Romanisation of Baranxeï

As the Baranxeï alphabet bears no resemblence to any language of Earth, a romanisation is used to display examples of Baranxeï.

Single Letters

Pronunciation

What follows is a list of the single letters of Baranxeï, its Wikipedia:X-SAMPA value and a close sound in English (which does not always exactly correspond to the X-SAMPA value - these will be marked with an asterisk). The sequence of the letters corresponds to the one used by the Baranxeï alphabet.

Note: <c, x, χ> are nowadays often not distinguishable in spoken Baranxeï anymore; comparable to German <ch>, their pronunciation now depends on their position within a word. However, in very formal settings, it is still preferable to use the official pronunciation.

About the letters used

The choice of some letters may be a little confusing or startling to many readers only used to Latin letters. The main reason for the use of, e.g., φ instead of f was to remain as close to their pronunciation as possible. I.e., for most people f signifies a labiodental sound, whereas it actually is a bilabial sound. Additionally, in many cases, the chosen character represents this sound in the IPA. As for the vowels, it is a little different. One could have gone with diacritics (e.g., ô instead of η). This would, however, become too confusing with the diacritics actually used with the romanised Baranxeï alphabet, that is the trema and the nasalisation diacritc.

Digraphs

There are a few digraphs in Baranxeï (compare English <sh> ).