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===Orthography=== | ===Orthography=== | ||
<!--Explain your conlang's alphabet. Use the International Phonetic Alphabet to describe the sounds of your language. If you are unsure on how to use IPA then visit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Phonetic_Alphabet and read up. --> | <!--Explain your conlang's alphabet. Use the International Phonetic Alphabet to describe the sounds of your language. If you are unsure on how to use IPA then visit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Phonetic_Alphabet and read up. --> | ||
17aug | Vowels in 17aug are a straightforward process to write. They are written with 9 different graphemes which correspond one-to-one to 9 different vowels. <a e i o u> all represent {{IPA|/ɑ e i o u/}} while for the more unusual vowels {{IPA|/æ ɤ ø/}} <ä ë ö> are used. As vowels may be long, so too may the graphemes be doubled to indicate this, e.g. ''tää'' 'snow' {{IPA|tæː}}. | ||
====Consonants==== | |||
At its core, the language writes the plosive series as <p t k>, the nasals as <m n>, the trill as <r>, the palatal approximant as <y>, the lateral one as <l>, and the glottal fricative as <h>. Palatalisation is not indicated in writing as it is the result of a regular process. | |||
The "weakened" variants of ''p, t, k'' (see [[{{FULLPAGENAME}}#Phonology#Consonants|consonants]] encountered after certain consonants and intervocalically are written as ''b, d, g'' something which may confusion at first as they are not fully voiced sounds (unlike say English). While not having a direct counterpart <v> is counted to the "weakened" consonantal sounds as it cannot be doubled. Like the vowels, the basic (non-weakened) consonants can all be doubled for the long versions of the consonants. Note, this means that there are no double <b d g> at all. | |||
==Grammar== | ==Grammar== | ||