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# Writing system

The native writing system has not been created yet.

## Glyph structure

Each syllable is represented by a glyph with a structure as shown here:

![The structure of a glyph for a syllable](./glyph.png)

When a component in the syllable is missing, the other components expand to
fill up the gap.  Long vowel is represented as a horizontal line in the V2
position.

Because it requires more than a font to be able to write these glyphs, I cannot
create a font to represent it.  There will be a tool to generate svg/png for
generaating glyphs from a word, however.  All text samples in this book will be
romanized, from which you can generate the native scripts.

## Order

Hàäsdáïga does not have an alphabetic order.
The alphabet order is used for us to more conveniently list words.
The order for letters with tones is level, falling, and rising.

## Romanization

The romanization rules are already stated in the Phonology section.