bajoran

Bajoran ideosyllabics

The bajoran script is possibly the most complex phonetic script encountered by the federation. The bajoran written langauge is thought to have been developoed from a logosyllabic script used in the B'hala region on Bajor. The characters are sometiesm described as being ideographic (each symbol represents an idea) this is not the case. Alsthough the bajorans consider each symbol to represent the idea of langauge, the script is primarilly a syllabary, although it has some unusual spelling conventions.

Notes
Bajoran is primarily written down in an abrbreviatied fashion with character representing V, CV or CCV sylables.* syl;lable final consonants are not written at all so kal, kam, kap, kast, and kat woiuld all be written with the ka character in bajoran.
Also there are eight vowels in bajoran - a, e, i, o, u, ai, ei, ee, which are written with only four variant characters so /a/ and /e/ are written with the same characters as are /i/ and /ee/, /o/ and /u/ and /ai/ and /ei/. This may be becasue the vowels are sort of interchangable in bajoran with there related sounds and pronunciation variues between dialects. The pronunciation of the sounds /sh/ and /j/ is also interchangable: - sh can be pronounced like sh and in English ship or ch as in english chalk. Likwise /j/ and be pronounced like /j/ in english jump or /s/ in english measure.
the combination /gh/ in bajoran is silent and is written alfer vowels to lengthen them. it is onlly used in the federation standard bajoran transliterational alphabet and has no equivilant in bajoran

Bajoran syllabary

Consonant clusters

Bajoran akso makes use of extra symobls with same sound values as the ones above for the more common syllables. This is to dissambiguate certain bajoran spellings which with a syngle symbol representing diffrerent syllables could be confused.

Bajoran is written either top-to-bottom and right -to-left in columns, or left-to-right top-to-bottom in rows. Typically, text is divided into pargraph blocks of six symbols across or down (depending on writing direction).
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