Interastral Standard Alphabet
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The Interastral Standard Alphabet is an alphabet of the Haltzeonian family. The script has been in use for several centuries, being created in the 41st century of Kardonian history and officially adopted a few decades later (approximately 1500 years prior to the present).
It is the script used for every Kardonian language.
Letters
Some of these letters are used to represent various phonemes, owing to historic sound changes. For example, in Haltzeonian, the last four vowel letters don't have phonemes associated with them, but in particular , which was used for /ɨ/, is used on occasion.
Nasal vowels are consistently written as clusters of an oral vowel's letter + ng, like .
Often, pairs of letters are ligated or stacked. This is particularly true of common letter pairs, for example, the clusters . However, in Nguhcraft, text rendering is stupid, so stacks do not occur.
| Phoneme | Interastral Standard | Romanization |
|---|---|---|
| m | | m |
| n | | n |
| ɲ | | nh |
| ŋ | | ng |
| p | | b |
| pʰ | | p |
| pʼ | | p' |
| t | | d |
| tʰ | | t |
| tʼ | | t' |
| t͡ʃ | | c |
| t͡ʃʰ | | ch |
| t͡ʃʼ | | c' |
| k | | g |
| kʰ | | k |
| kʼ | | k' |
| q | | ɂ |
| qʰ | | q |
| qʼ | | q' |
| s | | s |
| z | | z |
| ɫ | | l |
| ð | | rr |
| j | | y |
| ʎ | | lh |
| w | | w |
| r | | r |
| i | | i |
| u | | u |
| e | | e |
| ə | | eo |
| o | | o |
| ɛ | | ae |
| ɔ | | ao |
| ɐ | | a |
| y | | iu |
| ɯ | | ui |
| ʌ | | io |
| ø | | ue |