This script is a Phonological Cypher, being an easily written, phonetically constructed alphabet like others in that series. It is assembled from simple geometric parts. Its name (meaning chain-alphabet) comes from the Sgai language, and while it caters for that language, it may be used for others such as English.
Vowels
The vowels are marked upon the “teeth” of a central line. Rounded vowels have a dot below. They connect to consonants at the left, and sometimes to the right. Not all of these are used in Sgai, some are included just to complete the system, and make them available. The tone marks are used after vocalic /m/, /n/ and /r/.
Consonants
This chart is in no particular order, but the rows relate to regions of phonetic production, and share a common bottom half. The columns relate in a semi-regular way to the manners of articulation, signified by their upper half. The last column contains an optional way of writing the second part of diphthongs, using a non-syllabic form instead of an explicit vowel. Some spots in the matrix hold glyphs which currently have no useful phoneme, marked by a grey x. And some assignments are used morphemically in Sgai.
Examples
1. This is a transcription of the first line of Shakespeare’s sonnet 18, for comparison with my other cyphers.
Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
2. Some text in the Sgai language.
tʃɹ kɾænjɑt tysbɑyθ dʒɔʃ tyszɔk fɔt’əɡɔp
And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech.
