Properties

• Abbreviation: "abbreviation"

  Description

  An abbreviation for this Orthography.

  Must be an instance of the Abbreviation schema.

• Graphemes: "graphemes"

  Description

  A collection of graphemes, i.e. units of writing within a writing system, for this Orthography. Each grapheme is an attribute, and the value of that attribute is an object containing information about it. Punctuation characters should not be included in this collection (see the punctuation attribute instead).

  Type: array

  Unique items: true

  Items

  Grapheme

  Description

  An object representing a grapheme.

  Type: object

  Required Properties

  • form

  Properties

  • Allographs: "allographs"

    Description

    A list of all the allographs (graphical / writing variants) of the current grapheme. For example, t in an English orthography would have the allograph T.

    Type: array

    Unique items: true

    Items

    Allograph

    Type: string

  • Grapheme Form: "form"

    Description

    The written form of this grapheme. Graphemes should include their diacritics. For example, c and č should be considered separate graphemes, unless they are allographs. Do not include graphemes for characters that only occur as part of a digraph (or trigraph, etc.). For example, standard Swahili orthography has a grapheme ch, but no grapheme c by itself, so c would not be listed as a grapheme, only ch.

    Type: string

  • Grapheme Name: "name"

    Description

    The name of this grapheme, if any. The grapheme name can be represented in one or more orthographies (for example, the grapheme a in English could be represented as A in the English orthography itself, or as eɪ in an IPA Orthography.)

    Must be an instance of the MultiLangString schema.

  • Pronunciations: "pronunciations"

    Description

    A list of the possible pronunciations of this grapheme. It may be difficult or impossible to fill in this field for all orthographies (like English).

    Type: array

    Unique items: true

    Items

    Pronunciation

    Type: string

• Orthography Name: "name"

  Description

  The name of this orthography, optionally in multiple languages/orthographies.

  Must be an instance of the MultiLangString schema.

• Notes: "notes"

  Description

  A collection of notes about this Orthography.

  Type: array

  Unique items: true

  Items

  Note

  Must be an instance of the Note schema.

• Punctuation: "punctuation"

  Description

  A list of all the punctuation characters in this orthography, including white space and non-breaking characters.

  Type: array

  Unique items: true

  Items

  Punctuation Character

  Type: string

• Tags: "tags"

  Must be an instance of the Tags schema.