Nother/Kirumb alphabet

The Kirumb alphabet as used today has 27^{[confirmation needed]} letters. It originally developed from Semitic scripts, and has borrowed several letters from Greek. It is written from left to right.

It was used to write Kirumb and Âdlantki, and is still used to write Atlantic. The descendants of Kirumb that developed in central Europe abandoned the native script, and their modern representatives now use the Latin alphabet instead.

There are two forms of each letter, though the script is not written in mixed case; the newer forms^[name?] are used to write ordinary text, while the older forms^[name?] are used in restricted contexts^[which?].

The inventory of signs has changed over time, and in the early period varied from author to author. The most usual Kirumb alphabet is given below, with the Kirumb names of the letters^[confirm] and their transliterations.

The Kirumb Alphabet
a	b	g	d	e	v	j	h	t
alpa	bít	gámal	dálat	é	vá	jaiŋ	hit	tit
i	k	l	m	n	s	o	f	ś
iód	káf	lámad	mím	nón	simkat	o	fí	śádí
r	š	c	ŋ	u	p	x	ó	z
rís	šín	cá	aŋma	ú	pé	xé	ó	zéta

Some non-standard letters of the Kirumb period:

• The Greek eta Η (transliterated é), used in Greek loanwords. This was normally spelled and pronounced with iód. This later became a standard sign in Âdlantki, and is thus sometimes given as a usual sign in Kirumb.
• The Greek xi Ξ (transliterated ks).
• The Greek tau Τ, used for /t/ by writers who preferred to use tit for the Greek theta (with which it was identical). In these cases, tit is to be transliterated th.
• The Greek psi Ψ (transliterated ps).
• The Greek digamma Ϝ (transliterated v).
• A jaiŋ-šin ligature^[name?] (transliterated ž) which probably represented a dialectal /ʒ/.

The letter śádí does not correspond to any phoneme in standard Kirumb, and depending on the writer might be used instead of either simkat or šín. In later times it came to represent the palatal /ç/ borrowed from Drake, and tit-śádí is used to represent the Spanish ch.