- <ә> is used for /ɤ/ in Dungan, and historically for /ə/ or /ε~a/ in Kurmanji.
Okey
Now I have many alternatives.
I had an impression that the Cyrillic writing system avoids diacritics and rather composes a new character, altogether.
I think I'll quite follow what shimobaatar suggested.
/i y ɯ u/ <и ӱ ы у>
/e ø ɘ o/ <е ӧ ӹ о>
/ä ɒ/ <a ө>
I'll however use <ө> for the low rounded vowel.
The Latin orthography, which is less used than the Cyrillic one, is also changed tp correspond to Polish ï -> y, ë -> ÿ .
There are also letters for /ja/, /jy/, and /jy/, <я>, <ю>, and <ю¨> respectively, which also appear word-initially.
Long vowels are written in Latin alphabet in German style V + h, i.e. <ah, åh, eh, ih, oh, öh, uh, üh, yh, ÿh>, and in Cyrillic <аь, өъ, еь, иь, оъ, öъ, уъ, у¨ъ, ы¨ъ, ы¨ъ>. The criterion between <ъ and ь> is how they are the easiest to hand-write.
The yers are thus allographic. A yer is also used after resonants to mark some consonant gradations <мь, нь, нъ, ль, рь>. /n/ is written <нь> and /ŋ/ is written <нъ>. In the short grade only <н> is written and its homarganic with the following consonant.