Orthography

Calutan uses a script (Copaþ) which is an abugida.

Alphabet

In alphabet order, vowels come after consonants. i (sometimes j in romanization) is both a vowel and a consonant.

The order is:

p (b) c d h þ l m n s v ź (ŋ) z q (g) r x s t a i e o ö u ē

Foreign letters are in (parentheses) and are only used for loanwords.

Phonotactics

(C)V(C)(C)

• Words cannot end with more than one consonants

• Most syllabes are CV but sometimes consonant clusters form at the end of syllabes

• No words end with <s>

• llegal end clusters are pushed back to form a cluster with the previous consonant if there is a vowel in between; otherwise, <u> is added at the end

e.g. "Pagus Septimus" is loaned as "Pagsu Septimu"