Vulcan Gotavlu-Zukitaun Golic Glyphs, Encoding and Sounds
v0.3

ʇɟǝןʎdoƆ (ↄ) 2013 PoP under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License

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I came across korsaya [kor.ˈsa.ja] when searching for a good vulcan font to add vulcan translations to my (NADSAT) dictionary and Britton Watkins kindly provided me with his amazing zun font accompanied with a PDF on its usage. This mobi ebook is made from extracts of this PDF. I have only ported the portions that are necessary to illustrate the glyphs, their encoding and pronunciation in FSE transliterations. Just enough to start you up adding your own translations ;-) Despite only being an html beginner, and even only using a simple text editor to hand-code it (please forgive my amateurish style), I achieved relatively good success and found the Kindle html rendering engine to be unexpectedly powerful. In the process, I learned a lot about font embedding, kerning, css styles needed to rotate vulcan scripting, and mobi generation. By sharing the source code I hope that you will go beyond in your own creations.

More importantly, I got interested in the complexities of vulcan scripting itself and the required typographical qualities of a font to render it. Feel free to request the original document for a complete (and as would say Spock «fascinating») grammatical guide to writing the vulcan language. Thank you Briht’uhn <skladan@korsaya.org> for designing such an artful and accurate zun font.

Since this book is destined to english readers, the Federation Standard English (FSE) with latin characters is used to provide english sounding phonemes of vulcan transliterations.

Glyph | Glyph-name Sound | Key
--- | --- | ---
' | shaya-ralash | ' ‘ ’
a A á à ä | a ah aa ai au | a A á à ä
â Â À Ä | a‹ ah‹ ai‹ au‹ | â Â À Ä
b | buhf’es (bo) | b
c | sochya (cho) | c
C | tchol (tcho) | C
d | dif (do) | d
j | dzharel (dzho) | j
e E é è | e eh ee ei | e E é è
ê Ê È | e‹ eh‹ ei‹ | ê Ê È
f | tafar (fo) | f
g | gen (go) | g
h | ha (ho) | h
i I í | i ih ii | i I í
î Î | i‹ ih‹ | î Î
k | ko (ko) | k
x | khaf (kho) | x
l | la (lo) | l
m | malat (mo) | m
n | nala (no) | n
G | tangu (ong) | G
o O ó ò | o oh oo oi | o O ó ò
ô Ô Ò | o‹ oh‹ oi‹ | ô Ô Ò
p | tapan (po) | p
r | rata (ro) | r
s | sa (so) | s
S | shai (sho) | S
t | tan (to) | t
þ | thes (tho) | þ
ç | tsek (tso) | ç
u U ú | u uh uu | u U ú
û Û | u‹ uh‹ | û Û
v | vanu (vo) | v
w | wak (wo) | w
y | yen (yo) | y
z | zun (zo) | z
Z | zherka (zho) | Z
| sharu "opening" | space bar
- | pakh | -
@ | ahm-glat | @
• | sfek | • `
© | leshek (elik) | ©
0 | ris | 0
1 | wuh | 1
2 | dah | 2
3 | reh | 3
4 | keh | 4
5 | kau | 5
6 | sheh | 6
7 | steh | 7
8 | oh | 8
9 | nau | 9
T | os-ta | T
Ý | os-ik | Ý
M | os-asal | M
P | os-aru | P
V | os-khru | V
L | os-ozhika | L
K # | os-kolinar os-katra | K #
J | os-mazhiv | J
Y | os-ha | Y
® | os-itar | ®
œ | os-dor (os-o) | œ
& | vuhn-heh | &
+ | vuhn-eh | +
F | vuhn-na' | F
q | vuhn-ki' | q
ì | vuhn-i | ì
H | vuhn-la | H
W | vuhn-wa | W
X N | vuhn-ri os-rai | X N
ß | ’es-harr | ß
ý | ik-harr | ý
ñ | ing-harr | ñ
R | tor-harr | R
^ ~ | glat t’Fal-tor-pan | ^ ~
. | ek’pehkaya | .
, | pen-tvi-wak | ,
: | tvi-wak | : ; –
— | wu-tvi-wak | —
… | zhipen-glat | …
> | kharat-glat s’gas-rak | >
< | kharat-glat s’los-rak | <
° | starun-glat | ° º " “ ”
* | teretra-glat | *
[ ] | thakaya-glat na’palikaya thakaya-glat na’shahtaya | [ ]
¡ ! | nen-wa-glat na’palikaya nen-wa-glat na’shahtaya | ¡ !
{ } | nen-lanet na’palikaya nen-lanet na’shahtaya | { }
( ) | fokarikaya na’palikaya fokarikaya na’shahtaya | ( )
Y | os-ha | Y ?
| | weizehl-glat | |
¥ | vath-glat | ¥
% | dzhinaya-glat | %
† | shu-pal-glat | †
$ | donku-glat | $

Why did I write this??? Well, if you have to ask...

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naS-vÊ sEtebUk
kual Saya if
kwon Saru
i' limuk
vaþ sEtebUk

...the answer is 42!