Phonology

Phonology of the Bauhinian language.

Bauhinian features 5 basic vowels, 3 compound vowels, and 26 consonants. May God be kind to me.^[1]

Contents

Vowels
- Compound vowels
Consonants
Writing rules

Vowels

Order	Bauhinian	Latin	Sound-alike
1	ئا	a	apple
2	ئە	e	set
3	ئى	i	tip / tea
4	ئو	o	soap
5	ئۇ	u	loop

Compound vowels

Bauhinian	Latin	Sound-alike
ئاۋ	aw	bauhinian. Just this one place. I don't permit this to be used anywhere else.
ئاي	ai	type (note how the second letter is a "y" but is spelled "i" in Latin)
ئەي	ei	say

Consonants

Order	Letter	Latin	Sound-alike
6	ب	b
7	پ	p
8	د	d
9	ت	t
10	ك	k
11	گ	g
12	ف	f
13	ڤ	v
14	ھ	h
15	م	m
16	ن	n
17	ي	y
18	ۋ	w
19	ل	l
20	ز	z
21	څ	c	cats
22	س	s
23	ج	zh	juice and measure both work
24	چ	ch
25	ش	sh
26	ر	r	raw, tore
27	[^4]ژ	j	机
28	[^4]ق	q	期
29	[^4]خ	x	希
30	ث	th	thing
31	ذ	dh	the

Note on the letter choices

The script is largely based on the Uyghurche alphabet. I mixed and matched some letters from different languages here. I'm not sure which ones are absent from Arabic since I only learned Uyghurche and not Arabic, but for the ones not present in Uyghurche, ث and ذ are from Arabic, څ is from Pashto, and ڤ is from Kurdish, Swahili, and a number of other languages.^[2]

The only letters for which I changed the pronunciation drastically were ق , غ, and خ, into Chinese j, q, and x, respectively. This is because I can't find any readily-available equivalent and don't want to add my own little dots while knowing shit.

Writing rules

Bauhinian uses the Arabic script, which is written right-to-left, except for numbers which are left-to-right. I won't go into detail on writing in Arabic script here since there are plenty of other resources for it.

Just know that, like Uyghurche, the letter ئ is used as a vowel separator; and also if a word starts with a vowel, it must be preceded by this letter.

In addition, letters with two dots can be simplified in to a line in handwriting, and three dots can be simplified into a little arrow.

That's actually 31 in total, one fewer than Uyghurche even. But Uyghurche has clear front / back vowel pairings and I don't! Help. So many consonants. Yet I love every one of them dearly and don't want to delete any of them. (It's mostly to flex how many consonants I can pronounce well though.)
The beauty of the Arabic script (aside from the fact that it's just really pretty) is how you can just make new letters by adding a shitton of dots to everything without them looking obviously extra. One dot, two dot, three dot; could've sworn I saw four-dot variants while digging through font files too. You can technically do the same in Latin with accents, but they just look so obviously added on.