Wiktionary:About Akkala Sami

This is a Wiktionary policy, guideline or common practices page. Specifically it is a policy think tank, working to develop a formal policy. Policies – Entries: CFI - EL - NORM - NPOV - QUOTE - REDIR - DELETE. Languages: LT - AXX. Others: BLOCK - BOTS - VOTES.

Orthography

Akkala Sami has no standard orthography. The orthography used within Wiktionary is based on Kildin Sami orthography with a few influences from the Skolt Sami orthography. The Cyrillic script is chosen to make further language work easier: if someone in the future will decide to make a dictionary for Akkala Sami, it will most likely be in Cyrillic, due to Russia's languages policy whereby the language must use the Cyrillic script to be official. There is a list of phoneme/glyph correspondence:

• Vowel phonemes:
  • Zajkov's i = Wiktionary и.
  • Zajkov's i̮ = Wiktionary ы.
  • Zajkov's i͔ = Wiktionary ӹ.
  • Zajkov's u = Wiktionary у/ю.
  • Zajkov's ɛ = Wiktionary э/е.
  • Zajkov's o = Wiktionary o/ё.
  • Zajkov's a͕ = Wiktionary ӓ.
  • Zajkov's a = Wiktionary а/я.
  • Zajkov's å = Wiktionary а̊.

• Consonants:
  • Zajkov's p, ṕ = Wiktionary п, пь.
  • Zajkov's t, t˙, t́ = Wiktionary т, тҍ, к̌ (ть in Russian loan words).
  • Zajkov's k, ḱ = Wiktionary к, кь.
  • Zajkov's b, b́ = Wiktionary б, бь.
  • Zajkov's d, d˙ = Wiktionary д, дҍ.
  • Zajkov's g, ǵ = Wiktionary г, гь.
  • Zajkov's c, ć = Wiktionary ц, ць.
  • Zajkov's ʒ, ʒ́ = Wiktionary дз, дзь.
  • Zajkov's č = Wiktionary ч.
  • Zajkov's ǯ = Wiktionary джь.
  • Zajkov's f, f́ = Wiktionary ф, фь.
  • Zajkov's s, ś = Wiktionary с, сь.
  • Zajkov's х = Wiktionary x.
  • Zajkov's h, h́ = Wiktionary һ, һь (Zajkov's h́Ć > Wiktionary һCь, e.g. a͕h́ḱ > ӓһкь).
  • Zajkov's ṷ = Wiktionary ѵ.
  • Zajkov's v, v́ = Wiktionary в, вь.
  • Zajkov's z, ź = Wiktionary з, зь.
  • Zajkov's j = Wiktionary й.
  • Zajkov's š, š́ = Wiktionary ш, шь.
  • Zajkov's ž = Wiktionary ж.
  • Zajkov's m, ḿ = Wiktionary м, мь.
  • Zajkov's n, n˙, ń = Wiktionary н, нҍ, нь.
  • Zajkov's ɳ, ɳ́ (could be transcribed as ŋ) = Wiktionary ӈ, ӈь.
  • Zajkov's л, ĺ = Wiktionary л, ль.
  • Zajkov's r, ŕ = Wiktionary р, рь.
  • Zajkov's i̭, i after a vowel = Wiktionary й.