English
Alphabetic System
Rather than displaying letters one after another as French or English do, the Utessa alphabet stacks letters on top of each other to form visually self-contained characters, somewhat like the Korean alphabet.
A complete Utessa character contains at most 4 letters.
The structure of a complete character is:
1/ Character formation and letter stacking
Letters can be displayed:
alone:
in pairs:
in threes:
in fours:
2/ Diacritics
Diacritics are graphic signs that integrate into letters to modify their sound, like the circumflex accent ê in French, the umlaut ë, or the tilde ñ in Spanish.
There are four diacritics in the Utessa alphabet.
sound "y" as in "yak", "yassa"
+ 
= 
+ = 
sound "w" as in "watt"
+ = 
+ 
= 
I This diacritic lengthens the preceding letter.
+ I = 
+ I = 
sound like the Spanish "jota" or the German "ch"
+ = 
+ = 