Annex: Pacificspell

The Pacific spelling reform was initially just an academic exercise. It was later used by Peter Eden to further isolate Pacific from what he termed ijsa, (ijstrn stejts uv amrucu Eastern States of America). With the exception of the ash-reform during the Exile, the system has remained extremely stable, although the spelling of individual words continues to change with time and language evolution. Pacificspell adds additional letters to the Roman alphabet so that every segmental phoneme has its own glyph:

a ae b c d dH e f g dZ h i j k l m n nG o p q r s sH t tH u u v w x y z zH

or as it is usually presented in schools:


 
labial interdental alveolar palatal velar glottal
stop p b t d k dZ c g q
fricative f v tH dH s z sH zH x h
nasal m n nG
lateral l
semivowel w r j
high i y u
mid e o
low ae a

(q, x, and y do not occur in English and were used for foreign languages, usually but not always at these positions. y is the rounded front vowel.)

In this basic system, dipthongs are spelled with a vowel and semivowel, such bij bee, bow beau, and baw bough. Stress is marked with a grave accent (`), and syllabisation of mnnGlr are sometimes marked with (.). However the system is intended as a morphonemic representation rather than strictly phonemic or phonetic, and so various superfixes and subfixes are added to glyphs to modify their values. And a morpheme can retain its basic spelling in different contexts.

(Sara's letter to her brother was actually an attempt by her to remember 'Atlanticspell' and confusing it with Pacificspell.)

Only proper nouns are capitalised. They also will sometimes retain their traditional spellings, perhaps partially modified. In such cases, they are often accompanied by parenthesised Pacificspellings:

Even in the beginning almost all speakers using Pacificspell used California vowels. During the Exile all speakers did, and hence the ash-reform:
  1. ae was removed from the active letters.
  2. a became the low front vowel and o the became the mid to low back vowel.
  3. The spelling of the dipthongs aj and aw were retained.

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