Thursday, August 12, 2010

Pronunciation - 2

As previously proposed, every letter has a unique, invariable, pronunciation.

Every letter in every word is pronounced.

There are some logical results, which can be mentioned for clarification, but are not arbitrary rules.

Double consonnants (tt/nn/ss...) don't make sense & don't exist.

Double vowels make sense, some producing a double-length vowel sound which is commonly recognized in other languages.

Example

Sounds like English

hit

hit

hiit

heat

pul

pull

puul

pool

bet

bet

beer

bear - not beer


Others (oo/aa) are logically OK but don't match any English sounds.

Adjacent but different vowels in one word are each pronounced with thier usual sound.
They are added together & don't produce any new diphthong sound.

Example

As in English

ie

Vienna - not pie/field

oa

boa - not boat/boar

ai

archaic - not air/pain



Adjacent vowels in adjacent words are just pronounced quite separately.

Nothing is inserted to "ease" such pronunciation, neither a separating letter (English "a man" but "an ant") nor a modified pronunciation (English "the man" & "the end" has different pronunciations of "the" with implied "thiy" before a vowel).



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