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Pronunciation - The Mirad alphabet has both lower-case and
upper-case letters. The alphabet has the same base letters as
Latin or English, except that the letters Qq, Xx, and Yy are
considered non-native and are used only in foreign names and
borrowings. Also, the letters Hh and Ww are additional to
Agapoff's original Unilingua alphabet and are unique in that
they have no inherent semantic values; they are used for various
grammatical-only purposes. A unique feature of Mirad is that
every native letter is a semantically-significant atom in the
language and can be thought of as bricks in lexical
construction. See Word-building - The order of the native
alphabet is as follows: - a á à â b c d e é è ê f g h i í ì î j
k l m n o ó ò ô p r s t u ú ù û v w z - The above lower-case
letters can also be represented as upper-case letters. In
Unicode representations and indexing, the uppercase graphemes
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