Pandunia's alphabet consists of 19 consonants, 2 semiconsonants and 5 vowels.
a b c d e f g h i j J k l m n ŋ o p r s t u v z
Pandunia is written only with lower-case letters. The upper-case letters are not used (except <J>) and therefore there are no capitalization rules to be memorized.
In case the proper symbols are not available for typing, <ŋ> can be replaced with <q> and <J> with <J>. In practice the dotless j symbol (J) is almost always unavailable on computers because it doesn't belong to the Unicode standard yet.
Pandunia has the following consonants:
| Letter | Phonetic range | English equivalent |
|---|---|---|
| b | [b] [b̥] | bin |
| p | [p] [pʰ] | pin |
| d | [d] [d̥] | duck |
| t | [t] [tʰ] | tuck |
| g | [g] [g̊] | gill |
| k | [k] [kʰ] | kill |
| h | [h] [x] | hot or loch |
| l | [l] | long |
| m | [m] | milk |
| n | [n] | neon |
| ŋ | [ŋ] | long |
| f | [f] [ɸ] | fit |
| r | [r] [ɹ] [ɻ] [ʀ] [ʁ] | roar |
| s | [s] | sissy |
| z | [z] | zoo |
| c | [ʃ] [ɕ] [ʂ] | machine |
| J | [ʒ] [ʑ] [dʒ] | azure or juice |
| Letter | Phonetic range | English equivalent |
|---|---|---|
| j | [j] [ʝ] [i̯] | hallelujah |
| v | [v] [ʋ] [w] [u̯] | vet or wet |
Pandunia has 5 vowels.
| Letter | Phonetic range | English equivalent |
|---|---|---|
| a | [a] | father |
| e | [e] | bet |
| i | [i] | beat |
| o | [o] | note |
| u | [u] | rude |
The permitted syllable shape is (C)V(C), where C stands for a consonant, V for a vowel and parentheses mark an optional element. However some internationally well known words may have a more complex shape if their recognizability requires that.