Rokadong orthography

This page discusses the orthography of Rokadong.

Rokadong may be written either with a romanization or the native Rokadong script. It has also been adapted to the Kairitelan and Sanenyan scripts, but the Rokadong script is preferred.

Romanization

Consonants

Rokadong consonants are written mostly as in the IPA. The rhotic sounds are usually all written with <r>, though in phonetic transcription they do use different spellings.

<ny> is replaced with <n> before <c, j>, while <y, w> are replaced with <i, u> in the coda of syllables.

Consonant graphemes

	Labial		alveolar		Post- alveolar/ palatal		Velar		Uvular		Glottal
Nasal		m		n		ny/n		ng
Stop	p	b	t	d	c	j	k	ɡ			h
Fricative	f	v	s	z	sh						h
Approximant				l		y/i		w/u
Trill				(rr)						(rh)		(mr)
Tap				r

Vowels

Rokadong short vowels are written as in the IPA, while long vowels are written with an acute accent.

Vowel graphemes

	Front		Central		Back
Close	i	í			u	ú
Mid	e	é	(a)		o	ó
Open			a	á

Native script

Main article: Rokadong script

IPA Name  p [p] pa  b [b] ba  t [t] ta  d [d] da  c [t͡ʃ] ca  j [d͡ʒ] ja  k [k] ka  g [g] ga   h [ʔ] ahha  f [f] fa  v [v] va

IPA Name  s [s] sa  z [z] za  sh [ʃ] sha  h [h] ha  l [l] la  y [j] ya  w [w] wa  r [ɾ] ra   m [m] ma   n [n] na   ny [ɲ] nya

IPA Name   ng [ŋ] ang  a [a] á Diacritics (on ka)   a á [a aː]   i í [i iː]   u ú [u uː]   e é [e eː]   o ó [o oː]    ai au oi [aj aw oj]  no vowel