Rotokas alphabet

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The Rotokas alphabet used in writing the Rotokas language is a subset of the Latin alphabet consisting of only the twelve letters: A E G I K O P R S T U V, and is the smallest alphabet in use today. The majority of the Rotokas people are literate in their language.

The vowel letters have their IPA values, though they may be written double, aa, ee, ii, oo, uu, for long vowels. The consonant letters have the following values:

• G [ɡ] or [ɣ]
• K [k]
• P [p]
• R [d], [ɾ] or [l]
• S [ts] or [s] (only occurs before I and in the name Rotokas)
• T [t] (never occurs before I)
• V [b] or [β]

A short sample:

Osireitoarei avukava iava ururupavira toupasiveira.

"The old woman's eyes are shut."

See Pahlavi for a similarly small alphabet of the first millennium.

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