Writing System
The Comanche Alphabet was developed by Dr. Alice Anderton, a linguistic anthropologist, and was adopted as the official Comanche Alphabet by the Comanche Nation in 1994. The alphabet is as follows:
| Alphabet | Pronunciation | Alphabet | Pronunciation | Alphabet | Pronunciation | Alphabet | Pronunciation | Alphabet | Pronunciation | Alphabet | Pronunciation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| a | /a/ | b | /p/ | e | /e/ | h | /h/ | i | /i/ | k | /k/ |
| m | /m/ | n | /n/ | o | /o/ | p | /p/ | r | /t/ | s | /s/ |
| t | /t/ | u | /u/ | ʉ | /ə/ | w | /w/ | y | /j/ | ʔ | /ʔ/ |
- Notes:
- Long vowels are indicated by doubling the vowel: aa, ee, ii, oo, uu, ʉʉ.
- Voiceless vowels are indicated by an underline: a̱, e̱, i̱, o̱, u̱, ʉ̱.
- When the stress does not fall on the first syllable of the word, it is marked with an acute accent ´: kʉtséena 'coyote'.
- The glottal stop /ʔ/ is sometimes written as ?.
- The phonemes /ts/ and /kʷ/ are written as ts and kw, respectively.
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