Nordhema

Vowels
Two additional vowel compounds, /aʊ/ and /ääʴ/, are considered distinct and represented with their own written symbols.

Writing System (Norchire)

 * 1) Romanization as per the New York Times Manual of Style and Usage, given where it differs from the IPA representation.
 * 2) A species of nonhuman intelligent beings. The Zhau sound exists in Nordhema only through words borrowed from illelli languages.
 * 3) This symbol was introduced to represent the /β/ used by speakers of the "crude" Mountain Dialect -- accustomed to the sound /b/ -- to approximate the /v/ of the "elegant" River Dialect. Implying comparison to a dull bullfrog trying to mimic a graceful dancer, Bhuno amounts to an ancient political joke tucked into the alphabet.
 * 4) Abundant, wide-ranging flowering plants closely similar to the orchid family.
 * 5) Bones and other evidence show that a large feline species lived in AnortHea as recently as 3000 years ago. In local culture the tiger carries legendary and mystical status comparable to the dragon in Earthly myth.
 * 6) Early sources are contradictory over whether the OgHau were arbitrary creations, or had original pictorial meanings that went unrecorded.