as as a relic from the now modern Russian yery character , which is itself usually transliterated as ; as ; as ; as ; as , or . The standard Slovene orthography, used in almost all situations, uses only the letters of the ISO basic Latin alphabet plus , , and . The letters , , , and are not included: The orthography thus underdifferentiates several phonemic distinctions: Stress, vowel length and tone are not distinguished, except with optional diacritics when it is necessary to distinguish between similar words with a different meaning. The two distinct mid-vowels are also not distinguished, both written as simply and . The schwa is also written as . However, the combination is written as simply between consonants and is thus distinguishable. Vocalised l is written as , but cannot be predictably distinguished from in that position. In the tonemic varieties of Slovene, the ambiguity is even worse: e in a final syllable can stand for any of (although is rare). The reader is expected to gather the interpretation of the word from the context, as in these examples: gol: gȍł "naked" gọ̑l "goal" jesen: jésen "ash tree" jesẹ̑n "autumn" kot kọ́t "angle" kot "as" med med "between" mẹ̑d "honey" pol pọ̑l "pole" pọ̑ł "half" pól "half an hour before (the hour)" precej prȅcej "at once" (archaic) precẹ̑j or precȅj "a great deal (of)" Diacritics To compensate for the shortcomings of the standard orthography, Slovene also uses standardized diacritics or accent marks to denote stress, vowel length and pitch accent, much like the closely related Serbo-Croatian. However, as in Serbo-Croatian, use of such accent marks is restricted to dictionaries, language textbooks and linguistic publications. In normal writing, the diacritics are almost never used, except in a few minimal pairs where real ambiguity could arise. Two different and mutually incompatible systems of diacritics are used. The first is the simpler non-tonemic system, which can be applied to all Slovene dialects. It is more widely used and is the standard representation in dictionaries such as SSKJ. The tonemic system also includes tone as part of the representation. However, neither system reliably distinguishes schwa from the front mid-vowels, nor vocalised l from regular l . Some sources write these as ə and ł, respectively, but this is not as common. Non-tonemic diacritics In the non-tonemic system, the distinction between the two mid-vowels is indicated, as well as