Blossom (against spring foliage) or ripe fruit (against bare branches and summer and autumn foliage) indicated place of articulation: labial — dental — alveolar — velar — uvular — glottal. The following series represents p — t — T — k — q — h.
Blossom (against spring foliage) or ripe fruit (against bare branches and summer and autumn foliage) indicated place of articulation: labial — dental — alveolar — velar — uvular — glottal. The following series represents p — t — T — k — q — h.
The following series represents b — d — g — g — G — h/’ (glottal stop):
The following series represents f — s — th — kh — KH — h:
The following series represents v — z — dh — gh — GH — h/’ (glottal stop):
Nasals were indicated by the absence of fruit or blossom (if the glottal space was filled, then the nasal was aspirated). The following series represents m — n — N — ng — NG — mh:
Aspiration was indicated by one blossom or fruit marking articulation in the mouth and another indicating glottal articulation. The following series represents fh — s’h — th’h — kh’h — KH’h:
Two contiguous blossoms or fruits indicate affricatives. The following series represents p — ph — pf — pfh — d — d’h — dz — dz’h.
Blossom and fruit (against summer foliage) represented vowels. Short vowels consisted of one blossom with six fruit (plus a central blossom for aspirates or central fruit for a glottal stop), long vowels of one fruit with six blossoms (plus a central blossom for aspirates or central fruit for a glottal stop). The following series represents æ — e — i — a — o — u — aa — hu — huu — ’u — ’uu:
Other combinations of fruit or blossom or both had various different meanings, including numbers and code-phrases chosen by individual aristocratic families. Some examples, mixed with standard Dendric letters, can be seen in the following selection.
