356:. /7/ is kind of a special case; other special characters that look more like regular English are harder to decipher; the colon in Sto:lo makes the pronunciation "Stahlo" and the apostrophes in St'at'imc make in combination with the t a /tl/ sound (in other languages this is often a plosive or ejective t). Although I'm opposed to complex roman diacriticals like underscore x's and overscript lines and superscripts and such, the 7 has no simplification other than maybe an apostrophe; but it's not the convention for hnames that use it, i.e. in the English as used in th regions where those names are found. True we're seeing a lot more underscore-g but to me it's all about typability and ease of use. "7" is jarring to see and causes a head-scratch; but at least it's easy to make compared to other special characgters....
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I meant to butt in by explaining that the "7" glottal stop characger is a print adaptation of a 7-like character wher e he tail drops below the baselin like a g or y; it's used in some native language orthographies and the ordinary 7-form hs becomde regularly used in major media like the
291:"Indigenously correct" names are standard-usage in Canadian, especially in B, media and acdemic circles. Nootka and Kwakiutl of names for particular gropus transposed to the whole ethno-linguistic group in each case; Kwakiutl is an anglicization (so-called) of
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