"Katherine Kerr - Deverry 08 - A Time Of Justice" - читать интересную книгу автора (Kerr Katherine)

Y as the i in machine when long; as the e in butter when short.

E as in pen.
 Generated by ABC Amber LIT Converter, http://www.processtext.com/abclit.html




I as in pin.

U as in pun.

Vowels are generally long in stressed syllables; short in unstressed. Y is the primary exception to this
rule. When it appears as the last letter of a word, it is always long whether that syllable is stressed or not.

Diphthongs generally have one consistent pronunciation.

AE as the a in mane.

AI as in aisle.

AU as the ow in how.

EO as a combination of eh and oh.

EW as in Welsh, a combination of eh and oo.

IE as in pier.

OE as the oy in boy.

UI as the North Welsh wy, a combination of oo and ee.

Note that OI is never a diphthong, but is two distinct sounds, as in carnoic (KAR-noh-ik).

Consonants are mostly the same as in English, with these exceptions: C is always hard as in cat. G is
always hard as in get.

DD is the voiced th as in thin or breathe, but the voicing is more pronounced than in English. It is
opposed to TH, the unvoiced sound as in th or breath. (This is the sound that the Greeks called the Celtic
tau.)

R is heavily rolled.

RH is a voiceless R, approximately pronounced as if it were spelled hr in Deverry proper. In Eldidd, the
sound is fast becoming indistinguishable from R.

DW7 GW, and TW are single sounds, as in Gwendolen or twit.

Y is never a consonant.