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,
Osage alphabet or the links below. The 2006 vowels are as follows: It is not clear which vowel the "ə" is, as it is not phonemic in Osage, but it may appear nasalised (not shown). The "a" comes from Latin (without the crossbar, as in the NΛSΛ logo), "e" from Latin (cursive; the English letter "a" is pronounced rather like Osage "e"). The source for "i" is obscure, though Latin does appear in the diphthong "ai". The 2006 consonants are as follows: The alphabet does not distinguish the ejective, fortis and lenis series of obstruents. The aspirate series are written as sequences