Ma notation

Alphabet

Features

Sound groups:

• nasal = 2
• nasal + plosive = 8
• nasal + plosive + fricative = 16

In each of the groups nasal, plosive, fricative, the order labial, coronal, dorsal is followed.

Until

• 9,
  • among 63 alphabets (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin-derived_alphabet) the letters appear in 56
• 11,
  • the Latin symbols have the value of the IPA, the symbols are pronounced similar in several languages
• 15,
  • even positions are voiceless
  • each voiceless is even
  • uneven are voiced

List

base 2

• M 0 NASAL - LABIAL Bilabial_nasal (Voiced)
• N 1 NASAL - CORONAL Alveolar_nasal (Voiced)

extra for base 4

• P 2 PLOSIVE - LABIAL Voiceless_bilabial_plosive
• B 3 PLOSIVE - LABIAL Voiced_bilabial_plosive

extra for base 8

• T 4 PLOSIVE - CORONAL Voiceless_alveolar_plosive
• D 5 PLOSIVE - CORONAL Voiced_alveolar_plosive
• K 6 PLOSIVE - DORSAL Voiceless_velar_plosive
• G 7 PLOSIVE - DORSAL Voiced_velar_plosive

extra for base 12

• F 8 FRICATIVE - LABIAL Voiceless_labiodental_fricative
• V 9 FRICATIVE - LABIAL Voiced_labiodental_fricative
• S 10 FRICATIVE - CORONAL Voiceless_alveolar_sibilant
• Z 11 FRICATIVE - CORONAL Voiced_alveolar_sibilant

extra for base 16

• Q 12 ʃ FRICATIVE - CORONAL Voiceless_palato-alveolar_sibilant
• Y 13 ʒ FRICATIVE - CORONAL Voiced_palato-alveolar_sibilant
• C 14 ç FRICATIVE - DORSAL Voiceless_palatal_fricative
• J 15 APPROX (ʝ FRICATIVE) - DORSAL Voiced_palatal_approximant

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• X 16 FRICATIVE - DORSAL Voiceless_velar_fricative
• H 17 FRICATIVE - LARYNGEAL Voiceless_glottal_fricative

• R 18 TRILL - CORONAL Alveolar_trill voiced
• L 19 LATERAL-APPROX - CORONAL Alveolar_lateral_approximant voiced

• W 20 Voiced_labio-velar_approximant

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• A 0 Open_front_unrounded_vowel
• U 1 Close_back_rounded_vowel
• E 2 Close-mid_front_unrounded_vowel
• O 3 Close-mid_back_rounded_vowel
• I 4 Close_front_unrounded_vowel
• Ü 5 Close_front_rounded_vowel
• Ö 6 ø Close-mid_front_rounded_vowel
• Ä 7 vowel Open_central_unrounded vowel
  • ə Mid-central_vowel

"The Argadorian Date Line (ADL = Argadora Datolinio / Argadorian Date Line) runs along the Argadorian Prime Meridian, which lies on 168,5° (= 168°30') longitude west of Greenwich. This meridian together with an area of maybe about ¼° on both sides of it touches as the, according to my knowledge, only meridian in its course only one small land mass other than Antarctica (= Aoiketa ≈ Nota), namely the Aleutian island Umnak. Apart from these, it runs solely through the Pacific Ocean. As far as I know, there are no other meridians which touch as few lands inhabited by humans as those between approximatly 168¼º and 168¾° longitude west of Greenwich." (http://www.reissmann.info/bibliotheke/projektoi/AUXhA%20--%2019372-07-06%20=%202006-03-25%20--%20Argadorian%20Calendar%20--%20en.pdf)

Numerals

Use grouping by 4 like in East Asia Myriad http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_numerals#Large_numbers

Finger counting

• http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hexadecimal-counting.jpg