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The Simplified or Anantonese Alphabet is a phonetic alphabet often used in Kalistan, but rarely elsewhere. It is the chosen alphabet of Anantonese, as well as most other Kalistani languages. It is derived from the common English Alphabet, but is starkly different in that it only has ten letters, as opposed to twenty-six (hence its name). The alphabet pairs its characters into 41 digraphs of one upper- and one lower-case letter to signify distinct phonemes, and thus needs fewer than half as many letters as monographic alphabets such as English. In this way the Simplified Alphabet is notable in that its phonemes and letters never have a one-to-one correlation, thus never presenting a word with an odd number of letters.

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  • The Simplified or Anantonese Alphabet is a phonetic alphabet often used in Kalistan, but rarely elsewhere. It is the chosen alphabet of Anantonese, as well as most other Kalistani languages. It is derived from the common English Alphabet, but is starkly different in that it only has ten letters, as opposed to twenty-six (hence its name). The alphabet pairs its characters into 41 digraphs of one upper- and one lower-case letter to signify distinct phonemes, and thus needs fewer than half as many letters as monographic alphabets such as English. In this way the Simplified Alphabet is notable in that its phonemes and letters never have a one-to-one correlation, thus never presenting a word with an odd number of letters.
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  • The Simplified or Anantonese Alphabet is a phonetic alphabet often used in Kalistan, but rarely elsewhere. It is the chosen alphabet of Anantonese, as well as most other Kalistani languages. It is derived from the common English Alphabet, but is starkly different in that it only has ten letters, as opposed to twenty-six (hence its name). The alphabet pairs its characters into 41 digraphs of one upper- and one lower-case letter to signify distinct phonemes, and thus needs fewer than half as many letters as monographic alphabets such as English. In this way the Simplified Alphabet is notable in that its phonemes and letters never have a one-to-one correlation, thus never presenting a word with an odd number of letters.
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