There is no established Urum orthography, since this language community does not have any writing tradition. Our data are presented in "native transcriptions", i.e., the transcriptions of a (non-linguist) native speaker (Violeta Moisidi) on the basis of a preliminary transcription convention developed for this purpose. The transcription convention is given next. The transcriptions provided at this stage of our project should be dealt with as evidence for the acoustic perception of the language by a native speaker with elementary linguistic training.