Brooding
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Introduction
Brooding is a language spoken in the land of Harken. You can't get there from here!
Sounds
Consonants
| b | /b/ | as in 'bee' |
| p | /p/ | as in 'pea' |
| d | /d/ | as in 'deed' |
| t | /t/ | as in 'tea' |
| g | /g/ | as in 'get' |
| k | /k/ | as in 'key' |
| f | /f/ | as in 'fee' |
| th | /θ/ | as in 'thin' |
| s | /s/ | as in 'see' |
| z | /z/ | as in 'zed' |
| sh | /ʃ/ | as in 'she' |
| kh | /x/ | as ch in German 'Bach' |
| h | /h/ | as in 'he' |
| ch | /t͡ʃ/ | as in 'cheek' |
| m | /m/ | as in 'me' |
| n | /n/ | as in 'need' |
| ng | /ŋ/ | as in 'ring' |
| l | /l/ | as in 'leaf' |
| r | /ɹ/ | as in 'reed' |
| w | /w/ | as in 'we' |
| y | /j/ | as in 'yea' |
- All but kh are pretty much pronounced as in standard English
- th is always pronounced as the 'th' in thin (/θ/), never as the 'th' in thee or they (/ð/)
- l always pronounced like the 'l' in leaf (/l/), never like the 'll' in all or ball (/ɫ/)
- g is always pronounces like the 'g' in get (/ɡ/), never like the 'g' in 'gee' (d͡ʒ)
Consonant Blends and Clusters
Several of the sounds have a 'blended' version. A consonant blend is two consonants in a row pronounced one after the other. Most of these blends only appear at the beginning of syllables. While these blends are represented by a single letter in Brooding orthography, they are two consonant sounds (and this subject to Brooding word structure rules that apply to two consonants in a row).
| br | /bɹ/ | as in 'bread' |
| pl | /pl/ | as in 'plea' |
| dr | /dɹ/ | as in 'drum' |
| tl | /tl/ | not an English sound. t followed immediately by l |
| gr | /gɹ/ | as in 'grow' |
| kl | /kl/ | as cl in 'clean' |
| fl | /fl/ | as in 'flee' |
| thl | /θl/ | not an English sound. It sounds a lot like sl as said with a lisp. |
| sl | /sl/ | as in 'sleep' |
| zr | /zɹ/ | not an English sound. z followed immediately by r |
| shl | /ʃl/ | as schl in 'schlep' |
| khl | /xl/ | not an English sound. x followed immediately by l |
| hl | /hl/ | not an English sound. h followed immediately by l |
| sk | /sk/ | as in 'skill' |
| sp | /sp/ | as in 'spill' |
| st | /st/ | as in 'still' |
- As noted above a few of the blends do not occur in English. They take a little practice to say, but aren't hard. Avoid putting a sound between the sounds - English speakers might have a tendency to insert a vowel in there (like some people pronounce sphere as 'suh-fear')
Vowels
| a | /ɑ/ | as a in 'father' |
| aa | /æ/ | as a in 'bat' |
| ae | /e/ | as ay in 'bay' |
| ai | /aɪ̯/ | as ie in 'bit' |
| au | /aʊ̯/ | as ow in 'cow' |
| aw | /ɔ/ | as ou in 'bought' |
| e | /ɛ/ | as e in 'bet' |
| ee | /i/ | as ee in 'bee' |
| i | /ɪ/ | as i in 'bit' |
| o | /o/ | as oa in 'boat' |
| oo | /u/ | as oo in 'boot' |
| uh | /ə/ | as u in 'but' |