Editing Norfuk language (section)

==Orthography==
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The language is largely a spoken rather than written language,<ref>Buffett, Alice, ''An Encyclopædia of the Norfolk Island Language'', 1999</ref> and there is a lack of standardisation.<ref name="emsah.uq.edu.au" /> However, a number of attempts have been made at developing an [[orthography]] for the language. Early attempts either attempted to enforce English spelling onto the Norfuk words,<ref>Buffett, Alice, ''An Encyclopædia of the Norfolk Island Language'', 1999, p. xvi</ref> or used [[Diacritic|diacritical marks]] to represent sounds distinct to the language.

[[Alice Buffett]], a Norfolk Island [[Norfolk Island Legislative Assembly|parliamentarian]] and Australian-trained linguist, developed a codified grammar and [[orthography]] for the language in the 1980s, assisted by Dr [[Donald Laycock]], an [[Australian National University]] academic. Their book, ''Speak Norfuk Today,'' was published in 1988. This orthography has won the endorsement of the Norfolk Island government, and its use is becoming prevalent.<ref>Buffett, David E., ''An Encyclopædia of the Norfolk Island Language'', 1999, p. xii</ref>