Emat Syllabary

The script used to write Emat Syllabary is refered to as Emat Syllabary. Its actual type however is closer to a featural alpha-syllabary, its actual usage however is that of an open system.
The script was invented and standardised in the year 2581 before the Age of Dauler. This year precisely coincides with the year zero of the dwarven calendar. This of course is no coincidence, but was a deliberate decision on part of the dwarves. It was symbolically to begin a new era. And era of reconciliation and reconstruction after the catastrophe of the Damat. The Emat script therefore was a planned invention instead of natural development. This also explains some of its pecularities. The inventory of signs was partially already established before. Its rules however were mostly improvised and inconsistent.
The fact that this pre-standard literary form was not perfectly fit for Emat might give us a small glimpse into the literary world of the age before the Damat. No real conclusion can be drawn from this however. Perhaps this script was originally invented for a language, which was not Emat, nor related to Emat. On the other hand it might also depict an ancient stage of Emat, now lost entirely.

The Syllabary

The structure of Emat writing is best explained as a syllabary. There are five vowels in Classical Dwarvish, /a, e, i, o, ë/. Each of these vowels has a row of consonants, forming signs, which represent CV syllables. In ë, a, i, e, o. Consonants come in rows of three, plosive-affricised-fricative. Thus we see from left to right p-ph-f, t-z-s, d-zh-sh, k-kh, q-qh. Lastly we have three nasal m-n-ny. Further approximants /j, y, r, l/ are written with diacritics above their respective vowels. Long vowels are written with an additional extra-vowel grapheme, which is merely a small line, which is placed after a CV syllable sign. The Cë row of CV signs is special in the regard that the vowel is option, thus it can be used to write a syllable coda.

The Open System

Describing Emat-Aador as a completely syllabic system is wrong. The structure of its syllable signs is featural and thus resembles more an alpha-syllabary. However more than this, the actual usage of Emat varies. Usage of diacritics is often emitted, and the signs used for approximants have also independent variants, which are at parts more often used than the actual diacritical variant.
The system has additionally been adapted by several other languages, which are at parts very different from Emat. Most notably is Daulerim, which uses a modified version of this system. At its core, the so called Daulerim Alphabet, has the same inventory of signs, yet with other canonic sound values. In structure, Daulerim is a pseudo-alphabet, which uses alphabetic usage, but combines it with vestiges of the syllabic system.

Name
Kotom Aador "written sign" (Emat)
Givel Mullim "dwarven writing" (Daulerim)
Languages
Emat
Various other languages
Type
Featural Syllabary / Open System