{"id":118,"date":"2026-07-15T12:07:32","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T10:07:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ditema.africa\/?page_id=118"},"modified":"2026-07-18T13:23:59","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T11:23:59","slug":"overall-graphophonemic-architecture","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.ditema.africa\/index.php\/overall-graphophonemic-architecture\/","title":{"rendered":"Overall architecture"},"content":{"rendered":"

The mapping system can be summarised as follows:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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Linguistic property<\/b><\/b><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Graphical correlate<\/b><\/b><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Vowel quality<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Orientation of triangle\/chevron<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Vowel nasality<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Apex dot (ingungwanyana<\/strong>)<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Place of articulation<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Position within the syllable block<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Manner of articulation<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Shape of the consonant grapheme<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Affrication<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Superposition of stop + fricative<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Coarticulation<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Superposition of graphemes<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Voicing<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Straight line from base to apex (uphimbo<\/strong>)<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Glottal action<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Internal dot (lerothodi<\/strong>)<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Prenasalisation<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Apex circle (ingungwana<\/strong>)<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Nasal consonant<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Circle with internal features<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Clicks<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Hourglass grapheme<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Null vowel<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Downward chevron<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Tone<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Not encoded<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Vowel length<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Not encoded<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

This explicit feature-based mapping is one of the defining properties of isiBheqe soHlamvu\/Ditema tsa dinoko: the graphemes are designed to encode phonological features rather than assigning arbitrary symbols to phonemes or syllables.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The mapping system can be summarised as follows: Linguistic property Graphical correlate Vowel quality Orientation of triangle\/chevron Vowel nasality Apex dot (ingungwanyana) Place of articulation Position within the syllable block Manner of articulation Shape of the consonant grapheme Affrication Superposition of stop + fricative Coarticulation Superposition of graphemes Voicing Straight line from base to apex […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":-2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-118","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ditema.africa\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ditema.africa\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ditema.africa\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ditema.africa\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ditema.africa\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.ditema.africa\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":215,"href":"https:\/\/www.ditema.africa\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/118\/revisions\/215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ditema.africa\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}