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Hololang's orthography is very recent since it was mostly a spoken language before the existence of the writing systems, after observing the humans for hundred of times, HoloCouncil adopted the Latin alphabet as the main script for the language. | Hololang's orthography is very recent since it was mostly a spoken language before the existence of the writing systems, after observing the humans for hundred of times, HoloCouncil adopted the Latin alphabet as the main script for the language. | ||
The graphemes of each phoneme are written in bold on the respective tables, but the things that grab attention are mostly the voiced postalveolar fricative being written as '''j''' and the voiced palatal approximant being written as '''y'''. | The graphemes of each phoneme are written in bold on the respective tables, but the things that grab attention are mostly the voiced postalveolar fricative being written as '''j''' and the voiced palatal approximant being written as '''y'''. | ||
The voiceless velar plosive is normally written as '''c''' but in loan words it is written as '''k'''. The voiceless postalveolar fricative has two written methods, one when this phoneme is at the beginning of a word '''sh''' and the other when the sound is found at the middle or end of a word '''ss'''. | The voiceless velar plosive is normally written as '''c''' but in loan words it is written as '''k'''. The voiceless postalveolar fricative has two written methods, one when this phoneme is at the beginning of a word '''sh''' and the other when the sound is found at the middle or end of a word '''ss'''. | ||
====Diacritics==== | |||
The macron (ˉ) is the only diacritic used in Hololang and it's only used on vowels, its function is to increase the lenght of the vowel sound. | |||
===Phonotactics=== | ===Phonotactics=== | ||
Most of the consonant clusters are allowed in Hololang. | Most of the consonant clusters are allowed in Hololang. | ||