TAMGA

Aaa

ÄäUzbek/Persian loans, Fergana. Often just e or a.

Ccts. Loans only: cirk, Moscow's c.

Ççch. The best letter. Çay. Çöl.

Ffloans

Gguvular next to back vowels

Hha real h

Iıdotless ı: the back vowel, ы

İidotted i: и. Capital keeps the dot!

Jjdzh. In the north steppe: zh

Kkq next to back vowels, unwritten

Ññng, ң. Jañy. The one your phone can't type

Ööө

Qqalmost never: Qara-Chik

Şşsh. Şaar.

Üüү

Vvloans

Xxkh, the throat one: loans

Yyy as in yes. NOT ı

32

type specimen: the letter Ñ measured, baseline, x-height, cap height

The Iradi alphabet has 32 letters. Eleven of them (in red) are the ones that make Iradi look like Iradi and not like English, and that every font, keyboard, sign shop and passport office gets wrong.

This page is for them. For the dotless ı that everyone writes as y. For the Ñ that nobody can type. For the capital İ that loses its dot in every program made in America. A tamga is the old mark of a clan, burned on a horse, cut in a stone. Letters are tamgas too.

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