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 ===Orthography===
+Bis Burunko was traditionally written in a semi-syllabary called '''''higomido''''', which was originally a rune-like system carved into stone, wood and bone but later developed a more calligraphic style used on paper-like sheets of wood.
+The ''higomido'' consist of five specific vowel graphs, 41 consonant-vowel combinations (plosives, fricatives and affricates) and 7 individual consonant symbols (finals ''s, sh, ng'' and the remaining nasals and liquids ''m, n, l, r'').
+Other sequences of sounds are formed using these 53 symbols in combination:
+* diphthongs and double vowels are written using either a vowel + vowel combination (e.g. ''a + i = ai''), or the relevant syllabic + vowel combination (''ba + i = bai'').
+* glide + vowel combinations are written using ''i/u'' + vowel (e.g. ''i + a = ya''), or ''Ci/Cu'' + vowel (e.g. ''bi + a = bya'').
+* sequences of ''ch''V and ''j''V are written with the symbols for ''chi'' and ''ji'' + the relevant vowel (e.g. ''chi + a = cha'').
+* nasals and liquids are simply followed by the relevant vowel (e.g. ''m + a = ma'').
+* while there is a specific symbol for ''pu'', other combinations of ''pV'' - which only occur as a result of devoicing by a preceding (former) sibilant - are formed with the b-syllabics preceded by either ''s'' or ''sh'' (e.g. )
 ==Grammar==