Brooding

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 xxx in 'xxx'