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Originally Posted by Polyglot27
Szervusz Ahi, your transliteration into Hiragana is quite good.
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Originally Posted by bozon42
Hello Ahi, Your Hiragana rewriting is impressive - congratulations.
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I hope the two of you aren't just being nice!
How could (or, rather, should) Hiragana be expanded to provide for additional syllables? Upon cursory inspection, I half get the sense that with a bit of effort Hiragana forms could be slightly more harmonized/standardized* (there already appear to be semi-regular correspondences between some related forms)... and additional syllables could be derived in a semi-systematic way.
Of course, doing it that way I shall (probably never) have the benefit of doing it with a proper font... only by hand. Is there a better way?
I think I could get by (to create a fairly phonetic [but still Hiragana-like] Hiragana syllabary for Hungarian) with as few as 126 syllables (as opposed to
the 73 single character syllables listed by wikipedia), with the understanding that syllables containing long vowels are indicated by some sort of an accent (which I'm sure are called something else in Hiragana terms), and that vocalized consonantal syllables are systematically derivable from its unvocalized syllable counterpart.
i.e.: 7 vowels (in reality 7 short and 7 long) + 17 consonants (in reality these 17 just represent unvocalized consonants and ones that have no vocalization-wise opposite counterparts... the full total of consonants is 26).
- Ahi
Ps.: * Harmonized/standardized to perhaps make some additional already used Hiragana forms available for novel use. Though I could be way off.