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Tolsian has its own script and an official, perfectly matching romanization. The alphabet is considered to consist of 36 letters, plus diacritics :
Tolsian has its own script and an official, perfectly matching romanization. The alphabet is considered to consist of 36 letters, plus diacritics :


====Alphabet====
<poem>
<poem>
Y y - /jo/, /oj/
Y y - /jo/, /oj/
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</poem>
</poem>


====Composed graphemes====
Tolsian orthography is fairly transparent though there is not always a one to one correspondance between graphemes and phonemes. Some phonemes are not represented in the alphabet above :  
Tolsian orthography is fairly transparent though there is not always a one to one correspondance between graphemes and phonemes. Some phonemes are not represented in the alphabet above :  
<poem>
<poem>
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The apostrophe is very rarely used except with articles where it signals the elision of the vowel of the singular feminine articles.
The apostrophe is very rarely used except with articles where it signals the elision of the vowel of the singular feminine articles.


====Tables of phonemes and their corresponding graphemes====
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!colspan="2"| Plosive
!colspan="2"| Plosive
|colspan="2"| pʰ <ph> p <p> b <b>
|colspan="2"| pʰ <ph> p </p> b <b>
|colspan="2"|
|colspan="2"|
|colspan="2"| tʰ <ŧ> t <t> d <d>
|colspan="2"| tʰ <ŧ> t <t> d <d>
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|colspan="2"| ɸ <ƥ> β <ƀ>
|colspan="2"| ɸ <ƥ> β <ƀ>
|colspan="2"| f <f> v <v>
|colspan="2"| f <f> v <v>
|colspan="2"| θ <s> ð <ƶ>
|colspan="2"| θ </s> ð <ƶ>
|colspan="2"| s <c> z <z>
|colspan="2"| s <c> z <z>
|colspan="2"| ʃ <q> ʒ <ƶ̆>
|colspan="2"| ʃ <q> ʒ <ƶ̆>
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ɑ̃ <ɯ> ɛ̃ <ɯ̂> ɔ̃ <ɯ̌>
ɑ̃ <ɯ> ɛ̃ <ɯ̂> ɔ̃ <ɯ̌>


====New orthography====
However, another Latin transliteration has been designed so as to be more phonemic and easier to write on a computer, and is getting more and more popular :
However, another Latin transliteration has been designed so as to be more phonemic and easier to write on a computer, and is getting more and more popular :


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</poem>
</poem>


====Tables of phonemes and their corresponding graphemes====
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ɑ̃ <ê> ɛ̃ <î> ɔ̃ <â>
Additionally, an apostrophe is used to disambiguate ambiguous sequences which could be interpreted as either a digraph representing a single phoneme, or two graphemes in a row representing two phonemes. For instance, <lh> denotes /ɾ/, but <l'h> denotes /lh/.


==Grammar==
==Grammar==