Pronunciation Guide

Unless otherwise noted, all Koruani words are spelled using a consistent phonetic system.
Vowels:

• i = the "ee" in feet
• y = the "i" in fit
• u = the "ue" in blue
• e = the "e" in elephant
• o = as in Spanish (otro, oro, color, etc.)
• å = the first vowel in America
• æ = the "a" in cat
• a = the "a" in father
• a̰ = a creaky "a"

Consonants

• p = the "p" in put
• t = the "t" in talk
• k = the "k" in kid
• q = a voiceless uvular stop (doesn't exist in English, basically a "K" made farther back in the throat)
• ' = the pause between the syllables in the word "uh-oh" (a glottal stop)
• b = the "b" in boy
• d = the "d" in dog
• g = the "g" in good (never the "g" of general, gentle, giant, etc.)
• f = the "f" in five
• th = the "th" in think
• s = the "s" in several
• ş = the "sh" in she
• x = a voiceless palatal fricative
• c = the "ch" in the Scottish "loch" or the Yiddish "chutspa"
• v = the "v" in valiant
• dh = the "th" in that
• z = the "z" in zoom
• j = the "s" in vision (but not the "j" in July; that would be written with the digraph "dj")
• gh = a voiced velar fricative like "g" in the Spanish word "abogado"
• tş = the "ch" in choice
• tx = a voiceless palatal affricate
• dj = the "j" in jury
• r = a rolled "r" like in Scottish English or Spanish
• l = the "l" in lake
• m = the "m" in mother
• n = the "n" in no
• ng = the "ng" in thing
• w = the "w" in water