Cáiuén (才文)   

Cáiuén is the creation of Pangus Ho, who uses it to write his con-dialect of Chinese, (Cáiŋŷ/才语), but with modifications it's actually suitable to write any Sino-Tibetan language, including standard Chinese.

Notable features

• Each syllable is written in a block consists of 3 parts:
  1. (tóu/头) the initial consonant
  2. (zoŋ/中) the tone and the initial vowel
  3. (uêi/尾) the final vowel and consonants
• Each part consist of exactly 20 characters (which makes them symmetric), so they can be built up to 8000 syllables.
• The parts can be arranged in at least 3 styles:
  

Cáiuén

Notes

• A stripe (-) means zero consonant or zero vowel. For example the syllable "ân" is written (-, -ˆ, an);
• "ə" is not pronounced unless it appears after /i/ and /y/. "e", "eh" and "an" are pronounced /ɛ/, /ɛʔ/, and /ɛn/ respectively if they appear after /i/ and /y/, otherwise they are pronounced /ʌ/, /ʌʔ/, and /an/. "z", "q" and "x" are pronounced with /ɕ/ when they appears before /i/ and /y/, otherwise /ʂ/.
• ⁴⁴, ²⁴, etc are tone sandhi. ¹ is the lowest tone while ⁵ is the highest. ²⁴ means from mid-low tone rises to mid-high tone, etc.

Sample text

Sample text in Chinese characters

Xuêi Diào Go Tóu
[Sǒng] Su X̌h

Transliteration

Méŋ ŋyeh gî x̀ iôu, bâ ziôu uèn qiŋ tian.
Buh z tian shàŋ gioŋ gyeh, gim xìh x̀ hó nián.
ŋuô ỳh zéŋ foŋ guei ky̆, iòu kiôŋ kióŋ lóu ŋỳh ŷ, gau qǔ buh xěŋ hán.
Kî û nòŋ qiŋ îŋ, hó s̀ jài rén gián.
Zuân zu gǒh, di kî hù, zǎo ú mián.
Buh iŋ iôu hèn, hó x̀ qáŋ hiǎŋ biêh x́ yán.
Rén iôu bei huan lî héh, ŋyeh iôu im qíŋ yán kyeh, ĉ x̀ gû nán qyán.
Dàn ŋyàn rén qáŋ giôu, qian lî giòŋ zán gyan.

If you have any questions about Anglo-Arabic, you can contact Pangus at: hzb_pangus[at]hotmail[dot]com

Other scripts invented by Pangus Ho

Anglo-Arabic, Cáiuén, Lóngwén, Uniscript

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