Rotokas alphabet
The modern Rotokas alphabet is a Latin alphabet of the Rotokas people consisting of only 12 letters of the ISO basic Latin alphabet without diacritics:<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>
| Uppercase forms | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A | E | G | I | K | O | P | R | S | T | U | V |
| Lowercase forms | |||||||||||
| a | e | g | i | k | o | p | r | s | t | u | v |
It is the smallest alphabet in use todayTemplate:Citation needed. The majority of the Rotokas people are literate in their language. In the Rotokas writing system the vowel letters have their IPA values, though they may be written double, Template:Lang, for long vowels. The consonant letters have the following values:
- G: Template:IPA or Template:IPA
- K: Template:IPA
- P: Template:IPA
- R: Template:IPA, Template:IPA or Template:IPA
- S: Template:IPA or Template:IPA (only occurs before I)
- T: Template:IPA (never occurs before Template:Lang)
- V: Template:IPA or Template:IPA
Here is a sample of written Rotokas:
- Template:Lang
- "The old woman's eyes are shut."