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| Native Script|| Practical Orthography||IPA Value | | Native Script|| Practical Orthography||IPA Value | ||
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|⟨o⟩|| ⟨p⟩|| / | |⟨o⟩|| ⟨p⟩|| /p/ | ||
|- | |- | ||
|⟨ɵ⟩|| ⟨m⟩|| / | |⟨ɵ⟩|| ⟨m⟩|| /m/ | ||
|- | |- | ||
|⟨s⟩||⟨v⟩||/ | |⟨s⟩||⟨v⟩||/ʋ/ | ||
|- | |- | ||
|⟨v⟩|| ⟨t⟩|| / | |⟨v⟩|| ⟨t⟩|| /t/ | ||
|- | |- | ||
|⟨ʌ⟩|| ⟨n⟩|||/ | |⟨ʌ⟩|| ⟨n⟩|||/n/ | ||
|- | |- | ||
|⟨x⟩||⟨s⟩||/ | |⟨x⟩||⟨s⟩||/s/ | ||
|- | |- | ||
|⟨ɴ⟩ || ⟨r⟩|| / | |⟨ɴ⟩ || ⟨r⟩|| /ɹ/ | ||
|- | |- | ||
|⟨z⟩|| ⟨l⟩|| / | |⟨z⟩|| ⟨l⟩|| /l/ | ||
|- | |- | ||
|⟨n⟩||⟨k⟩||/ | |⟨n⟩||⟨k⟩||/k/ | ||
|- | |- | ||
|⟨u⟩||⟨q⟩||/ | |⟨u⟩||⟨q⟩||/ŋ/ | ||
|- | |- | ||
|⟨ʜ⟩||⟨j⟩||/ | |⟨ʜ⟩||⟨j⟩||/j/ | ||
|- | |- | ||
|⟨h⟩||⟨i⟩||/i/ | |⟨h⟩||⟨i⟩||/i/ | ||
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|⟨q⟩||⟨au⟩||/ɑʊ/ | |⟨q⟩||⟨au⟩||/ɑʊ/ | ||
|- | |- | ||
| | |⟨ȷ⟩||⟨a⟩||⟨ä⟩ | ||
|} | |} | ||
NOTES: | NOTES: | ||
1. The native alphabet is | 1. The native alphabet is ultimately derived from an ancient featural abugida. | ||
2. The practical orthography was devised by one the first terrestrial linguists to reach Venus. The Wilkins Orthography has since become the default scheme of romanisation for Yakvalat. | |||
3. The spelling of the practical and native orthographies are morphophonemic in that the spelling is phonemic but does change to reflect morphophonemic changes. | |||
4. The following punctuation marks are in use in the native alphabet: | |||
⟨.⟩ = short pause, equivalent to a comma or semi-colon. | ⟨.⟩ = short pause, equivalent to a comma or semi-colon. | ||
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Punctuation marks occur immediately after the last word of a clause and never occur consecutively. | Punctuation marks occur immediately after the last word of a clause and never occur consecutively. | ||
5. Any given word is separated from any following word by a space. There are no equivalents to parentheses, quotation marks, exclamation marks or questions marks. | |||
===Phoneme Inventory=== | ===Phoneme Inventory=== |
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