shavian-ucs.el: An input method for the Shaw Alphabet

[Sergei]

You can read about the Shavian alphabet and this particular package at
http://www.pok.heliohost.org/en/shavian/shavian.pdf

Also in Wikipedia,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shavian_alphabet

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;;; quail/e8.el -- Quail package for inputting Savian letters -*-
coding: utf-8 -*-

;; Copyright (C) 2011 Sergei Pokrovsky

;; Keywords: multilingual, input method, Shavian

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;;; Code:

(require 'quail)

(quail-define-package "shavian-ucs" "utf-8" "𐑖8" t
 "A SAMPA-like notation to input Shavian letters in UTF-8 encoding.
" nil t nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil t)

(quail-define-rules
 ("p" ?𐑐) ("b" ?𐑚)
 ("t" ?𐑑) ("d" ?𐑛)
 ("k" ?𐑒) ("g" ?𐑜)
 ("f" ?𐑓) ("v" ?𐑝)
 ("T" ?𐑔) ("D" ?𐑞)
 ("s" ?𐑕) ("z" ?𐑟)
 ("S" ?𐑖) ("Z" ?𐑠)
 ("J" ?𐑗) ("j" ?𐑡) ; The "tall" J is the voiceless [tS]
 ("y" ?𐑘) ; [j], yea (SAMPA [j])
 ("w" ?𐑢)
 ("N" ?𐑙) ("h" ?𐑣)

 ;; --- Short letters:
 ("l"  ?𐑤) ("r"  ?𐑮)
 ("m"  ?𐑥) ("n"  ?𐑯)

 ("i"  ?𐑦)  ; [ɪ], if (SAMPA [I])
 ("ee"  ?𐑰) ; [i:], eat (SAMPA [i:])

 ("E"  ?𐑧)  ; egg [ɛ]
 ("ei" ?𐑱)  ; Age

 ("{"  ?𐑨)  ; [æ] Ash
 ("ai"  ?𐑲) ; Ice

 ("@"  ?𐑩) ; Ado [ə]
 ("x"  ?𐑩) ; Ado [ə] (just a handy variant for @)
 ("V"  ?𐑳) ; Up [ʌ]

 ("q"  ?𐑪) ; On [ɒ]
 ("Q"  ?𐑪) ; On [ɒ]
 ("ou" ?𐑴) ; OAk [oʊ]

 ("u" ?𐑫) ; [ʊ], wOOl (SAMPA [U])
 ("U" ?𐑫) ; [ʊ], wOOl (SAMPA [U])
 ("oo"  ?𐑵) ; [u:], ooze

 ("au" ?𐑬) ; [aʊ], out
 ("oi" ?𐑶) ; [ɔɪ], oil

 ("A"  ?𐑭) ; [ɑː], ah
 ("O"  ?𐑷) ; [ɔː], awe

 ;; --- Ligatures et al.:
 ("c" ?·) ("C" ?·); naming dot
 (";;" ?\;)

 ("Ar" ?𐑸) ; [ɑr] - are
 ("Or" ?𐑹) ; [ɔr], [ɔər] - or

 (";E" ?𐑺) ; [ɛər] - air
 (";3" ?𐑻) ; [ɜr] - err

 ("@r"  ?𐑼) ; [ər] - ARRay
 ("xr"  ?𐑼) ; [ər] - ARRay
 ("address@hidden" ?𐑽) ; [ɪər] - ear
 ("ixr" ?𐑽) ; [ɪər] - ear

 ("i@" ?𐑾) ; [i.ə] - Ian
 ("ix" ?𐑾) ; [i.ə] - Ian
 ("yu" ?𐑿) ; [ju:] - yew
)