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Writing Iqalu


Iqlau is written with a Logosyllabic system known as Qio'ao. Earlier this year, after discovering that Iqalu needed a way to be written with the Latin alphabet so it could be typed in on the computer, so I sat down at my computer, and spent and hour and twenty minutes and worked out a Latinized system for Iqalu that I tried out, and it worked perfectly, so that is what is officially used for writing Iqalu on the net and in books. For all else, the Qio'ao charcters are still used. The Latinized system for Iqalu works in the same way and has the same purpose as Chinese pin-yin.

For more Information on Both Scripts go to: http://www.omniglot.com/writing/qioao.htm

 

  Regular Vowels:

Aa- ah

Ee- ay

Ii- ih

Oo- oh

Uu- oo


 

  Alternate Vowels:

the accented "a" is spoken louder than the other vowels in the word, this symbol is only used in a few words.

^ - this symbol over a vowel indicates that it has the same pronounciation as it would in English.

.. - two dots over a vowel (aka an umlaut) indicates a longer or deeper pronounciation than that vowel normally would have.

 


 

  The Consonants:

The consonants of Iqalu are pronounced (excepting "q") the same way as they would be in English. Regardless of the placement of the "q" in Iqalu, it is pronounced as if it were the English letter "k."