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Rotokas alphabet

Latin alphabet as used for the Rotokas language From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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The modern Rotokas alphabet is a Latin alphabet of the Rotokas people consisting of only 12 letters of the ISO basic Latin alphabet without diacritics:[1]

More information Uppercase forms, Lowercase forms ...

It is the smallest alphabet in use today[citation needed]. The majority of the Rotokas people are literate in their language. In the Rotokas writing system the vowel letters have their IPA values, though they may be written double, aa, ee, ii, oo, uu, for long vowels. The consonant letters have the following values:

  • G: [ɡ] or [ɣ]
  • K: [k]
  • P: [p]
  • R: [d], [ɾ] or [l]
  • S: [ts] or [s] (only occurs before I)
  • T: [t] (never occurs before I)
  • V: [b] or [β]

Here is a sample of written Rotokas:

Osireitoarei avukava iava ururupavira toupasiveira.
"The old woman's eyes are shut."
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