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==Numerals== | |||
The KISA does not have unique numerals. Instead, seventeen letters of the alphabet are used: {{kard| }}. Kardonian languages also count in octal, because most Kardonians have eight fingers. | |||
Numbers start with a number sign {{kard|}}, though units will replace this sign. The letters mean, in order, the whole numbers 0 through 16. Numerals are written in pairs, and the numbers 9-16, though not technically required, are used to reduce the size of the number. Other than 0, which uses the first letter of the word {{hltz-term|lhã|}}, these are also the first letters of the alphabet. | |||
For numbers 4096 and above, an interpunct is placed before the clump, then the number of 4096^n is written for each clump. | |||
For an example that combines all of these, 9000, which in base 8 is 21450, is written as {{kard|}}. | |||
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The Interastral Standard Alphabet is an alphabet of the Haltzeonian family. The script has been in use for several centuries, being created in the 41st century of Kardonian history and officially adopted a few decades later (approximately 1500 years prior to the present).
It is the script used for every Kardonian language.
Letters
Some of these letters are used to represent various phonemes, owing to historic sound changes. For example, in Haltzeonian, the last four vowel letters don't have phonemes associated with them, but in particular , which was used for /ɨ/, is used on occasion.
Nasal vowels are consistently written as clusters of an oral vowel's letter + ng, like .
Often, pairs of letters are ligated or stacked. This is particularly true of common letter pairs, for example, the clusters . However, in Nguhcraft, text rendering is stupid, so stacks do not occur.
| Phoneme | Interastral Standard | Romanization |
|---|---|---|
| m | | m |
| n | | n |
| ɲ | | nh |
| ŋ | | ng |
| p | | b |
| pʰ | | p |
| pʼ | | p' |
| t | | d |
| tʰ | | t |
| tʼ | | t' |
| t͡ʃ | | c |
| t͡ʃʰ | | ch |
| t͡ʃʼ | | c' |
| k | | g |
| kʰ | | k |
| kʼ | | k' |
| q | | ɂ |
| qʰ | | q |
| qʼ | | q' |
| s | | s |
| z | | z |
| ɫ | | l |
| ð | | rr |
| j | | y |
| ʎ | | lh |
| w | | w |
| r | | r |
| i | | i |
| u | | u |
| e | | e |
| ə | | eo |
| o | | o |
| ɛ | | ae |
| ɔ | | ao |
| ɐ | | a |
| y | | iu |
| ɯ | | ui |
| ʌ | | io |
| ø | | ue |
Numerals
The KISA does not have unique numerals. Instead, seventeen letters of the alphabet are used: . Kardonian languages also count in octal, because most Kardonians have eight fingers.
Numbers start with a number sign , though units will replace this sign. The letters mean, in order, the whole numbers 0 through 16. Numerals are written in pairs, and the numbers 9-16, though not technically required, are used to reduce the size of the number. Other than 0, which uses the first letter of the word Template:Hltz-term, these are also the first letters of the alphabet.
For numbers 4096 and above, an interpunct is placed before the clump, then the number of 4096^n is written for each clump.
For an example that combines all of these, 9000, which in base 8 is 21450, is written as .