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The Mattish write using a script known as Sarin akai, 'red letters'. The name is due to the common practice of writing with blood, sourced using a blood scythe from animals. It is an alphabet, possessing one letter for each vowel and consonant (covering both palatalised and non-palatalised). The vowels which can follow a palatalised consonant have a special form. If they follow such a consonant, they use this form. A vowel after y is written with its special form too (the y is not transcribed).



Note the following: -Which of a/o/u the j+a/o/u in the vowel table represents depends on the row; the relevant vowel is that which has the same openness as the representative row. -A loop followed by a flick at the base of an approximant converts it to a vowel. -All alveolar sibilants have a hat on top. This is removed in all derivations of the character. It is a squeezed version of 人 d.