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Using express, route the root path / to the about page /about.html.

Alternative translations are shown in the translations section, but in the translator output textarea, the first is arbitrarily chosen. In the future, translation output elements could be interactive widgets in the output area, that when clicked/hovered show alternative translations.

Latin default

Use the modern Latin alphabet. Voiced and breathed consonants have two character options. Double vowels are each written with the two component vowel characters.

Omino Latin

Same as default, but for consonants with voiced and breathed Latin character options, use a combined new character.

오미노글 (Omino Hangul)

Starts with 한글. Reassigns some of the double vowels to existing 모음자 (including some archaic characters), and invents some new double vowel 자모 (au, ao, ae, ea, ei).

For each 자모 combination that doesn’t map to an existing 문자, a new one is created.

Below is a proof of concept for the Ominogul alphabet. It uses a custom font to fill in missing characters, and uses unassigned unicodes (here, I’m using the private use codes range).

A root is an Omino syllable with assigned meaning.

Apply for a conlang.org membership and use their web hosting offer to host the omino webserver and database.

Add an Omino entry to the conlang atlas.

Add the following consonant alias pairings, as both homophones and homonyms:

• z-s
• v-f
• d-t
• b-p
• g-k

A composite word is anything longer than 1 syllable (ex. mino, doamie).

1. The translator splits input by whitespace and punctuation delimiters.

a, b (c d)? → [a,b,c,d]

2. Until all words are included, move from left to right, including fewer words in each phrase until a translation is found.

’a b c d' 'a b c' d, 'a b' c d (a b = hello there)

’a b’ 'c d' 'a b' 'c' d (c = how)

’a b’ 'c' 'd' (d = you are)

3. Concatenate translations of each phrase.

a b c d → hello there how you are

sou is an undefined syllable, but I accidentally gave it the same definition as fuo (emptiness) when I created the database. In this case, removal just means removal of rel_definitions and rel_examples entries; undefined strings are allowed to exist in the strings table.

Now that the database has some initial data from by db-scratch file .json file, it’s time to connect some of that data to the dictionary page, enabling basic translation. In later issues I’ll expand to more complex dictionary data, like examples, roots and derivatives, etc.

I’ve drafted the basic design of the translator widget component, but still need to finish the functionality with related scripts to do things like load the current input query from the url params, handle input events, and communicate using the database api.

Use i18n JS library to translate all webpage content to one secondary language to start, as an example.

A translation is a mapping of an input phrase to a collection of output phrases in the target language. Each output phrase can also be a definition, mapping the output phrase to a definition in the same language.

An example maps the input phrase to example phrases in the source language, and the output phrase to example phrases in the target language. Each example also has a translation, mapping the example phrase to an equivalent phrase from the other language.

A root is a word or letter contained in the input phrase or word (if the input is a syllable, the root a letter; otherwise, the root is a word/syllable). Each root includes a shallow translation in the target language.

Under missing and imitating complexity > command, this pair of examples needs separate lines.

You feed my friend. → hanebo habon hamem hoaki. < new line >
You can feed my friend. → habon hamem hoaki.

Following this suggestion I’ll use the International Phoenetic Alphabet to clarify valid pronunciations of each letter in the about page.

Create a fully installed omino server environment temporarily running on a pi at home, running a local mariadb database that the webserver can access to feed web clients.