Naeso/Orthography

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This page is about the native script. For the ASCII romanization, see Transliteration.

Our native script is a syllabary, written from left to right. Each syllable has its own glyph. An early vote determined that we would use MalfermitaKodo's draft.

As the syllabary draft is largely incomplete, there are many syllables lacking from our list. Below are those we have already decided on.

Vowels - B - D - F - G - J - K - L - M - N - Nh - P - S - T - Th - V - Z

Vowels

Syllables starting with a vowel

B

ba

D

da

F

• Syllables starting with F
• fin

G

ga

J

ja

K

ka

L

la

M

ma

N

na

Syllables starting with N

Nh

nha

P

pa

S

Syllables starting with S

T

ta

Th

tha

V

• Syllables starting with V
• vin

Z

Syllables starting with Z

Diacritics

All diacritics are placed in the same position: above the main glyph. For example: (tha, kan, nanh)

Diacritics above the main glyph of a syllable indicate either a coda (-l, -m, -n, -nh), an affricate, or both. Diacritics are used together with the corresponding fricative syllable to mark affricates. For example, take the syllable fu. There are 4 diacritics which add a coda: fun, fum, funh and ful. There is one diacritic which makes the fricative an affricate: pfu. And then there are 4 diacritics which do both: pfun, pfum, pfunh and pful.

Use a circle as the pfu (affricate, no coda) diacritic — VOTED IN

Use a T as the pfun (affricate, coda n) diacritic — VOTED IN

Use a diagonal line like \ as the pfum (affricate, coda m) diacritic — VOTED IN

Use a ^-shape as the "pfunh" (affricate, coda nh) — VOTED IN

Use an X as the pful (affricate, coda l) diacritic — VOTED IN