Avalonian: Difference between revisions
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Magellanican was originally written in a native script which was a mixture of pictograms, alphabetic letters and syllabic signs, not dissimilar in principle to Mesopotamian cuneiform, and monopolised by a small class of scribes. Contact with the West introduced the Latin script which was much more accessible and modern use of native script is generally restricted to ceremonial documents, public monuments or art. | Magellanican was originally written in a native script which was a mixture of pictograms, alphabetic letters and syllabic signs, not dissimilar in principle to Mesopotamian cuneiform, and monopolised by a small class of scribes. Contact with the West introduced the Latin script which was much more accessible and modern use of native script is generally restricted to ceremonial documents, public monuments or art. | ||
====Magellanican Alphabet==== | |||
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|⟨ū⟩||/oʊ/ | |⟨ū⟩||/oʊ/ | ||
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| | |⟨v⟩||/w/ | ||
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| ⟨y⟩ || /j/ | | ⟨y⟩ || /j/ | ||