Alright, so an important aspect of most conlangs is the phonology. Here goes. If you are unfamiliar with IPA, I recommend this website, http://www.yorku.ca/earmstro/ipa/ because it gives audio clips for each IPA letter.
IPA | Letter |
a | a |
ɛ | e |
i | i |
o | o |
u | u |
ʊ | ou |
p | p |
b | b |
t | t |
d | d |
k | k |
g | g |
m | m |
n | n |
ŋ | ng |
ɸ | f |
β | v |
θ | th |
ð | dh |
s | s |
z | z |
h | h |
ɾ | r |
j | y |
l | l |
w | w |
Some other important things to point out are:
- “qu” is pronounced /kw/
- double consonants are long and span two syllables
- double vowels are long and are pronounced longer than their singular counterparts, eg. “aa” is pronounced /a:/
- accented vowels are pronounced the same as long vowels and short vowels, but these accented vowels mark the stress of the word
- if a word lacks accented vowels, then the word very likely has no stress which often happens for short grammatical words, eg. ik, bwaza, ga, quon, etc.