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Thirty consonants, arranged in rows of four by the place they are sounded in the mouth, and four vowel signs written above or below them: that is the whole alphabet, and everything else in the script is built by stacking. A syllable can carry a prefix before its root letter, a superscript above it, a subscript below, a vowel sign, and one or two suffixes after, all read in a fixed order and pronounced by rules that the spelling-aloud tradition teaches by chant.
The pages here will set out each letter with its sound and its name, the vowel signs, the stacks and how to read them, the two script families, Uchen with its headline and the cursive Ume hands, and the punctuation, the tsheg between syllables and the shad that closes a clause.