Editing Rotokas alphabet (section)

{{short description|Latin alphabet as used for the Rotokas language}}

The modern '''Rotokas alphabet''' is a [[Latin script|Latin alphabet]] of the [[Rotokas]] people consisting of only 12 letters of the [[ISO basic Latin alphabet]] without diacritics:<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Robinson |first=Stuart |year=2006 |title=Inventory of the Aita Dialect of Rotokas |url=http://muse.jhu.edu/login?auth=0&type=summary&url=/journals/oceanic_linguistics/v045/45.1robinson.pdf |journal=Oceanic Linguistics |volume=45 |issue=1 |pages=206–209 |doi=10.1353/ol.2006.0018 |s2cid=145809531 |hdl-access=free |hdl=11858/00-001M-0000-0013-192E-4}}</ref>

{|class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"
! colspan="12" | '''[[Letter case|Uppercase forms]]'''
|-
|A || E || G ||I || K ||O ||P ||R ||S ||T ||U ||V
|-
! colspan="12" | '''[[Letter case|Lowercase forms]]''' 
|-
|a ||e ||g ||i ||k ||o ||p ||r ||s ||t ||u ||v
|}

It is the smallest [[alphabet]] in use today{{Citation needed|date=August 2024}}. The majority of the [[Rotokas]] people are literate in [[Rotokas language|their language]]. In the Rotokas writing system the vowel letters have their [[Help:IPA|IPA]] values, though they may be written double, {{lang|roo|aa, ee, ii, oo, uu}}, for [[long vowel]]s. The consonant letters have the following [[help:IPA|values]]:

*''G'': {{IPA|[ɡ]}} or {{IPA|[ɣ]}}
*''K'': {{IPA|[k]}}
*''P'': {{IPA|[p]}}
*''R'': {{IPA|[d]}}, {{IPA|[ɾ]}} or {{IPA|[l]}}
*''S'': {{IPA|[ts]}} or {{IPA|[s]}} (only occurs before ''I'')
*''T'': {{IPA|[t]}} (never occurs before {{lang|roo|I}})
*''V'': {{IPA|[b]}} or {{IPA|[β]}}

Here is a sample of written Rotokas:
:{{lang|roo|Osireitoarei avukava iava ururupavira toupasiveira.}}
:"The old woman's eyes are shut."