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Sunuwar alphabet

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Due to the lack of a set standard, the orthography can be vague, with digraphs still being used occasionally, and consonants still being used to denote retroflexives.
1336:/ɓ̥/. It is referred to as an 'auspicious symbol'. In spoken Sunuwar, the consonant is often said twice, and is often found in salutations and well wishes. 308:
first created the alphabet, it was limited to 22 letters, in addition to the 10 digits. Vowel length was not written, letters could also represent their
1314: 274:. It is recognised in Sikkim and used as an official writing system. The alphabet has 33 letters, 10 numerals and 1 'auspicious sign'. 361: 292:
When first created, the script was a pure alphabet, and has come to include a default non written /a/, giving it a feature of an
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During the tail end of the 20th century, users of the language added a further 11 letters into the script:
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scripts. The script is written left to right. The writing system currently has no official standard.
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Soon after the creation of the script, conferences were held in villages in
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Standard in September, 2024 with the release of version 16.0.
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isolate, though some symbols bear recognition to the
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For the distinction between , 382:to write /a/ with long vowel length 25: 1462: 1455: 1448: 1441: 1434: 1427: 1420: 1413: 1406: 1399: 1286: 1261: 1236: 1211: 1185: 1159: 1133: 1107: 1081: 1055: 1029: 1004: 978: 953: 927: 902: 877: 851: 826: 800: 775: 750: 725: 700: 675: 650: 624: 598: 573: 548: 523: 498: 472: 362:voiceless postalveolar fricative 42: 1904:Pandey, Anshuman (2021-12-06). 211:International Phonetic Alphabet 1855: 1853: 1851: 1849: 1847: 1845: 1808: 1806: 1804: 1802: 1800: 1798: 1796: 1794: 1792: 1790: 1788: 1786: 1784: 1782: 1: 36:Jenticha script, Kõits script 1334:Voiceless bilabial implosive 204: This article contains 366:voiceless alveolar sibilant 328:was used to represent both 2073: 2008:www.devkumarsunuwar.com.np 1870:As of Unicode version 16.0 1859: 1600: 1581: 360:was used to show both the 402:kha, chhelap, phar, thari 202: 41: 1979:"ScriptSource - Sunuwar" 422:- a character to denote 65:Krishna Bahadur Jenticha 1584:Sunuwar (Unicode block) 264:Kiranti language 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Sunuwar script

Krishna Bahadur Jenticha
Nepal
Sikkim
Sunuwar language
ISO 15924
Unicode
Unicode range
U+11BC0–U+11BFF
phonetic transcriptions
International Phonetic Alphabet
Help:IPA
IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters
alphabet
Krishna Bahadur Jentich
Sunwar language
Kiranti language family
Nepal
Sikkim
grammatological
Limbu
Latin
abugida
Jentich
retroflex consonant
aspirated consonants
digraphs
nasal consonants
vowel nasalisation

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