Building Block Basics 1
Mood:  bright
Now Playing: wypr.org (NPR)
Topic: Phonology/Orthography
My new project has gotten a name, Jaaje, and has gained 2 sounds, /S/ and /Z/, and a new bit of Roman alphabet orthography, |q|.

a /a/
e /e/ ([e], [E], [ej], [Ej]. Same same.)
i /i/ ([i], [I]... see "e" above.)
u /u/
b /b/
c /tS/
d /d/
f /f/
g /g/
h /Z/
j /dZ/
k /k/
l /l/
m /m/
n /n/
p /p/
s /s/
t /t/
v /v/
x /S/
y /y/
z /z/
q /'/
A unwritten glottal stop occurs between two identical vowels, as in Jaaje /dZa'adZe/. |q| will represent a glottal stop between vowels elsewhere. |'| is an alternative to the 'q', and can be substituted at will. (I just have a bad taste in my mouth for the poor apostrophe mark, having recently played some fantasy RPGs and having read some fantasy novels where it is sprinkled into names as if it were grated parmesan to make the verbal spaghetti look more exotic/interesting/whatever the hell they were thinking.)

Stress may end up being fairly irregular. That's one of those wait-and-see things. Vowels may reduce to [@] in unstressed syllables. I haven't really nailed that down either. As previously mentioned, syllables are either V or CV.

Note that I am using |pipes| to denote orthography. This blog builder gets irritable when it sees something that looks like an HTML tag, but isn't.