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Tashunka incorporated Iyyaħmi new findings on Vadi phonology and phonotactics to an alternate orthography focused on the actual phonetic realization <u>after</u> sandhi processes were applied. Tashunka's system has become very popular within the ''Šibbūru'' school, and has become prevalent due to its simplicity and focus on the final phonetic realization in a format familiar to many linguists who utilize the Americanist system.

Tashunka incorporated Iyyaħmi new findings on Vadi phonology and phonotactics to an alternate orthography focused on the actual phonetic realization <u>after</u> sandhi processes were applied. Tashunka's system has become very popular within the Šibbūru school, and has become prevalent due to its simplicity and focus on the final phonetic realization in a format familiar to many linguists who utilize the Americanist system.

The Tashunka system indicates stress with an acute accent, and vowel length by a colon, e.g. ''ta:dévi'' "encroachment". The complete Tashunka system is represented in the following table:

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These different orthographies are emblematic of the split in the Vadist community. The existence of the Aħħur texts have only served to add confusion, as the spelling in some of the fragments of the textual material is consistent and regular, suggesting the Vadi phonemic inventory is even smaller than that of Minhast. A compromise solution has been advanced by a minority of Vadists, that the Aħħur texts represent an even later form of Vadi increasingly influenced by the dominant Minhast language. While this hypothesis is plausible and tentatively supported by even Iyyaħmi himself, the evidence for this alternative has thus far remained inconclusively, as there are other texts in the Aħħur collection that contain spelling anomalies of their own, albeit different from those of the Scriptum. Alternative non-linguistic tests for this hypothesis have been proposed, the most recent one being carbon dating of the Aħħur and Kalapái parchments. Unfortunately, carbon dating analysis of the texts cannot provide support for that hypothesis as both corpora have been already contaminated by the number of hands that have handled the material.

In this article, the Tashunka transcription system will be used for transcribing texts according to the ''Šibbūru'' model, while Schumann's will be used for the Traditionalist model. Where mutation information is important, Iyyaħmi's system will be employed.

In this article, the Tashunka transcription system will be used for transcribing texts according to the Šibbūru model, while Schumann's will be used for the Traditionalist model. Where mutation information is important, Iyyaħmi's system will be employed.

==Morphology==

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-Tashunka incorporated Iyyaħmi new findings on Vadi phonology and phonotactics to an alternate orthography focused on the actual phonetic realization <u>after</u> sandhi processes were applied.  Tashunka's system has become very popular within the ''Šibbūru'' school, and has become prevalent due to its simplicity and focus on the final phonetic realization in a format familiar to many linguists who utilize the Americanist system.
+Tashunka incorporated Iyyaħmi new findings on Vadi phonology and phonotactics to an alternate orthography focused on the actual phonetic realization <u>after</u> sandhi processes were applied.  Tashunka's system has become very popular within the Šibbūru school, and has become prevalent due to its simplicity and focus on the final phonetic realization in a format familiar to many linguists who utilize the Americanist system.
 The Tashunka system indicates stress with an acute accent, and vowel length by a colon, e.g. ''ta:dévi'' "encroachment".  The complete Tashunka system is represented in the following table:
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 These different orthographies are emblematic of the split in the Vadist community.  The existence of the Aħħur texts have only served to add confusion, as the spelling in some of the fragments of the textual material is consistent and regular, suggesting the Vadi phonemic inventory is even smaller than that of Minhast.  A compromise solution has been advanced by a minority of Vadists, that the Aħħur texts represent an even later form of Vadi increasingly influenced by the dominant Minhast language.  While this hypothesis is plausible and tentatively supported by even Iyyaħmi himself, the evidence for this alternative has thus far remained inconclusively, as there are other texts in the Aħħur collection that contain spelling anomalies of their own, albeit different from those of the Scriptum.  Alternative non-linguistic tests for this hypothesis have  been proposed, the most recent one being carbon dating of the Aħħur and Kalapái parchments.  Unfortunately, carbon dating analysis of the texts cannot provide support for that hypothesis as both corpora have been already contaminated by the number of hands that have handled the material.
-In this article, the Tashunka transcription system will be used for transcribing texts according to the ''Šibbūru'' model, while Schumann's will be used for the Traditionalist model.  Where mutation information is important, Iyyaħmi's system will be employed.
+In this article, the Tashunka transcription system will be used for transcribing texts according to the Šibbūru model, while Schumann's will be used for the Traditionalist model.  Where mutation information is important, Iyyaħmi's system will be employed.
 ==Morphology==