Appendix:Wokuthízhű orthography

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The Wokuthízhű language from David J. Peterson and Jessie Peterson's YouTube series LangTime Studio is written using an alphabetic syllabary.

Orthography

The script is an alphabetic syllabary, meaning that its characters (also called syllabograms) represent syllables, with the individual parts representing the onset, nucleus and optional coda. However, it is a deep orthography, meaning that its spellings reflect an earlier, historical stage of the language. Therefore, the relationship between the written and spoken form is sometimes not straightforward.

Structure

The Wokuthízhű script has glyphs representing syllables, with information arranged from top to bottom. Each syllabogram comprises three components:

• Onset, the top part, representing one of the 21 original consonants or an empty character.
• Nucleus, the middle or connector part, representing one of the original five vowels.
• Coda, the bottom part, which itself has two parts:
  • Outer box: representing tone; a closed box represents high tone and a box with an open bottom represents low tone.
  • Inner glyph: representing one of the original 14 coda consonants. If there is no coda, the box is left empty.