Interskript

Overview

Interskript includes a bijective mapping of 26 internationally most common letters to 26 common phones.

It allows for a relatively easy pronunciation of internationally established scientific names for chemical elements (e.g. Yttrium) and taxons (e.g. Moschidae). It can be used to create a language independent way of writing personal names (e.g. Pjotr Iljitc Tcaikovski) and place names (e.g. Tcomolungma).

Specification

Character inventory

All 52 characters of the "Lowercase Latin alphabet" and the "Uppercase Latin alphabet" as defined in "C0 Controls and Basic Latin" of Unicode.

Phoneme inventory

Consonant inventory

Consonant table

	Bilabial		Labio- dental		Alveolar		Post- alveolar		Palatal		Velar		Glottal
Nasal		m				n
Stop	p	b			t	d					k	g
Fricative			f	v	s	z	ʃ	ʒ			x			h
Trill						r
Approximant		(w)				l				j		(w)
subcolumns: first is unvoiced, second is voiced; cells: characters as in IPA; those that have a non-ASCII character are marked red

Vowel inventory

Vowel table

	Front		Central		Back
Close	i					u
Mid	e		ə			o
Open	a
subcolumns: first is unrounded, second is rounded

Character-phoneme mapping

An uppercase character represents the same phoneme as the corresponding lowercase character.

To have a bijective mapping only one set - uppercase or lowercase - has to be used.

Character-phoneme mapping table

System	Characters
IPA	a	b	ʃ	d	e	f	g	h	i	j	k	l	m	n	o	p	ʒ	r	s	t	u	v	w	x	ə	z
Interskript (lowercase)	a	b	c	d	e	f	g	h	i	j	k	l	m	n	o	p	q	r	s	t	u	v	w	x	y	z
Interskript (uppercase)	A	B	C	D	E	F	G	H	I	J	K	L	M	N	O	P	Q	R	S	T	U	V	W	X	Y	Z

Short notation

Since Interskript in regular form does not use diacritic signs the latter can be used to record vowels above consonants.

Letter	Diacritic	Unicode number	Name of diacritic
a	◌̂	U+0302	COMBINING CIRCUMFLEX ACCENT
e	◌́	U+0301	COMBINING ACUTE ACCENT
i	◌̇	U+0307	COMBINING DOT ABOVE
o	◌̊	U+030A	COMBINING RING ABOVE
u	◌̌	U+030C	COMBINING CARON
y	◌̀	U+0300	COMBINING GRAVE ACCENT

Transformation

Character set specific

System

ISO 15924 (alphabetic)

ISO 15924 (numeric)

IPA

Latn

215

a

b

ʃ

d

e

f

g

h

i

j

k

l

m

n

o

p

ʒ

r

s

t

u

v

w

x

y

z

Interskript (uppercase)

Latn

215

A

B

C

D

E

F

G

H

I

J

K

L

M

N

O

P

Q

R

S

T

U

V

W

X

Y

Z

(0041--005A)

Interskript (lowercase)

Latn

215

a

b

c

d

e

f

g

h

i

j

k

l

m

n

o

p

q

r

s

t

u

v

w

x

y

z

(0061--007A)

Interskript (uppercase)

Cyrl

220

А

Б

Ш

Д

Е

Ф

Г

Ъ

И

Й

К

Л

М

Н

О

П

Ж

Р

С

Т

У

В

Ь

Х

Ы

З

(0410--042C) not to be used: Ц Ч Щ

Interskript (lowercase)

Cyrl

220

а

б

ш

д

е

ф

г

ъ

и

й

к

л

м

н

о

п

ж

р

с

т

у

в

ь

х

ы

з

(0610--062C) not to be used: ц ч щ

Interskript (uppercase)

Grek

200

Α

Β

-

Δ

Ε

Φ

Γ

-

Η

Ι

Κ

Λ

Μ

Ν

Ο

Π

-

Ρ

Σ

Τ

Υ

-

-

Χ

-

Ζ

Interskript (lowercase)

Grek

200

α

β

-

δ

ε

φ

γ

-

η

ι

κ

λ

μ

ν

ο

π

-

ρ

σ

τ

υ

-

-

χ

-

ζ

Interskript

Hebr

125

א

בּ

ש

ד

-

פ

ג

ה

-

י

כּ

ל

מ

נ

-

פּ

-

ר

ס

תּ

-

ב

ו

כ

-

-

Language specific

Color legend for transcription table

Color	Character set	Character pronunciation in IPA	Character pronunciation in Interskript	Character set of IPA charactor for the phoneme	Phoneme
	not "Basic Latin"
	"Basic Latin"	different	different	"Basic Latin" or not "Basic Latin"	"Basic Latin" and the IPA and Interskript pronunciation of the character(s) is used as a phoneme OR not "Basic Latin" and the IPA and Interskript pronunciation of the character(s) is not used as a phoneme
	"Basic Latin"	different	different	not "Basic Latin"	the IPA pronunciation of the character is not used as a phoneme, pronouncing as in IPA would distinguish it from all other used phonemes
	"Basic Latin"	different	same	not "Basic Latin"	the IPA pronunciation of the character is not used as a phoneme, pronouncing as in IPA would distinguish it from all other used phonemes
	none	none	none	none	none
	"Basic Latin"	same	same	"Basic Latin"

Transcription table

System	Year	Characters																										Interskript characters not used	Interskript phonems not coded	Affricate approximation				Other	Comment
IPA	~1908	a	b	ʃ	d	e	f	g	h	i	j	k	l	m	n	o	p	ʒ	r	s	t	u	v	w	x	ə	z	c,q	-	t͡s	d͡z	t͡ʃ	d͡ʒ	ks
Interskript	2016	a	b	c	d	e	f	g	h	i	j	k	l	m	n	o	p	q	r	s	t	u	v	w	x	y	z	-	-	ts	dz	tc	dq	ks
jbo	1997	a	b	c	d	e	f	g	-	i	-	k	l	m	n	o	p	j	r	s	t	u	v	-	x	y	z	h,q,w	h,j,w(,y)					ks	y = /ə/
lfn	1998	a	b	x	d	e	f	g	-	i	-	c	l	m	n	o	p	j	r	s	t	u	v	-	-	-	z	k,q,w,y	j,w,x,y	ts		tx		ks
epo	1887	a	b	ŝ	d	e	f	g	h	i	j	k	l	m	n	o	p	ĵ	r	s	t	u	v	ŭ	ĥ	-	z	q,x,y,w	y	c	-	ĉ	ĝ	ks
nov	1928	a	b	sh, (ch)	d	e	f	g	h	i	y	k,q,(c)	l	m	n	o	p	j	r	(s),(c)	t	u,(w)	v,(w)	(w)	-	-	(s)	w,y	w,x,y,(z)	ts	-	ch, tsh		x	qu = /kw, kv, ku/; w = /w, u, v/
ido	1907	a	b	-	d	e	f	g	h	i	y	k,q	l	m	n	o	p	j	r	s	t	u	v	w	-	-	z	-	c,x,y	c	-			x	x = /ks, ɡz/