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There are various diacritics used in the language that aren't considered part of either alphabets. For example, both the Latin and Cyrillic alphabets for Flewtish use a line/tilde above a vowel (eg. ā,ӣ) if it is a long one. In addition, the Latin alphabet uses an accent above a consonant (eg. ŕ, ś) to indicate rounding (Or [[w:Labialization|labialization]]) of the letter, whereas the Cyrillic script uses the soft sign (Ьь). In older inscriptions of the Latin alphabet, a letter would take a diaeresis (eg. s̈, ḧ) instead, and the acute accent would be used to indicate a glottal stop following the consonant. | There are various diacritics used in the language that aren't considered part of either alphabets. For example, both the Latin and Cyrillic alphabets for Flewtish use a line/tilde above a vowel (eg. ā,ӣ) if it is a long one. In addition, the Latin alphabet uses an accent above a consonant (eg. ŕ, ś) to indicate rounding (Or [[w:Labialization|labialization]]) of the letter, whereas the Cyrillic script uses the soft sign (Ьь). In older inscriptions of the Latin alphabet, a letter would take a diaeresis (eg. s̈, ḧ) instead, and the acute accent would be used to indicate a glottal stop following the consonant. | ||
===Digraphs=== | ===Digraphs and trigraphs=== | ||
There are three digraphs in the Latin alphabet of Flewtish. The Cyrillic version does not contain any. These are: ''ch'' for /t͡ʃ/, ''sc'' for /ʃ/ and, | There are three digraphs and one trigraph in the Latin alphabet of Flewtish. The Cyrillic version does not contain any. These are: ''ch'' for /t͡ʃ/, ''sc'' for /ʃ/ and, very rarely, ''ui'' for /ɨ/, and ''dzc'' for /d͡ʒ/ | ||
==Grammar== | ==Grammar== | ||