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Writing system

The writing system Taxem uses is an alphabet.

There are 8 letters for vowles, 15 letters for cosonants and 3 diacritics. (26 total symbols)

Vowles:

a
/a/

‘Romanisation: a’

ä
/ɛ/

‘Romanisation: ä’

ö
/œ/

‘Romanisation: ö’

i
/i/

‘Romanisation: i’

ü
/y/

‘Romanisation: ü’

e
/ə/

‘Romanisation: e’

o
/ɔ/

‘Romanisation: o’

u
/u/

‘Romanisation: u’

Consonants:

y
/j/

‘Romanisation: y’

v
/w/

‘Romanisation: v’

r
/r/

‘Romanisation: r’

l
/l/

‘Romanisation: l’

m
/m/

‘Romanisation: m’

n
/n/

‘Romanisation: n’

f
/f/

‘Romanisation: f’

s
/s/

‘Romanisation: s’

ß
/ʃ/

‘Romanisation: ß’

x
/x/

‘Romanisation: x’

h
/h/

‘Romanisation: h’

c
/t͡ʃ/

‘Romanisation: c’

p
/p/

‘Romanisation: p’

t
/t/

‘Romanisation: t’

k
/k/

‘Romanisation: k’

Diacritics:

j
/j/

‘Romanisation: j’

w
/w/

‘Romanisation: w’

g
/ŋ/

‘Romanisation: g’

The diacritics j and w have two ways they can be used each.

When /j/ follows a consonant use j instead of y.

Example:

nja
/nja/

‘What’

When /i/ follows a vowle and it can form a diphthong use j instead of i.

Example:

xajta
/xajta/

‘Home’

When /w/ follows a consonant use w instead of v.

Example:

kwat
/kwat/

‘He/She/They’

When /u/ follows a vowle and it can form a diphthong w instead of u.

Example:

mawmaw
/mawmaw/

‘Cat’