Ashouctian/Orthography

The Ashouctian language uses the Latin alphabet. The 70 consonants and 4 vowels of the language are not represented in a 1:1 grapheme to phoneme ratio, but the language can be transcribed with little abiguity.

Alphabet
Despite the large number of sounds in the language, it only uses 18 letters of the Latin alphabet, but also makes use of the accute accent.


 * a á b c d e é f g h i í l m n o ó p r s t u ú

The letters are named as follows:


 * a be ca de e fa ga fhas i al am an u-* pe rra si ta u

Letters with the acute accent are ignored when reciting the alphabet because the acute accent is used to mark ejective consonants. The language never makes use of j k q v w x y and z outside of foreign names. Loanwords are transcribed phonetically into the language.

Consonants
The 70 consonants of Ashouctian are transcribes using the following system.
 * The acute accent marking an ejective consonant is written on the following vowel, and never on ‹o›
 * The graphemes ‹t to d t ʼ s so sh sho s ʼ c co c ʼ  co ʼ › can all represent two distinct consonant sounds and they are distinguished using a special grapheme referred to as a "weak vowel" or a "strong vowel".
 * /t tʷ d tʼ s sʷ z zʷ sʼ k kʷ kʼ kʼʷ/ are indicated by a weak vowel following the consonant grapheme
 * /t͡ʃ t͡ʃʷ d͡ʒ t͡ʃʼ ʃ ʃʷ ʒ ʒʷ ʃʼʷ q qʷ qʼ qʼʷ/ are indicated by a strong vowel following the consonant grapheme.