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===Orthography===
===Orthography===
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The Latin alphabet of Carnian is close to a phonetic alphabet but with some historical spellings and letters.  


{| class="bluetable lightbluebg collapsible collapsed" style="width: 700px; text-align:center;"
! colspan="3" | Letter-to-sound correspondence
|-
! style="width: 90px;" | Letter !! style="width: 90px;" | Sound !! Notes
|-
! A, a
| [a], [aː] || style="text-align:left;" | Long only in stressed syllables.
|-
! Ä, ä
| [ɛ], [ɛː] || style="text-align:left;" | Long only in stressed syllables.
|-
! Å, å
| [ɔ], [ɔː] || style="text-align:left;" | Long only in stressed syllables.
|-
! B, b
| [b], [p] || style="text-align:left;" | Voiceless in word-final syllables.
|-
! C, c
| [t͡s] ||
|-
! Č, č
| [t͡ʃ] ||
|-
! D, d
| [d], [t] || style="text-align:left;" | Voiceless in word-final syllables.
|-
! E, e
| [e], [eː] || style="text-align:left;" | Long only in stressed syllables.
|-
! Ë, ë
| [ə] || style="text-align:left;" | Usually never long, even if stressed.
|-
! F, f
| [f] ||
|-
! FF, Ff, ff
| [fː] ||
|-
! rowspan="2" | G, g
| [ɣ], [x] || style="text-align:left;" | Voiceless in word-final syllables.
|-
| [g], [k] || style="text-align:left;" | Allophonic realisations of [ɣ] and [x] respectively in some dialects.
|-
! Ǧ, ǧ
| [d͡ʒ] || style="text-align:left;" | Occurs in Romance loanwords.
|-
! H, h
| [x] ||
|-
! rowspan="2" | I, i
| [i], [iː] || style="text-align:left;" | Long only in stressed syllables.
|-
| rowspan="2" | [j], [i̯] || style="text-align:left;" | The non-vocalic version an alternative classification of the sound.
|-
! J, j
|
|-
! K, k
| [k] ||
|-
! KK, Kk, kk
| [kː] ||
|-
! L, l
| [l] ||
|-
! rowspan="2" | Ł, ł
| [l] || style="text-align:left;" | Inter-vocally, word-initially and if followed by a consonant.
|-
| [j], [i̯] || style="text-align:left;" | Word-finally and if preceded by a consonant.
|-
! M, m
| [m] ||
|-
! MM, Mm, mm
| [mː] ||
|-
! N, n
| [n] ||
|-
! NN, Nn, nn
| [nː]
|-
! O, o
| [o], [oː] || style="text-align:left;" | Long only in stressed syllables.
|-
! Ö, ö
| [ø], [øː] || style="text-align:left;" | Long only in stressed syllables.
|-
! P, p
| [p] ||
|-
! PP, Pp, pp
| [pː] ||
|-
! R, r
| [ɾ] ||
|-
! RR, Rr, r
| [r], [ɾː] || style="text-align:left;" | The trill is sometimes classified as a geminate flap/tap.
|-
! S, s
| [s] ||
|-
! SS, Ss, ss
| [sː] ||
|-
! Š, š
| [ʃ] ||
|-
! T, t
| [t] ||
|-
! TT, Tt, tt
| [tː] ||
|-
! U, u
| [u], [uː] || style="text-align:left;" | Long only in stressed syllables.
|-
! Ü, ü
| [y], [yː] || style="text-align:left;" | Long only in stressed syllables.
|-
! Ů, ů
| [u] || style="text-align:left;" | Never occurs in stressed syllables.
|-
! Ŭ, ŭ
| [u̯], [w] || style="text-align:left;" | The non-vocalic part in diphthongs, sometimes classified as [w]
|-
! rowspan="2" | V, v
| [ʋ] || style="text-align:left;" | An approximant, not a fricative.
|-
| [u̯], [w] || style="text-align:left;" | When followed by a consonant, forms a diphthong with the preceding vowel.
|-
! W, w
| [w], [u̯] || style="text-align:left;" | The non-vocalic version an alternative classification of the sound.
|-
! Y, y
| [ə] || style="text-align:left;" | Usually never long, even if stressed.
|-
! Z, z
| [z], [s] || style="text-align:left;" | Voiceless in word-final syllables.
|-
! Ž, ž
| [ʒ], [ʃ] || style="text-align:left;" | Voiceless in word-final syllables.
|-
|}


==Grammar==
==Grammar==
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