Zdelmyor script

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

Symbol	Sound(s)	Notes
ｾ	/b/, /p/
ｽ	/dʒ/, /tʃ/
ｺ	/d/, /t/
ﾖ	/ð/, /θ/
ｻ	/ɸ/, /β/
ｴ	/g/, /k/
ｱ	/l/
ﾋ	/m/	/m/, /m̥/ in MZA, MTA
ﾛ	/n/	/n/, /n̥/ in MZA, MTA
ﾔ	/r/
ﾑ	/z/, /s/
ﾐ	/w/
ｶ	/ʒ/, /ʃ/
	/m̥/	in MTA only
	/n̥/	in MTA only

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

In this alphabet, Mityazyanda adds two letters, a voiceless bilabial nasal (/m̥/) and a voiceless alveolar nasal (/n̥/), which are only used when differentiation from the normal /m/ and /n/ are needed; otherwise, the normal nasal consonant characters are used. Unlike most consonants, these explicit voiceless nasals always fill the entire stack, leaving the vowel following them to come in another stack. The alphabet also 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. In general, characters are drawn about half as wide as they are tall, but this can vary. Computer typefaces, however, use this ratio exactly.

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. Unlike in MTA, the unvoiced m and n are marked as voiceless in exactly the same way as other letters with the addition of the explicit voicelessness marker. The vowel digraphs in MTA are expressed as two separate letters in MZA.