Editing Bislama (section)

==Orthography==
The Bislama Latin alphabet uses the letters ''A, B, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, R, S, T, U, V, W, Y'' and the digraphs ''AE'', ''AO'' and ''[[Velar nasal|NG]]''.

An older Latin orthography, used before 1995, had ''É'' (now written ''E''), ''AI'' and ''AU'' (now ''AE'' and ''AO''). For those vowels in hiatus, ''AÏ'' and ''AÜ'' were used (now written ''AI'' and ''AU''). [[Labialization|Labialized consonants]] (used in loanwords), now written with a tilde (''M̃'' and ''P̃'') or a following ''W'' (''MW'' and ''PW''), were then spelled with a [[Macron (diacritic)#Letter extension|macron]], following the conventions used for some vernacular Vanuatu languages: ''M̄'' was used for {{IPA|/mʷ/}} and ''P̄'' for {{IPA|/pʷ/}}.<ref name="auto">{{Cite web |title=Letter Database |url=http://eki.ee/letter/chardata.cgi?lang=bi+Bislama&script=latin |website=eki.ee}}</ref><ref>{{Cite thesis |last=Smith |first=Rachel E. |title="The Goal of the Good House": Seasonal Work and Seeking a Good Life in Lamen and Lamen Bay, Epi, Vanuatu |date=2016 |degree=PhD |publisher=University of Manchester |url=https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/files/54584756/FULL_TEXT.PDF |language=en}}</ref>

On the island of [[Pentecost Island|Pentecost]], the [[avoiuli]] script is sometimes used for Bislama. The shapes of the letters derive from sand-drawing. It has distinct letters for ''NG'' and ''NGG'', but otherwise corresponds closely to the Latin alphabet above, though capitals are seldom used, punctuation differs, there are digits for higher numbers and [[logogram]]s for commonly traded commodities such as pig tusks.