About Rohingya writing system.

We Rohingya people did not have a writing system of our own so we were not able to put our ideas, culture, thoughts, history and our suffering in a written format. So our people used other writing languages such as Urdu, Hindi, Arabic, Burmese and English to express their feelings and thoughts. Unfortunately most of our people do not have fluency in any of these languages. Therefore our people were not able to record our golden history,our fabulous culture, our suffering and our untold events. So it resulted a great lost of our histories and memories of our forefathers and heros.

One day, I thought of solving this problem. So I started thinking which script I should use to write our mother tongue. Shall I use Arabic, Burmese, English or Urdu which are commonly available where we lived. Being a computer Engineer, I said myself I should use the easiest script which is widely available everywhere, so that we should not bitterly suffer from using different tools or software to write our language on internet, computers and mobile devices.

Considering all these, I chose to use English letters A to Z only and nother more. I decided to struggle for 6 months and if I succeed I will continue otherwise I will drop the idea. The first trial was done based on Filipino writing method that uses A-Z but it turned out that their language is very simple and ours is not that simpler to write using A-Z only. On the very last day of 6 months, I felt that I am completely failed.

However, there comes a sudden idea in my mind, at that very moment, to try to use accented vowels and bravo I have succeeded it more than 50%. So I got so happy and energized to continue it. Within 3 months I was able to complete our writing system after five successive stages of difficulties in such a success that I have never thought it be could possible to achieve such a amazing level. It became so extremely easy that I can teach the concept to any body within 15 minutes and he can read it the first text book (Rohingyalish Book-1) very perfectly. It is indeed really amazing even for myself, the inventor. Soon it has been recognized by International body (ISO) awarding ISO code 639-3 rhg on 18th July 2007. Since that the writing system has been officially used by governments worldwide for Rohingya translation.

I used a concept of what do you see is what you gets and the writing and reading perfectly match above 95% which no other languages have achieved. We use A to Z and Ç (retroflex R and Ñ for nasal sounds) letters including 5 accented vowels áéíóú.

1. A B C Ç D E F G H I J K L M N Ñ O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z (total 28 letters).
2. Used two sets of six Straight vowels: a e i o u ou (and) á é í ó ú óu
3. Two sets of Circular vowels: ai ei oi ui (and) ái éi ói úi
4. Two sets of Extended vowels: aa ee ii oo uu (and) aá eé ií oó uú (and) áa ée íi óo úu
5. Dual letters: th (and) dh for toungue rolling sound
6. Equivalent:

    c is read as sh sound (and) 

    ç is read as tongue rolling r (and)

    ñ is read as half n that is the nasal sound. 

Example words:

fas=pass exam

fañs=five

cóñço=small

dhoóñr=big

boro=large

goró=do

fiañs=onion

Example sentense:

Rohingya: Ruáinga leká endila asán dé 15 miníth ot cíki fare. 

English: Rohingya writing is so easy that it can be learnt in 15 minutes.