You'll see how to write in Zornian in the last chapter. Also, remember that some chapter names will be marked as "optional" using a "*".
Here, I will show you how an English person should prononce Fengati. First, how you write it, then how it's written in IPA, then what words you (probably) know have the same sounds. Here are the vowels :
a | /a/ | harm
e | /e/ | electricity
i | /i/ | yeet
o | /o/ | hormones
u | /u/ | boot
ü | /y/ | bienvenue (Fr.)
ê | /aj/ | eye, night, knight, lime
ë | /ɘ/ | örbeindshaft (Ger.)
aa | /a'a/*
ee | /e'e/*
ii | /i'i/*
oo | /o'o/*
uu | /u'u/*
üü | /y'y/*
*these are just doubled vowels, very simple
Then, here are the consonnants :
ź | /dz/ | pizza
z | /s/ | horse, sea
s | /ʃ/ | sheep
b | /b/ | burn
p | /p/ | pizza, application
bb | /b:/*
pp | /p:/*
k | /k/ | corn, hack
kk | /k'/**
g | /g/ | gum, egg
gg | /g:/*
tl | /tl/ | little, Tenochtitlan
t | /t/ | tower, out
tt | /t'/**
l | /l/ | learn, heal
ll | /ɬ/ | Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch (Wel.)
m | /m/ | moth
n | /n/ | nationality
nn | /ʘ/ | (a rare sound ; it's a mouth click ; like some kind of smack)
x | (any click sound except /ʘ/ can be used to read that)
c | /ɣ/ | Loch Ness (Gael.), khurûf (Arab.)
v | /v/ | vowel
w | /w/ | Taiwan, way, how
vv | /v:'/***
r | /r/ | Rinascimento, arrivederci, (Ita.)
rr | /r:/*
d | /d/ | doorbell
dd | /d:/*
f | /ɸ/ | fern, farm
ff | /ɸ:/*
h | /h/ | horn, harm
j | /dʒ/ | John, jeans, wage
y | /j/ | yes, year, you
*long
*sounds like spitting on your friends ; violently pronounced
*long and violent
Try to pronounce these words :
To smoke = frilifanar*
Bed = baat
Humans = umü
Moth = falena
Volcan = vulkan
Dark = zmog
England = Angatl
Emperor = tlatowani / saka / emperir
*most of the time, the "a" in "ar" at the end of a verb is barely pronounced or often not pronounced at all
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