Eastheadish is really a variant - not even so much a dialect - of Northeadish, but is written in a different alphabet that is somewhat akin to gothic or cyrillic. While in my mind these two variants are pronounced a bit differently, the main differences are purely orthographic in nature. More specifically: - Most upper- and lower-case letters differ only in size.
- Syllabics ʌ, м, ɴ, x, and ʀ are not written as a single letter, but instead with a unique schwa vowel based on the ansuz rune, a bit like a lowercase capital letter f. (The northeadish letter a carries the burden of both ǝ and a.)
- An inverted breve is placed over the letters l, n, and r to indicate aspiration (hl, hn, and hr in northeadish).
- The “umlaut” system of ligatures with e does not exist. There are separate characters for œ and ᵫ, and æ does not exist independently of e.
- Z exists independently of S.
- The letters are not in the order of the latin alphabet, and tend more towards the order of gothic or cyrillic. (See Phœnecian Alphabet Correspondences.)
- Long vowels and syllabics are not counted as separate letters; long vowels are alphabetized with their short vowel counterparts.
- The initial (h) and medial/final (x) versions of h are handled as independent letters.
- The labiovelar letters do not include the potential preceding /w/; where a /w/ is necessary, Ƿ precedes the character.
While Times New Roman can't really do justice to the modified character set, it looks a bit like this:
A B Γ Δ Ϫ E G Ƶ H Ѳ I J K Λ M N Ŋ O Π ʔ R S T U Ѱ Ƿ F X Y Ю W
I'll try to get some proper letters and examples uploaded soon.
A ב
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[a, a:]
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This doesn't have a realistic unicode equivalent... it's a little like a cross between a gothic ans and a hebrew beth.
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B в
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[b] |
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Γ г
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[d] |
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Ϫ ϫ
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[ð]
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Є є
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[ɛ, e:]
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| G ɡ |
[gw]
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This technically has a bit of a tail to it.
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| Ƶ ƶ |
[z]
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Ƶ should be barred.
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H h
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[h, x] |
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| Ө ө | [θ] | |
I ɪ
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[i:]
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J ȷ
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[j]
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K k
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[k]
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Λ ʌ
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[l] |
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M м
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[m]
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The left leg of the lowercase letter should extend up to the top of the line.
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N ɴ
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[n] |
The left leg of the lowercase letter should extend up to the top of the line. |
| Ŋ Ŋ | [ŋ] | The left leg of the lowercase letter should extend up to the top of the line. |
O o
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[o:]
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| Π п |
[p]
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ʔ ק
| [kw] | The upper- and lower-case letters are the same, but look somewhere between a glottal stop and a qoph.
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R ʀ
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[ɾ, r]
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The left leg of the lowercase letter should extend up to the top of the line. |
S s
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[s]
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T т
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[t]
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U ᴜ
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[ʊ, u:] |
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Ѱ ψ
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[v]
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These should look... I don't know... not like this. More curved in than out.
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Ƿ ƿ
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[w]
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F ϝ
| [f] | The lower-case should be a bit more like an actual lower-case f that's been lowered.
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X x
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[x]
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Y ʏ
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Ю ю
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[hw]
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W w
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| | ᵲ | [ə] | This really is sort of a lower-case ans rune. There is no upper-case equivalent. |
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