Module:Auphen/YCQ-BE/doc

This is the documentation for Module:Auphen/YCQ-BE, the sound data for Besoh (registry code YCQ-BE) on the Yezur wiki. It holds no code and is not invoked directly: Module:Auphen/frame loads it whenever {{auphen}} is called with the code YCQ-BE, and hands its tables to the engine, Module:Auphen. Thus {{auphen|Bëson|YCQ-BE}}, the language's own name, gives /beːsõ/.

Tables

Key	Contents
ipacats	The category sets the rules quantify over, written in the sounds the transposition produces.
ipa_rules	The initial transposition, mapping the letters of the romanisation to sounds.
pronounce	The ordered ruleset that turns a transposed spelling into an estimated pronunciation.
sets	Named derivation rulesets. Empty for Besoh; see below.

Categories

Category	Members	Scope
[B]	a, e, i, o, u	The five short oral vowels.
[T]	ã, ẽ, ĩ, õ, ũ	The five nasal vowels.
[F]	i, e, y, iː, eː	The front vowels.
[A]	a, e, i, o, u, aː, eː, iː, oː, uː, y, ɛ, ɔ	The oral vowels: the five short, their long counterparts, and /y/, /ɛ/ and /ɔ/, which arise only from a rule. The nasal vowels are not members.
[C]	p, b, t, d, k, g, q, ʦ, ʣ, f, v, s, z, ʃ, ʒ, x, ɣ, ʁ, h, m, ɲ, ŋ, r, l, β, ð, ç	The consonants, including /β/, /ð/ and /ç/, which arise only from a rule. The glottal stop is not a member.
[U]	p, t, k, f, s, ʃ, ʦ, x	The eight voiceless obstruents that have a voiced counterpart. /q/, /h/ and /ç/ stand outside the set and so take no part in the voicing rules.
[M]	b, d, g, v, z, ʒ, ʣ, ɣ	The matching voiced obstruents.

Members are declared in order and a category-to-category change maps by position, which is why [T] follows the order of [B], and [M] that of [U].

Orthography

ipa_rules is applied once, to the lower-cased word, before the ruleset runs; keys are tried longest first, though every key here is a single letter. Fifteen letters take a value other than themselves.

Letter	Sound	Letter	Sound
ä	aː	ñ	ɲ
ë	eː	n	ŋ
ï	iː	ĥ	x
ö	oː	ĝ	ɣ
ü	uː	ǵ	ʁ
ś	ʃ	c	ʦ
ź	ʒ	j	ʣ
'	ʔ

The table also carries identity rules for the twenty plain letters a, b, d, e, f, g, h, i, k, l, m, o, p, q, r, s, t, u, v and z; a character with no rule of its own passes through unchanged.

The nasal written n is velar and the one written ñ palatal; there is no alveolar nasal in the inventory. The romanisation has no w, x or y: /x/ arises only as the value of ĥ, and /y/ only from the sequence iu.

Pronunciation

Besoh spelling is conservative of an earlier stage of the language, so the transposed form stands some way from the spoken one; the pronounce ruleset supplies the difference. Its lines apply in the order written, and their notation is the engine's (see Module talk:Auphen).

Rules	Effect
iu/y	The sequence iu is read as the single vowel /y/.
x/ç/_[F]	/x/ fronts to /ç/ before a front vowel.
[B]/[T]/_ŋ#, ŋ//[T]_#	A short vowel before word-final n nasalises, and the nasal is then lost: Bëson → /beːsõ/. A long vowel is unaffected, and the nasal stays.
ʔ/ˀ/[A]_#	A word-final glottal stop after a vowel weakens to glottalisation.
b/β/[A]_[A], d/ð/[A]_[A], g/ɣ/[A]_[A]	The voiced stops lenite to fricatives between vowels.
e/ɛ/_[C][C]|_[C]#, o/ɔ/_[C][C]|_[C]#	The mid vowels lower in a closed syllable, that is before two consonants or before a word-final one.
e/əː/[A][C]_#, e/əː/[A][C][C]_#, o/əː/[A][C]_#, o/əː/[A][C][C]_#	A final e or o standing after a vowel and one or two consonants becomes long /əː/.
[U]/[M]/_[M], [M]/[U]/_[U]	Obstruents in contact agree in voicing, the second deciding.
[M]/[U]/_#	A word-final voiced obstruent devoices, after the assimilation has run.

The ruleset is segmental only. Besoh stress falls on a heavy penult and otherwise on the antepenult, but it is not estimated and the output carries no stress mark.

Rulesets

sets is empty, so the three-argument form {{auphen|word|YCQ-BE|ruleset}} has nothing to run and reports an unknown ruleset, filing the page in Category:Auphen errors. Besoh grammatical forms are generated instead by Module:Besoh, which backs Template:YCQ-BE-decl and Template:YCQ-BE-conj and carries its own copy of the rules above to gloss the forms in its tables. The two are separate implementations of one sound system: a change made here has to be made there as well.