The first modern codification of the Lydian alphabet was made by Roberto Gusmani in 1964, in a combined lexicon, grammar, and text collection.
[5] In addition, two digraphs, aa and ii, appear to be allophones of [a] and [i] under speculative circumstances, such as lengthening from stress.
[9] Complex consonant clusters often appear in the inscriptions and, if present, an epenthetic schwa was evidently not written: 饜ぅ饜す饜く饜ぃ饜う饜ぃ wctdid [wt汀st胃i胃], 饜え饜ぎ饜ぁ饜し饜く饜が饜え ksp位tok [ksp蕩泰tok].
Note: a newer transliteration employing p for b, s for 艣, 拧 for s, and/or w for v appears in recent publications and the online Dictionary of the Minor Languages of Ancient Anatolia (eDiAna), as well as Melchert's Lydian corpus.
[10][11] 饜が饜き饜 ora [ora] "month" 饜ぉ饜饜げ饜き饜う饜こ饜 laqri拧a [lak史ri蕛a] "wall, dromos" or "inscription"[12] 饜ぁ饜う饜き饜 pira [pira] "house, home" 饜ぅ饜す饜ぁ饜饜げ饜ざ饜か饜く wcpaq岷絥t [w泰t汀spa藞k史茫nd] "to trample on" (from PIE *pek史- "to crush") The Lydian alphabet was added to the Unicode Standard in April, 2008 with the release of version 5.1.