2.3 - Complete and simplified transcription
The complete transcription is a precise, one-to-one transcription scheme. The Anawanda/Latin mapping is the one listed in paragraph 2.1, with lowercase letters used for the pictographic characters and uppercase letters for the linear (see also the phonological descriptions in paragraph 1.1 and paragraph 1.2, and, for the stress, the explanations in paragraph 1.3) . The acute and grave accent respectively encode the stress mark above and below the vowel. Word boundaries are rendered as a simple space, and clause boundaries as a full stop.
The complete transcription scheme requires an exact letter by letter transcription which reproduces in whole the idiosyncrasies of the original text. Since this is impractical for the study of grammar, a functional, simplified transcription scheme was devised, whose features are: 1) use of all lowercase letters regardless of the source script; 2) precise usage of s (in preconsonantal position) vs. t (elsewhere); 3) regularization of letter doubling and stress marking, by supplementing missing characters and deleting "erroneous" ones.
The present grammar adopts the simplified transcription for all the tables, quotes and samples.
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