Choyuck (áomaķ eȚóiuķ)

The Choyuck alphabet (áomaķ eȚóiuķ) was created by Daniel Fregoso Bañuelos for his conlang, Choyuck (ņaņ eȚóiuķ). It is based on the Georgian Asomtavruli and Nuskhuri alphabets. It is a 17-letter alphabet with uppercase and lowercase forms, and features a unique set of punctuation.

Daniel started the project in 2019, and is worldbuilding to give his conlang more of an identity. He got inspired to make Choyuck by the sound of Polynesian and Native American languages, and wanted to make a language that has a simple phonology but can make many different words through affixation or even just the simple change of a root stem.

Notable features

Type of writing system: alphabet
Direction of writing: left to right and top to bottom
Used to write: Choyuck (ņaņ eȚóiuķ)
Word order: verb-object-subject (VOS)

Choyuck alphabet

Notes

The saltillo letter (Ꞌꞌ) is used to indicate the glottal stop /ʔ/ letter in Choyuck, but using an apostrophe for convenience is acceptable
The "end of section" (¦) mark is only used to end stanzas in poetry or verses in music, and is never used for paragraphs in formal writing
All of the "end of..." marks (¦, |, and ‖) replace the final full stop (:) in their respective cases
The title indicator (·) is placed on the ends of the title itself (eg: War and Peace = ·War and Peace·)
The ellipsis/pause mark (~) is also used to indicate an extended sound (eg: um... = o.../ɯ~)
Stress is on the penultimate syllable if the word ends in a vowel, -s, or -ķ, but on the final syllable otherwise; irregular stress is indicated with an acute accent in the transliteration alphabet, but with a simple dot in its native counterpart. Vowels next to each other (ex: áoma) count as two syllables, even when letters like Ii and Uu become /j/ and /w/ next to Aa, Ee, and Oo.

Download a Chuyuck font

Download an alphabet chart for Choyuck (Excel)

Sample text

Sample text in Choyuck

Transliteration

alMaķe vapi ța kelanpi on menmua țon teluķ ie malnaķ. alKuluie sap țeuaķi țap konțiénția aniķ, ța ꞌiLuake onu kevas paņapi peu aniķil.
(Pakaņ 1 eKanlat Tampi eTeluķ Málnapi)

Translation

All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.
(Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights)

If you have any questions regarding the Choyuck language and alphabet, you can contact Daniel at dfregosoban@outlook.com

Scripts invented by Dan Fregoso Bañuelos

Choyuck, Demano, Grespanic, Hanguñol, Kaalbhuuxa, Shqiprillic, Thaipañol

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