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 in a cursive style. The Fecharese script was derived from the Doqemba script.

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 The lettter æma, representing the phoneme /æ/, is obsolete in Fecharese, but is kept in Akandateloko'o, Nberr and Winqomtaj.

Nberr and Akandateloko'o 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 used for embroidery of clothes and fabric, carving on wood and decorating pottery. Fecharese councils have head dresses embroided with their community's name. The script heavy simplifies peti into a grid of 4x5 squares.