Latin Abugida

This is a description of what I call the Latin AbugidaA). It was born from the desire to see how it would look.
While it’s essentially a work in progress, I don’t know if I’ll ever return to update it.

The letters

The sounds that the letters represent are borrowed from English-7, which is also the source of the vowel system.
The ‘potentials’ group is a list of latin letters that could be used in the system. They could either be used to represent sounds, or serve as short-hand. The criteria for inclusion was whether I thought they looked cool or not.

  • Consonants
    • Mm
    • Nn
    • /ŋ/
      • Ŋŋ
    • Pp
    • Tt
    • /tʃ/
      • Ↄↄ
    • Kk
      • Alt: Cc
    • Bb
    • Dd
    • /dʒ/
      • Jj
    • Gg
    • Hh
    • Ff
    • /θ/
      • ÞÞ
    • /ð/
      • Ðð
    • Ss
    • Zz
    • /ʃ/
      • ſſ
    • /ʒ/
      • Ʒʒ
    • Ww
    • Ll
    • /j/
      • Yy
    • Rr
  • Carrier
    • ı
  • Vowels
    • /ɪ/ (i)
      • ◌̈
    • /ʊ/ (u)
      • ◌̖
    • /ʌ/ (ù)
      • ◌̄
    • /ɒ/ (o)
      • ◌̥
    • /æ/ (a)
      • ◌́
    • /ə/ (è)
      • ◌̗
    • /ɛ/ (e)
      • ◌̀
  • Long Vowels
    • All diacritics + ◌̧
  • Diphthongs
    • Represented with the vowel + a carrier and the other vowel.
  • Letter Combinations (Shorthand)
    • Qu-
      • Qq
    • -re/-er
      • ꝛ(?)
    • /kʃ/
      • ?
  • Potentials:
    • Ᵹᵹ (Insular G)
    • Ⅎⅎ (Claudian Letter for ‘v’)
    • Ⱶⱶ (Claudian Half H)
    • Ꝛꝛ (Rotunda R)
    • Ꞃꞃ (Insular R)
    • Ꞅꞅ (Insular S)
    • Ꞇꞇ (Insular T)
      • Variant for T
    • Ꝣꝣ (Visigothic Z)
      • Variant for final z
    • Ꞗꞗ (B with Flourish)
    • Ꞵꞵ (Beta)
    • Ƨƨ (Reversed S)
      • Variant for Z
    • Ʌʌ (Turned V)

Examples

This is a short list of examples, enlarged to make them easier to see.

Serif = s̀r̈f
Refrain = r̈fr̀ı̈n
Maid = m̀ı̈d
Romantic = ṛı̖ḿnẗc
Maiden = m̀ı̈d̗n
The = Ð̗
Bang = B́ŋ
Chance = Ↄ́nts
Jack = J́k
Tanged = t́ŋd


A) ‘Abugida’ is a term used for a particular type of writing system. However, this is technically an ‘alphasyllabary’ at least according to Neography.info.