Unish

Orthography

Digraphs

• ch
• ng
• sh

ASCII monographs that have different meanings in Unish and in IPA and cannot be written using other characters

• Affricates
  • j = [dʒ]
• Other
  • y = [j]

Non-phonemic writing

• [ks] can be written
  • x, e.g. max, taxi
  • ks, e.g. aksel, aksesori
• [kw] can be written
  • q, e.g. eqip
  • kw - no example in Unish%20Vocabulary%20List_v2.0%20(201206).pdf
• [tʃ]
  • ch, e.g. cha
  • tsh - no example in Unish%20Vocabulary%20List_v2.0%20(201206).pdf

Pronunciation

q

On the page http://www.unish.org/introduce/e_unish_Pronunciation.jsp it says for q:

q is pronounced as in quick

But it also says

[qw]

For w there is a reference to the w in wood.

The q in quick is spoken as [k] as in IPA.

So either the q is spoken as

• k as in IPA, ca. the q as in quick
• kw as in IPA, the qu in quick

So maybe it is correct to write for q

1) [kw]
2) q is pronounced as qu in quick

y

On the page http://www.unish.org/introduce/e_unish_Pronunciation.jsp it says for y:

[y]
as y in yellow

If the notation [y] refers to IPA, then it might be correct to write for y:

[j]
as y in yellow

Vocabulary

Plural clashes with month names

The plural is creates with the suffix -s.

According to http://www.unish.org/introduce/e_unish_Word.jsp

• 1) Ordinal numbers are created with suffix -me.
• 2) Month names are created with the suffix -mes.

That means "unmes" (January) looks like a plural of "unme" (first). In German a plural and use as noun is possible, e.g. "Die Ersten die kamen." "The first [people] that came."

Direction

One ends in -a

• upward : uparda
• backward : bakard
• downward : daunard
• forward : forard