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I recently spent a while in the Squamish area and became fascinated by first-nations linguistics and writing processes. Very interesting stuff, coming from a native latin/germanic perspective where pronunciation is not implicit e.g in the word 'Sḵwx̱wú7mesh' the '7' is a glottal stop. Compare this to a word, say, 'gezellig' in Nederlands, where the opening g is glottal but not denoted in writing.