L'Orttografía Pieveiana
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Pieveian uses the Latin script with a somewhat phonemic orthography, although there are some etymological aspects.The vowel letters a e i o u y represent /a e i o u ju/ respectively. Since there are only five vowels in the language, diacritics aren't used to indicate vowel quality. However, the language still uses both the grave accent (for distinguishing homophones) and the acute accent (for indicating historical double vowels).
Examples of grave use: e "and", è "(s)he/it is"; ei "out of", èi "you are"; si "oneself", sì "yes"; a "to", à "(s)he/it has"; cci "what", ccì "here"
The acute accent doesn't mark historical long vowels. It marks historical double vowels. What this means is that if one of the various vocalization changes (or maybe deletion changes) ended up with two identical vowels side by side, they merged into a "long" vowel which quickly lost its length distinction except of course in the orthography. The acute accent is also used on i to indicate a non-reduced i after palatalizing a consonant (e.g. odi /odz/ "I hate", odí /odzi/ "today; you hate (sjv.)"). Otherwise , i after a weak consonant letter is silent (except when it makes the word unpronounceable).
Examples of acute use: pú "more" (plus); ascútar "listen" (a(u)scultare); dí "day" (dies); mút "much, many" (multus); sór "sister" (soror); prénder "take" (prehendere)
The consonant letters p t c b d g m n represent hard /p t k b d g m n/ and soft /p ts tʃ b dz dʒ m ɲ/, and the letters f v s z r l represent hard /f v s z r l/ and soft /f v ʃ ʒ r ʎ/.
Double letters can either represent historical geminates and historical aspirates. Whether they are pronounced as geminates is optional (which is why I often use (:) in the IPA for words with double letters). They also represent historical /kw/ and /gw/ before front vowels. Double letters are never softened by a following front vowel.
Examples of double letters: sccuala /sk(:)wala/ "school" (schola); ccerer /k(:)erer/ "request" (quaerere); batter /bat(:)er/ "beat" (battere); veller /vel(:)er/ "want" (velle)
Also in native use are the letters x and q. The letter x functions pretty much the same as s (representing hard /s/ and soft /ʃ/) and the letter q is used to represent /k/ before /w/. Although rare, double x does occur.
Examples of x and q: mixx /mis(:)/ "mixed" (mixtus); quatt /kwat(:)/ "four" (quattuor), quali /kwaʎ/ "which" (qualis); dext /dzest/ "right" (dexter) ✎ Edit Article ✖ Delete Article
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