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Like other modern Talmic languages, {{PAGENAME}} is written in the Talmic cursive script, which is written from left to right. Some letters are not used in modern {{PAGENAME}}, such as the Thensarian letters ''y, θ, δ, χ, γ''; the letters ''j'' and ''v'' are not used except in loanwords. The letter ''h'' is used for lenition as in Irish. So the {{PAGENAME}} alphabet is usually considered to have 20 letters (''r d z i a f m g t h b s o ŋ p l n e u c'') (digraphs and length diacritics are not counted). | Like other modern Talmic languages, {{PAGENAME}} is written in the Talmic cursive script, which is written from left to right. Some letters are not used in modern {{PAGENAME}}, such as the Thensarian letters ''y, θ, δ, χ, γ''; the letters ''j'' and ''v'' are not used except in loanwords. The letter ''h'' is used for lenition as in Irish. So the {{PAGENAME}} alphabet is usually considered to have 20 letters (''r d z i a f m g t h b s o ŋ p l n e u c'') (digraphs and length diacritics are not counted). | ||
The | The native orthography is extremely conservative and in part reflects Old {{PAGENAME}} pronunciation. (A more shallow orthography will be used in this article.) | ||
Double consonants are used for {{angbr|''ll, nn, rr''}}, which come from the [[Old {{PAGENAME}}]] fortis resonants /L, N, R/; they are pronounced identically to single {{angbr|''l, n, r''}} in standard {{PAGENAME}}. | Double consonants are used for {{angbr|''ll, nn, rr''}}, which come from the [[Old {{PAGENAME}}]] fortis resonants /L, N, R/; they are pronounced identically to single {{angbr|''l, n, r''}} in standard {{PAGENAME}}. | ||