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I. PRONUNCIATION AND ORTHOGRAPHY.
§ 1. The Neutral Language (Idiom Neutral) has 22 letters, 5 vowels: a e i o u, and 17 consonants: b c d f g h j k l m n p r s t v y.
The vowels are pronounced as follows:
a
as a in the English word
far, father, guard.
e
as a in the English word
cape, dale, fate.
i
as e in the English word
me.
o
as o in the English word
no, note.
u
as u in the English word
truth, or
u
as oo in the English word
moon, room.
Consecutive vowels are pronounced separately, e. g. hebre-ik Hebraic, a-utomat automaton, E-urop Europe, no-i we, si-e his.
The consonants are always pronounced as follows:
b
as b in the English word
bar.
c
as ch in the English word
chain, charity. (r. 115, r. 126) (*)
d
as d in the English word
date.
f
as f in the English word
fate.
g
as g in the English word
get, give, got.
h
as h in the English word
hold. (r. 119).
j
as z in the English word
azure, seizure, or
j
as j in the French word
Jean, je, jour. (r. 110).
k
as k in the English word
keep, kill.
l
as l in the English word
late, let.
m
as m in the English word
mat, met.
n
as n in the English word
not, note.
p
as p in the English word
pale, pair.
r
as r in the English word
rain, red.
s
as s in the English word
sale, seal, sill (r. 118).
t
as t in the English word
tale, till.
v
as v in the English word
vale, vague.
y
as y in the English word
yet, yoke. (r. 112).
d
as d in the English word
date.
(*) g: Never as in the English word gentle.(*) s: Never as s in the English word rose; in other words, s of Idiom neutral is always voiceless, never voiced.(*) The figures after the “r.” denote the number of the respective resolution of the Academy.The letters s and h, if they stand together, form an exception hereto; they are then pronounced as sh in the English word “shall.” (r. 109).
Remark. In the phonetic writing of proper names and foreign words, in order to show their pronunciation, the following letters and combinations of letters may be used (r. 116, r. 117):
- ä for the sound ä in the German language = ai in the English word fair.
- ö for the sound ö in the German language = o in the English word word.
- ü for the sound ü in the German language = u in the French word une.
- z for the sound z in the English word zeal, zinc.
- gh for the sound g in the Danish language, e. g. in the word sag.
- kh for the sound ch in the German language, e. g. in the word Sache.
- th for the sound th in the English language, e. g. in the word Bath.
§ 2. Words are accented according to the following rule (r. 57):
The accent (or stress of voice) is on the vowel that immediately precedes the last consonant, if there be such vowel, e. g. fortun (pronounced fortùn) fortune, manu (pr. mànu) hand, aloe (pr. àloe) aloe, filio (pr. fìlio) son; otherwise it is on the first vowel, e. g. mai (pr. mài) May, Deo (pr. Dèo) God. In exceptional cases the accented (stressed) vowel is denoted by a written accent, e. g. idé idea, alé alley, depó depot.
Remark. In the compounding of such words, that is words having the written accent, with a suffix, the accent is dropped and the word is accented (stressed) according to the general rule, e. g. aleatr (pronunciation ateàtr) alley-like.
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