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Name Grid Script Site Grid Script Script Image If image fails to load, try this link. Site Language English Author Cheung Kee Desmond Lee Script Type Alphabet Description Writing Orientation Right-to-left, then top-to-bottom Syllabic Blocks Each bulky block represents a syllable. The nucleus of a syllable is placed at the centre of the block. Onset is to the left of the nucleus and coda is on the right. Tone marker is either written above or below the nucleus according to pitch level of tones. Syllable Separation No syllabic delimiters. Even syllables are written a bit lower than the odd syllables to serve the purpose. Vowel Letter Design Simplify the IPA vowel graph into a six-boxed grid. Vowel letters are derived by removing some of the grid lines on the six-boxed grid. Use the unrounded front open vowel /a/ as an example, /a/ is located at the bottom left corner on the IPA vowel graph and the six-boxed grid as well. The two adjacent grid lines attached to the bottom left corner point are removed from the six-boxed grid. The modified grid is the letter for vowel /a/. All unrounded vowel letters are formed by removing two adjacent grid lines. For rounded vowel letters, only one adjacent grid line is removed. Diphthong Letter Design Similar to the formations of vowel letters, but this time remove the adjacent lines of the two vowels in a diphthong. Whenever appropriate, dots can be used to indicate the first component of diphthongs, in order to avoid confusions. For example, without marking the first component with a dot, the letters for /iu/ and /ui/ can be identical. Consonant Letter Design Break down a phoneme into components such as bilabial, plosive, alveolar, etc. Assign a symbolic letter to each component, reflecting some features of the component, for example, two horizontal lines for bilabial and U-shaped letter for nasal. Stack two most significant components of each consonant to form the letter. The stacking order is not regularized so as to increase the degree of freedom in aesthetics. Two or more consonant letters can line up to form new letters for consonant clusters. Tone Marker Design Hong Kong Cantonese has six tones. The third tone is considered to be a neutral tone and it is not marked. The first and second tones have higher pitch levels and the fourth, fifth and sixth tones have lower pitch levels. Markers for the former tones are placed above the nucleus letter in a syllabic block, while markers for the latter tones are placed below it. Markers for level tones are horizontal lines, while markers for rising and falling tones are L-shaped lines. Influences Vowel Graph of International Phonetic Alphabet for vowel letter design; Korean Hangul for packing letters into syllabic blocks; Chinese for right-to-left and top-to-bottom writing orientation. Languages Used For Cantonese. With extension, capable of transcripting other languages as well. Langmaker Transliteration Image If image fails to load, try this link. Language-maker Translation Image If image fails to load, try this link. Submitted By Cheung Kee Desmond Lee Date Submitted Tuesday, June 07, 2005 Date Edited Tuesday, June 07, 2005 Date To Headline Friday, June 10, 2005 < Graffiti  Grid Script  Hanglish >
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