Editing Veps language (section)

==Orthography==
The modern Vepsian alphabet is a [[Latin script|Latin alphabet]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=17 April 2007 |title=Government of Karelia Approved Uniform Karelian Language Alphabet |url=http://gov.karelia.ru/News/2007/04/0417_06_e.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110716064115/http://gov.karelia.ru/News/2007/04/0417_06_e.html |archive-date=2011-07-16 |access-date=2011-01-08 |website=The Official Karelia}}</ref> It consists of a total of twenty-nine characters: twenty-two are from the [[basic modern Latin alphabet]], six are derived from basic Latin letters by the addition of [[diacritical marks]], and the final character is the prime symbol, which signifies [[Palatalization (phonetics)|palatalization]] of the preceding sound.

{| class="wikitable"
|- 	
| style="background:#efefef; text-align:center;" colspan="29" | '''[[Capital letters|Majuscule Forms]]''' (also called '''uppercase''' or '''capital letters''')
|- style="text-align:center;"
| style="width:3%;" | [[A]]
| style="width:3%;" | [[B]]
| style="width:3%;" | [[C]]
| style="width:3%;" | [[Č]]
| style="width:3%;" | [[D]]
| style="width:3%;" | [[E]]
| style="width:3%;" | [[F]]
| style="width:3%;" | [[G]]
| style="width:3%;" | [[H]]
| style="width:3%;" | [[I]]
| style="width:3%;" | [[J]]
| style="width:3%;" | [[K]]
| style="width:3%;" | [[L]]
| style="width:3%;" | [[M]]
| style="width:3%;" | [[N]]
| style="width:3%;" | [[O]]
| style="width:3%;" | [[P]]
| style="width:3%;" | [[R]]
| style="width:3%;" | [[S]]
| style="width:3%;" | [[Š]]
| style="width:3%;" | [[Z]]
| style="width:3%;" | [[Ž]]
| style="width:3%;" | [[T]]
| style="width:3%;" | [[U]]
| style="width:3%;" | [[V]]
| style="width:3%;" | [[Ü]]
| style="width:3%;" | [[Ä]]
| style="width:3%;" | [[Ö]]
| style="width:3%;" | [[Prime (symbol)|ʹ]]
|-
| style="background:#efefef; text-align:center;" colspan="29"| '''[[Lower case|Minuscule Forms]]''' (also called '''lowercase''' or '''small letters''')
|- style="text-align:center;"
| a
| b
| c
| č
| d
| e
| f
| g
| h
| i
| j
| k
| l
| m
| n
| o
| p
| r
| s
| š
| z
| ž
| t
| u
| v
| ü
| ä
| ö
| ʹ
|}

Veps orthography is largely phonemic, and represents each phoneme with one letter. Palatalized consonants are single phonemes, and thus the combination of a letter and a following prime symbol is a single combined letter for this purpose. The following table shows the correspondences between letters and phonemes:

{|
|- style="vertical-align: top;"
|
{| class="wikitable"
! Letter
! Phoneme
|-
| a
| {{IPA|/ɑ/}}
|-
| b
| {{IPA|/b/}}
|-
| c
| {{IPA|/t͡s/}}, {{IPA|/t͡sʲ/}}
|-
| cʹ
| {{IPA|/t͡sʲ/}}
|-
| č
| {{IPA|/t͡ʃ/}}
|-
| d
| {{IPA|/d/}}, {{IPA|/dʲ/}}
|-
| dʹ
| {{IPA|/dʲ/}}
|-
| e
| {{IPA|/e/}}
|-
| f
| {{IPA|/f/}}
|-
| g
| {{IPA|/ɡ/}}, {{IPA|/ɡʲ/}}
|-
| gʹ
| {{IPA|/ɡʲ/}}
|-
| h
| {{IPA|/h/}}, {{IPA|/hʲ/}}
|-
| hʹ
| {{IPA|/hʲ/}}
|-
| i
| {{IPA|/i/}} (sometimes {{IPA|[ɨ]}})
|}
|
{| class="wikitable"
! Letter
! Phoneme
|-
| j
| {{IPA|/j/}}
|-
| k
| {{IPA|/k/}}, {{IPA|/kʲ/}}
|-
| kʹ
| {{IPA|/kʲ/}}
|-
| l
| {{IPA|/l/}}, {{IPA|/lʲ/}}
|-
| lʹ
| {{IPA|/lʲ/}}
|-
| m
| {{IPA|/m/}}, {{IPA|/mʲ/}}
|-
| mʹ
| {{IPA|/mʲ/}}
|-
| n
| {{IPA|/n/}}, {{IPA|/nʲ/}}
|-
| nʹ
| {{IPA|/nʲ/}}
|-
| o
| {{IPA|/o/}}
|-
| p
| {{IPA|/p/}}, {{IPA|/pʲ/}}
|-
| pʹ
| {{IPA|/pʲ/}}
|-
| r
| {{IPA|/r/}}, {{IPA|/rʲ/}}
|-
| rʹ
| {{IPA|/rʲ/}}
|}
|
{| class="wikitable"
! Letter
! Phoneme
|-
| s
| {{IPA|/s/}}, {{IPA|/sʲ/}}
|-
| sʹ
| {{IPA|/sʲ/}}
|-
| š
| {{IPA|/ʃ/}}
|-
| z
| {{IPA|/z/}}, {{IPA|/zʲ/}}
|-
| zʹ
| {{IPA|/zʲ/}}
|-
| ž
| {{IPA|/ʒ/}}
|-
| t
| {{IPA|/t/}}, {{IPA|/tʲ/}}
|-
| tʹ
| {{IPA|/tʲ/}}
|-
| u
| {{IPA|/u/}}
|-
| v
| {{IPA|/v/}}, {{IPA|/vʲ/}}
|-
| vʹ
| {{IPA|/vʲ/}}
|-
| ü
| {{IPA|/y/}}
|-
| ä
| {{IPA|/æ/}}
|-
| ö
| {{IPA|/ø/}}
|}
|}

Palatalization of consonants before front vowels is not indicated in the orthography, so plain consonant letters can represent both types of consonant depending on what vowel follows. For the following letters {{angbr|i}} and {{angbr|e}}, this is ambiguous, however: they can be preceded by both types of consonants, as noted above in the phonology section. Whether a consonant before the letter {{angbr|i}} or {{angbr|e}} is palatalized or not cannot be determined from the orthography and must be learned for each word.