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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).