Rohingya language
Rohang is the ancient name of Arakan State, Burma (Myanmar). Rohingya or Rohangya(Rohang+ya) means the people of Rohang.
The first writing of Rohingya Language was more than 300 years ago and used Arabic scripts. However, due to lack of all sounds available with Arabic scripts, a new innovative system has been developed using 28 Latin Alphabets whereas 26 alphabets are from todays English alphabets.
a | b | c | ç | d | e | f |
g | h | i | j | k | l | m |
n | ñ | o | p | q | r | s |
t | u | v | w | x | y | z |
Rohingya chracter set
As analyzed, there are ten basic sounds in Rohingya dialect which are the building blocks of all Rohingya words which may approach about fifty thousands or more. Again these ten sounds can be divided into two categories-staright sounds and circular sounds. For example in the word aiyo (meaning come) has ai as circular sound and yo as straight sounds.
The straight sounds are six, where the first five sounds are represented by five vowels a,e,i,o,u and the last one is represented by two combined vowel ou.
The circular sounds are four and are represented by four vowels each one suffixed by "i" as follows.
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