Orthography

Currently, there is no official standard orthography for modern Northumbrian. Various orthographic conventions have been applied in the past for writing Northumbrian, including both English-like and Scots-like conventions.

Although a rigid, standardised form of Northumbria with prescriptive grammar and standard vocabulary would be a terrible idea, a standardised, pan-dialectal orthography is greatly needed.

Vowels

 * eu  for /jʊ/ sound as in beuk, beut and neuk
 * A for first person pronoun
 * aa  for /aː/ sound as in thraa and craa, and also waa(l) and aa(l)
 * oo for /uː/ sound as in toon and oot
 * je for /jɛ/ sound as in (h)yem, styen, and agyen
 * hame, stane, and again in older literary Northumbrian
 * (h)yam, styan, and agyan in some southern dialects.
 * u for /ʊ/ sound as in gud and cud
 * ee for /iː/ sound as in heed and deed
 * i for ti, bi, and gi
 * iv prior to a vowel sound, tiv, biv, giv.
 * a for /ə/ in winda and arra
 * oa for /oə/ as in boat and goat
 * ow for /aʊ/ as in lowp and how

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