Bound Vowels Grapheme Representation in Balinese Script

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10.2991/978-2-494069-29-9_18How to use a DOI?

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Balinese script; bound grapheme; vowels

Abstract

The background of this research was based on the lack of adequate research results to describe bound vowel graphemes in the Balinese script writing system with all its complexities. The purpose of this research was to decipher bound vowel graphemes and their behavior in a writing system based on Balinese script. The research method applied in this research was a qualitative descriptive method. The qualitative data source was in a graphic form of dependent vocal grapheme and its representation in Balinese, which is included in the list of Balinese scripted entries in Bali-Indonesian Latin and Balinese Dictionary II Edition. The data were collected through the document analysis technique and then analyzed by describing the new meaning and appearance, determining the frequency of the occurrences, and grouping them based on grapheme definitions that apply across writing systems. The results showed that the form of the vowel graphemes in Balinese script differed in the initial and bound positions. For the vowel graphemes in the bound position, the size was smaller than the main and consonant graphemes and they were rather dependent, which were dependent on them. For example: vowels above the main consonant grapheme such as <i> for /i/ and <)> for /ə/; vowel under the main consonant grapheme such as <u> for /u/, on the left of the main consonant grapheme such as <e…> for /e/, and the combination of two basic shapes that did not appear next to each other (not continua) such as <e…o> for /o/. Vowel graphemes in the Balinese script for /i/, /ə/, and /u/ did not occupy their own segmental spaces horizontally, which reflected that these graphemes were bound graphemes because they could not arise alone. Likewise, the vowel graphemes displayed on the horizontal axis for /e/ and /o/ were subsegmental graphematic and usually obligatory bound.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - I. K. Paramarta
AU  - G. Indrawan
AU  - Ida Bagus Rai
AU  - I Nengah Martha
PY  - 2022
DA  - 2022/12/12
TI  - Bound Vowels Grapheme Representation in Balinese Script
BT  - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Languages and Arts across Cultures (ICLAAC 2022)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 165
EP  - 172
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/978-2-494069-29-9_18
DO  - 10.2991/978-2-494069-29-9_18
ID  - Paramarta2022
ER  -