Enochian

The alphabet

Twenty-one letters, written right to left, set down in Dee's diary for 6 May 1583. They cover twenty-two English letters: Gon answers to both I and Y — the Y form carries a dot — and Van answers to U and V, which Dee's century treated as one letter. There is no letter for J, K or W.

Write in the letters

The letters

Letter Name English Sound Golden Dawn reading
The Enochian letter Un Un A long /ɑ/ (stressed), short /a/ (unstressed; the TRAP vowel) [ɑː]
The Enochian letter Pa Pa B /b/; silent after ''m'' when before another consonant or final [beɪ]
The Enochian letter Veh Veh C /k/ before a, o, u; /s/ before ''e'', ''i'' and in consonant clusters, with many exceptions; as /k/ in most positions but /tʃ/ finally. ?
The Enochian letter Gal Gal D /d/ [deɪ]
The Enochian letter Graph Graph E /e/ (stressed), /ɛ/ (unstressed) [eɪ]
The Enochian letter Or Or F /f/ [ɛf]
The Enochian letter Ged Ged G /ɡ/ before ''a'', ''o'', ''u''; /dʒ/ before ''e'', ''i'', finally, after ''d'', and in consonant clusters. ?
The Enochian letter Na Na H /h/ except in ⟨ch⟩, ⟨ph⟩, ⟨sh⟩, ⟨th⟩; silent after a vowel (in which case the vowel is "lengthened" – that is, has the sound it would have if stressed) [heɪ]
The Enochian letter Gon Gon I /j/ word-initially before a vowel; as a vowel: /i/ (stressed), /ɪ/ (unstressed), plus diphthongs ''ai'' [aɪ], ''ei'' [eɪ], ''oi'' [oɪ] [iː]
The Enochian letter Gon (dotted) Gon (dotted) Y /j/ (same as I)
The Enochian letter Ur Ur L /l/ ?
The Enochian letter Tal Tal M /m/ [ɛm]
The Enochian letter Drux Drux N /n/ [ɛn], [nuː]
The Enochian letter Med Med O /o/ (stressed), /ɒ/ (unstressed), but for ⟨oo⟩ which is /uː/ [oʊ]
The Enochian letter Mals Mals P /p/ but for ⟨ph⟩, which is /f/ [peɪ]
The Enochian letter Ger Ger Q [kw]; the word ''q'' is [kwɑː] ?
The Enochian letter Don Don R /r/ [ɑː(r)], [rɑː]
The Enochian letter Fam Fam S /s/ or /z/ as would be natural in English, but for ⟨sh⟩, which is /ʃ/ [ɛs]
The Enochian letter Gisg Gisg T /t/ but for ⟨th⟩, which is /θ/ [teɪ]
The Enochian letter Van Van U/V /u/ (stressed) or /ʊ/ (unstressed); [juː] in initial position; /v/ or /w/ before another vowel and word-finally, plus diphthong ''ou'' [aʊ] ?
The Enochian letter Pal Pal X [ks] [ɛks]
The Enochian letter Ceph Ceph Z /z/, rarely [zɒd], the 16th-century English name of the letter [zɒd]

The letterforms are SVG files from Wikimedia Commons by Лорд Алекс, used under CC BY-SA 4.0. They are used rather than drawn: a letterform invented from memory would be indistinguishable from a real one. Each file is linked from the Commons page it came from.