Linear writing system

The linear writing system is structured around syllables with a vowel written in the center and the consonants or sonorants being written above or below, forming four corners (up left, up right, down left, down right).

• If a syllable starts with a sonorant (N-initial particles, or multi-syllables words like ma-na.), it can be written either in the top or bottom left.
• If a syllable starts with one or two consonants, they must be placed up or down depending if the first consonant is unvoiced (up) or voiced (down). If there are two consonants they occupy thus both left and right place. We know the right one doesn’t correspond to the syllable end because there is another consonant on its left.
• If a syllable ends with a sonorant and is the last syllable of the word, it must be placed on the right and opposite side of the initial consonant or sonorant. If there is no initial it can be written either up or down.
• If a syllable ends with a consonant because it is part of a medial pair or triplet, then the first consonant must be placed on the opposite side of the initial consonant of the current syllable, and the following consonants will be written at the start of the next syllable (following syllable start rules). This means that for exemple in vog-bi, since initial v is written at the bottom left, the g must be written at the top right, even though it is voiced and thus is usually written at the bottom. We know it’s a g and not a k thanks to the following b which is voiced and thus written at the bottom left. If the syllable doesn’t have an initial consonant it is adviced to write the ending consonant on its usual side, however it is not mandatory.
• This writting system ignores spaces. Use symbol for pause (') when necessary. In borrowings and freeform variables ending with a consonant, it must be written at the start of the pause symbol (avoiding the ambiguity of consonants at the end of syllable which is usually resolved thanks to the following consonant, while there is none here).

Computer font

A computer font is available to download.

To write with this font some modifications needs to be made to texts to be rendered properly. However it uses the fact that the Eberban grammar doesn’t care of case or repeated letters. This thus mean that text written with this font is perfectly valid Eberban but may look a bit odd (with repeated letters, uppercase and hyphens) when displayed with another font.

The font works by only having vowels, ' and space moving the cursor forward. Consonants, sonorants and H are written without moving the cursor and stacks above or below the following vowel. They are however not automatically moved to the right or the opposite side, and the following modifications must be made :

• initial pair: the second consonant (or sonorant) must be doubled to be shifted to the right. tcu must thus be written tccu.
• medial pairs and triplets: medial pairs consonants (or sonorants) are split between the end of the a syllable and the start of the next.
  • If the first letter can be written on the correct side (up/down), an hyphen - must be written between them to shirt the first letter in the correct place. padgon is thus written pad-gon.
  • If the first letter must be written on the opposite side, it just needs to be written in uppercase. vogbi is thus written voGbi
• sonorants: sonorants by default are considered to be at the start of a syllable. In words ending with a sonorant however they should be placed at the end of the syllable. Writing a space after them shift them to the correct place. Sonorants at the start of a medial pair or a triplet in a borrowing also support being followed by an hyphen -, as a space would break the word apart.
• sonorants, M and H: by default they are written above the vowels, but writing them uppercase moves them below.