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Some orthographical and phonological notes:
Some orthographical and phonological notes:
* /ŋ/ is written as <l> before <k g kh gh n>; <ll> before other consonants; and <nll> intervocalically. Note that in many local varieties <lk lkh lg lgh> are actually [ɴq ɴqʰ ɴɢ ɴɢʱ], with the stop assimilating to <l> and not vice-versa, and thus analyzed as /ɴ̆k ɴ̆kʰ ɴ̆g ɴ̆gʱ/.
* /ŋ/ is written as <l> before <k g kh gh n>; <ll> before other consonants; and <nll> intervocalically. Note that in many local varieties <lk lkh lg lgh> are actually [ɴq ɴqʰ ɴɢ ɴɢʱ], with the stop assimilating to <l> and not vice-versa, and thus analyzed as /ɴ̆k ɴ̆kʰ ɴ̆g ɴ̆gʱ/.
* The sequences /eɦe aɦa uɦu iɦ(ʲ)i/ are written <ęe ąa ųu įi>; the digraph <ęa> represents /eɦa/ but only in optative verbal stems, used for the optative and propositive moods.


Letter names are formed following these simple rules, which depend by phoneme type:
Letter names are formed following these simple rules, which depend by phoneme type: