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1. The native script was ultimately derived from an ancient featural abugida | 1. The native script was ultimately derived from an ancient featural abugida. | ||
2. The | 2. The practical orthography was devised by the first terrestrial linguists to reach Venus. It has since become the default scheme of romanisation for Common Venerian. | ||
3. The following punctuation marks are in use: | 3. The spelling of both the native alphabet and the practical orthography is morphophonemic in that the spelling is phonemic but does change to reflect morphophonemic changes. | ||
4. The following punctuation marks are in use: | |||
⟨.⟩ = short pause, equivalent to a comma or semi-colon. | ⟨.⟩ = short pause, equivalent to a comma or semi-colon. | ||
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Punctuation marks occur immediately after the last word of a clause and never occur consecutively. | Punctuation marks occur immediately after the last word of a clause and never occur consecutively. | ||
5. Any given word is separated from any following word by a space. There are no equivalents to parentheses, quotation marks, exclamation marks or questions marks. | |||
===Consonants=== | ===Consonants=== |
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