Fecharese script

The Fecharese script is a writing system used for Fecharese, Akandateloko'o, Nberr, Taw Jad and Winqomtaj. 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 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, optionally, cilowswe (modifier). Vowels are written connected to the previous letter.

Cuswewer

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

Cusworoño

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

Cilowswe
The Fecherese script has a soft mark used to mark voiced consonants or fricatives, placed on the right of the consonant. For example, the letter b is p with the soft mark. In Winqomtaj, there is also a prenasalisation mark.

Consonants
The following table shows the possible combinations of juehu in Fecharese. Letter to the right of a cell have a soft mark. In Nberr and Winqomtaj, the phoneme /h/ is written with a V-looking letter, often 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 The lettter æma, representing the phoneme /æ/, is obsolete in Fecharese, but is kept in Akandateloko'o, Nberr and Winqomtaj.

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 a priority in this script.