Letters
The script is divided into two groups, indoq surəq ᨕᨗᨉᨚ ᨔᨘᨑᨛ or inaq sureq ᨕᨗᨊ ᨔᨘᨑᨛ which literally means 'main letters' and anaq surəq ᨕᨊ ᨔᨘᨑᨛ (literally 'child letters). The indoq surəq are the consonants of the script while anaq surəq are diacritic vowel marks which are also divided into two subsets, dots ᨈᨛᨈᨗ (təttiq) and accents ᨀᨛᨌᨛ (kəccəq).
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