Jakvalat: Difference between revisions
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2. The practical orthography was devised by the first terrestrial linguists to reach Venus. The Haden Orthography has since become the default scheme of romanisation for Lanakwa. | 2. The practical orthography was devised by the first terrestrial linguists to reach Venus. The Haden Orthography has since become the default scheme of romanisation for Lanakwa. | ||
3. The spelling of the practical | 3. The spelling of the practical and native orthographies are morphophonemic in that the spelling is phonemic but does change to reflect morphophonemic changes. | ||
4 | 4. 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. | ||
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. | |||
===B. Phoneme Inventory=== | ===B. Phoneme Inventory=== | ||