ꞋĀreꞌāre
Austronesian / Malayo-Polynesian / Eastern Malayo-Polynesian / Oceanic / Southeast Solomonic / Longgu-Malaita-Makira / Malaita-Makira / Malaita / Southern Malaita / 'Are'are /
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ꞋĀreꞌāre
non-standardised
vowels |
minuscule |
a |
e |
i |
o |
u |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
majuscule |
A |
E |
I |
O |
U |
||
minuscule |
ā |
ē |
ī |
ō |
ū |
||
majuscule |
Ā |
Ē |
Ī |
Ō |
Ū |
||
consonants |
minuscule |
p |
t |
k |
m |
n |
|
majuscule |
P |
T |
K |
M |
N |
||
minuscule |
r |
s |
h |
ꞌ |
w |
||
majuscule |
R |
S |
H |
Ꞌ |
W |
||
alternatively |
minuscule |
l |
' |
||||
majuscule |
L |
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no standard form of written ꞋĀreꞌāre exists. despite this there are widely used letters. the largest disagreement is over whether the glottalisation is represented with the lower [u+a78c] and upper [u+a78b] case saltillo or the apostrophe [u+0027]. the former is favoured by missionary societies and anyone who hates apostrophes whereas the latter is in common use.
another disagreement is over how vowel length is presented, this being through either doubling or macrons depending on who is writing: missionaries prefer the former and linguists the latter, amusingly, noöne has asked what speakers of ꞋĀreꞌāre think. common usage appears to favour doubling.
the letters r and l are interchangable, the use of r is more common however.
a hyphen ‐ [u+2010] (or generically - [u+002d]) is also in use for suffixes.
other notes
data
precomposed characters are used in this section when available.
alphabetised (as per Geerts’ dictionary):
A Ā a ā E Ē e ē H h I Ī i ī K k L l M m N n O o P p R r T t U u W w
remarks: the saltillo is ignored in sorting.
regex:
vowels: (?'alu_vowels'A|Ā|a|ā|E|Ē|e|ē|I|Ī|i|ī|O|Ō|o|ō|U|Ŭ|u|ū)
consonants: (?'alu_consonants'H|h|K|k|L|l|M|m|N|n|P|p|R|r|T|t|W|w|Ꞌ|ꞌ)