Zeshit
Version 1.1

Author/designer: T. Christopher White
You can contact me if you have suggestions, find problems and know how to fix them, et cetera, at: amenemsu@gmail.com

This is the Galactic language of Light, known as Iirden Las (Esteemed Tongue). I did not create this alphabet, I just made it into a font. The transliteration can be done with any language, but is primarily for Ancient Egyptian (Kheimian, Hh‘aimiin [Hheimiin]).

The characters are as follows, as I have transliterated them: long A, as in (father); B; Ts [C], as in (its/pizza); D; E, as in (get/bet); F; G, always hard, as in (go); H, as in (home); long I, as in (piece); J, as in (yet); K; L; M; N; O, always long, as in (boat/hope); P; Q, a guttural or uvular k; R, slightly trilled; S; T; long U, as in (true); V; W; Dz [X]; nasal N [Y]; and Z, as in (zoo).

The short vowels (if used) are as follows: Ạ/Ă, as in (up/atop); Ị/Ĭ, as in (it, bit); Ụ/Ŭ, as in (put/foot).

The consonants plus ‘h’ are as follows: Ts+h, as in (itch/chime); D+h (ð), as in (the, they); G+h, a guttural or uvular g, the voiced version of Hh; H+h, a guttural h, as in (loch/Bach); S+h (ś), as in (shine/ash); T+h (þ), as in (thin/thistle); Dz+h [X], as in (jump, jet); and, Z+h as in English (measure). These are made using the dot above diacritic (˙ [option+w for macs]).

The doubled consonants are as follows: Ll, a breathing l as in Welsh (h+l/þ+l); and, Rr, a trilled, breathing r (h+r). Finally, there is Ng, as in (sing). These are made using the under dot diacritic, the same as with the vowels (option+x for macs).

I/igh/y, in English, is written how it is in practically all languages, i.e., Ai; the combination in Iirden is a+i—the same goes for ‘au’, which is ạ+u or a+u (now/cow/house), etc. Concerning glide vowels: Iirden translates all glide vowels with their following short versions, i.e., aạ, iị, oụ, and uụ. If a triphthong, the vowel clusters are followed by either a ‘j’ or ‘w’ depending on the following vowel, such as, sijaat (sȧa-t in hieroglyphs). Long A is always surrounded by a ‘w’, i.e., awa for ‘aa’; this is due to the fact that the long A is guttural. Two consecutive A’s, without a glide consonant, can only be pronounced with a glottal stop, i.e., a’a (a:.a:). For most people unfamiliar to the nuances of speech, A’s fluctuate between long and short, meaning that if you start a word with a long A, without a glottal stop, the second A will be short, and vice versa.

Here are some examples of vowel clusters: ạja, ạjei, ạjai, ạjau, awei, awai, awau, awo, ewo, ewu, eji, ejạ, eja, eija, eijo, eiju, etc. ‘I’ is always followed by a ‘j’, i.e., eijạ, eiju, aijạ, aiju, ijei, ijạ, ija, ije, ijo, etc.