====== Concatenation vs. Separate spelling ====== Usually various //grammatical// [[:clitics|clitics]] (e.g. verb's person) join the main word through concatenation in spelling, but by Nûrlâm convention they are written separately as stand-alone words when phonemes/words boundaries otherwise may produce: * two consecutive vowels; * long, hard to pronounce consonant clusters; * digraphs. However, when written in [[:tengwar|Tengwar]], all words will be written without spaces anyway. But Latin separate spelling will ensure that no sound combination into a different character will occur in Tengwar transcribers. Please note: these rules apply only to word inflection. During the derivation of new words adjacent sounds are often merged into one phoneme or transformed.