Lesson #1: Phonology and Orthography
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Phonetics and orthography
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[top]Mauridai Lesson #1: Phonology and Orthography
Vowels
There are 8 vowels in Mauridai which can be either long or short (marked by circumflex and tilde)
Consonants
The consonants in Mauridai are as follows
B - /b/ - boy
C - /ǀ/ - ngicela (Zulu: I would like) NB: This is a tenuis dental click, read about it here
D - /d/ - dog
Dh - /ð/ - they
Dzh - /dʒ/ - jump
F - /f/ - fin
G - /g/ - good
H - /h/ - hope
J - /j/ - yes
K - /k/ - king
Kv - /kv/ - Quatsch (German: nonsense)
L - /l/ - lion
M - /m/ - man
N - /n/ never
P - /p/ - pick
R - /ɹ~ɾ~r/ - ring
S - /s/ - sit
Sh - /ʃ/ - shop
Tt - /t/ - ten
Th - /θ/ - thing
Ts - /ts/ - cats
Tsh - /tʃ/ - choose
V - /v/ - vine
W - /w/ - wish
X - /x/ - gaan (Dutch: to go)
Z - /z/ - zoo
Zh - /ʒ/ - measure
Other important features
Stress always falls on the penultimate syllable (default, unmarked) unless marked by an acute accent (the same way that Spanish works). Long vowels are always stressed (if multiple long vowels exist, though this is very uncommon, the penultimate long vowel is stressed). Stress is very important as it can change the meaning of the word, especially in verb conjugations:
murizi > murizí
[mu'rizi] > [muri'zi]
he/she/it eats > they eat
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