Difference between revisions of "Anglocarnayan"

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Anglocarnayan is the official language of the Confederacy of Monta Carna. In speaking and written form it is similar to modern day English, in its placement of adjectives before verbs, indication of possession using apostrophes and its use of single end punctuation. However, in pronunciation it is phonetic, meaning that it is much easier for foreigners to read than English. Its vowels have fixed sounds, and each vowel constitutes a syllable in the word.

Pronunciation

a: "ah", as in ball

e: "ay", as in bay

i: "ee", as in street

o: "oh", as in bold

u: "oo", as in blue

When two vowels are placed next to each other in a word, they are read quickly, and melded into one syllable. In other words, if "boat" were a word in Anglocarnayan, it would be pronounced "bowaht". For the reason that English and Anglocarnayan are so similar in spelling but so different in meaning, it is frequently seen that Carnayan politicians write international documents in English, which is far more widely understood.

The combination "ph" is not read as "f" and is not used in Anglocarnayan. There is no hard "c"; rather, only the letter "k" is used. All letters, when placed next to one another, are read with their own distinct sound. Consonant pairs being read with a different sound (ie "dg"="j") are not used.