User:Xenos melophilos/Khalaj alphabet

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These alphabets are based on Azerbaijani orthography, and Ali Asgar Cemrâsî's scripts

Correspondence

Khalaj vowel graphemes - phonemes

	Front		Central		Back
	unrounded	rounded	unrounded	rounded	unrounded	rounded
Close	i /i/	y /y/	ı (/ɨ/)			u /u/
Mid	e /e/	ö /ø/				o /o/
Open	ə /æ/		a /a/

Khalaj consonant phonemes

		Labial	Dental	Post-alveolar	Palatal	Velar	Uvular	Glottal
Nasal		m /m/	n /n/		ñ /ɲ/
Stop/Affricate	voiceless	p /p/	t /t/	ç /t͡ʃ/		k /k/	q /q/
	voiced	b /b/	d /d/	c /d͡ʒ/		g /ɡ/
Fricative	voiceless	f /f/	s /s/	ş /ʃ/			x /χ/	h /h/
	voiced	v /v/	z /z/	j /ʒ/	ğ /ʝ/		ğ /ʁ/
Approximant			l /l/		y /j/
Rhotic			r /ɾ/

Khalaj latin orthography

Khalaj latin alphabet
Upper case	A	B	C	Ç	D	E	Ə	F	G	Ğ	H	X	I	İ	J	K	Q	L	M	N	Ñ	O	Ö	P	R	S	Ş	T	U	Ü	V	Y	Z
Lower case	a	b	c	ç	d	e	ə	f	g	ğ	h	x	ı	i	j	k	q	l	m	n	ñ	o	ö	p	r	s	ş	t	u	ü	v	y	z
IPA	/a/	/b/	/d͡ʒ/	/t͡ʃ/	/d/	/e/	/æ/	/f/	/ɡ/	/ʁ/, /ʝ/	/h/	/χ/	(/ɨ/)	/i/	/ʒ/	/k/	/q/	/l/	/m/	/n/	/ɲ/	/o/	/ø/	/p/	/r/	/s/	/ʃ/	/t/	/u/	/y/	/v/	/j/	/z/

• ⟨ı⟩ actually stands for not only /ɨ/, but also /i/, /u/ and /y/, since these vowels alternate a lot.
• ⟨ñ⟩ actually represents lot of allophones like [n] and [j].
• ⟨ğ⟩, mainly, has two variants: back /ʁ/, and front /ʝ/ (the last one actually represents allophones like [ɡ], [ʝ̠] and [j]). However, there are exceptions: for example, words with front vowels could have variants of /ʁ/, for example [v].
• Long forms of a, e, ə, i, o, ö, u and ü are written with circumflex: â, ê, ə̂, î, ô, ö̂, û, ü̂.

  For the long form of /ɨ/, ⟨ı⟩ is duplicated: "ıı". Even if it's pronounced as [iː] it should be written as "ıı" because of the front or back vowels before and after it (vowel harmony).

• The only falling diphthongs that are allowed are those composed by 1 close vowel and 1 mid vowel next, for example îe [iːe̯], ü̂ö [yːø̯] ûo [uːo̯].
• Rising diphthongs don't have an special representation: the long vowels stand for them.

Khalaj arabic orthography

Khalaj Perso-Arabic alphabet
Arabic	آ	ا	ب	پ	ت	ث	ج	چ	ح	خ	د	ذ	ر	ز	ژ	س	ش	ص	ض	ط	ظ	ع	غ	ف	ق	ک	گ	ڲ	ل	م	ن	ݧ	و	ؤ	وُ	وْ	ۆ	ه	ی	ئ	ؽ
IPA	/aː-/	/a/, /-aː(-)/	/b/	/p/	/t/	/s/	/dʒ/	/tʃ/	/h/	/χ/	/d/	/z/	/ɾ/	/z/	/ʒ/	/s/	/ʃ/	/s/	/z/	/t/	/z/	[ʔ] ~ [∅]	/ʁ/	/f/	/q/	/k/	/ɡ/	/-ʝ(-)/	/l/	/m/	/n/	/ɲ/	/v/	/ø/	/u/	/o/	/y/	/h/, /æ/	/i/, /j/	/e/	(/ɨ/)

• ⟨ؽ⟩ actually stands for not only /ɨ/, but also /i/, /u/ and /y/, since these vowels alternate a lot.
• ⟨ݧ⟩ actually represents allophones like [n] and [j].
• ⟨ڲ⟩ actually represents allophones like [ɡ] and [j].
• ف ,ع ,ظ ,ط, ض ,ص ,ژ ,ذ ,خ ,ح ,ث are only used for Persian, Azeri and Arabic loanwords
• ؽ ,ئ ,ی ,ۆ ,وْ ,وُ ,ؤ not only represent short vowels, but long ones.
• If ha' represents /æ/, it must be written in final position in auslaut. If /æ/ is long, ha' is the only letter that represents it.
• If a native word begins with a vowel other than ⟨a⟩ or ⟨ə⟩, the representing letter must be anticipated by alif.
• Diphthongs are constructed in the same way as in the latin script, with rising diphthongs not being specially represented.
• Loanwords borrowed from languages that use Arabic script (for example Persian, Arabic and Azeri) should conserve the original written form, even if it doesn't match with Khalaj orthography.

Short vowels (harakat)

Khalaj	IPA
◌َ	/a/, /æ/
◌ِ	/i/ ~ /ɨ/
◌ُ	/u/, /y/, /o/, /ø/

• Fatha stands for /æ/ in anlaut and inlaut.
• Fatha stands for /a/ only above of alif at the beginning of a word.
• Harakat is used mainly in Persian and Arabic loanwords. It's also used to avoid confusion.

Shaddah

Khalaj	Function
◌ّ	Consonant duplication

• Shaddah is used only with Arabic loanwords. For native ones, the consonant is duplicated.