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==General notes – '''kőino tűsos'''==
*In the Senjecan alphabet there are 33 [[Wikipedia:Grapheme|graphemes]], one for each of the [[Wikipedia:Phoneme|phonemes]]. There are 24 consonants, six vowels (each of which can be long or short), and three weak vowels.

*In the Senjecan alphabet order, these 33 graphemes are arranged into four groups of [[Wikipedia:Homorganic consonant|homorganic consonants]] and one group of vowels. These five groups are known as clans ('''űka'''). They are ordered according to the point of articulation with the vowels last.
#labial ('''feműka''')
#dental ('''riisűka''')
#alveolar ('''muitűka''')
#palatal ('''vainűka''')
#vowel ('''rííšenűka''')

*In some orthographies a diacritic is used to indicate a long vowel; in others the grapheme is doubled.

*In some orthographies labialization and palatalization are indicated by a diacritic; in others a special grapheme is used.

*Few languages have the [[Wikipedia:Voiceless bilabial nasal|voiceless bilabial nasal]], /m̥/, represented by <m̃> in Senjecas. If the [[Wikipedia:Source language (translation)|source language]] has /w/ (which does not occur in Senjecas), then whatever grapheme represents it is used to represent /m̥/.

*In some orthographies an [[Wikipedia:Aspirated consonant|aspirated consonant]] is used to represent a [[Wikipedia: Fricative consonant|fricative consonant]], ''e.g.'', /tʰ/ for /θ/, /pʰ/ for /ɸ/.

*A column is left blank in the tables for the [[Wikipedia:Tengwar|tengwar]]; they may some day be available on Frathwiki.

*A blank space indicates that a suitable grapheme has not yet been devised.

*The three weak vowels <ĭ>, <ĕ> and <ŭ> are not interchangeable, so the same grapheme may be used to represent all three.

*Regrettably, the [[Wikipedia:Hangul|hangul]] and the [[Wikipedia:Hiragana|hiragana]] and [[Wikipedia:Katakana|katakana]] have not yet been adapted to Senjecas. I have not found a way to represent both <r> and <l> that pleases me.


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