Orthotactics

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  1. 1
    The restrictions a language applies to the positions and patterns of graphemes in written words. uncountable

    "The orthotactics of Spanish usually use the letter u after the letter g to signal a hard g, whereas the orthotactics of Italian usually use the letter h for that purpose."

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"The orthotactics of Spanish usually use the letter u after the letter g to signal a hard g, whereas the orthotactics of Italian usually use the letter h for that purpose."

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