Naeso/Orthography

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

Naeso Syllabary

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.

• Syllables starting with n
• Syllables starting with v - vin
• Syllables starting with s
• Syllables starting with f - fin
• Syllables starting with z
• Syllables starting with a vowel

Sound bases

As the syllabary draft is largely incomplete, there are many 'letters' lacking from our list. Below are bases for the missing "letters".

Note: all of the following images are BASES for the syllabary, and they lack their accompanying vowel-and-or consonant markers. How they are modified for the different vowels is being voted on below.

Syllabary proposals

Use the sound bases as-is for the syllables ending in -a — VOTED IN

2011-6-26

Place all diacritics in the same position — 1/0 (FH,/0)

• 'Same position' how? - BF
• Something like above or below the main glyph. The way they are placed in RJ's draft is inconsistent and hard to learn. —FH

Use diacritics together with the corresponding fricative syllable to mark affricates — VOTED IN

• For example, take the syllable fu. There are currently 4 diacritics which change the syllable to fun, fum, funh and ful. I propose the introduction of 5 additional diacritics which would change the syllable to pfu, pfun, pfum, pfunh and pful. —FH

diacritics

2011-7-12

Use a circle as the pfu (affricate, no coda) diacritic — 1/0 (FH,/0)

2011-7-12

Use a T as the pfun (affricate, coda n) diacritic — 1/0 (FH,/0)

2011-7-12

Use a diagonal line like \ as the pfum (affricate, coda m) diacritic — 1/0 (FH,/0)

2011-7-12

Use a triangle as the pfunh (affricate, coda nh) diacritic — 1/0 (FH,/0)

2011-7-12

Use an X as the pful (affricate, coda l) diacritic — 1/0 (FH,/0)