Nanjey'a

Classification and Dialects
Nanjë has one major dialect for which the language is named. The language is spoken by the Nanja people who live on the coastal plains of the planet '''Ärrella. '''

Pronunciation
All Nanjë letters are pronounced in every word. Most letters sound as in English with a few exceptions.

J sounds like the English Y in you, yellow, yes

Ll sounds like the English J in join, jest, jewel

Rr sounds like the Spanish R in perro

Ĉ sounds like the English CH in choice, chance, change

The Letter K
In Nanjë the sound k is always written k, and not, as in English, either k (kill), c (cat), ch (chaos), ck (tack), qu (conquer), or cqu (lacquer).

saka, korka, okana, komputera, akusera, kakta, konflicta, konduktera

Vowels
In English each of the letters a, e, i, o, u, represents several sounds but in Nanjë each represents only two sounds,approximately as follows:

A sounds like the English A in ah, father, calm

E sounds like the English E in lend, there

I sounds like the English I in it, this

O sounds like the English O in molest, glory

U sounds like the English U in rude, oo in boot, too

Each of these vowels can also be pronounced as a schwa, the vowel sound in English of many lightly pronounced unaccented syllables in words of more than one syllable. The schwa sounds approximately like a lightly pronounced “uh”. In Nanjë, vowels are pronounced as a schwa in the syllable before the accented syllable.

Diacritics
Diacritics are signs written above or below a letter marking a change in its pronunciation. There are three types of diacritics native to Nanjë: umlauts (ä, ë, ï, ö, ü), acute accents (á, é, í, ó, ú), grave accents (à, è, ì, ò, ù).

Umlauts
Umlauts are the only diacritics that deal with different vowel sounds. Out of the five letters that have umlauts, four of them are shorthand for common diphthongs. The fifth, ‘ï’, is pronounced as follows:

Ï sounds like the English IE in piece, niece

The other four umlaut letters are pronounced as follows:

Ä sounds like the English I in bicycle, nice, time

Ë sounds like the English A in blade, fake, lame

Ö sounds like the English OI in boil, oil, foil

Ü sounds like the English UI in ruin

If you don’t have access to umlauts the letters can be written as vowel combinations or diphthongs:

Ä can be written as AI

Ë can be written as EI

Ï can be written as IE

Ö can be written as OI

Ü can be written as UI

Lexicon
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