Alphabet alphabet is sometimes claimed to be as small, but it actually consists of 18 letters, including the ʻokina and five long vowels. However, Hawaiian Braille has only 13 letters.) While Rotokas has a small alphabet because it has few phonemes to represent (just eleven), Book Pahlavi was small because many letters had been "conflated"—that is, the graphic distinctions had been lost over time, and diacritics were not developed to compensate for this as they were in Arabic, another script that lost many of its distinct letter shapes. For example, a comma-shaped letter represented "g", "d", "y", "k", or "j". However,
Elfdalian alphabet Elfdalian alphabet The Dalecarlian alphabet consists of 32 letters, 25 derived from the Swedish alphabet, and seven additional letters: vowels with an ogonek diacritic, denoting nasality: ("Ąą", "Ęę", "Įį", "Ųų", "Y̨y̨", and "Ą̊ą̊") as well as the consonant "Ðð" (eð), denoting voiced dental fricative, as 'th' in 'father'. The letters "Cc", "Qq", "Xx" and "Zz" are only used in names and foreign words. The alphabet is used for the Elfdalian language and for other Dalecarlian dialects. All except Ą̊ and ą̊ are available as characters in the Unicode standard. Ą̊ and ą̊ can be produced by Ą or ą and