Version of this document in Poliespellinglish
Poliespellinglish (Poliespo spelling of English) is an alternative spelling of English based on Poliespo orthography. It looks terrible, which I consider to be a goal achieved. I've tried to make English orthographies based on several conlangs, such as Esperanto and Vötgil, but this is by far the worst one, so it is my priority.
A Python file (main.py) to convert between English and Poliespellinglish is attached. It makes use of the API for tophonetics.com that I made. You can run the code at https://repl.it/@AJLee/poliespelling-of-english
The orthography of Poliespo is not very Unicode-friendly, because the characters t-with-overlapping-v for /ð/ and p-with-overlapping-w for /pʷ/ just don't exist. Hence, I have decided to make them ψ and φ, because they look ??kind of similar?? to the originals, and are both Greek letters so many fonts will support them.
All the English consonants are in Poliespo, except /ŋ/ which I have converted to ng because that appears to sort of work in Esperanto, so that is pretty simple to transfer over. Glottal stops are ignored.
For the vowels, I have snapped them to the nearest Poliespo one based on my discretion (which mainly involved listening to the vowel sounds and then picking arbitrarily).
After phoneme-by-phoneme conversion, the following conversions are done:
- kts → ẑ
- gdz → z̆
- ts → c
- hm → m̆
- hn → n̆
- hb → b̆
- hk → k̆
- pŭ → φ
In addition, ː is changed to :, as that is done for /iː/ and /ɪː/ in Poliespo.
The following are done to get rid of some vowel clusters:
- [vowel][i or ĭ] → [vowel]j
- [vowel]u → [vowel]ŭ
(IPA was obtained from tophonetics.com British English)
Ψx Nw:t̂ Ŭĭnd ⱥnd ψx Sqn ŭq: dĭspju:tĭng ŭĭĉ ŭwz ψx strwnggx, ŭⱥn x trⱥvlx kejm xlwng rⱥpt ĭn x ŭw:m klxŭk. Ψej xgri:d ψⱥt ψx ŭqn hu: fq:st sxksi:dĭd ĭn mejkĭng ψx trⱥvlx tejk hĭz klxŭk wf ŝud bi: kxnsĭdxd strwnggx ψⱥn ψi qψx. Ψⱥn ψx Nw:t̂ Ŭĭnd blu: ⱥz ha:d ⱥz hi: kud, bqt ψx mw: hi: blu: ψx mw: klxŭsli dĭd ψx trⱥvlx fxŭld hĭz klxŭk xraŭnd hĭm; ⱥnd ⱥt la:st ψx Nw:t̂ Ŭĭnd gejv qp ψi xtⱥmpt. Ψⱥn ψx Sqn ŝajnd aŭt ŭw:mli, ⱥnd ĭmi:dixtli ψx trⱥvlx tuk wf hĭz klxŭk. Ⱥnd sxŭ ψx Nw:t̂ Ŭĭnd ŭwz xblajĝd tu: kxnfⱥs ψⱥt ψx Sqn ŭwz ψx strwnggxr wv ψx tu:.
W:l hju:mxn bi:jngz a: bw:n fri: ⱥnd i:kŭxl ĭn dĭgnĭti ⱥnd rajc. Ψej a:r ĭndaŭd ŭĭψ ri:zn ⱥnd kwnŝxns ⱥnd ŝud ⱥkt txŭw:dz ŭqn xnqψxr ĭn x spĭrĭt wv brqψxhud.
Aŭx Fa:ψx, ŭĭĉ a:t ĭn hⱥvn, hⱥlxŭd bi: ψaj Nejm; Ψaj kĭngdxm kqm; Ψaj ŭĭl bi: dqn ĭn q:t̂, ⱥz ĭt ĭz ĭn hⱥvn: gĭv qs ψĭs dej aŭx dejli brⱥd; ⱥnd fxgĭv qs aŭx trⱥspxsĭz, ⱥz ŭi: fxgĭv ψⱥm ψⱥt trⱥspxs xgⱥnst qs; ⱥnd li:d qs nwt ĭntu: tⱥmptejŝxn, bqt dĭlĭvxr qs frwm i:vl; fw: ψajn ĭz ψx kĭngdxm, ⱥnd ψx paŭx, ⱥnd ψx glw:ri, fw:r ⱥvxr ⱥnd ⱥvx. A:mⱥn.
"i call that stroke simulator 2000" - Jaeden Soon
"it's literally unrecognisable" - Favian Lim
"I dont like the x's" - Drew Michael