Grafeya tompine e fonno chleweye
(Chleweyish Thompinian Orthography)

Fonno chlewey
Chleweyish orthography (Thompinian)

Orthography:

The usual way for representing vowels is:

 phoneme  usual way  alternative
i i
i: ei i
ju iu eu
e e
E ee e
{j ai
a a
O oo o
Ow au
o o
oj oi
u u
u: ou u
wi ui
stressed vowels are long if following consonant is short. ei and ou are used mainly in unstressed positions or when followed by a consonant cluster

The usual way for representing consonants is:

 phoneme  usual way  before
front vowels
p p
p: pp
t t
t: tt
k c ch
k: ck ckh
m m
n nn
n: n
J nj
ts z
dZ djh g
dj\ dj
tC sh c
B b
v v
f f
D d
s s
s: ss
j\ y or j
C tj
G g gh
x x
h h
l l or l
l: l
r r
r: rr
kw qu*
hw w
Diagraphs such as ps for ps are allowed. Long consonants are geminated.

y is preffered over j, except in some borrowings.

*: it actually uses ui, ue, ua or wo

Reading a text

The sound of the vowels is:

 symbol  long stressed short stressed unstressed
aA:a@
ee:E@
ii:iI
oo:Oo
uu:uU
iuju:jujU
eeE:E
ooO:O
ai{:j{jaI
auO:wOw@U
eii:i
oio:jojOI
ouu:u
uiwi:wiwI
øundefined
iyundefined
ø and y (as a vowel) are undefined as well as all composit vowels containing them. ø would be usually pronounced as /e/, /E/ or /o/, while y will be usually be pronounced /i/ when not a consonant /j\/.

 symbol  long stressed short stressed unstressed
iaja:jaj@
ieje:jej@
eoe:oew@U
euju:jujU
eøundefined
iojo:jojo
iøundefined
oeo:eojOI
oøundefined
uawa:waw@
uewe:wew@
uowo:wowo
uyundefined
uøundefined
yiundefined
yuundefined
øeundefined
øiundefined
øoundefined
øuundefined
øøundefined

The sound of the consonants is:

 symbol  usual sound  before
front vowels
yj\
bB
cktC
dd
djdj\
ff
phf
gGdZ
hh
hhh
xx
jj\
kk
ll
ljundefined
ll
mm
nn
ñJ
ngn o Ng
pp
qundefined
rr
rrr:
ss
tt
thundefined
vv
whw
xundefined
zts
 symbol  usual sound  before
front vowels
ckk:
njJ
nnn:
ppp:
psundefined
sjundefined
sksk
sss:
tjC
ttt:
xjundefined
zjundefined
 symbol  usual sound  before
front vowels
chk
djhdZ
ghg
shtC

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