Neirani
Neirani (formerly known as the Derani diphthong reform) is a variant of the Derani script in which falling diphthongs are written as single letters, rather than using the diphthong mark (◌◌). This makes the writing system more compact and light on diacritics.
| Official | Neirani |
|---|---|
| (aı) | (aı/d) |
| (oı) | (oı/nh) |
| (ao) |
(ao/t)[note 1] |
| (eı) | (eı/z) |
- ↑ A previous version of Neirani used (p) for ao rather than (t).
As with the vowel letters , , , , , these letters may stand for either a consonant or a diphthong depending on their position within a word.
It's imagined that the letters , , , and were originally formed by joining the vowel letters of each diphthong into more complex shapes that could still be written in a single stroke. (u) came to be used for the 'o' in 'ao' and 'oı' because of its simpler shape. (ao) was assigned a wider glyph than the other diphthongs because Toaq phonology allows it to be pronounced as two syllables when stressed ([aː.o]).
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