Mika Letters

The crafted language Mika is written with only fifteen letters, five vowels, five stops and five more.

Letters and sounds in Mika are closely bound; as with married couples pairs become one. In most languages graphemes and phonemes have complicated relationships. Later, the nature of this marriage to become one will be explored. Here, in this post, the communication outside of speech is addressed.

Without further ado, here are the letters of Mika.

These symbols look familiar, even boring. However, that means you and others around the world can learn them quick. Those above are shown in the SIL Andika font.

Making Letters

One can learn one or more ways to express these letters. You can create the letters by doing these:

• Handwriting
• Typing on virtually all computer keyboard layouts
• Typing on most computer keyboards without modifiers or modes
• Keying Morse code with 'j' as having the longest duration
• Tapping tap code (without ambiguity)
• Waving flag semaphores keeping the pattern break at 'j'
• Signing ASL letter keeping the sweeping 'j'
• Embossing Braille
• Using anything that can create ASCII letters

You can also recognize them produced that way.

Typing Fast

There a couple ways that Mika words can be typed quickly and perhaps in the speech rhythm.

Syllable Typing

Some syllables in Mika can be typed quickly by tapping two keys at the same time with the consonant going down slightly before the vowel. It feels like learning a few chords on a chorded keyboard and can be learned as needed. There are 25o (maybe 255) possible syllables in Mika and the 30 most common can be typed as one:
sa se su si du di do da na ne gu gi go be ba bi bo no ma me mo ja je jo ka ke ko la le li

Try the two-handed 'ja'. Tap both 'j' and 'a' but the 'j' is faster. This syllable sounds somewhat like the German word for yes.

Now try a syllable involving letters on the same hand. Or adding space after the syllable.

This will not work on an old typewriter or if you are a single finger typist. A two finger typist might be able to do many.

This is limited version of the key rollover method which can be used in even more ways to type Mika.

Chorded Typing

Some special keyboards can extend key rollover by allowing the tapping several keys at once or using rolling keys. If such a keyboard can handle the Mika letters, then those can be typed fast.

However, the promise might be in one-handed keyboards or gloves. The reduced number of letters might allow a useful and fast typing that allows the other hand to use a mouse, laser pointer or paint brush.

Computer Programming

Many folks use programming languages and if restricted to the Mika letters in typing will find a problem in typing the reserved/key words; a full keyboard is needed. This limitation especially comes from the recent dropping of f and w impacting if, while and false. Finding programming languages or specification languages that do not require letters in keywords might be interesting. Some might require some UNICODE characters.

However, documentation can be done in Markdown where the Mika letters are just fine.

TL;DR

Mika uses only these 15 letters on your keyboard:
e t u i o
a s d g j k l
b n

They are sorted like this:
a b d e g i j k l m n o p s t u

The letters are 5 vowels (a e i o u), five stops (b d g t k) and 5 other consonants.