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| Native Script|| Practical Orthography||IPA Value | | Native Script|| Practical Orthography||IPA Value | ||
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|⟨o⟩|| ⟨p⟩|| / | |⟨o⟩|| ⟨p⟩|| /pä/ | ||
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|⟨ɵ⟩|| ⟨m⟩|| / | |⟨ɵ⟩|| ⟨m⟩|| /mä/ | ||
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|⟨s⟩||⟨v⟩||/ | |⟨s⟩||⟨v⟩||/ʋä/ | ||
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|⟨v⟩|| ⟨t⟩|| / | |⟨v⟩|| ⟨t⟩|| /tä/ | ||
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|⟨ʌ⟩|| ⟨n⟩|||/ | |⟨ʌ⟩|| ⟨n⟩|||/nä/ | ||
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|⟨x⟩||⟨s⟩||/ | |⟨x⟩||⟨s⟩||/sä/ | ||
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|⟨ɴ⟩ || ⟨r⟩|| / | |⟨ɴ⟩ || ⟨r⟩|| /ɹä/ | ||
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|⟨z⟩|| ⟨l⟩|| / | |⟨z⟩|| ⟨l⟩|| /lä/ | ||
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|⟨n⟩||⟨k⟩||/ | |⟨n⟩||⟨k⟩||/kä/ | ||
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|⟨u⟩||⟨q⟩||/ | |⟨u⟩||⟨q⟩||/ŋä/ | ||
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|⟨ʜ⟩||⟨j⟩||/ | |⟨ʜ⟩||⟨j⟩||/jä/ | ||
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|⟨h⟩||⟨i⟩||/i/ | |⟨h⟩||⟨i⟩||/i/ | ||
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NOTES: | NOTES: | ||
1. The native alphabet | 1. The native alphabet is a borderline abugida ultimately derived from an ancient featural alphasyllabry. | ||
2. | 2. All consonant letters represent a CV syllable of that consonant plus /ä/. | ||
3. | 3. Unusually for an abugida, hence the script's borderline status, all the vowels other than /ä/ are written with a full vowel letter rather than a vowel diacritic as is usually found in terrestrial alphasyllabries. | ||
4. The following punctuation marks are in use in the native alphabet: | 4. A following vowel letter neutralises the inherent /ä/ of the preceding consonant. | ||
5. A following letter ⟨ı⟩ cancels out the inherent /ä/ of the preceding consonant thus producing a representation of a coda consonant. | |||
6. The practical orthography was devised by one the first terrestrial linguists to reach Venus. The Wilkins Orthography has since become the default scheme of romanisation for Yakvalat. | |||
7. The spelling of the practical and native orthographies are morphophonemic in that the spelling is phonemic but does change to reflect morphophonemic changes. | |||
8. The following punctuation marks are in use in the native alphabet: | |||
⟨.⟩ = 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. | ||
9. 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. | |||
===Phoneme Inventory=== | ===Phoneme Inventory=== | ||