Orion Anglic Alphabet

The Orion Anglic alphabet was developed during sixth millennium in the Federation of Orion as an alterative to the standard Imperial Anglic alphabet. Orion Anglic was adopted as the official script of the Federation of Orion at its founding in 5368CE. The script slowly gained acceptance in rimward and trailing sectors that remained closely allied with the Federation of Orion and spread to some coreward sectors where its adoption became a symbol of resistance to the expansion of the Terran Khalifate. The Star Kingdoms Confederation utilizes both Orion and Imperial script in official and private communications and the Mechanist Church has exclusively used Orion script since a decree by Primal Ustan Ghavanaran in 5433CE. While the Ertan Directorate technically considers the Orion Anglic alphabet its official script, most official and private communication is primarily written in Imperial Anglic.

Letters

The Orion Anglic Alphabet consists of 34 phonemic characters. The following chart relates Imperial Anglic to the Orion Anglic and Federation Middle Sonic (Fed C) alphabets:

#	Orion	name	Examples	Imperial	Fed C
01	Æ	ae	trap, bad	AE
02	A	aye	father, lot	A
03	E	ee	dress, bed	E
04	I	eye	kit, bid	I
05	O	oh	no, show	O
06	U	you	strut, love	U
07	Y	yeh	yet, onion	Y
08	L	el	lamp, valley	L
09	R	are	right, sorry	R
10	W	wee	wet, wall	W	-
11	J	jay	judge, age	J
12	Ч	choo	church, nature	Ch
13	Q	qwa	queen, mosque	Qu	-
14	X	eks	box, laxative	X (ks)	-
15	F	ef	fall, rough	F
16	H	aich	horse, whole	H
17	S	es	summer, cease	S
18	∂	thee	this, other	th	-
19	θ	tha	thing, path	Th
20	ζ	shee	ship, station	Sh	-
21	ʒ	zho	vision, pleasure	Zh
22	V	vee	view, heavy	V
23	Z	zee	zero, roses	Z
24	Ж	chuh	loch, chutpah	ch
25	₭	khah	khalif, khalid	Kh
26	M	em	more, hammer	M
27	N	en	new, know	N
28	ŋ	eng	ring, thanks	ng	-
29	B	bee	back, bubble	B
30	D	dee	day, ladder	D
31	G	gee	get, ghost	G
32	K	kee	key, clock	K
33	P	pee	post, happen	P
34	T	tee	tea, button	T

Note that the examples are presented using classic Imperial Anglic spelling. Spellings in the Orion Anglic script are phonetic wherever possible, though some proper names may retain vestiges of Imperial spelling. All Orion letters are capitalized, though cursive variants and many alternative fonts exist.

Modifiers

Orion Anglic script has adopted Middle Sonic-like modifiers trailing to the base alphabetic characters. These modifiers include:

˜	long vowel
'	glottal stop
^*	emphasis

Long vowels correspond to standard Anglic pronunciations and alleviate the need for non-diphthongic combined vowels and trailing silent 'e's. The glottal stop marks a hard separation between sounds or syllables. The emphasis indicates stress on a particular character or syllable. A character can have none, one or more modifiers.

Some variants of Orion Anglic, notably the Noradan dialect, retain tonal qualities. Tonal modifiers trail any other modifiers and include:

ˉ	high
́	rising
ˆ	up-down
-	middle
ˇ	down-up
̀	falling
_	low

Sentence Structure

Orion Anglic script is written left to right, then top to bottom. All sentences start and end with the same punctuation. Standard punctuation is:

Numbers

Orion script retains the use of classical Imperial Anglic decimals numbers written with the highest value decimal displayed first.

.	Statement
"	Quote
?	Question
!	Exclamation
–	Aside