Orthography
In the table below, each Najan glyph is labeled with the transliteration of its grapheme’s Najan name (in angle brackets), along with its most common associated phone (in square brackets). Each grapheme name begins with the grapheme itself. Since Najan is perfectly phonemic, this table also represents all the Najan phonemes. Note however that these phonemes are not always pronounced exactly as the example phones, due to the allophonic variations described in Phonology.
The Najan Alphabet
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k
⟨kθat⟩ [kʰ]
g
⟨glew⟩ [g]
t
⟨tedð⟩ [tʰ]
d
⟨dewr⟩ [d]
p
⟨pul⟩ [pʰ]
b
⟨byas⟩ [b]
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h
⟨hak⟩ [x]
q
⟨qot⟩ [ɣ]
s
⟨sɪj⟩ [s]
z
⟨zaw⟩ [z]
f
⟨foj⟩ [f]
v
⟨vis⟩ [v]
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θ
⟨θatc⟩ [θ]
ð
⟨ðʊc⟩ [ð]
c
⟨ceŋ⟩ [ʃ]
j
⟨jok⟩ [ʒ]
x
⟨xotθ⟩ [ɾ̥ʰ]
r
⟨rayŋ⟩ [ɾ]
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ŋ
⟨ŋʊp⟩ [ŋ]
n
⟨nekθ⟩ [n]
m
⟨muts⟩ [m]
y
⟨yan⟩ [j]
l
⟨lɪn⟩ [l]
w
⟨woð⟩ [w]
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ʊ
⟨ʊlf⟩ [ʊ]
a
⟨adz⟩ [ä]
e
⟨eŋg⟩ [ɛ]
ɪ
⟨ɪpθ⟩ [ɪ]
i
⟨idj⟩ [i]
u
⟨uc⟩ [u]
o
⟨oz⟩ [o̞]
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Sentences are written left-to-right, then top-to-bottom. Najan has no punctuation except spaces between words.