After six cycles of Runic Scripts- 22nd March 2021 (3/1/9/26) saw the beginning, the dawn of a new alphabet- and thus soon to be the rebooting of this site (the archived lessons are mostly in "Classical"/ "Middle" Litish). And so here, we're going to teach you the new, beautiful, acrophonic, alphabetic... Aylapeldh.

The Litish alphabet, Aylapeldh, consists of 51 letters. These 51 letters have two sound types: vowel and consonant. However, there are not two, but three letter types: vowels, vownsonants, and consonants.

Vownsonants? We actually have them in English too: or one- "u"- or maybe more- "unicorn" has a y sound, "quail" includes "u" with a "w" sound.

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13 unique vowel sounds, 16 including diphthongs (but not digraphs), and 18 vowels in total (one repeated sound) [14 excluding Vownsonants]

14 Vowels

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4 Vownsonants (3 vowel sounds, 2 consonant sounds)

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30 unique consonant sounds, 34 letters including ts, dz, ch and dj- 37 consonants in total (one repeated sound by a consonant, two repeated sounds by two vownsonants) [33 excluding vownsonants]

33 Consonants

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51 Letters

(42 unique sounds, 50 sounds including combos) [?]

The Alphabet • Aylapeldh

In Romanised Litish, the alphabet may be thus:

A Ä Ÿ Ö Ë (Y) Ʉ Œ Ï Ü (U) (W) O É Æ Å (Ø?) / I Y U W / P B T D K G C (ts) DZ Q (ch) DJ M N Ñ ŋ (ng) Ç S Z ∫ (sh) J (zh, y) F V θ (th) ð (dh) KH Ɣ GH GRH H R (Y) RR RRR TK L

Ayla Ärti Ebī Ÿkhe Öttif Ënkip (Ysta, Ylla) Ilta Ʉppla Œnsh Ïolï Ünë (Ulj) Ori Åtor Ædzwa Ét {Éq} • Yylta (Ysta/Ylla, Yalta/Yän) Urua/Uljua (Urra/Ulj) Wwrr (War) • Peldh/Pel/Pedh Bellv Tœlna Dylmk (Dmk, Dylan/ Dilën) Karto (Karte? Kayla/ Kéla) Gilc Cele Dziel Qlata Djoc Movñ Nätëlï Ñʉpth (ɲʉpθ) Ngåg (ŋåg) Çald Seng (Seŋ) ZüƔœ Shabëpti (∫abëpti? Šabëpti? -ï?) Jöçlin (Jöçëlin/ ç --> s/ j --> ʒ [concurrent possible/ possibly concurrent]) Frillåulla [Frilaula, Frilål(l)a] Viŋ (Ving) Thart (Thast? Thaft? [θ]) Dhoss (ðoss, Ðoss) Kha Ɣÿl χiçowa ʁaedʒ Hana? Ral Rrall RRRusn∫ (Rrrusr∫? Rrusrr- Rrrusrr) TKarrr Lauren (Lörën, Lörevi, Lawren, Lawrën, Lörevæ)

Vowels

In Romanised Litish, there are 14 vowels. Here is a link to the IPA Vowel Chart (with audio) [Embed below]. The vowels in Litish are arranged according to IPA- first monophthongs, then diphthongs. Note that the letters "y", "i", "u" and "w" are not listed in the list of vowels as they are considered vownsonants.

Vownsonants

In Litish, there are some letters that are sometimes pronounced as vowels, at other times pronounced as consonants. While this may sound rather foreign, we technically have them in English- think about the letter y, for example, not a, e, i, o or u- but in tyranny? First as an "ih" sound, and then as an "ee" sound. In Litish, there's i, y, u and w, along with the vowel or both-at-the-same-time ø (what?).

Consonants

There are 33 consonants in Litish. Below we have the IPA charts for pulmonic consonants and non-pulmonic consonants (of which, Litish has 1: "TK", representing the click consonant /ǃ/ or /ʗ/. Tenuis Alveolar Click).

Digraphs & Trigraphs

Some letters, when placed with other words, form slightly different aounds- sounds than when individually orthographed. Others make complete sense, but are seen more easily when listed here- rather than condemn all those who don't know phonetics. Here are some diphthongs- two-part vowel sound combinations, simply put. [diphthongs and triphthongs, while technically possibly being two-phoneme based vowel sounds, may here be generalised as vowel combinations of set numbers- maybe digraphs?]

• Ai (EYE) /ʌɪ/

  • After the 2nd generalised pronunciation reform, “ai” is always pronounced /ʌɪ/.

• Ae (ah-eh)* /a-ɛ/

  • Not the same as æ, which is a singular sound, EYE (/ʌɪ/)

• Ay (ai (ai /ʌɪ/ or ei (/eɪ/))

  • At the start of a word, it’s pronounced as AI (/ʌɪ/), as in Ayla

  • At the middle of the word/ consonant or at the end of it (everywhere else?), EI (/eɪ/), as in Kayla

• Ei (ei) /eɪ/

  • Ei is pronounced as ay at the start of a word, but in the middle of a word, in, for example, the word “lodein”, it is pronounced as eye-. To create the same noise, AY, it would be spelled as ay. (SEE: AI, AY)

• Ie, Ii (ee) /i/

  • “i (ih)” and “e (eh)”, when put together, become the singular sound “ee”, as does so when the former is duplicated. To split them apart, an apostrophe is used.

• **Oe (oh-eh) /əʊ-ɛ/

  • Not the same as œ, which is a singular sound, ee. (see: OEI, Œ)

• Oi (oy) /ɔɪ/

(to avoid making these sounds, apostrophes are added (e.g. e’i instead of ei)

And here be trigraphs and one quadgraph (?)- three- and four-akimbo versions of digraphs?

• AEI (AY) /eɪ/

  • Not the same as a’e’i, which is made up of three sounds; /ah-eh-ih/

• IOU (IOh) /ɪəʊ*, jəʊ**/

  • Not the same as i’o’u, which is made up of three sounds; /ih-oh-ooh/

  • *more fluid, almost one sound

  • **generally after a consonant

• EAUY /ɔɪ/

  • Like neauy; nine

(to avoid making these sounds, apostrophes are added (e.g. a’e’i instead of aei))

Tones

In Litish, there are six types of tones that determine the inflection of pitch, moving pitch, sound length, et cetera.

More!

Here, you can see letter frequencies. Based on (incomplete) wordlists from the Litish Translator's phrases and words sections, we present approximated word frequencies. Note that these are approximated- repeats in the translator are not accounted for, including tenses.

A-2083 [ignoring diacritics], 1939, ã-0

Ä-111

[E-2523]

Ÿ-5

O-2897 - Ö-163, ō-27

Ë-222

Ʉ-0

Œ-17

Ï-18

Ü-76

O-2897

É-51

Æ-14

Å-0'

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Y-357

I-2647

U-897

W-161

Ø-5

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P-596

B-280

T-1062

D-1308

K-562

G-368, 358

C-524

DZ-2 [?]

Q-224

DJ-0

M-800 m~-0?

N-1958

Ñ-1

NG-49, ŋ-0

Ç-1

S-1142

Z-387

SH-59, ∫-5

ZH-20, j-145

F-449

V-629

TH-51, θ-0

DH-0, ð, Ð-0

kH-0

gh-12, χ-7, Ɣ-0, ʁ-0

H-531

R-1149

RR-27

RRR-7

TK-3, ǃ-0, ʗ-4 (do ʗ)

X-229, KS-9

'-184

L-1845- Ł-0

The Litish Runic Script

Previously the official local Runic System, comprised of six variants; Old, New, Advanced, QWERTY, Standard and Standard QWERTY- was the only existing (set) of Litish native writing systematics. You can learn about it at the archived alphabet lesson here:

Variants!

For other uses, we can have a Litish Morse Code (LMC)- Regavah Morse [Mörs/Mȫrs] Lithlioii (RML). As you should probably know, Morse Code was invented for telecommunication purposes, encoding letters in dits and dahs. [Scripts Week] Most characters should already exist, and its mostly encoded from Romanized Litish. There exist two variants: Earth-based and Local. Here we have the Earth-based one, formed mainly from the existing characters used on Earth. The local variant is the native encoding, based off word frequency- sorry, letter frequency. [?] .-.. . - .----. --- --. --- -.-.--

More Information!

You can check out The Complete Guide to Litish (that's still incomplete).