Dinka alphabet

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The Dinka alphabet as used by the Sudan Dinka people writing the Dinka language is based upon the Latin alphabet, adding some letters from the International Phonetic Alphabet:

Dinka alphabet

Uppercase	A	Ä	B	C	D	Dh	E	Ë	Ɛ	Ɛ̈	G	Ɣ	I	Ï	K	L	M	N	Nh	Ny	Ŋ	O	Ö	Ɔ	Ɔ̈̈	P	R	T	Th	U	W	Y
Lowercase	a	ä	b	c	d	dh	e	ë	ɛ	ɛ̈	g	ɣ	i	ï	k	l	m	n	nh	ny	ŋ	o	ö	ɔ	ɔ̈	p	r	t	th	u	w	y

As you can see, Dinka does not use f, j, q, s, v, x and z, and h in digraphs only.

Dinka special letters and digraphs

Uppercase	Ä	Dh	Ë	Ɛ	Ɛ̈	Ɣ	Ï	Nh	Ny	Ŋ	Ö	Ɔ	Ɔ̈	Th
Lowercase	ä	dh	ë	ɛ	ɛ̈	ɣ	ï	nh	ny	ŋ	ö	ɔ	ɔ̈	th
Alternatives	a	d͏h	e	é, e	é, e	gh, q	i	n͏h	n͏y	ng	o	ó, o	ó, o	t͏h
Unicode (hexadecimal)	C4 E4		CB EB	190 25B	190+308 25B+308	194 263	CF EF			14A 14B	D6 F6	186 254	186+308 254+308

Note that ɛ̈ (open e with trema) and ɔ̈ (open o with trema) do not exist as precomposed characters in Unicode and must therefore be generated using U+0308, the diaeresis combining diacrit.

[edit] External links

• http://www.openroad.net.au/languages/african/dinka.html