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Zdelmyor script is a set of graphemes based on the characters of Traditional Zdelmyor Orthography. It is currently used only by the Mityazyandan language, which uses both traditional (block-based) orthography and modern (left-to-right) orthography. Historically, it was also used by the Zdelmjor language, but this now uses Latin script.

Letters

Consonants

Vowels

Orthographies

Traditional (Block-based)

A sample of traditional (block-based) orthography. Text reads "ﾑﾖﾌｱﾋｵﾁﾔ," or "Zthelmiyor"

The block-based orthographic system writes letters as stacks, or groups of consonant sounds ending in a vowel sound. These stacks may be from one to three characters tall, and all stacks are drawn with the same width and the same height, regardless of their size. The stack is read from top to bottom, with the bottom letter always being a vowel, and the other letters always being consonants. If a word ends with a consonant sound (in Zdelmyor, usually an R; this does not occur in Mityazyanda), it is placed as if there were a blank vowel beneath it in a stack; in other words, the character is drawn aligned to the top of the other stacks and extends down only halfway. Punctuation is placed after the word, or beneath a hanging consonant if one is present. Like other characters, punctuation characters must fill a stack and have the same width and height, with the exception of a comma and a period, which always only fill the lower half of the stack. Punctuation other than commas and periods does get resized when placed under a hanging consonant.

Mityazyanda Traditional Alphabet

This alphabet adds two more markings, a horizontal line below the stack to represent a lengthened vowel, and a double slash mark next to a consonant to indicate explicit voicelessness. Additionally, two digraph vowels are added to the alphabet. These symbols are formed by placing two other symbols next to each other where one vowel would normally be.

Modern (Left-to-right)

In this orthographic system, all characters are drawn sequentially the same size from left to right. This is used mostly by computers, which historically have not supported the block-based rendering system. Characters are drawn half-width, which means that they are half as wide as tall. Recently, however, it has been possible with the advent of HTML5 and CSS Transforms to render Zdelmyor alphabet text in block form. For example, ｾﾒﾛｺﾆｳ ﾔﾅｴｵ ｱﾌｺﾌﾛｺﾅﾅ (horiz: ｾﾒﾛｺﾐｳｰ ﾔﾅｰｴｵ ｱﾌｺﾌﾛｺﾔﾅ, lat. Bundwáá Rooki Ledentro) displays correctly on most modern web browsers. Many word processors still do not support Mityazyanda block text.

Mityazyanda Zdelmyor Alphabet

In this alphabet, Mityazyanda adds two symbols to the standard Zdelmyor alphabet, a horizontal line which indicates that the previous vowel is elongated, and a double horizontal line to indicate that the previous consonant is unvoiced. Both of these symbols directly follow the letter which they modify. The vowel digraphs in MTA are expressed as two separate letters in MZA.