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===Orthography=== | ===Orthography=== | ||
Formal Khattish uses [[w:Featural_alphabet|featural]] [[w:Abjad|abjad]] script Cekara shown above with its romanization. Diacritics are marked in educational materials and words out of context, sometimes in place names as well. The diacritics have evolved into elaborate decorations in the Razáfian calligraphy. | Formal Khattish uses [[w:Featural_alphabet|featural]] [[w:Abjad|abjad]] script Cekara shown above with its romanization. Diacritics are marked in educational materials and words out of context, sometimes in place names as well. Older systems indicated stress with "strong" diacritic dashes as opposed to dot-like "weak" diacritics. The diacritics have evolved into elaborate decorations in the Razáfian calligraphy. | ||
There is some controversy of the creator of Khattish script due to a great loss of historical records during the years under Western Tyranny of the sixth era: | There is some controversy of the creator of Khattish script due to a great loss of historical records during the years under Western Tyranny of the sixth era: | ||