International Latin Alphabet 2015: Difference between revisions

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The Uniform Latin alphabet applies the following rules:

Character inventory
1. Use only characters from ISO 8859-1.
2. prefer 65-90, (A-Z) and 97-122 (a-z)
3. from the others, prefer for vowels those that have 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 a consonants

In the ULA-base form all characters except for c, q and y have the value as in IPA.

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 The Uniform Latin alphabet applies the following rules:
-* Use only characters from ISO 8859-1.
+# Character inventory
-* The characters
+## Use only characters from ISO 8859-1.
-** a, e, i, o, u with or without diacritics are vowels.
+## prefer 65-90, (A-Z) and 97-122 (a-z)
-** j and w are semivowels as in IPA
+## from the others, prefer for vowels those that have acute, grave, circumflex or diaeresis.
-** the rest a consonants
+# Sound correspondence. The characters
+## a, e, i, o, u with or without diacritics are vowels.
+## j and w are semivowels as in IPA
+## the rest a consonants
 In the ULA-base form all characters except for c, q and y have the value as in IPA.