Fecharese script

The Fecharese script is a writing system used for Fecharese, Akandateloko'o, Nberr, Taw Jad and Winqomtäy. The letters for the consonants are composed of sections marking its articulation, making it a featural writing system. The script is written from top to bottom, left to right across the page in a cursive style. The Fecharese script was derived from the cursive Doqemba script around the 73th century.

Overview
The Fecharese alphabet as used for Fecharese has 23 letters (peti): 18 consonants and 5 vowels (atañegqo). Each Fecharese consonant is composed of three sections, called a juehu: cuswewer (manner of articulation), cusworoño (place of articulation) and cilowswe (modifier). Letters can exibit different forms when in initial, medial and final position (see also IMFI).

Cuswewer
Cucuswewer (from cuswe 'place' and wer 'air') indicate the manner of articulation of a letter and are placed on top. cucuswewer have initial and medial forms, for connecting letters in a calligraphic style.


 * Nasals (nob)
 * Plosives (cen)
 * Affricates and Fricatives (zen)
 * Approximants and Rhotic (waquz)

Cusworoño
Cucusworoño (from cuswe 'place' and ogroño 'tongue') indicate the place of articulation of a letter and are placed on the bottom. As they does not appear at the start of words, cucusworoño have only medial and final forms.


 * Orbicular consonants (bun)
 * Alveolar consonants (tan)
 * Lateral consonants (lenpe)
 * Palatal consonants (ñon)
 * Velar consonants (qun)
 * Labial consonants (mabpa)

Cilowswe
There are two ciciloswe (meaning 'that which changes') in the Fecharese script. The soft mark is used to form voiced consonants from voiceless ones and fricatives from affricates. It is placed on the right of the letter. For example, the letter b is p with the soft mark. In the Winqomtäy alphabet, there also exists a prenasalisation mark.

Consonants
The following table shows the possible combinations of juehu in Fecharese. Letters to the right of a cell have a soft mark. In Nberr and Winqomtäy, the phoneme /h/ is written with a V-looking letter, called hen.

Vowels
The Fecharese alphabet has five vowels letters, em azac on il ur. The lettter æma, representing the phoneme /æ/, is obsolete in Fecharese, but is kept in Akandateloko'o, Nberr and Winqomtäy.

Akandateloko'o and Nberr added letters to represent the phonemes /ɜ/, /ə/, /ɛ/ and /ɔ/. In Nberr, long vowels are written with two consecutive vowels, also written as a single letter. In Akandateloko'o, nasalized vowels are written by adding nob to the vowel letters, as if they were consonants.

Embroidery script


The embroidery script is a style of the Fecharese script is used for embroidery of clothes and fabric, carving on wood and decorating pottery. Legibility is not prioritised in this script.