Interskript

Specification

Character inventory

All 52 characters of the "Lowercase Latin alphabet" and the "Uppercase Latin alphabet" as defined in "C0 Controls and Basic Latin" of Unicode.

Phoneme inventory

Consonant inventory

Consonant table

	Bilabial		Labio- dental		Alveolar		Post- alveolar		Palatal		Velar		Glottal
Nasal		m				n
Stop	p	b			t	d					k	g
Fricative			f	v	s	z	ʃ	ʒ			x			h
Trill						r
Approximant		(w)				l				j		(w)
subcolumns: first is unvoiced, second is voiced; cells: characters as in IPA; those that have a non-ASCII character are marked red

Vowel inventory

Vowel table

	Front		Central		Back
Close	i	y				u
Mid	e					o
Open	a
subcolumns: first is unrounded, second is rounded

Character-phoneme mapping

An uppercase character represents the same phoneme as the corresponding lowercase character.

Character-phoneme mapping table

System	Characters
IPA	a	b	ʃ	d	e	f	g	h	i	j	k	l	m	n	o	p	ʒ	r	s	t	u	v	w	x	y	z
Interskript (lowercase)	a	b	c	d	e	f	g	h	i	j	k	l	m	n	o	p	q	r	s	t	u	v	w	x	y	z
Interskript (uppercase)	A	B	C	D	E	F	G	H	I	J	K	L	M	N	O	P	Q	R	S	T	U	V	W	X	Y	Z

Transformation

Short notation

Since Interskript does not use diacritic signs the latter can be used to record vowels on consonants.

Letter	Diacritic	Unicode number	Name of diacritic
a	^		circumflex accent
e	´		acute accent
i	◌̇		combining dot above
o	◌̊	U+030A	COMBINING RING ABOVE
u	ˇ		caron, breve
y	`		grave accent

Character set specific

System

ISO 15924 (alphabetic)

ISO 15924 (numeric)

IPA

Latn

215

a

b

ʃ

d

e

f

g

h

i

j

k

l

m

n

o

p

ʒ

r

s

t

u

v

w

x

y

z

UAS-2016

Latn

215

A

B

C

D

E

F

G

H

I

J

K

L

M

N

O

P

Q

R

S

T

U

V

W

X

Y

Z

(0041--005A)

UAS-2016

Latn

215

a

b

c

d

e

f

g

h

i

j

k

l

m

n

o

p

q

r

s

t

u

v

w

x

y

z

(0061--007A)

UAS-2016

Cyrl

220

А

Б

Ш

Д

Е

Ф

Г

Ъ

И

Й

К

Л

М

Н

О

П

Ж

Р

С

Т

У

В

Ь

Х

Ы

З

(0410--042C) not to be used: Ц Ч Щ

UAS-2016

Cyrl

220

а

б

ш

д

е

ф

г

ъ

и

й

к

л

м

н

о

п

ж

р

с

т

у

в

ь

х

ы

з

(0610--062C) not to be used: ц ч щ

UAS-2016

Grek

200

Α

Β

-

Δ

Ε

Φ

Γ

-

Η

Ι

Κ

Λ

Μ

Ν

Ο

Π

-

Ρ

Σ

Τ

Υ

-

-

Χ

-

Ζ

UAS-2016

Grek

200

α

β

-

δ

ε

φ

γ

-

η

ι

κ

λ

μ

ν

ο

π

-

ρ

σ

τ

υ

-

-

χ

-

ζ

UAS-2016

Hebr

125

א

בּ

ש

ד

-

פ

ג

ה

-

י

כּ

ל

מ

נ

-

פּ

-

ר

ס

תּ

-

ב

ו

כ

-

-

Language specific

Transcription table

System	Characters																										Interskript characters not used	Interskript phonems not coded	Affricate approximation				Comment
Interskript	a	b	c	d	e	f	g	h	i	j	k	l	m	n	o	p	q	r	s	t	u	v	w	x	y	z	-	-	ts	dz	tc	dq
IPA	a	b	ʃ	d	e	f	g	h	i	j	k	l	m	n	o	p	ʒ	r	s	t	u	v	w	x	y	z	c,q	-	t͡s	d͡z	t͡ʃ	d͡ʒ
jbo	a	b	c	d	e	f	g	-	i	-	k	l	m	n	o	p	j	r	s	t	u	v	-	x	y	z	h,q,w	h,j,w(,y)					y = /ə/
epo	a	b	ŝ	d	e	f	g	h	i	j	k	l	m	n	o	p	ĵ	r	s	t	u	v	ŭ	ĥ	-	z	q,x,w	y	c	-	ĉ	ĝ
lfn	a	b	x	d	e	f	g	h	i	-	c	l	m	n	o	p	j	r	s	t	u	v	-	-	-	z	k,q,w,y	j,w,x,y	c	-