[Tlhingan-hol] Vocabulary Sources & Sort Order

[Robyn Stewart]

Numbers! I forgot about them! Excellent idea. Now I just have to figure out macro editing, so it doesn't keep unselecting my column.

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On 2012-02-06, at 13:13, "ghunchu'wI' 'utlh" <qunchuy at alcaco.net> wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 11:56 AM, Qov <robyn at flyingstart.ca> wrote:
>> I suppose the safe option is to sub every single letter so that the 26
>> Klingon ones become the 26 latin ones, in an order that subs the two and
>> three letter combos (I don't care what we call them) first and then the undo
>> needs to be in a calculated order, too. Someone must have this down to a
>> science.
> 
> I map these thirteen single letters to uppercase:
>  a b e j l m o p r u v w y -> A B E J L M O P R U V W Y
> 
> These four already-uppercase letters remain unchanged:
>  D H I S -> D H I S
> 
> I map the apostrope to uppercase Z.
>  ' -> Z
> 
> I map two digraphs to single characters:
>  ch -> C, gh -> G
> 
> The remaining six letters get mapped with numeric suffixes to make the
> sort order come out right:
>  n -> N1, ng -> N2, q -> Q1, Q -> Q2, t -> T1, tlh -> T2
> 
> DAH T2AZCUQ1DIZ HOC, T2AZCUZ.
> 
> This scheme was independently devised by at least one other person.
> 
> -- GUN1CUZWIZ
> 
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