Portal:Ithkuil

THIS LANGUAGE IS GOING TO BE OBSOLETE ONCE TNIL IS FINISHED

Useful links

 * Ithkuil site
 * maths
 * updates, gotta use the newest grammar
 * suffixes
 * suffixes supplement
 * script
 * lexicon
 * lexicon supplement
 * parser
 * formative composer

Complicated stuff
Here are words/phrases I don't know how to translate/want someone to check, also translator notes
 * TNIL seems very different from Ithkuil, current translations might be outdated even if you caluqed them
 * Tsukumo and Prismriver sisters are ukţalolp (sisters in name only) because they aren't really sisters; might use REA1/? instead
 * sign/符 in spellcard names
 * magic/supernatural phenomenon; Five Magic Stones should be Asţál aktiál magic-PUR
 * or one could say "five stones who are supernatural beings"???? still would like to have magic though, maybe for other purposes
 * Fortune teller's name in Japanese is 万歳楽 which is a name of a Japanese song or something
 * generic hair
 * enemy is gotta be something with -ZB-, same with danmaku duels
 * doll is öqalôpt (fake girl) (must be man-made somehow)
 * power, right now it's ňskale
 * distinguish spirit/ghost and fairy, althal now
 * spirits could be althal while fairy could be a(incorporate nature/some phenomena/idk)lthal(some format)''
 * whole game is -V- +CST, one stage is -V- +UNI, really don't like this anymore, stage should be a place
 * (IN) I don't use *pël when player characters address each other, it's implied anyway and omitting it makes them sound more intimate/informal (you can do that according to JQ)
 * I'm also treating Ithkuil like a pro-drop language when I feel like it, JQ says it's ok (look up uibyalox)
 * I'm patterning -RSF- (ash) after -XL-, not -Ph- because it makes more sense that way
 * A better way to say midnight, right now it's Âżalânļ (peak of the night process)
 * difficulty is pattern+stem of -SY- + EFT2/*, lunatic is DSG2/1 or 2
 * all of the incorporated roots, apparently you can do weird case/ca stuff with suffixes
 * "Šl" as a bias, apparently it means laughing but I'm also gonna use it for amusement, feel free to suggest anything else
 * race (human/youkai) is qokvalo (degree of humanity)
 * mistia should ask how human player characters are then
 * they answer "qokvalido" (zero percent human basically) which seems more like an adverb???? should refactor their dialogue somehow maybe
 * review ALL the questions
 * also review ALL the formatives with incorporated roots, apparently you can do case/ca stuff with suffix and format combinations
 * also insert sanction/phase everywhere
 * referring to humans as op*l, to youkai as âp*l, to Youmu and maybe others as ap*l

Guideline-like thing
You need the THBiolinum font form nmlgc/script_latin for unicode stuff to show up

punctuation: nothing except periods, commas, colons for quotes : like this : (also for names of spell cards) and vertical ellipses U+22EE for transliterations ⋮ like this ⋮ (for other names) like in the script (I included spaces there because it looks better in-game), maybe exclamation/question marks. Double spaces because they look nice and they offset the clutterness of words. I use uppercase letters but I'm not sure if I really need them.

terminology:
 * God = eltʰal
 * Youkai = ultʰal

Ithkuil romaji: like Hepburn except:
 * sh is <š>;
 * ch is <č>;
 * ts is ;
 * z is <ż>;
 * ni is because the Japanese pronounce it as [ɲi];
 * hya, hi, hyu, hyo are <ça, çi, çu, ço>;
 * wi, we, wo are <ì, e, o>;
 * ん is syllabic so it's <ň-ň> before velars, at the end of words, between vowels, before fricatives and y,  before labial consonants,  elsewhere;
 * aa, ii, uu, ee/ei, oo/ou are <â, î, û, ê, ô> but ei/ou are  and  when they are pronounced separately like in している or 問う;
 * ki, si, chi, hi, ti; ku, su, tsu, fu, tu are  before unvoiced consonants;
 * chi, tsu are <čč, cc> at the end of phrases (pronounced same as above according to the phonology page, just an orthographic thing);
 * au, iu, eu, ai, ui, oi are 

TNIL romaji: like Ithkuil romaji except:
 * <ç> is 
 * no syllabic sonorants anymore so transliterations of ん don't have the dash
 * aa, ii, uu, ee/ei, oo/ou are  but ei/ou are  and  when they are pronounced separately like in している or 問う;
 * no vowel unvoicing because phonotactics forbid it