Prepare yourself Terran!! There are 50 letters in the Nazaen Alphabet.
First, I will address the Vowels...."Hello Vowels!!
But seriously Folks!!.....
The Alphabet I am posting here is NOT, I repeat, NOT the Nazaen Alphabet. UH??? Well...,The actual Aphabet Nazaens use, is NOT available for computer use at this moment, I need some one to make it into a Font for Windows or a Truetype. What I am using instead,is a ROMANIZED TYPE and using the keyboard Diacritical keys to approximate the letter variances.
So...here they are:
The Vowels:
(The sounds are reproduced,roughly as in English)
(Note: All "joined" Vowels acquire an unwritten "Y" sound that falls between the grouping, even though it may be 2,3, or 4 of them. "4"!!??.... Very rarely, that would be in the language's "Archaic" speech only. Also, it should be noted that any vowel with a diacritical mark does NOT recieve a "y" sound,nor does a final "i".)
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(sound) (Key)
AH ......A
AHYEE ...AI
AHYOH ...AO
AHR .....A^
AENG ....A~
AE ......A'
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EH ......E
EHYEE....EI
EHYO.....EO
EHR .....E^
ENG......E~
UH......E'
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EE........I
EEYEH.....IE
EEYOH.....IO
IH........I'or I>
IHR.......I^
ING.......I~
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OH........O
OHYEH.....OE
OHYEE.....OI
OY........OJ or O>
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NOW HERE ARE THE CONSONANTS:
C.........(LIKE TS IN caTS)
C^........(LIKE CH IN riCH)
D'........(LIKE DY IN diD-You)
D^........(LIKE DZY -no English equivalent)
F.........(LIKE IN ENGLISH)
G.........(LIKE J IN Jump)
H.........(LIKE IN ENGLISH)
J.........(LIKE Y IN Yes)
L.........(LIKE IN ENGLISH)
L'........(LIKE LY IN miLLIon)
M.........(LIKE IN ENGLISH)
M'........(LIKE MY IN MEOW)
N.........(LIKE IN ENGLISH)
N~........(LIKE NY IN caNYon)
P.........(LIKE IN ENGLISH)
P'........(LIKE PY IN Pure)
P^........(LIKE PR IN oPRah)
Q.........(LIKE CHWUH IN whiCH-ONE)
R.........(LIKE R IN Rat)
S.........(LIKE SSS IN Saki)
S'........(LIKE SY IN miSS-You)
S^........(LIKE SR IN SIR)
S>........(LIKE SHCH IN raSH-CHoice)
X.........(LIKE SH IN SHoot)
T'........(LIKE TY IN noT-Yet)
T^........(LIKE TH IN THis)
V.........(LIKE V IN Vase)
V'........(LIKE VY IN VIew)
W.........(LIKE WUH IN WOnder)
Z.........(LIKE Z IN buZZ)
Z'........(LIKE ZY IN phaSE-You)
Z^........(LIKE ZH IN aZUre)
If you are truely interested in this language, I have a script of the alphabet which I can snail-mail you so you can learn to read Nazaen the proper way. E-mail me with your request.
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