Appendix:Zemeni orthography
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Isunuche Zemen is an abugida created by David J. Peterson that is used to write the Zemeni language from the Netflix series Shadow and Bone.
Orthography
The script used to write Zemeni is an abugida, meaning that the script consists of base consonant characters which are modified in order to represent vowel qualities. The inherent vowel reading of each consonant is a. In order to cancel out this inherent vowel and produce the plain consonant sound, a diacritic must be added below the character.
Each consonant-vowel sequence is given in the table below:
Numerals
Zemeni has a base-10 numeral system, which is summarized below:
Punctuation
The Zemeni punctuation marks are given in the following table:
