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heyall, First of all, there's this: http://members.fortunecity.com/mikecolley/atlas/ which i stumbled on.And now there's also my finished(?) scheme for writing [my dialect of] English in the Arabic alphabet!
It's at: http://boroparkpyro.free.fr/stuff/arab-eng.pdfAs i mentioned in a different thread on Conlang list, it uses simple/emphatic consonant equivalencies in order to double the number of potential vowels representable by each Arabic vowel grapheme.
All consonants without a following vowel (except for diphthong offglides) are marked with the 'no vowel' mark. (forgot what it's called... sukuun?)
Consonants are considered by default 'front'; those that lack an emphatic (='back') equivalent are compensated for by the inclusion of an /3/ `ayn. The `ayn isn't pronounced as in Arabic, but it serves to mark the syllable-peak vowel as 'back'.
The system is sort of an anti-Irish system. The consonants mark the vowel for frontness and backness.
Word-final /@/ schwas are written with alif-in-the-form-of-yaa.In the sample text, I used this for monosyllabic words that are frequently pronounced that way even if they're phonemically different, such as /tu/~[t@] "to" and /ju/~[j@] "you". The indefinite article "a" is written with a standalone hamza-on-yaa-seat.
I worked on this during a boring class today ;) .
-Stephen (Steg)
"so pull me under your weather patterns,
your cold fronts and the rain don't matter -
cause a sun burst's what i needed;
so don't say: 'these currents are still killing me'
and you can't explain,
but the wind went and pulled me
into your hurricane..."
~ 'hurricane' by something corporate