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The Sounds Of Laiqbun

Laiqbun’s ortography can be strange at first, but it has the benefit of being perfectly unambiguous. It was designed so that you could always tell exactly how a word is pronounced, and where a word starts and where it ends. All sounds in this page are from commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/General_phonetics

This lesson is optional, but knowing how to read the words they’re learning can be helpful for some people.

The Vowels

There are six vowels:

Vowel	Audio
a
e
o
u
y
i

The Consonants

Consonant	Audio	Comparison
k		c in escape
kk		N/A
g		g in glue
t		t in stay
tt		N/A
d		d in dice
l		l in lie
r		Spanish tapped R
m		m in man
n		n in nice
p		p in sport
pp		N/A
b		b in boss
c		ts in cats
x		ds in beds
h		h in hello
q		ng in running
ch		ch in chop
xh		j in john
sh		sh in shut
zh		si in vision
s		s in stop
z		z in zone
f		f in fall
v		v in value

The Syllable

A syllable can only be composed of:

• One mandatory initial consonant.
• One mandatory vowel.
• Two optional vowels.
• One optional final consonant, which can only be n, m or q.

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