 Hale's 1997 practical orthography has ‘k’ for in order to disambiguate nasal+velar clusters (as in "wanka" ‘arm’) from instances of the velar nasal phoneme (as in "wangal" ‘boomerang’) and to avoid suggesting -gemination in clusters (as in "ngangkirr" ‘together’).The sounds represented by the digraphs ‘nh’ and ‘ly’ are not common in Lardil, but speakers perceive them as distinct, respectively, from and , and they do occur in some words (e.g.