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--- font:wordconstuct [2026/01/17 15:04] – expanded examples to 50 wikarai
+++ font:wordconstuct [2026/03/24 22:28] (current) – external edit A User Not Logged in
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-                <div class="preview-label">Separate Characters</div>
+                <div class="preview-label">Separate Glyphs</div>
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-        <div class="preview-label">Compound Meaning</div>
+        <div class="preview-label">Compound Meanings</div>
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 ===== Linguistic Construction: From Glyph to Phonology =====
-In Yivalese, the transition from visual glyphs to spoken phonology is an interpretive process. Once you have selected a compound of glyphs to represent a concept - such as GxDl (desire+tell = song) - you may derive the pronunciation by extracting specific characters from those pairs. It is also fine to mix and match to keep the resulting pronunciation natural.
+Writing Yivalese from the spoken form into its written one is an interpretive process. This is due to phonetic and semantic drift from its original source which was fairly consistent, until it wasn't. For example, Niwiden, the word for Nest, has over time been crunched to Nuden, which can be written in a few ways (XWwy (<html><span class="yiv-font">XWwy</span></html>) for its logographic form, NyWyDn (<html><span class="yiv-font">NyWyDn</span></html>) for historic purposes, and NwDn (<html><span class="yiv-font">NwDn</span></html>) for a shorthand version (think through vs thru)).
+Once you have selected a compound of glyphs to represent a concept - such as GxDl (<html><span class="yiv-font">GxDl</span></html> desire+tell = song) - you may backform the pronunciation by extracting specific characters from those pairs. It is also fine to mix and match to keep the resulting pronunciation natural, with the guiding principle to use semantically related character wherever possible.

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