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Sounds and Letters in Efiderian
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5. Songs in Ediferian
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The Ediferian alphabet is composed of 28 letters:
Ediferian has only one letter case, but, when translittering, we should use the English upper and lowercase rules.
eg edifengilatim jeradi
Eg Edifengilatim jeradi.
I speak in Ediferian
The pronunciation of Ediferian is similiar to the ecclesiastical pronunciation of Latin:
- A = a (Like in the Italian word Casa)¹
- Ä = ɒ (Like in the German word Voll)
- B = b (Like in Back)
- Č = t͡ʃ (Like in Channel)
- Ch = x (Like in the German word Buch)
- D = d (Like in Day)
- E = e (Like in the Italian word Bene)²
- Ë = : (Like in Bit)
- F = f (Like in Full)
- G = g (Like in Guy)³
- I = i (Like in Deep)
- J = ʒ (Like in Leisure)
- K = k (Like in Cat)
- L = l (Like in Lizard)
- M = m (Like in Mark)
- N = n (Like in Noise)⁴
- O = o (Like in the Italian word Ombra)
- Ö = : (Like in the Japanese word Mura)
- P = p (Like in Apple)
- R = ɾ (Like in the Italian word Aringa)⁵
- S = s (Like in Stop)
- Sh = ʃ (Like in Sure)
- T = t (Like in Tick)⁶
- U = u (Like in Moon)
- V = v (Like in Voice)
- Y = j (Like in You)⁷
- Z = z (Like in Zone)
1. Ae = ə (Like in Other), unless it is followed by a liquid consonant (l or r) or is part of the suffix of the declension of the noun. In those cases, the sound remains ae
2. Ea = ɪa
3. Gch = gx
4. Ng = ŋg (Like in the Italian word Valanga)
5. R should be readen /r/ (Like in the Italian word Terra) when at the end of a word
6. T may be readen /ʈ/ when at the end of a word in some dialects
7. Yu = ju (Like in the German word über)
The syllables division is like the Latin one:
- Vowels that do not belong to a dyphthong form a syllable (E-nid)
- Dyphthongs form a single syllable (Nae-gan)
- When there are two or more consonants one after the other, the first of them forms a syllable with the previous vowel, while the others with the following one (Ber-je-de)
- The consonants B, P, K, G, D, T, R and V, when followed by L or R, form a syllable with the following vowel or dyphthong (A - tri - se - me - de)
There are two elements to take into account when defining where should the stress mark be positioned inside of a word: the length of the stem and the length of the suffix.
- If the suffix is composed of two or more syllables (excluding postpositions), the stress mark should be positioned onto the first syllable of the suffix (e.g. Köletea=
kaelet'ɪa) - If the suffix is composed of only one syllable, the stress mark should be positioned into the stem. If the stem is composed of one or more syllables, the stress mark should be positioned onto the second to last syllable of the stem (e.g. Bafilor = 'bafiloɾ)
- If the suffix includes a thematic vowel and the stem is composed of only one syllable, the stress mark keeps being into the stem (e.g. Katiros = 'katiɾos)
- If the suffix includes a thematic vowel and the stem is composed of two or more syllables, the stress mark moves its position to the last syllable of the stem (e.g. Bafiliros = ba'filiɾos)
- The rule above is used also if the last consonant of the stem is equal to the first consonant of the suffix (because it is as if the thematic vowel was there; e.g. Bafillai = ba'fil:ai)
- Imported words usually keep the same accent they had in their original language. Any particularity of the position of the stress will be notified on the dictionary
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