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Cáiuén (才文)
Cáiuén is the creation of Pangus Ho, who uses it to write his con-dialect of Chinese, (Cáiŋŷ/才语),
but with modifications it's actually suitable to write any Sino-Tibetan language, including standard
Chinese.

Notable features
Each syllable is written in a block consists of 3 parts:
1. (tóu/头) the initial consonant
2. (zoŋ/中) the tone and the initial vowel
3. (uêi/尾) the final vowel and consonants
Each part consist of exactly 20 characters (which makes them symmetric), so they can be built up to
8000 syllables.
The parts can be arranged in at least 3 styles:

Cáiuén

Notes
A stripe (-) means zero consonant or zero vowel. For example the syllable "ân" is written (-, -ˆ, an);
"ə" is not pronounced unless it appears after /i/ and /y/. "e", "eh" and "an" are pronounced /ɛ/, /ɛʔ/, and /ɛn/
respectively if they appear after /i/ and /y/, otherwise they are pronounced /ʌ/, /ʌʔ/, and /an/. "z", "q" and "x" are
pronounced with /ɕ/ when they appears before /i/ and /y/, otherwise /ʂ/.
44, 24,etc are tone sandhi. 1 is the lowest tone while 5 is the highest. 24 means from mid-low tone rises to mid-high
tone, etc.

Sample text

Sample text in Chinese characters

Xuêi Diào Go Tóu

[Sǒng] Su X̌h

Transliteration
Méŋ ŋyeh gî x̀ iôu, bâ ziôu uèn qiŋ tian.
Buh z tian shàŋ gioŋ gyeh, gim xìh x̀ hó nián.
ŋuô ỳh zéŋ foŋ guei ky̆, iòu kiôŋ kióŋ lóu ŋỳh ŷ, gau qǔ buh xěŋ hán.
Kî û nòŋ qiŋ îŋ, hó s̀ jài rén gián.
Zuân zu gǒh, di kî hù, zǎo ú mián.
Buh iŋ iôu hèn, hó x̀ qáŋ hiǎŋ biêh x́ yán.
Rén iôu bei huan lî héh, ŋyeh iôu im qíŋ yán kyeh, ĉ x̀ gû nán qyán.
Dàn ŋyàn rén qáŋ giôu, qian lî giòŋ zán gyan.

If you have any questions about Anglo-Arabic, you can contact Pangus at: hzb_pangus[at]hotmail[dot]com

Other scripts invented by Pangus Ho

Anglo-Arabic, Cáiuén, Lóngwén, Uniscript

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