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==Phonology==
==Phonology==
===Orthography===
===Orthography===
[[File:Moshurian-alphabet.jpeg|300px|thumb|left|The Moshurian alphabet, with IPA pronunciation.]]
[[File:Moshurian-alphabet.jpeg|300px|thumb|left|The Moshurian alphabet, with phonemic pronunciation.]]
Moshurian has its own script that is read right-to-left, top-to-bottom. Each symbol can be easily deciphered by simply looking at how high or low the symbol is. If the symbol goes down below the line on the paper, it is a consonant.
Moshurian has its own script that is read right-to-left, top-to-bottom. Each symbol can be easily deciphered by simply looking at how high or low the symbol is. If the symbol goes down below the line on the paper, it is a consonant.


It's origin is heavily debated. The general consensus is that it developed from Hátuli script which in itself probably developed from Kutic cuneiform, although some prominent alternate theories include a possible link to [[Proto-Yeldhic]] runes. Some have said the script originates in [[Proto-Taskaric]] record-taking which probably arrived during the Early Oalanii Period<ref>The Oalanii Period, also known as the Oalanii Migration, was when early Izhkut peoples began to migrate west towards Talkoch in waves, most likely due to poor crop harvests during the early period of the tumultuous nature of the Petré/Süuch river. The Izhkut migrants eventually settled in the still existing city of Oalan and became known as the Oalanii. Some cultures such as the Zanúzh originate in the Oalanii culture.</ref>. Some have said that the shape of some plosive characters corresponds with the symbol for "blood" in the logographic orthography of Ancient Izhkut, which was probably pronounced ''*gūpūdėt''.
The origin of the Moshurian alphabet is heavily debated. According to the ''Gécheb Bizörith'', the Moshurian alphabet was designed by a secret society called Akhakuöm, who took inspiration from the Tiragii military cuneiform. Eventually after the bust of Akhakuöm by the Moshurian state, the script was changed to fit the standard Moshurian dialect and re-issued as the government Moshurian alphabet.
 
In the Sóvók religion, one of the books in the ''Idērigidwi'' claims that a man named Udeldoi presented a script to the king of Moshuria so as to record military victories for propaganda.
 
Both of these interpretations are considered simply as urban legend, as orthographic analysis of the ''Izkanà''(one of the earliest Moshurian documents) by calligraphers showed that the early Moshurian alphabet had many similarities with the logographic Oalanii<ref>''Oalanii'' is an archeological term used to describe the Proto-Taskaric inhabitants of what is now the city of Oalan. Although the Oalanii had their own script, no surviving documentation mentions their actual endonym, so they are called the Oalanii after the city where the first archeological remains of ancient Oalan were found.</ref> script, which may have influenced Munsanukh orthographies as a whole.  
 
In fact, the glyph for /b/ may be descended from the Oalanii glyph for the word ''*ʔbVn'', meaning "tree", which influenced its shape.


===Consonants===
===Consonants===
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