Pataň

Pataň is the standard writing system for Eudeň. It is an abugida and has between 23 and 36 basic letters, depending on the language. For Eudeň itself, there are 23 base letters, and there are 13 extra for foreign sounds. Each base letter represents a syllable with the inherent vowel /a/, and is changed with various vowel diacritics. The inherent vowel is not present on base letters that represent vowels already. There are two regular forms of each base letter, a word-initial form and a word-medial form, showing the boundaries of words since the script is written without spaces. There are two more forms of each consonant letter, one forming a consonant cluster and places its sound before the base letter's vowel sound, and one that places the sound at the end of the syllable. Most of the consonant cluster diacritics go below the base letter, and most final consonant diacritics go above. There are also three additional special base letter forms, one for changing the inherent vowel to /ɯ/, one for a consonant cluster -r-, and one for killing the vowel, however the vowel killer is not used in Eudeň since all letters have a final form. In languages that mark stress, the vowel killer form is used in addition to a vowel diacritic for marking a stressed syllable.

Letters

Consonants

In Eudeň, there are 16 consonant sounds. Each letter glyph has a voiced and unvoiced version, usually with the voiced version having a descender on the right side. The letter Ka /ka/ has an ascender on the right side, and the letter Ja /ja/ has no pair. These pairs are also used for several sounds not distinguished by only voicedness, Ra /ɾa/ with La /la/, Na /na/ with Ma /ma/, and Ha /xa/ with Wa /wa/.

The first section of the chart are the base forms of each consonant, one column for the word-initial form, used at the start of words, and one column for the word-medial form, used everywhere else.

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