C2/VAN is written using 91 of the printable ASCII characters with - . , and space being used for punctuation. The characters used are possibly substitutes for the actual symbols.
The 1st table show the vowel phones that can appear; the 2nd table shows the consonants, along with the corresponding letter. Letters marked with an asterisk * appear in more than one place in the tables.
| Front | Back | |||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| High | i: | - | - | u: | ||||||||||||
| High-Lax | - | ɪ | - | - | ||||||||||||
| High-Mid | - | e | - | - | o | - | ||||||||||
| Low-Mid | - | ɛ | - | - | ||||||||||||
| Low | - | a | ɑ | - | ||||||||||||
The diphthongs are ai [ai], au [au], ei [ei], eu [eu], oi [oi], ou [ou]. The short vowels are [ɪ], [ɛ], [ɑ], and [o].
| Labial | Coronal | Dorsal | Guttural | ||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stops | V'less | p | p | - | t | t | - | - | k | k | - | ʔ | |||||
| Voiced | b | b | - | d | d | - | - | g | g | - | - | ||||||
| Nasals | Voiced | m | m | - | n* | n | - | - | n* | ŋ | - | - | |||||
| Affricates | V'less | - | - | c | t͡ʃ | - | - | ||||||||||
| Voiced | - | - | j | d͡ʒ | - | - | |||||||||||
| Fricatives | V'less | - | f | f | s | s | x | ʃ | - | q | χ | h | h | ||||
| Voiced | - | v | v | z | z | y | ʒ | - | w | ʀ | - | ||||||
| Trills | Voiced | - | r | r | - | - | - | ||||||||||
| Approximants | u | w | - | l | l | - | i | j | - | - | |||||||
Function words are CV while content words are CV:, CVV, and CVC.
Content words are written as a pair of consonant letters, with the lower or upper case of the letters determining the vowel. This is shown in the following table, where the 1st 3 columns of the header give the 2nd consonant.
| + Other | + i | + u | Consonant Case |
|---|---|---|---|
| ɪ | i: | u: | lower + lower |
| ɛ | ei | eu | lower + upper |
| ɑ | ai | au | upper + upper |
| o | oi | ou | upper + lower |
Function words are written with either a single character or as & plus a letter. The following table shows the phonemic values for the digits and special characters.
| - | ( | fo | Att.V- | 0 | yo | -Ind | 8 | re | Rfx | @ | ye | Dat- | ` | do | Man- | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ! | qa | -Dem -Imp | ) | fi | Att.A- | 1 | me | 1 | 9 | ve | Inc | - | |||||
| " | he | Quo- -Quo | * | sa | -P -Hab | 2 | ti | 2 | : | le | Gen- | - | |||||
| # | ba | Ord- Sup- | + | fa | Att.N- | 3 | ka | 3A | ; | to | -Def | [ | xo | Prd.V- | { | zo | Dep.V- |
| $ | ki | -Spc | , | - | 4 | la | 3O | < | go | Rsl.V- | \ | mi | -Prs | | | za | Dep.N- | |
| % | po | -Fut | - | - | 5 | co | 3I | = | xa | Prd.N- | ] | xi | Prd.A- | } | zi | Dep.A- | |
| & | - | . | - | 6 | ho | Agt | > | gi | Rsl.A- | ^ | na | Neg- | ~ | ke | Cpl- | ||
| ' | ji | Adv- | / | pe | Par- | 7 | si | Pat | ? | ce | -CQ PQ | _ | te | -Pst | - | ||
| A | - | - | a | 'a | -Uni | E | - | - | e | - | - | O | - | - | o | 'o | Voc- |
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| &a | ja | And | &g | ni | Agg | &i | bi | If | &o | vo | Ior | &x | we | Xor |
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page started: 2012.Aug.19 Sun
current date: 2014.Apr.30 Wed
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