Guidelines

To simplify designing and learning groups of words, they are usually designed by following a pattern like a common prefix. To stay consistent across the whole dictionary those patterns should follow the following guidelines:

  • Vowels IEAOU encode order and scale, from small/negative to big/positive. As final -i encodes the type of the transitive place, it should be skipped in final vowel patterns.
  • Vowels can encode direction by following the following cross diagram. As A is the loudest vowed and the 3rd vowel out of 5, it is used to represent forward. I is used for the center and other vowels are placed in counter-clockwise order.
      A
      |
      |
    O-I-E
      |
      U
    
  • Vowel patterns should be prefered over sonorant patterns. If sonorant patterns are used they should follow the same guidelines with NRL order.