Xi'an alphabet

The Xi'an alphabet is a writing system to write the Xi'an language.

The alphabet has over 200 "letters", symbols or glyphs. A letter is referred to as a kyexiin, which translates as "written symbol" Each letter has more than one form (basic, block, corner). The Xi'an writing system also has a hyphen, 'comma' (epentheses and pause), quotation and a period (full stop) mark. Proper nouns are also marked in the Xi'an script. There are a special glyph for vowel muting and a glyph equal to the ampersand (&).

Some glyphs can occur in different shapes or variants. Glyphs are grouped into blocks which form individual syllables. Often a single syllable represents an 'elemental' concept in the language, and is thus called a tai. Multiple tai can combine to form compound words. The block format is always:

V, Vowel

VC, Vowel - Consonant

CV, Consonant - Vowel

CVC, Consonant - Vowel - Consonant

Only a certain set of consonants (denoted below as those that have a 'corner form') are permitted to come at the end of a syllable. This applies to both CVC and VC syllables. Occasionally, and particularly within proper names, syllables will be compressed into a minimised number of blocks. An example of this is the word Xi'an, which in-lore has historically been written as but is now most commonly written as.

It is important to note that pitch diacritics can fundamentally change the meaning of a word. It can be sometimes very tricky to distinguish these diacritics from each other.

Vowels

• SRX||Basic||Block||Corner||Simple pronunciation||IPA
• A: a in father
• Ā: extended a in father
• Â: c in but and cut /
• O: o in cone and bone
• Ō: extended o in cone and bone
• E: e in bet, set and let
• Ē: ay in day, say and slay /
• I: ee in spree only slightly shorter
• II: ee in spree
• U: u in flu
• Ū: extended u in flu

Consonants

• SRX||Basic||Block||Corner||Pronunciation
• K: style="padding-left:8px" |
• M: style="padding-left:8px" | in him, alt:
• N: style="padding-left:8px" |
• NG: style="padding-left:8px" | in Song alt:, and singing
• TH: style="padding-left:8px" | or n with, thin
• L: in tell or, lit; in dialect:
• R: style="padding-left:8px" | or in ital. 'rosa'
• THL: or (rare) + = with love
• XY
• CH
• CHY: No discret glyph. CH in "Cheat"
• KL
• KR: or
• Y: in PYU, KYU, HYUN, NYU or, mutant or

Diphtongs

• SRX||Basic||Block||Corner||Variant||Pronunciation
• AO
• ĀO
• OA
• ŌA
• AI
• ĀI
• EA

U-Diphtongs

• SRX||Basic||Block||Corner||Pronunciation
• UA
• UĀ
• UO
• VU: - Unclear whether this is the bilabial fricative or the labiodental fricative
• UE
• UI
• UII
• UAO
• UĀO
• UOA
• UŌA
• UAI
• UĀI
• UEA

Y-Diphtongs

• SRX||Basic||Block||Corner||Pronunciation
• YA
• YĀ
• YO
• YU
• YE
• YI
• YII
• YAO
• YĀO
• YOA
• YŌA
• YAI
• YĀI
• YEA

Special glyphs

• SRX||Glyph||Pronunciation
• UTH
• E'E
• (Vowel muting)

Numbers

• SRX||Basic||Pronunciation||SRX||Basic||Pronunciation
• 1: 6
• 2: 7
• 3: 8
• 4: 9
• 5: 0

Punctuation

• Symbol||Notes
• Full stop
• Pause
• Epenthesis
• Question mark
• Quotation marks

Pitch and 'Capitalisation'

These examples all use the character as the example.

• Symbol||Notes
• Proper name, i.e. Capitalisation
• Low pitch
• High pitch
• Normal Fall
• Normal Rise
• Rise-to-high
• Fall-to-low
• Rise-to-fall

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