Learn Mando'a

Alrighty, massive spoilerpost of all the "new Romanization" Mando'a based on the Mando'a lettering from the dictionary included in Taljair's Total Guide. Please forgive the terrible Table formatting, I didn't want it to be a ridiculously long pagescroller post, lol... I've also uploaded a raw, unfor...

Vod, getting it as close to canon is pointless, since there is no old canon anymore. Everything Kar'buir did was flushed down the drain... So id just spit on any "canon" and do it the way i believed it should be. Fair point for sure. I also don't want to rock the boat too much and basically shake u...

As a suggestion, i made a column in my vocabulary with all words written in mando'a font. Maybe just jump from that, since each sound in mando'a is represented by a single letter? Aye, I've done that already. It looks very nice and clean in the new Romanization... However, as I've just learned, tha...

Thanks - I'll have to sort through this quite a bit and parse the pronunciations into the new romanization. Going to be quite a task, but in the end it'll give us a more absolute foundation to build on for our efforts here.

Ahhhh... That makes it a lot clearer then.

So the pronunciations came first then? Is a copy of that MandoaApril09.xls file still floating around somewhere that I might take a look at it?

The only problem with my beten suggestions is it causes the beten to play double-duty as either a glottal stop or a "j", which might cause some problems. We definitely need to update some Romanisations. Ah interesting. It appears these words were even more confusing than I at first realized. Hah. T...

I agree with your constructions; the new diphthongs seem pretty clear. I would say for sake of consistency to swap ai for ay ... Thanks! Yes, I really wanted to but I ran across a couple of instances in the current dictionary of ah+y+ai Mando'a characters consecutively that would appear confusing i...

Su'cuy Vode! I'm Dsparkeyjr I am looking forward to learn Mando'a although having a hard time looking for a place to actually orally speak the language which will make learning the syntax for me easier I'm hoping to find that here. Good to see new faces (of which I am one as well!) Not so sure abou...

Alright, after attempting to use the Romanization I suggested above, I noticed a couple things that didn't work very well and have made modifications to fix those issues. The diphthongs made for some oddball constructions that didn't look intuitive or correct, and several words that people are very ...

Could have just asked for the original... I work in Excel myself Oh, Hahahaha. Well yeah that certainly would make things easier. Can you share that with us please? I'm trying to create a Quizlet for learning the vocabulary, and having those word definitions in a format where they can be easily cop...

Also, how did you get the wordlist from a PDF into a spreadsheet? Copy-pasta from PDFs in my experience tend to be unreliable at best, since the PDF format focuses primarily on vector shapes and location coordinates and tends to ignore document formatting stuff like tables and spacing. NitroPDF, ne...

Completed the frequency analysis based on the dictionary in Taljair's Total Guide. Sorry that I have to paste it in Image format - I could probably go through the trouble of putting it into table form but the existence of some characters that wouldn't transfer in to Mando'a for the forum font and th...

I am clearly out of practise. I don't know why I equated "ay" with "e" in the Mando'a vocabulary -- it clearly varies depending on the word it's in. I shall fix my table above to make up for my oops. That said, "ee" is consistently pronounced both across English and Mando'a, so perhaps it should re...

Nice, thanks for formatting that out and adding the IPA! For the 'a' / 'æ' examples, "Mando / Mandalorian," as far as I am aware, use 'æ' for the first A and then 'ä' for the 2nd. "Man" - dah - lor - ian Not sure about the long/short U sounds, haven't seen any examples of that one but I'm just takin...

Wow, very in-depth, but absolutely needed I believe. Yeah, I think the language would be quite a bit more intuitive if the lettering was influenced by the part of the mouth / sound produced. Something that will be helpful in determining the shape of the Mando'a characters is figuring out which chara...

Adi'karta wrote:Sorry this has been so hit-or-miss (more accurately: entirely miss).

Heh, no worries, vod. Activity is a welcome change even if it is a struggle

it's still more complex than I'd prefer, but we're getting there Yeah I'm not completely happy with the ones that require 3 and 4 strokes, even if it is just a handful of them. I think most of those could be simplified further since there isn't any clarity loss by removing some strokes in them. I a...

Alright vode, I believe I have decided on a standardized format of Romanizing Mando'a. Let me know what you think. It's pretty straightforward, "long" vowel sounds are the bare vowels (with 'a' being the only exception since there aren't multiple 'a' sounds) and "short" vowel sounds are the ones mar...

Put this together today, my stab at writing practical Mando'a script. I tried writing it out and it was actually far easier to write with pen in hand than with finger on touch screen, hah. http://i.imgur.com/pZz2TUV.png I'll post an example of writing a sentence with it by hand when I've got a momen...

Vlet Hansen wrote:Now I'm getting in channel and getting messages "cannot send to channel" every time I say something

Same here