IntroductionSounds
Consonants
| b |
/b/ |
as in 'bee'
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| p |
/p/ |
as in 'pea'
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| d |
/d/ |
as in 'deed'
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| t |
/t/ |
as in 'tea'
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| g |
/g/ |
as in 'get'
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| k |
/k/ |
as in 'key'
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| f |
/f/ |
as in 'fee'
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| th |
/θ/ |
as in 'thin'
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| s |
/s/ |
as in 'see'
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| z |
/z/ |
as in 'zed'
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| sh |
/ʃ/ |
as in 'she'
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| kh |
/x/ |
as ch in German 'Bach'
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| h |
/h/ |
as in 'he'
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| ch |
/t͡ʃ/ |
as in 'cheek'
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| m |
/m/ |
as in 'me'
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| n |
/n/ |
as in 'need'
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| ng |
/ŋ/ |
as in 'ring'
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| l |
/l/ |
as in 'leaf'
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| r |
/ɹ/ |
as in 'reed'
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| w |
/w/ |
as in 'we'
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| y |
/j/ |
as in 'yea'
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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'
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| pl |
/pl/ |
as in 'plea'
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| dr |
/dɹ/ |
as in 'drum'
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| tl |
/tl/ |
not an English sound. t followed immediately by l
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| gr |
/gɹ/ |
as in 'grow'
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| kl |
/kl/ |
as cl in 'clean'
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| fl |
/fl/ |
as in 'flee'
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| thl |
/θl/ |
not an English sound. It sounds a lot like sl as said with a lisp.
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| sl |
/sl/ |
as in 'sleep'
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| zr |
/zɹ/ |
not an English sound. z followed immediately by r
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| shl |
/ʃl/ |
as schl in 'schlep'
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| khl |
/xl/ |
not an English sound. x followed immediately by l
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| hl |
/hl/ |
not an English sound. h followed immediately by l
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| sk |
/sk/ |
as in 'skill'
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| sp |
/sp/ |
as in 'spill'
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| st |
/st/ |
as in 'still'
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Vowels
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