Upper Tanana graphemes

(Information provided by Dr. Olga Lovick)

Broken down by consonants/vowels

Capital letters are used in sentence-initial position and in names

Consonants

(lots of them in digraphs and trigraphs)

’ (not written in word-initial position)
b
c
d
g
h
j
k
l
ł
m
n
s
t
x
y
z

In the Canadian dialect, some consonants may occur underlined:

Th, Sh, x, s, ł 

Vowels

These vowels occur in all dialects (Tetlin, Northway, Canadian)

a
ą
i
į
e
o
ǫ
u 
ų
ü
ų̈

These vowels occur in Northway and in the Canadian dialect:

ä
ą̈

In all dialects, there is high tone which is marked by some people: ´ (á)

In the Northway and Canadian dialect, there is also low tone which is written by some people: `` (à)`