orthography

this section will go over the main three ways I write cryšk, namely the rominization—a more phonemic way of writting cryšk, the orthography—the most common and confusing way I write cryšk, and the native script—the way cryšk is written in-word, or at least a more simplified Idea of how its written, as its still in development!

rominization

The rominization is used for specifiying the phonemic form for those who are not comfortable with the orthography.
It is also the only way to indicate stress, by putting an acute over the vowel for primary stress, and a breve for secondary stress. The other two ways of writing cannot indicate stress. You technically dont need to know the stress to distinguish between words though, since there are exact minimal pairs of stress.
<gu> and <qu> are only pronounced as such if there is a vowel afterwards.
<gu> on its own is just pronounced as /gu/, like in gútu /'gutu/. as aposed to guáta /'gʷata/

orthography

The orthography is the default way I write cryšk.
It is best described as a latin-abugida, which may seem strange, since abugida's are usually written with alphabetic scripts. But in due time I am sure you will come to the same conclusion.

initial letters

consonants	labial	alveolar	dorsal	glottal
nasal	m	n
unvoiced	q /kʷ/	t	k	c /ʔ/
voiced	ǧ /gʷ/	r	g
fricative		s		h
aproximate	ŵ /w/		ý /j/

these are used for phonemes in inital position of the sylable. initially <c> is not pronounced as anything.

the inherent vowel

The inherent vowel of the sylable is assumed to be /a/ unless otherwise stated with a diacritic vowel letter.
I will be giving examples with the rominization instead of the IPA. The rominization wont include the stress.

coda letters

These letters are used to mark the coda of the sylable, the three coda letters are <ņ> /n/, <š> /s/, and <x> /h/.
I should note that the phonetic realisations of these codas are different to the phonemic ones.

diacritic vowel letters

It may seem weird full letters diacritics, but in many cases they act as ones. they dont have a phonetic value on their own, and in many cases serve to modify the onset consonant.
the diacritic vowel letters are <y> /i/,and <w> /u/.

confusion between y and w as approximates

There are a select few condition where <y> ,and <w> can be read as /j/ and /w/.
these conditions are:

• when they are aranged as <yw> /ju/ <yy> /ji/ <wy> /wi/ or <ww> /ww/
• and the previous vowel was not /a/, as then the inital semi vowels would be thought as diacritic vowel letters.

heres a table of basically all the places you would see them as semi vowels:

onset	/Ci-/	/Cu-/
yw /ju/	Cyyw /Ciju/	Cwyw /Cuju/
wy /wi/	Cywy /iwi/	Cwwy /Cuwi/
ww /wu/	Cwww /Cuwu/	Cwwy /Cuwi/
jy /ji/	Cyyy /iji/	Cwyy /Cuji/

C represents any consonant letter, onset in this case refers to word-initial position or when after a coda-letter.

in practice, you will never see /ji/, and only rarely see /wu/.

native script

unfortunately this section is still under construction! please check at a later time!

warning: very volitile to mess up texts with nonstandared characters like ¹⁸⁶. try to only have normal punctuation
it will have a temper tanrum and break if any kind of brackets are in it, I do not know why.