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The Qhrapa Script
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A description of the Qhrapa writing system.
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The Qhrapa write using an abugida.
Syllables are built mechanically around a root consonant, which is in turn built on a syllabic scaffold. Let's say you want to write the syllable źrods. We write the syllable onset źro by writing the glyph for its root consonant, which, by itself, represents the syllable źa. This root consonant is ultimately built on the glyph for the syllable ta (t). Starting with the glyph t, you add the voicing tail to create d, representing the syllable da. Then, you add a dot to turn the consonant into a fricative, hence z, the syllable za, and a retroflex diacritic, hence ź for źa.

Now that the root consonant is built, you can begin constructing the rest of the syllable. We add a flag directly onto the root consonant to represent a following semivowel r, giving us the glyph źra for źra. Then, we add on the diacritic for the vowel o, hence źro for źro. Next, we write the consonants d and s. Because these two consonants are in direct hiatus, we then connect them with a tie, giving d`s (read as dsa). Because there is no vowel following the consonant s, we add the vowel suppression diacritic, giving d`s~ for the consonant cluster ds. Adding this to our źro glyph yields źro d`s~ for the syllable źrods.

Of course, the Qhrapa language has the syllabic consonants l and r. These syllabic consonants are written in the same way as they are when written as a semivowel, but the surrounding consonants are connected with a tie bar. If there is no following consonant, the vowel suppression diacritic is added instead. For instance, the syllable trq would be written as tr`q~, but the syllable gotr would be written as gotr~.

Some syllables have no initial consonant. Instead of simply using a null consonant character, the Qhrapa use completely different glyphs for initial vowels - initial a, e, i, o, and u are all graphically distinct from one another.
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