Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index Babyish is an artificial language from a child story called "Stories in Babycasèny", which can be viewed as a pidgin of Catonese and English. Babyish has its own characters, being some geometric shapes, but was not used beyond illustration. It is transcripted in two ways: accented Latin characters plain ASCII text Since Babyish is a pidgin of Cantonese, some words are tonal are requires indication of tones. Tonal marks from pinyin is borrowed for tone indication, with an additional mark of "dot below" in indicate "yang" tones. Table of contents 1 Characters used in Babyish 2 Some sample text of Babyish 2.1 Vocabularies 2.2 Famous Literatures in Babyish Characters used in Babyish Babyish used these characters: Vowels SAMPA transliteration Special note A a a à = /6/ in SAMPA Ä { ae E E e è = /@/ in SAMPA I i i ì = /1/ in SAMPA O O o ò = /Q/ in SAMPA Ö 9 oe U u u ù = /V/ in SAMPA Ü y ue Consonants SAMPA transliteration Special note B b b P p p M m m F f f D d d T t t N n n L l l G g g K k k Ŋ N ng Ĥ x kh J dZ j Č tS ch R r r H h h Ẑ dz` zh Ĉ ts` cz Ŝ s` sz Ȓ r` rh Z dz z C ts c S s s Sometimes Ç is used to represent "S" sound Y j y Tones: macron for long vowels, acute, hacek, grave, dotbelow. Some sample text of Babyish Vocabularies English Babyish Origin Cat Miao Voice Alike Dog Wow Voice alike in Cantonese Rabbit Zaza Original Panda Siongmiao Mandarin Chinese Fish Ör Original not yet mǐ- Cantonese dialect full (after meal) báo Cantonese hungry (after meal) mǐbáo Cantonese (= "mǐ-" not yet + "báo") used Yused English not used Mǐyused Cantonese+English (= "mǐ-" not yet + "yused") Elder Brother (le) gor Cantonese Elder Brother (le) sálou Cantonese Elder Sister (la) sis English Younger Sister (la) mui Cantonese Famous Literatures in Babyish "Sheepness stories" series (Yöŋmàn gusi) "The Hero: New R Little Bear" (Sun R xiuhung daihùp) This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.