Tengwar for Spanish

This is a method of writing Spanish using Tolkien's Tengwar alphabet devised by Edvin. He has based his method on Quenya and believes it is a more efficent system than other methods, which are based on Sindarin and have many "dead letters".

Notable features

Type of writing system: vocalised abjad
Direction of writing: left to right in horizontal lines
Vowels are written with diacritics over the consonants that precede them, or over a vowel carrier is they are at the beginning of a word or on their own.

Consonants

Tengwar for Spanish - consonants

Nasal clusters

Tengwar for Spanish - nasal clusters

Vowels

Tengwar for Spanish - vowels

Notes

The vowel diacritics (tehtar) are written over, (or below in the case of diphthongs), the consonant which they follow. If vowels appear on their own or at the beginning of a word, the diacritics are written over the vowel carrier.
The second r, s, and ch are used when the tengwar carry tehtar.
A tilde/overbar is used to show a nasal infixion.
When the s sound comes before a consonant, it is written with a small hook attached to the consonant is precedes.
When the tengwa for y is written by itself, it is pronounced as a vowel, [i].
Diphthongs using cu, gu/gü, ju, and hu are written using the corresponding tengwar. Other diphthongs are written using a u or i tehta underneath the consonant with the second vowel carried above the consonant. The cu, gu/gü, ju, and hu tengwar are not used outside of diphthongs. E.g. Encuentro would use the cu tengwa, but encubro would use the c tengwa carrying the u tehta.

Sample text

Sample text in Tengwar for Spanish

Transliteration

Todos los seres humanos nacen libres e iguales en dignidad y derechos y, dotados como están de razón y conciencia, deben comportarse fraternalmente los unos con los otros.

Translation

All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.
(Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights)

Links

Other methods of writing Spanish with Tengwar
http://lambenor.free.fr/tengwar/espanol.html
http://djelibeibi.unex.es/tengwar/
http://neobabel.org/archivo/58
http://usuarios.lycos.es/barbol/tengwar/espanol.html

Information about Tengwar in Spanish
http://www.lacoctelera.com/adastra/post/2005/08/31/escritura-elfica-introduccion
http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tengwar
http://usuarios.lycos.es/barbol/tengwar/tengwar.html

Tengwar pages

Tengwar for Quenya, Sindarin, Arabic, English, Finnish, High Valyrian, Hungarian, Icelandic, Kurdish, Portugese, Russian, Scottish Gaelic (1), Scottish Gaelic (2), Spanish, Spanish (Latin American), Turkish, Vietnamese, Welsh

Tolkien's alphabets and languages

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