Admente is a unicase phonetic alphabet that I created for the constructed language Interlingua. It is designed to have a flowing form, like a natural alphabet. At the same time, it is a featural writing system designed to be easy to learn. The letters' shapes draw inspiration from Tengwar, but unlike Tengwar, which is an abugida, Admente is a full alphabet, so it has separate letters for vowels as well.
Plosive consonants have a vertical bar.
| b p | d t | g k |
| b p | d t | g k |
Nasals have a shorter bar and a descender.
| m | n |
| m | n |
Fricatives are short letters that have a horizonal bar.
| v f | z s | j | S |
| v f | z s | j | sh |
Affricates combine a vertical bar and fricative letters.
| c | C |
| c | ch |
By now you may have noticed that fricatives, plosives, and affricates have a top bar that denotes voicing. The voiceless consonants have a top bar, while the voiced ones don't. Since the affricates in Interlingua are always unvoiced, they do not have a voiced counterpart.
The remaining sounds are as follows:
| r | l | y | w | h |
| r | l | y | w | h |
The vowels of Admente are all short letters.
| a | e | i | o | u |
| a | e | i | o | u |
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Io vide nubes tenebrose, gris in le celo. Le kumei, le arbore ancian, qui ha vivite per multo epochas, sede silentemente sur iste colline. Su statura superimpose se in su ambiente, e su folios superior penetra le nubes. Quande io es sol, io ama seder sub le kumei e regardar le campos de frumento circa mi. Postea le die, quande io ha me facite sol, io ha comprendite como io es parve in iste vaste mundo.