====== YPA (Yinrih Phonetic Alphabet) ======

Now that I'm working on Outlander, and since I want to start working on Hearthsider in the future, I decided I want to create a universal system for referring to yinrih speech sounds. Here is one candidate. Yinrih language is highly tonal. Plenty of Terran languages (Sino-Tibetan especially) like to refer to tones by number. So I've expanded this system to encompass not just tone, but all the features of a vowel. Consonants are indicated by letters (case insensative).

**Vowels**



**Timing**



**1** short

**2** long

**3** early

**4** late

**5** overlong



**Tone**



**1** low

**2** high

**3** rising

**4** falling

**5** peaking

**6** dipping



**Strength**



**1** weak

**2** strong

**3** strengthening

**4** weakening

**5** cresting

**6** troughing



**Phonation**



**1** whine

**2** growl

**3** grunt

**4** plain hiss vowel

**5** trilled hiss vowel



**Consonants**



**h** huff

**c** chuff

**y** yip

**p** plain hiss semivowel

**t** trilled hiss semivowel



The system meets my criterion of only containing ASCII characters, but it's not compact in the slightest. Just the word <rnqg> //paw// is <c1213h1112>.



Thoughts?



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