Portal:Ithkuil

This is supposed to be a portal page for the Ithkuil translations. Here, you could discuss translation guidelines, your progress and anything else that pertains to this project. Feel free to design this page, use as many subpages as you want, and to later replace or remove this template if it bothers you.

Recent changes

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Useful links

• Ithkuil site
  • maths
  • updates, gotta use the newest grammar
  • suffixes
    • there's a suffix supplement too but idk where
  • script
  • lexicon
    • lexicon supplement
• parser
• formative composer

Complicated stuff

Here are words/phrases I don't know how to translate/want someone to check

• I'm not showing falling tone in Chinese words because that's Ithkuil's default tone
• 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; Five Magic Stones should be Asţál ¯wia aktál magic-PAR
• translating Flandre's name as Flâdř, reasons here and here
• Fortune teller's name in Japanese is 万歳楽 which is a name of a Japanese song or something
• generic hair
• enemy is qalunļien (higher-order being ender) but I'd prefer something with -ÇPF-
• doll is öqalôpt (fake girl)
• power, right now it's ňskale
• distinguish spirit/ghost and fairy, althal now
• whole game is -V- +CST, one stage is -V- +UNI?
• (IN) I don't use opël when player characters address each other, it's implied anyway and makes it look more intimate/informal.
• I'm patterning -RSF- (ash) after -XL-, not -Ph- because it doesn't make sense that way

Guideline-like thing

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. Spaces should be double like on JQ's site because I think it looks fine and adds a unique æsthetic. 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 <c>;
• z is <ż>;
• ni is <nyi> 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, <m-m> before labial consonants, <n-n> elsewhere;
• aa, ii, uu, ee/ei, oo/ou are <â, î, û, ê, ô> but ei/ou are <eì> and <où> 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 <kç, šš, čš, çç, tç; kx, sx, ff, tx> 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 <aù, iù, eù, aì, uì, oì>