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Several diacritics are used in the original script, and the romanization tries to match it with the following rules : | Several diacritics are used in the original script, and the romanization tries to match it with the following rules : | ||
*So-called diphtongs, better described as approximant + vowel or vowel + approximant, are written with the help of a tilde diacritic between <i> and another vowel (to denote /j/) or <o> (or possibly <û>) and another vowel (to denote /w/). For example : | *So-called diphtongs, better described as approximant + vowel or vowel + approximant, are written with the help of a tilde diacritic between <nowiki><i></nowiki> and another vowel (to denote /j/) or <o> (or possibly <û>) and another vowel (to denote /w/). For example : | ||
<poem> | <poem> | ||
i~e /je/ | i~e /je/ | ||
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*The phoneme /ʀ/ is written r°. | *The phoneme /ʀ/ is written r°. | ||
*A so called "weakening accent" used in the original script to "weaken" a sound (usually making it unpronounced) is romanized with a ^ written after the letter. | *A so called "weakening accent" used in the original script to "weaken" a sound (usually making it unpronounced) is romanized with a ^ written after the letter. | ||
===Prosody=== | ===Prosody=== | ||
====Stress==== | ====Stress==== | ||