Re: A Formal Proposal (LONG)
Marketa J Zvelebil 
Fri, 10 Jul 1998 08:21:02 +0000

Ryan McReynolds wrote:

> VOWELS
>
> a - as in "father"
> e - as in "pet"
> i - as in "sit"
> ii - as in "zuchini"
> o - as in "choke"
> u - as in "look"
> uu - as in "shoot"
>
> DIPHTHONGS
>
> Basically, any combination of the above is acceptable as a diphthong.
> Obviously some are more difficult to pronounce, but Vulcan is not supposed
> to be a human language as it is.  Some are also more common than others, but
> that can be determined later.  With their sensitive ears, diphthongs such as
> <iii> would be much more distinguishable than they are to our ears.
>
> CONSONANTS
>
> b - as in "boy"
> ch - as in "attach"
> d - as in "dog"
> dh - aspirated d, like "duh" but terser
> dzh - d+zh
> f - as in "fool"
> g - as in "god"
> h - as in "hat"
> k - as in "quick"
> kh - as in "Bach"
> l - as in "let"
> m - as in "man"
> n - as in "north"
> ng - as in "pong"
> ny - Spanish n+tilde, n~
> p - as in "pod"
> q - k but farther back, in throat; Klingon q
> r - as in "red"; original rh?
> rr - as in "burrito", original r?
> t - as in "top"
> th - as in "this"
> ts - as in "cats"
> v - as in "vole"
> w - as in "what"
> wh - the original w~
> whl - the original w~l
> x - as in "tax"
> y - as in "yell"
> z - as in "zap"
> zh - as in "azure"
> ' - as in "uh-oh"
>
> COMMON EXAMPLES
>
> brakh - brax
> imroiika - imroykah
> plomiik - plomeek
> t'haii'la - t'hy'la
> Spakh - Spock, as pronounced by T'Lar in ST:TMP
> Whl'q'n - W~l'q'n
>
> NOTES
>
> For the most part, it is primarily the vowels that are different between my
> system and those which have preceeded it.  There are a few differences
> elsewhere, but as I said, they are all things which I believe would improve
> the learnability and "user-friendliness" of the language.  Thank you for
> your time, and comments are always welcome.
>
> -McReynolds

 We  also need a "Ch" sounds as in the hebrew word Hadash. I am afraid there is
no english
equvalent. Or dutch graach.

Marketa

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