Osage Alphabet

How this list was compiled: Every character was checked against UnicodeData.txt, version 18.0.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/UnicodeData.txt): the code points and the character names in the notes come from that file, names in sentence case, and so does the small letter of each capital. Block names come from Blocks.txt (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/Blocks.txt) and the Unicode version each character arrived in from DerivedAge.txt (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/DerivedAge.txt), both version 18.0.0. The 36 letters stand in the order of their code points. The exemplar letters of CLDR's Osage locale (https://github.com/unicode-org/cldr/blob/main/common/main/osa.xml) are the same 36 in the same order, and the vowels with a length or tone mark on this page are the ones that locale lists. The Latin spelling of each letter, which letters are vowels, the four vowels with a nasal dot, and the sound of each vowel in the International Phonetic Alphabet follow the tables of the Letters section of Wikipedia's Osage script article (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osage_script). The sound of each consonant and of each pair of letters follows the table of consonants in the proposal that brought the script into Unicode, document L2/14-214 (https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2014/14214-n4619-osage.pdf); its Latin spellings agree with the article's, except that its table writes hj and kj where its text and the article have hy and ky. The same document gives the letters that look like a character of another script, the five letters that replaced a spelling with h, the split of one letter into two, and the rule that a nasal vowel is ordered as a letter of its own. What each mark is for follows Table 20-1 in section 20.3 of the Unicode Standard, version 17.0 (https://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode17.0.0/core-spec/chapter-20/), and the article. A letter's tile name is its Unicode name and its Latin spelling; a marked vowel's says what the mark does and gives the Latin spelling. Every character of the Osage block, U+104B0 to U+104FF, is on the page. Left out: the capital vowels with a length or tone mark, which take the same marks as the small ones, and the three ejective consonants, a letter with an apostrophe after it, because the article and the proposal print that apostrophe as two different characters. The tile names and the grouping are this site's own. Each character was looked up in the system fonts of a current phone and drawn on a Mac on 2026-10-16 before it was kept, and all that are here drew. All sources were read on 2026-10-16. Licence: own work