Appendix:Sondiv pronunciation
The Sondiv language has 18 consonants, 9 vowels, and 2 glides.
Standard Romanization
Letter | IPA | English example | Notes |
---|---|---|---|
a | a | father | It has both a front and back pronunciation. |
an | ɐ̃ | - | A nasal version of a regular a, but centralized. |
b | b | bog | |
d | d | dog | |
e | e | bait | |
en | ɛ̃ | prince (French) | A nasal vowel. |
f | f | food | |
g | g | good | |
h | h | ham | |
i | i | beet | |
j | ʒ | azure | It's spelled with a j because this show takes place in New Orleans, and the language is reminiscent of French. |
k | k | skill | |
l | l | left | |
m | m | man | |
n | n | no | |
o | o | coat | |
on | ɔ̃ | on(French) | A nasal vowel. |
p | p | span | |
r | ɾ | battle | |
s | s | see | |
t | t | stop | |
u | u | rude | |
v | v | voice | |
w | w | wet | |
y | j | yawn | |
z | z | zoo |
Phonetics
Sondiv has nasal vowels and a lot of sounds that end up getting pronounced [d].
Consonants
Labial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nasal | m [m] | n [n] | (n [ɲ]) | (n [ŋ]) | ||
Plosive | voiceless | p [p] | t [t] | k [k] | ||
voiced | b [b] | d [d] | g [g] | |||
Fricative | voiceless | f [f] | s [s] | h [h] | ||
voiced | v [v] | z [z] | zh [ʒ] | |||
Lateral | l [l] | |||||
Approximant | w [w] | r [ɾ] | y [j] |
Vowels
Veda has 9 phonetically distinct vowels:
Front | Central | Back | |
---|---|---|---|
Close | i [i] | u [u] | |
Mid | e [e], en [ɛ̃] | o [o], on [ɔ̃] | |
Open | a [a] | an [ɐ̃] | a [ɑ] |