Sunny uses a modified Roman alphabet to write Esan, which appears to be a commonly-accepted way of writing the language (Wikipedia). Sunny writes a line under vowels where the common writing system uses a dot below. My current guess at the orthography system is below:
Grapheme | Phoneme |
---|---|
a | a |
an | ã |
b | b |
bh | β |
d | d |
e | e |
en | ẽ |
ẹ | ɛ |
ẹn | ɛ̃ |
f | f |
g | g |
gb | g͡b |
gh | ɣ |
gw | gʷ / ɣʷ |
h | h |
i | i |
in | ĩ |
ị | ɪ |
ịn | ɪ̃ |
j | d͡ʒ |
k | k |
kh | x |
kp | k͡p |
kw | kʷ |
l | l |
ll | lː |
m | m |
mh | ɸ |
n | n |
o | o |
on | õ |
ọ | ɔ |
ọn | ɔ̃ |
p | p |
nw | nʷ |
ny | ɲ |
r | ɹ |
rr | ɹː |
s | s |
sh | ʃ |
t | t |
u | u |
un | ũ |
ụ | ʊ |
ụn | ʊ̃ |
v | v |
w | w / ɣʷ |
y | j |
z | z |