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The Latin script was introduced in the 18th Century in order to take advantage of imported printing presses from Europe. The current situation is one of digraphia with the Uljejatsi Ūravaq (Latin Alphabet) being primarily used for scientific, engineering and technical publications and the Uljejatsi Teljuq being mostly used for literature, religion and art. Outside these domains, for more mundane matters, the Latin Alphabet tends to be used by the upper echelons of society and the Magellanic Alphabet by the lower. | The Latin script was introduced in the 18th Century in order to take advantage of imported printing presses from Europe. The current situation is one of digraphia with the Uljejatsi Ūravaq (Latin Alphabet) being primarily used for scientific, engineering and technical publications and the Uljejatsi Teljuq being mostly used for literature, religion and art. Outside these domains, for more mundane matters, the Latin Alphabet tends to be used by the upper echelons of society and the Magellanic Alphabet by the lower. | ||
Magellanican spelling is generally phonemic in both scripts but does reflect the effects of internal sandhi although not external sandhi. | Magellanican spelling is generally phonemic in both scripts but does reflect the effects of internal sandhi although not of external sandhi. | ||
====Magellanican Alphabet==== | ====Magellanican Alphabet==== | ||