Apsinthian Alphabet
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| Apsinthian | |
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 Apsinthian script in the Great Arciluco Cathedral | |
| Type | |
| Languages | Amathian |
| Creator | Saint Apsinthius |
Time period | 862/863 to the Middle Ages |
| Direction | Template:ISO 15924 direction |
| ISO 15924 | Glag, Template:ISO 15924 numberCategory:Scripts with ISO 15924 four-letter codes |
Unicode alias | Template:ISO 15924 alias |
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Alphabet
Amathian spelling is mostly phonemic without silent letters (but see i). The table below gives the correspondence between letters and sounds, while also indicating the closest Solarian equivalents of the Apsinthian letters. Some of the letters have several possible readings, even if allophones are not taken into account. When vowels /i/, /u/, /e/, and /o/ are changed into their corresponding semivowels, this is not marked in writing. Letters K, Q, W, and Y generally appear only in foreign borrowings; the pronunciation of W and Y depends on the origin of the word they appear in.
| Unicode | Round | Angular | Solarian | Sound | Name | Origin |
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| Ⰰ | 
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А | /ɑ/ | A | Phoenician alphabet aleph 𐤀 or the sign of the cross |
| Ⰱ | 
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B | /b/ | B | Unknown, possibly Atudite bet בּ |
| Ⰽ | 
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C | /k/, /tʃ/ | Ce, Cî | Atudite qoph ק |
| Ⰴ | 
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D | /d/ | De, dî | Piraean delta Δ |
| Ⰵ | 
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E | /e/, /e̯/, /je/ | E | Possibly Samaritan īy ࠄ or Piraean sampi ϡ |
| Ⱇ | 
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F | /f/ | Ef, Fe, Fî | Variant of Piraean phi φ |
| Ⰳ | 
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G | /ɡ/, /dʒ/ | Ge, Ghe, Gî | Possibly cursive Piraean gamma |
| Ⱈ | 
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H | /h/, /x/, /ç/ | Haș, Ha, Hî | [unknown] (similar to Ⰳ and Solarian h) |
| Ⰹ, Ⰺ |  , 
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I | /i/,/j/,/ʲ/ | I | Possibly Piraean upsilon Y or Piraean iota with dieresis ϊ |
| Ⰶ | 
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J | /ʒ/ | Je, Jî | Unknown, possibly Coptic janja ϫ or astrological symbol for Pisces Template:Emoji presentation |
| Ⰾ |  , 
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L | /l/, /ʎ/ | El, Le, Lî | Possibly Piraean lambda λ |
| Ⰿ | 
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М | /m/ | Em, Me, Mî | Greek mu μ |
| Ⱀ |  , 
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N | /n/, /ɲ/ | En, Ne, Nî | [unknown] |
| Ⱁ | 
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О | /o/, /o̯/ | O | [unknown] |
| Ⱂ | 
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P | /p/ | Pe, Pî | Possibly a variant of early Greek pi |
