K.R.I.P.S = Killzai Rafael's International Pashto Script

[Hakim Khan Urgonai]

* This is not an attempt to change the current, perfect alphabet of Pashto.
It is an attempt to transcribe it using a common system, like the Hanyu-Pinyin of China or the Soviet Uniform Turkic Alphabet.
Through this system, I as the creator, hope it will unify Pashtuns when it comes to spelling basic words and sounds of the Pashtun langauge. *

There are two versions of this system developed by man.

The first, which is for simple everyday use, as on this forum and the second for official use, as in names and language learning materials.

My alphabet is superior to the ones made by fascists and misguided linguists like Khangul, etc.

The first, or K.R.I.P.S. Level I, will use no diatrics. It will use double vowels and diagraphs instead.

K.R.I.P.S. Level II will use diatrics for general convenience of linguists and language learners.

I present to you, my system of Romanization.

[Hakim Khan Urgonai]

K.R.I.P.S. Level I

In our system, dialects will be shown as we are not standardizing the langauge, just basic words common to all varieties.

Example sentence:

زما نوم حکیم دئ، زه ده پکتیکا یم
(Literary standard)

دي ما نوم حکیم دئ، زه دي پکتیکا یم
(Pashto script, showing dialect)

Transcription based on dialect:

1) De-maa num Hakim daii, za di Paktikaa yam. (K.R.I.P.S - Basic variant without diatrics a.k.a. Level I)


Now for the alphabet, please wait.

[Hakim Khan Urgonai]

The Alphabet

The complete alphabet of K.R.I.P.S. Level I:

a aa b c ch d d' dz e f g gh gj/zj h i ii j k kh l m n nh o p q r rh s sh t t' u uu w y x z zh


The vowels:

a aa e i ii o u uu


The consonants:

b c ch d d' dz f g gh gj/zj h j k kh l m n nh p q r rh s sh t t' w y x z zh


The digraphs:

ch d' dz gh gj/zj kh nh rh sh t' zh


These are the basic values assigned to each Pashto letter.

Perso-Arabic to K.R.I.P.S. conversion chart coming soon.

[Hakim Khan Urgonai]

Excuse the lack of "Schwa" in the Level I alphabet.

It can be represented using the normal "a".

Level II uses the "E with Two Dots" to represent said phoneme.

[tor_khan]

You need to put the two systems side by side for this to make better sense.