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In early English archival wordlists of South Australian languages, how did settler recorders typically transcribe dental consonants such as /t̪/ or /n̪/?

They frequently used English digraphs like 'th' or 'dh', or failed to distinguish them from alveolar /t/ and /n/ They transcribed dental consonants using Greek symbols like theta and delta They replaced all dental sounds with glottal stops written as apostrophes They recorded dental consonants exclusively using capital Roman letters

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They frequently used English digraphs like 'th' or 'dh', or failed to distinguish them from alveolar /t/ and /n/

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