Any comments on my tweaked hexadecimal major system scheme below?
I have my 2-digit decimal major system PAO. I want to expand it to a 2-digit hexadecimal major system PAO (for cards, binary numbers, and computing stuff). I started with @Dharis 's Hexadecimal Major Sytem. His mappings are the following:
| hex | alphabet | ipa |
|---|---|---|
| 0 | s | /s/ |
| 1 | t | /t/ |
| 2 | n | /n/ |
| 3 | m | /m/ |
| 4 | r | /ɹ/ |
| 5 | l | /l/ |
| 6 | sh,ch | /ʃ/, /tʃ/ |
| 7 | g | /ɡ/ |
| 8 | v | /v/ |
| 9 | p | /p/ |
| A | j,g | /dʒ/, /ʒ/ |
| B | b | /b/ |
| C | k | /k/ |
| D | d | /d/ |
| E | z | /z/ |
| F | f | /f/ |
Some reactions of mine:
- It’s hard for me to see hex-A and hex-E as consonants.
- Splitting up (/f/, /v/) to hex-F and hex-8 is tough. 8 had already produced the fewest images of the 10 digits in the decimal major system. Splitting it up for the hex system only makes the situation worse.
- Same goes for splitting (/s/, /z/) and (/ʃ/, /ʒ/, /tʃ/, /dʒ/). Still, not as bad as splitting up (/f/, /v/).
- Even if one does want to split (/ʃ/, /ʒ/, /tʃ/, /dʒ/), (/ʃ/, /ʒ/) x ( /tʃ/, /dʒ/) seems more consistent to me (following the unvoiced/voiced pairing format of the rest of the system) than the original (/ʒ/,/dʒ/) x (/ʃ/ /tʃ/).
- Could be leveraging consonants /θ/, /ð/, /h/, /ŋ/.
- Could be leveraging semi-vowels /w/, /j/.
So here’s my tweaked scheme:
| hex | alphabet | ipa |
|---|---|---|
| 0 | s,z | /s/, /z/ |
| 1 | t | /t/ |
| 2 | n,ng | /n/,/ŋ/ |
| 3 | m | /m/ |
| 4 | r | /ɹ/ |
| 5 | l | /l/ |
| 6 | sh,g,ch,j, | /ʃ/, /ʒ/, /tʃ/, /dʒ/ |
| 7 | g | /ɡ/ |
| 8 | th | /θ/, /ð/ |
| 9 | p | /p/ |
| A | w | /w/ |
| B | b | /b/ |
| C | k | /k/ |
| D | d | /d/ |
| E | y | /j/ |
| F | f,v | /f/,/v/ |
Some comments:
- I map the semi-vowels /w/ → hex-A and /j/ → hex-E. So, e.g., hex-AA could be “wow”.
- This is a minor break of the phonetic system, since the IPA for “wow” is actually /ˈwaʊ/. So really, “wow” should encode as hex-A, not hex-AA. But whatever. I’ll just imagine “wow” pronounced as /ˈwaʊw/, the way children do sometimes.
- Same goes for hex-EE and, e.g., “yay”.
- I mapped (/θ/, /ð/) → hex-8 (which seemed natural to me since it’s a neighbor of (/f/,/v/) on The IPA Chart). That allowed me to map both (/f/,/v/) → hex-F.
- No need to break up (/s/,/z/) or (/ʃ/, /ʒ/, /tʃ/, /dʒ/).
- I snuck in (/n/,/ŋ/) → 2. I wasn’t having any problem producing images with /n/ → 2 alone. I just wanted some more coverage.
- I believe this scheme makes transition from an existing decimal major to hexadecimal major much easier. With my tweaked scheme, one only needs to revisit their decimal major system images associated with the numbers 1,7,9, comparing with 0,1,6,7,8,9 in the original scheme, reducing workload by ~50%.