Alphabet

Lehkcia Alphabet:

Note

The standard (and oldest) alphabet, which is shown here, is not ordered phonetically despite Lehkcia being a very phonetic language, yet it is the most accepted form and the most commonly used one.
Learners though typically rearrange the alphabet to match and order it phonetically and to make it easier for themselves until they have memorized the pronounciations.

Punctuation

The ' (apostraphe) is called and known as the pe'kt or 'divide, cut, intersect' in Lehkcia, which is a glottal stop. It was used as an indication of a breath, a short sound break in the word or more improperly, contractions. The usage of a pe'kt can literally change the pronounciation and meaning of a word, and especially where it is placed. For example pekt, p'ekt, and pe'kt have vastly different meanings and pronounciation because of exactly where you place and say that short, rapid, throaty and abrupt pause.
Prefixes also use a glottal stop, like for example gi'Waad, where you must pronounce the glottal stop. The glottal stop is widely used for many reasons, and one reason why is because of Lehkcia's lack and limited amount of vowels and vowel digraphs: it only has 6 vowels and two vowel digraphs, and it doesn't count the divison between long and short vowels. In other words, a and a (marked) and o and o (marked) are considered the same despite how they are vastly different sounds because they are considered 'two sides of the same coin.'
The hyphen (-), called and known as jetti or 'rope' in Lehkcia, indicates joining (not a contraction), or connects (mostly) two or more words permenantly i.e one unified meaning, always said together, no spaces, no stops. It joins ordinarily separate words into one single word with one unified meaning. It is never used for dividing words, and heavily changes the weight of the meaning. As a result, it is used as a symbol of a deep bond and indication of unity, belonging, as its usage reflects in their own names. The hyphen's usage tends to be used sparingly due to its significance, heavy weight, and hold and only in extremely casual conversation will someone drop the hyphen in a word containing one.
Nowadays for convienience, simplification, and make sense of the notoriously loosey-goosey doubing rules, Lehkcia uses an accent mark to distingush it. An unmarked one indicates the 'ah' sound. For example, the girl's name Kafac is in fact pronounced 'Kah-fays' not Kah-fahs', even there should be a doubling in the first a. To indicate the pronounciation, the first a would be unmarked, whereas the second would have an accent mark.
The script has no concept of letter case, making it unicameral, or in other words, there are no capitol or lowercase letters in Lehkcia; there is only one case for its letters.
All the digraphs are written and represented as ligatures, which are two or more letters that are joined to form a single glyph. The reason why is because to the Lexiconians, it is extremely cumbersome to write the two single letters that consist a digraph over and over again in their eyes, so why not merge them into one since it's basically just two letters that represent a single sound. Words are separated by spaces.

Phonetics

a is split up in two: a (unmarked) is pronounced as 'ah', as in father, and a (marked) - used to be aa in Middle Lehkcia - is pronounced as 'ay' as in day.
æ/ae is pronounced as ee, as in the word fleece
ai is pronounced as ie, as in the word pie
c is always the soft c, as in the word cylinder
ch is pronounced as a sh, as in the word shy
dh is pronounced as an hard th, like in the word that. There is no soft th in Lehkcia.
e is pronounced as 'eh', as in the word bed
g is always the hard g, as in the word golf
i is pronounced as 'ih', as in the word sin
j is always the soft g, as in the word giant
k is always the hard c, as in the word call (unaspirated k)
kc is a more harder, harsher, and rougher pronounciation of the letter x, fully spit and hiss it fully out sort to speak instead of slightly (aspirated x)
kh is a k that's very forcefully pronounced, as in the word jackhammer. (aspirated k)
kt is pronounced as in the Scottish word loch or the German word bach , but throatier and deeper like from the back of your throat.
kw is pronounced as in the qu in the word quick
ll is pronounced as in the word million (palatalized l / palatal l)
ng is pronounced as in the word thing.
o is split up in two: o (umarked) is pronounced as 'oh', and o (marked) is pronounced 'oo' as in pool.
rh is a trilled r, as the Spanish rr
s is pronounced as a z, as in the word zip.
sh is pronounced as zh, as in the word vision. It is a z that is pronounced hard, you put more emphasis on it, the single z is pronounced more softer.
tk is pronounced as the ch in cherry
u is pronounced as 'uh', as in the word but
vh is a v that is pronounced hard, you put more emphasis on it, as in the word improvhumor (aspirated v)
x is pronounced as ks, as in box. A very slight, sharp hiss should be heard.
y in Lehkcia is kind of a special case in Lehkcia. It is considered a vowel if the word has no other vowel, the letter is at the end of a word or syllable, and if the letter is in the middle of a syllable and it will make the 'ih' sound. However, y is considered a consonant when it starts off a word or syllable.

List of the Lehkcia names of letters

Á, A = ay, ah
AE = ae
AI = Ie
B = bae
C = ec
CH = ech
D = dae
DH = edh
E = eh
F = ef
G = gae
H = hatk
I = i
J = je
K = ke
KC = ekc
KH = ekh
KT = ekt
KW = kwú
L = el
LL = ell
N = en
NG = eng
O = o
P = pae
R = er
RH = rhae
S = zae
SH = esh
T = tae
TK = etk
U = u
V = vae
VH = vhae
W = esti vae
X = ex
Y = y

DOUBLING

Doubling can be quite tricky in Lehkcia, as there are different applications for consonants and vowels. The rule for doubled consonants is easy and simple to follow and remember, for when you see the doubled consonant, you always say the consonant twice with the hard exception of the digraph Ll and if the doubled consonant is at the end of the word, where it is just pronounced as a single consonant (eg: Ynne -> 'Yn-NE' NOT 'Yne' and Add -> 'Ahd' NOT 'Ahd-d' or 'Ahdʰ'.
However, for vowels, it gets tricky for that in old and ancient Lehkcia, the letter a was pronounced 'ay', but a double letter 'aa' usually indicated the 'ah' sound, but quite often flouted pronounciation rules, with the rules around doubling in and for vowels were quite notoriously flexible and loose, with too many words tending to switch the rules around and practically ignore the doubling, leading to even more confusion for learners in ancient Lexicon. The double letter was also used to distinguish o pronounced 'oh' from the double letter 'oo', pronounced as the oo in pool.
In fact, the original purpose of the doubling of vowels mostly and slowly disappeared away. The doubling of vowels is a holdover of ancient Lehkcia to in which its use was to distinguish which emphasis and stress should be placed, but it's rigidness slowly faded away in Lehkcia, except in a bunch of words as a vestigial remainder. You're technically supposed to pronounce the a as 'ay' (a as in day) and the aa as 'ah', (a as in father) no matter what, but it depends as the language has shifted and dropped it.
Now instead of doubling, Lehkcia simply uses an accent mark to distinguish it. An unmarked one indicates the 'ah' sound, due to the fact that aa was more common than a. For example, the girl's name Kafac is in fact pronounced 'Kah-fays' not Kah-fahs', even there shoud be a doubling in the first a. To indicate the pronounciation, the first a would be unmarked, whereas the second would have an accent mark. The accent mark is also used to distinguish the o pronounced as 'oh', and the oo pronounced as the 'oo' in pool which is marked using the accent mark.

PHONETIC CONSISTANCY

Lehkcia is considered an extremely phonetic language. Everything is pronounced as it is written and said, and there are no silent letters. In fact, pronunciation is extremely strict, and even minor differences in a pronounced sound can lead to a radical difference in the word’s meaning.