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Orthography Comparison

The Text Approach

<orthogrCharact>

   <overview>The scribe writes with two jers and with a nonetymological 

   distribution of juses. After the letters ш, ж, щ; in word-initial 

   position (after j); and after vowel letters the front nasal is replaced 

   by the back one. After ч  ...</overview>

</orthogrCharact>

The Database Approach

<!ELEMENT jer %paraContent;>

<!ATTLIST jer %a.global; 	

          type (front | back | etymReg | nonEtymReg | irregular) #REQUIRED >