Fecharese script

The Fecharese script is a writing system used for Fecharese, Nberr 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


A Fecharese letter is called a peti, either a consonant or a vowel (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 (mapba)

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. Peti to the right of a cell have a soft mark. In Nberr and Winqomtaj, the phoneme /h/ is written with a V-looking letter.

Vowels
The Fecharese alphabet has five vowels letters, em azac on il ur. Nberr and Winqomtaj added the letters á and a to represent the phonemes /ɜ/ and /æ/ in each language respectively. In Nberr, long vowels are written with two consecutive vowels, also written as a single letter.