Dinka alphabet
The Dinka alphabet as used by the Sudan Dinka people writing the Dinka language is based upon the Latin alphabet, adding some letters from the International Phonetic Alphabet:
| Uppercase | A | Ä | B | C | D | Dh | E | Ë | Ɛ | Ɛ̈ | G | Ɣ | I | Ï | K | L | M | N | Nh | Ny | Ŋ | O | Ö | Ɔ | Ɔ̈̈ | P | R | T | Th | U | W | Y |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lowercase | a | ä | b | c | d | dh | e | ë | ɛ | ɛ̈ | g | ɣ | i | ï | k | l | m | n | nh | ny | ŋ | o | ö | ɔ | ɔ̈ | p | r | t | th | u | w | y |
As you can see, Dinka does not use f, j, q, s, v, x and z, and h in digraphs only.
| Uppercase | Ä | Dh | Ë | Ɛ | Ɛ̈ | Ɣ | Ï | Nh | Ny | Ŋ | Ö | Ɔ | Ɔ̈ | Th |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lowercase | ä | dh | ë | ɛ | ɛ̈ | ɣ | ï | nh | ny | ŋ | ö | ɔ | ɔ̈ | th |
| Alternatives | a | d͏h | e | é, e | é, e | gh, q | i | n͏h | n͏y | ng | o | ó, o | ó, o | t͏h |
| Unicode | x00C4 x00E4 | x00CB x00EB | x0190 x025B | x0190x0308 x025Bx0308 | x0194 x0263 | x00CF x00EF | x014A x014B | x00D6 x00F6 | x0186 x0254 | x0186x0308 x0254x0308 |
Note that ɛ̈ (open e with trema) and ɔ̈ (open o with trema) do not exist as precomposed characters in Unicode and must therefore be generated using U+0308, the diaeresis combining diacrit.