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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 orthography is morphophonemic in that the spelling is phonemic but does change to reflect morphophonemic changes.
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. The spelling of the native script is etymological. The table above shows each distinct allophone and the various native graphemes for each phone.
4. The following punctuation marks are in use in the native alphabet:
 
5. 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.  


6. 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.
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===