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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:
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.
## Letters
Letters used to form glyphs are listed in the table below:
| Latin | Letter |
|-------|--------|
| a |  |
| b |  |
| c |  |
| ch |  |
| d |  |
| e |  |
| f |  |
| g |  |
| gh |  |
| h |  |
| i |  |
| j |  |
| l |  |
| m |  |
| n |  |
| ng |  |
| nj |  |
| o |  |
| p |  |
| r |  |
| s |  |
| t |  |
| u |  |
| v |  |
| w |  |
| y | (empty) |
| z |  |
| long vowel |  |
| rising tone |  |
| falling tone |  |
| level tone | (empty) |
| glottal stop /ʔ/ |  |
| . |  |
| , |  |
| : |  |
| ! |  |
| ? |  |
| ( or “|  |
| ) or ”|  |
Punctuation usage:
- Sentence punctuation `. ! ? :` are put at the beginning of the sentence,
rather than the end.
- Colon is considered a sentence punctuation. It is put at the beginning of
the quoted phrase.
- Comma is used in a similar way as in English.
- Brackets are used for both quotation and explanation. In case of quotation,
there should be a colon preceding the phrase.
# Input for glyph generation
While this is not a part of the language, in order to generate native script
with the provided tool, one MUST follow this guideline for writing
romanization, which is not the same as the normal romanization guideline.
- If there is a tone, the schwa `y` must be explicit. That is, never put the
tone on a consonant.
- The second vowel should not come with the diaresis.
- Long vowel should be represented by a tilde `~` rather than duplicating
vowels.
- Always write syllables separately. For example `càhánzy` (to give) must
be written as `cà hán zy`.
- The glottal stop must be explicit. For example `aäratse` (ash) must be
written as `'a~ rat se`.
- Punctuations should be separated from syllables.
- Spaces should be noted with a hyphen.
The output may look bad; you can blame my poor drawing skills (I did not align
some of the strokes) and the limitation of technology (the letters are
stretched and therefore the thickness is not consistent).
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