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==Phonology==
==Phonology==
===Orthography===
===Orthography===
1) Thulean is written with the Thulean alphabet. The Thulean government also endorses a romanised orthography for the purpose of transliterating Thulean proper names in foreign media. This is also increasingly used in foreign scholarly works on the language. This orthography is as follows:
1) Thulean is written with the Thulean alphabet. The Thulean government also endorses a romanised orthography for the purpose of transliterating Thulean proper names in foreign media. This is also increasingly used in foreign scholarly works on the language. This orthographies are as follows:
 
a) Thulean:
 
b) Romanised:


"a" = /ɑ/
"a" = /ɑ/
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"xx" = /x/
"xx" = /x/


2) This orthography is largely phonemic but indicates the effects of consonant gradation and sandhi. Each letter includes all the allophones within the phoneme it represents. Thus, for example, the phones [mb] would be written "mm".
2) These orthographies are largely phonemic but indicate the effects of consonant gradation and sandhi. Each letter includes all the allophones within the phoneme it represents. Thus, for example, the consonant cluster [mb] would be written "mm" or "ss".


===Consonants===
===Consonants===