A grammar of Pite Saami, 2014

1.2 Linguistic documentation of Pite Saami
However, geminate segments represented by digraphs, such as for /ʃ/ or
for /ʧ/ are written by doubling the initial grapheme, as in (10) through (12).
(10) /pɔʃːo/ båssjo ‘kitchen’
(11) /maɲːe/ mannje ‘daughter-in-law’
(12) /kɔʧːɔt/ gåttjåt ‘urinate’
Preaspiration is represented by when the preaspirated segment is the initial
segment in the consonant center (cf. §2.2.2.4), as in (13) and (14).
(13) /pɔʰtet/ båhtet ‘come’
(14) /aːʰʧːe/ áhttje ‘father’
If a preaspirated segment is preceded by a sonorant consonant segment, then the
preaspiration itself is not marked by a grapheme of its own, as in (15) through
(17).
(15) /murːʰko/ murrko ‘fog’
(16) /kumːʰpe/ gummpe ‘wol’
(17) /vu͡anːʰʦa/ vuanntsa ‘hen’
For plosives, the preaspiration is evident nonetheless because the corresponding
plain segments are spelled differently, using . However, the current
working version of the orthography does not provide a way to distinguish
between preaspirated affricates preceded by a sonorant segment, e.g., (17), and
plain affricates preceded by a sonorant segment.
In spoken Pite Saami, when the copular and auxiliary verb lä is preceded by
a word ending in an open syllable, it is often encliticized as l on that preceding
word. To reflect this in the orthography, lä is then written as ’l immediately
following the preceding word, as in (18) and (19).
(18) gunne lä dån → gunne’l dån ‘Where are you?’
(19) dállke lä bivval → dállke’l bivval ‘The weather is warm.’
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