Deciding Spelling Rules

Snider, Keith. 2014. Orthography and phonological depth.

In Cahill, Michael and Keren Rice (Eds). Developing orthographies for unwritten languages. Publications in Language Use and Education 6. [PP 27–48] Dallas: SIL International.

Basic Principles for Establishing Word Boundaries

Kutsch Lojenga, Constance. 2014. Basic principles for establishing word boundaries.

In Cahill, Michael and Keren Rice (Eds). Developing orthographies for unwritten languages. Publications in Language Use and Education 6. [PP 27–48] Dallas: SIL International.

Representing Tone in Writing

Kutsch Lojenga, Constance. 2014. Orthography and tone: A tone-system typology with implications for orthography development.

In Cahill, Michael and Keren Rice (Eds). Developing orthographies for unwritten languages. Publications in Language Use and Education 6. [PP 27–48] Dallas: SIL International.

Marking Tone in the Orthography

Snider, Keith. 2017. Tone analysis for field linguists. Dallas: SIL International. 

Facilitator Checking of Drafted Materials

Stirtz, Tim. 2018. Linguistic checks: The missing link in modern language development. 

In SIL Electronic Working Papers

Anglophone i-DELTA Phonology Course Lessons

The following i-DELTA phonology course lessons, Lessons 19-30, provide guidance on making decisions for writing systems:

Lesson 19 Alphabet Symbol Choices 

Lesson 20 Morphophonology

Lesson 21 Word Breaks 

Lesson 22 Word and Phrase Rules 

Lesson 23 Morphological Spelling 

Lesson 24 Stress Versus Tone

Lesson 25 Tone Melodies

Lesson 26 Tone Phonemes

Lesson 27 Tone Allophones

Lesson 28 Tone at Morpheme Boundaries

Lesson 29 Grammatical Tone 

Lesson 30 Tone in Orthography