Pronunciation and orthography
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1. Formation of words
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3. Sample texts
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4. The adjective
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5. The adverb
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6. The conjunction
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7. The interjection
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9. The numeral
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10. The preposition
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11. The pronoun
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== I. PRONUNCIATION AND ORTHOGRAPHY ==§1. The Neutral Language II (Idiomo Neutrali II) has 22 letters, 5 vowels: {a e i o u}, and 17 consonants: {b c d f g
h j k l m n p r s t v y}.
The vowels are pronounced as follows:
{a} as {a} in the English word far, father, guard.
{e} as {a} in the English word cape, dale, fate.
{i} as {e} in the English word me.
{o} as {o} in the English word no, note.
{u} as {u} in the English word truth, or
{u} as {oo} in the English word moon, room.
There are two diphthongs: {au} and {eu}. In all other cases, consecutive vowels are pronounced separately, e.g .
hebre-iki Hebraic, se-i his.
The consonants are always pronounced as follows:
{b} as {b} in the English word bar.
{c} as {c} in the English word cat, current.
{d} as {d} in the English word date.
{f} as {f} in the English word fate.
{g} as {g} in the English word get, give, got.
{h} as {h} in the English word hold.
{j} as {sh} in the English word shall.
{k} as {k} in the English word keep, kill.
{l} as {l} in the English word late, let.
{m} as {m} in the English word mat, met.
{n} as {n} in the English word not, note.
{p} as {p} in the English word pale, pair.
{r} as {r} in the English word rain, red.
{s} as {s} in the English word sale, seal, sill
{t} as {t} in the English word tale, till.
{v} as {v} in the English word vale, vague.
{y} as {y} in the English word yet, yoke.
The letter {k} is used only immediately before the letters {e} and {i}. The letter {c} is used elsewhere.
§2. Words are accented according to the following rule:
The accent (or stress of voice) is on penultimate vowel it the word ends in a vowel or s, or on the last vowel
elsewere, e. g. {fortuno} (pronounced fortùno) fortune, {mano} (pr. màno) hand, {aloe} (pr. alòe) aloe, {filio}
(pr. filìo) son, {Deo} (pr. Dèo) God. ✎ Edit Article ✖ Delete Article
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