Comment by hyouganofukurou on 01/11/2024 at 18:13 UTC

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Well in the one I learnt, ㇻㇼㇽㇾㇿ gets used matching the previous vowel. There's some reasoning that it's because the pronunciation deviates slightly, but it seems needless to me too

Personally I think hangul suits the best but latin/katakana is the only thing we got, and both works fine if you're already familiar with it. I don't think I had problem with katakana writing method before

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Comment by knikknok at 01/11/2024 at 18:24 UTC

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Yeah - Hangul would suit Ainu to a tee. I think they both have 'CVC' phonotactics.

The vowel rhyming makes sense. Interestingly, that's how Mayan glyphs also work.

Most of the stuff I read is in latin, so I just convert it to katakana based on the rules I've seen - but I've noticed there's really no consistency between sources.