Interskript

Overview

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

The mapping 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	y	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

Transformation

Short notation

Since Interskript does not use diacritic signs the latter can be used to record vowels on consonants.

Letter	Diacritic	Unicode number	Name of diacritic
a	^		circumflex accent
e	´		acute accent
i	◌̇		combining dot above
o	◌̊	U+030A	COMBINING RING ABOVE
u	ˇ		caron, breve
y	`		grave accent

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

Transcription table

System	Characters																										Interskript characters not used	Interskript phonems not coded	Affricate approximation				Other	Comment
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	y	z	c,q	-	t͡s	d͡z	t͡ʃ	d͡ʒ	ks
Interskript	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	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	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	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	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	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/