Please read this, if you are used to typing in Roman script
Typing in Ekalipi on your phone may initially seem intimidating or
pointless to people who are used to typing English and other languages on their
phone. It actually is not. Once you start using it, you will wish that you had
heard about Ekalipi sooner.
Let us quickly understand why tying in Ekalipi is far superior to typing in the
Roman script (especially the 26 letter script) that we are most familiar with.
To start with, 26 letters are not sufficient to represent the 44 basic sounds
in the English language.
When it comes to sounds from other language families, the letter
sounds sometimes simply do not exist.
What makes things even worse is that the letter sounds that you
learnt in the alphabet sound charts as a child
almost never correspond to the actual sound of the letter when it is
used in words. For example, a simple name like ‘Dee” is not
just the letter “D”. It in fact is actually written as “Dee”. Crazy!
We could go on and on but for the sake of brevity, we will refer you
to our web page www.ekalipi.org.
Ekalipi makes it simple. Ignore the English or Anglicized
spelling. Silently, sound out the word that you want to type. Use the letters
of the Ekalipi script to type the word just as it sounds.
English to Ekalipi Chart:
To render the correct
sound of letters Ekalipi currently uses 38 characters. Their relationship to
English letters is shown in the table below. Watch our video at www.ekalipi.com to learn the actual
sounds of these letters:
a
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e
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o
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u
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l
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n
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t
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c
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j
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s
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w
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a
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e
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o
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u
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l
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n
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t
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c
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j
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s
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w
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ā
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ee
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ö
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uu
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φ
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ŋ
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ŧ
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č
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ɉ
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z
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v
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@
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ū
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л
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å
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Δ
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λ
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There are two additional
essential characters in Ekalipi. They have no sound themselves. :
➢
- (hyphen) is used to combine 2 letters (usually
consonants). In English, it is not clear whether two letters should be
pronounced consecutively of separately. In Ekalipi, it is clear e.g. s-t and
r-t in s-tar-t. You will appreciate its benefits once you use Ekalipi.
➢
Ø is used when two characters (again usually
consonants) are to be pronounced quickly without an intermediate “a” sound. You
will find it especially useful in pronouncing names correctly in the Ekalipi
Cal Announcer phone app.
For more information, please refer to
the Ekalipi documentation on the web at www.ekalipi.org www.ekalipi.com and www.wikilipi.com .
