There are three different
orthographies, giving the interpretations of previous scholarly works. Coeur d'Alene examples have been taken from the works of Nicodemus et al. as well as from the COLRC website.
Notes on writing systems • LPO, the linguistic
phonetic orthography, is a third orthographic system based on a variant of the
American Phonetic Alphabet (with some symbols shared with the
International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)). Many Salishan scholars, such as Lyon Greenwood, call the LPO orthography the Salishan orthography. This system will also be used by the Coeur d'Alene Dictionaries Project in conjunction with the Bitar system. • Bitar is another name referring to Lawrence Nicodemus's orthography. explains that ranges freely between , and with being the most common variant. This gives clarity to her variance in representing the sound in
vowel inventories of her website and her dissertation as or . • Doak and Montler, use the notation while Lyon uses to indicate the same phoneme and orthographic symbol.
Okanagan also utilizes the wedge notation for this same phoneme: . • Standard Salishan (LPO) Nicodemus et al., and Reichard used the notation in consonant inventories and orthographies in reference to the same sound which Doak describes as bilateral. ==Morphology and syntax==