Hello!
Here's the list of characters needed to use I/T/A. No highercase (capital)
letters are used; larger-sized lowercase letters substitute for them in
I/T/A, to mark beginnings of sentences & for proper names.
LIST OF NEEDED CHARACTERS FOR I/T/A:
·a-f, h-z: encoded in the ASCII subset
·g: encoded in Phonetic Extensions, 0261 (#.609)
·'ae' ligature: encoded in Latin 1 subset, 00E6 (#.230)—/ey/ sound
·'oe' ligature: encoded in Latin Extended A subset, 0153 (#.339)—/oh/ sound
·'ezh' letter: encoded in Latin Extended B subset, 0292 (#.658)—/zh/ voiced
sound
·script-look 'a': encoded in Phonetic Extensions, 0251 (#.593)—/ah/ sound
·closed 'oo': L-C omegha encoded in Greek subset, 03C9 (#.969)—/uu/ short
sound
IMPORTANT NOTE: Of those listed above, <a, e, i, o, u> are the ('short')
sounds of /æ, eh, ih, ·oa, ·uh/, <c, k> are both used for /k/, & <q, x> are
reserved for foreign loanwords only.
NEEDED I/T/A CHARACTERS NOT YET ENCODED INTO UNICODE:
·'open <ee>' ligature—double <e> hooked together, but curved strokes remain
open (like left parentheses)—/ee/ sound
·'ie' ligature— joined up with <e> by extending the cross stroke
leftwards—/ay/ sound
·'ue' ligature— meets <e> by linking method also used by previous
ligature—/yoo/ sound
·weak back 'r'—<r> having a leading slanted tail—for terminal/postsyllabic
/r/
·'zess'—a mirrored <z>—used for when sounds like /z/
·open 'oo'—like L-C omegha, but wider & with a central loop—/ooh/ long sound
·'oi' ligature—<o> hooks up with its by a short stroke adjoining—/oy/ sound
·'ou' ligature—<o> joins by the same short adjoining stroke as previous
entry—/aw/ diphthongal sound
·normal front 'ch'—a stretched <c> adjoining a normal —/ch/ normal sound
·front 'th'—a stretched <t> adjoining a normal —/th/ voiceless sound
·back 'th'—a mirrored (backwards) <t> adjoining a normal —/dh/ voiced sound
·'ang'—like the phonetic 'eng' letter, but with a small loop (reminiscient of
a <g>) on the baseline just inside its right descender—/ng/ velar nasal sound
·'wh' ligature—a <w> with an elongated rightmost stroke meeting up with its —
/wh/ blowing sound
·'sh' ligature—the 'esh' letter on Phonetic Extensions, 0283 (#.643), joined
together with an —/sh/ voiceless sound
A FEW MORE—CHIEFLY FOR FOREIGN LOANWORDS/NAMES:
·hard back 'ch'—the <ch> as it's normally typed, obviously for that harsh,
guttural sound common in foreign languages—/kh/ voiceless guttural sound
·hard back 'g'—like the L-C ghamma on Phonetic Extensions, 0263 (#.611), but
closed at its top with an angled roof (it's reminiscient of a <g> in a
Medieval English court hand kind of calligraphy), for the voiced counterpart
of the preceding I/T/A character—/gh/ voiced guttural sound
·'shwi' or 'schwee'—simply an that's either superscripted or of reduced size
lined up at hyphen/dash height—/uhh/ shwa (mean-mid central) vowel sound,
because some say that shwa turns into a kind of very short /ih/ for many
speakers
Please pass this I/T/A list around, & print it out (so that you may have a
handy—yet quick—reference). Thank You!
ISRI INTERNATIONAL SYMBOLISM RESEARCH INSTITUTE
Robert Lloyd Wheelock 63 Wilson ST Augusta, ME 04330-9473 USA
RWhizz12@aol.com 1(207)623-5176
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