Rotokas alphabet
{{short description|Latin alphabet as used for the Rotokas language}}
The modern Rotokas alphabet is a Latin alphabet of the Rotokas people consisting of only 12 letters of the ISO basic Latin alphabet without diacritics:{{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}}
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! colspan="12" | Uppercase forms | |||||||||||
| A | E | G | I | K | O | P | R | S | T | U | V |
| colspan="12" | 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 their language. In the Rotokas writing system the vowel letters have their IPA values, though they may be written double, {{lang|roo|aa, ee, ii, oo, uu}}, for long vowels. The consonant letters have the following 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."