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==Phonology== | ==Phonology== | ||
Adwan has | Adwan has 27 consonants and 7 base vowels, along with 5 diphthongs that function as realizations of vowel nasalization in the form of concatenating a vowel with /ɰ̃/. | ||
===Orthography=== | ===Orthography=== | ||
Clearly there are more consonants than graphemes available from the alphabet, and so therefore the Adwan alphabet is defined as the set of graphemes from which any other sound can be written. As such, the alphabet is essentially the basis for the graphemes used to describe phonemes, and therefore shorter than the actual sound inventory of the language. | Clearly there are more consonants than graphemes available from the alphabet, and so therefore the Adwan alphabet is defined as the set of graphemes from which any other sound can be written. As such, the alphabet is essentially the basis for the graphemes used to describe phonemes, and therefore shorter than the actual sound inventory of the language. | ||