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Friday, July 02, 2004

Other Jebei Langauges

There are other langauges than Cambrino in Jebei. Here's the phonology (sounds) for Xaalaan, a Hathan(or Xafaan) language (look at the recent Jebei map).

Consonants:
P, T, K, B, D, G, M, N, F, S, H, V, Z, W, R and L are all pronounced as in English.
Ng is prounounced as in bringer.
P', T', K', F', S', H' are prounced as if they had a "y" following them: like in Russian nyet.
Mh, Nh, and Gh are prounounced as M, N and Ng without voice, that is, without vibrating your vocal cords.
X is pronounced like H with voice, that is, with vibrating vocal cords.

Vowels
In Xaalaan, there are short vowels and long vowels. The short vowels are a, e, i, o, and u, pronounced as in pat, pet, pit, pot and put. The long vowels(aa, ee, ii, oo, uu) are pronounced differently in different dialects. In urban or younger dialects, they are pronounced as in part, peet, pie, poo and putt. In rural or older dialects, they are pronouced as the normal vowels, except you take twice as long to say them.


2 Comments:

At 9:54 pm, Anonymous Anonymous said...

John

I like the language lesson.

Also, good to see a language invented which is pretty phonetic, without all the weird shapes on top of letters like French and Vietnamese (the Vietnamese got their script from French Catholic Jesuit priests, so no wonder they ended up with all that crud).

And, some influence of the Scandinavian languages with the long vowels and short vowels.

Cool. (Khool ?)

y0u kn0w wh0

 
At 9:51 am, Blogger TheLoneAmigo said...

You know, I can't actually pronounce the unvoiced nasals... but it's possible, I know. I just keep trying.

 

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