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- 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>