Simplified Alphabet

The Simplified of Anantonese Alphabet is an a phonetic alphabet used often in Kalistan, but rarely elsewhere. It is the chosen alphabet of Anantonese, as well as most other Kalistani languages. It is derived from the common English Alphabet, but is starkly different in that it only has eleven letters, as opposed to twenty-six (hense its name). In order to distinguish most sounds, the alphabet uses pairs of letters, and thus needs fewer than half as many letters.

Primary Letters
The following chart lists the eleven letters of the Simplified Alphabet according to the sounds whose symbols they represent the first half (primary letters). Most sounds are also specified with a secondary letter which specifies which of the possible sounds is used. Primary letters, no matter what their position in a word or sentence, are capitalized. The sounds are listed according to their common, not IPA, names.

Secondary Letters
Because each letter other than P (rifo) represents more than one phonetic sound, these are differentiated with secondary letters, which are the lower cases of the primary letters. To represent a sound, the primary letter, which specifies the category of sounds (e.g. V), is immediately followed by a secondary letter to clarify (e.g. n) which sound it is (b sound). Both vowels and consonents can be used as secondary letters, regardless of what type of sound it is representing. To clear the confusion, when a consonent is used to symbolize a vowel (or visa versa), a small dot is added to the secondary letter.

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Capitalization Accents
In the simplified alphabet, proper nouns and the beginnings of sentences are noted, similar to capitalization, except that this is accomplished by placing an accent before the word. Accents are not used to begin a sentence if it it a question or exclamation (see punctuation) These accents are similar enough to letters that they are sometimes considered additional letters.

Punctuation

The simplified alphabet uses standard punctuation. The only notable deviation is that questions are exclamations have reverse punctuation marks at the beginning, acting like the statement/command accent used in other sentences.

example of this principal:


 * ¡Hey!

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