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===Orthography=== | ===Orthography=== | ||
Whereas modern Sohcahtoan uses the three [[w:Japanese writing system | Japanese scripts]], Ancient Sohcahtoan was probably written using a rudimentary runic alphabet to represent the phonology. However, as the Japanese scripts began to heavily influence Sohcahtoan, the runes fell out of use in favour of Hiragana, Katakana and Kanji, which led to vowel and consonant change, e.g. ʂ -> ʃ and the complete dropping of [ə](ã) and [u], the former turned into [eoː] and the latter into [ɯ]. | Whereas modern Sohcahtoan uses the three [[w:Japanese writing system | Japanese scripts]], Ancient Sohcahtoan was probably written using a rudimentary runic alphabet to represent the phonology. However, as the Japanese scripts began to heavily influence Sohcahtoan, the runes fell out of use in favour of Hiragana, Katakana and Kanji, which led to vowel and consonant change, e.g. ʂ -> ʃ and the complete dropping of [ə](ã) and [u], the former turned into [eoː] and the latter into [ɯ]. | ||
In modern times, linguists began recording Ancient Sohcahtoan with the Portuguese Latin script, which probably originates from Portuguese colonisers on the island of '''São Martim''', where Ancient Sohcahtoan was preserved due to general Portuguese non-interference, compared to on the mainland where the language quickly began to adapt to Japanese scripts, which all but wiped out Ancient Sohcahtoan on the mainland. | |||
==== Alphabet ==== | |||
à and ã represents the [ə] sound. Letters with "-" diactritics represent [[w:Vowel length|elongated vowels]], e.g. <ā>, <ē>, <ū>, and <ō>. | |||
{|class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;" | |||
! '''Majuscule''' | |||
| A || Ā || Ã | |||
| B | |||
| K | |||
| D | |||
| E || Ē | |||
| G | |||
| I | |||
| K | |||
| M | |||
| N | |||
| O || Ō | |||
| P | |||
| R | |||
| S | |||
| T | |||
| U || Ū | |||
| Y | |||
| Z | |||
|- | |||
! '''Minuscule''' | |||
| a || ā || ã | |||
| b | |||
| k | |||
| d | |||
| e || ē | |||
| g | |||
| i | |||
| k | |||
| m | |||
| n | |||
| o || ō | |||
| p | |||
| r | |||
| s | |||
| t | |||
| u || ū | |||
| y | |||
| z | |||
|} | |||
===Consonants=== | ===Consonants=== | ||
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;" | {| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;" | ||