International Latin Alphabet 2015: Difference between revisions

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The Unified Latin Alphabet applies the following rules:

Character inventory
1. Use only characters from ISO 8859-1.
  1. prefer 65-90, (A-Z) and 97-122 (a-z), i.e. ISO 646
  2. from the others, prefer for vowels those that are present in several other ISO 8859 standards, e.g. acute, grave, circumflex or diaeresis
Sound correspondence. The characters
1. a, e, i, o, u with or without diacritics are vowels.
2. j and w are semivowels as in IPA
3. the rest are consonants
4. In the ULA-base form all characters except for c = /ʃ/, q = /ç/ and y = /ʒ/ have the value as in IPA.

C, J, K, Q, X, Y in different alphabets
Alphabet / IPA:	/çjkqxʃʒ/	/ç/	/j/	/k/	/q/	/x/	/ʃ/	/ʒ/	/ts/	/dz/	/tʃ/	/dʒ/	Comment
ULA-1994	cjk_xqy	c	j	k	-	x	q	y	ts	dz	tq	dy
ULA-2015	qjk_xcy	q	j	k	-	x	c	y	ts	dz	tc	dy	better match with languages that need /q/ (compare Turkic variant)
ULA-turkic		-	j		q	x	c	y			tc	dy
ULA-uropi-y		-	j		-	-	c	y			tc	dy
English		-	y	c/k	-	kh	sh	zh			ch	j
French		-	?	qu	-	-	ch	j			?	?
Spanish		-	?	qu/k/c		j	?	?			ch	?
German		ch	j	k/ck	-	ch	sch	j/sch			tsch	dsch
Interlingua		-	-	k/c/q	-	-	-	j			-	dj	x=[ks], y=[i]
Esperanto		-	j	k	-	hx	sx	jx	c	dz	cx	gx
LFN		-	-	c	-	-	x	j	ts	dz	tx	dj
Uropi		-	j	k	-	-	c	ʒ			tc	dʒ

/j/
- Serbian, Croat, Czech: j, e.g. Jakovo
- Bulgarian (official Romanization): y, e.g. Yakovo (bulg.: "unnecessary" divergence from IPA)
- ULA: j
/ts/
- Serbian, Croat, Czech: c, e.g. Gorica
- Bulgarian (official Romanization): ts, e.g. Goritsa (bulg.: more logical, since t and s exist already)
- ULA: ts

May need review and further work.

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 | ULA-2015     || qjk_xcy || q || j || k || - || x || c || y || ts || dz || tc || dy ||  better match with languages that need /q/ (compare Turkic variant)
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-| ULA-2016     || qyc_kxj || q || y || c || - || k || x || j || ts || dz || tx || dj ||
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 | ULA-turkic   ||         || - || j ||   || q || x || c || y ||  ||  || tc || dy ||