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Triparic Pronunciation

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Revision as of 04:59, 20 March 2016 by Shawn (talk | contribs) (Consonants)

THIS IS A DRAFT. Carrie and Shawn are revising things.

N.B. Both the digraph system and the accented-character system are acceptable native orthographies, but it's bad form to mix systems within one text.

Consonants

b, d, f, h, j, k, l, m, n, p, r, s, t, v, w, z as in English
y as in English when consonantal
g always hard, as in English get
x x as in axe, except z at beginning of words
c
q
cz č ch as in church
sz š sh as in shoe
nz ň ny as in canyon
dz ð "dh", or th as in that
tz þ th as in think

Vowels

a as in father
e as in romance languages
i as machine
o as in float
u as in pool
as in out
as in aye
as in boy
as in hate
as in German mögen
as in German müssen
as in hat