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| ====General Remarks On Orthography==== | | ====General Remarks On Orthography==== |
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| Magellanican was written in a native script (Mag: Ulgegialhi Telyuq) which is an alphabet derived from an earlier featural abugida. It is written from left to right. | | Magellanican was formerly written in a complex combination logographic and syllabic script (Mag:) |
| | akin to cuneiform which was monopolised by a scribal caste. |
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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 Ulyeyatzi Ūravaq (Latin Alphabet) being primarily used for scientific, engineering and technical publications and the Ulyeyatzi Telyuq being mostly used for literature, religion and art.
| | Contact and trade with Europeans in the 16th Century introduced the Latin script and the scribal caste was overthrown. |
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| 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 but does reflect the effects of internal sandhi although not of external sandhi. |
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| Magellanican spelling is generally phonemic in both scripts but does reflect the effects of internal sandhi although not of external sandhi. | |
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| ====Magellanican Alphabet==== | | ====Magellanican Alphabet==== |