atman wrote:
Indo-European Big Three: Classical Latin, Ancient Greek, Sanskrit
Indo-European Significant Seven: Old Irish, Old Slavonic, Old Gothic, Classical Hayastanic, Neshite, Avestan, Kuchean
Besser. But hey, the names are my opinion. Note from hereon I will call Bible Gothic "Old Gothic" as it wasn't exclusively a religious language and the transcription was intended for more than clerical use (probably upper class use in general as most alphabets).
@Lambuzhao I understand the confusion and annoyance about the orthography, as even I don't use that transliteration anymore (I was too lazy to update it). My main goal in transcibing the alphabet anew was to match the characters as best as I can, but I inconveniently forgot about the Caucus dynamic duo so I had to go really desperate. The reason /d/ is shwa is because the script uses ∂ which looks like shwa which is what I could find. The /g/ being jay is because untittled <j> looks like cursive pedal gamma and <J> an upside-down capital gamma.
The reasons I dislike Jacob Grimm's transliteration is that it carries the hyperhellenization of the script and makes it more counterintuitive than necessary (I would kill to write vɣ), but this was a time when works had minimal backup so at worst it's outdated, because it is useful for how to original was written.
/ɛ/ and /ɛ:/ weren't phonemically apart, so I gave them the same symbol, despite coming from two sources. Ditto with /ɔ/ and /ɔ:/. I have a feeling <ái> and <áu> were really <æɛ̯> and <ɒɔ̯>.
/y/ was <y> in Greek, and only becomes <w> in Grimm's transciption because Gothic /w/ was marked <Y>.
/ŋ/ being <g> was unkind to the eyes, and more suited to a language that didn't contrast /gg/ and /ŋg/, among other things.
/s/ being <z> was to prepare for lenition between vowels, so I just placed it word-finally and on strong verbs. Now I just use it to separate root nouns from i-stems and a-stems, on prefixable verbs, and pronoun-finally. Original /z/ is still <z>, while /s/ is <s> elsewhere.
/x/ borrowed is still <x>.
/b~β~ɸ/ and /d~ð~θ/ (as opposed to /ɸ~β/ and /θ~ð/) being <v> and <d> is from Spanish. Now I just use <b> and <d>. Original /ɸ~β/ and /θ~ð/ are now <f> but <v> in the same environments <s> becomes <z> [except before word-final <s> on root nouns instead of as plain <v>] and <þ> but <ð> in the same environments <f> becomes <v> (I use plain <th> to mark both if either are unavailable).
/g~ɣ~x/ being yogh was reminiscent of Old English, and honestly I prefer it to plain <g>. But yogh aint available on my alt codes, and <gh> is to long, so I use <g> when yogh can't be typed. Sometimes <x>'ll do.
/gʷ/ being ghe was an analog to <q>. I now just use w̄ or ww or gw. I love how labiovelar (not plain velar or uvular or clicked or radical) <q> doesn't follow <u>. I wish more transcriptions did that besides Goidelic.
/ᴀ:/ only occurs as a product of the nasal spirant law, so I just write <an> before a glottal letter, which I'll do with <un> . /u:/ being <ou> elsewhere (<ū> in diacritical orthography) is by analogy to <ei> and I'm astonished nobody likes this undiacritical alternative to <ū>.
/e:/, /i:/, and /o:/ I write simply as <ē>, <ī>, and <ō>, unless macrons are not available then I write <e>, <ei>, and <o>- with /ɛ/ and /ɔ/ becoming <ae> and <ao>.
I use either macrons, doubled vowels, the above formations, tildes (in the case of nazalization) or acute accents to mark long vowels and an apostrophe to separate digraphs.
Now how's the orthography?
And yeah, I want Revived Gothic to likely be a simplification of Old Gothic á la Kernish with no pretense of a natural descendant since the Bastarnæ (Crimean Goths I swear) brought the tongue into the 18th century.
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People existed. So, that's what the Goths had to work with way back then , right?
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Thor for many a year...I think I may go with Lady þeihvô - pretty darn badass)
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