Medoim

Medoim (pronunciado /medwam/) is a Romance language of the Indo-European family, of the Ibero-Romance group of languages, which has about 25 million native speakers in the region of the Iberian Peninsula located in western France and northern Spain.

It evolved from various dialects of Vulgar Latin and loans from Classical, with great Germanic influence, so it has a high degree of difference from Latin, like French, and is one of its closest relatives.

Consonants
The sounds correspond to their letter in the alphabet, taking into account the following:


 * ng /ŋ/
 * z /z/, unless it's before another consonant, then it'll sound /s/.
 * ç /s/
 * g is pronounced /g/ if it is followed by a, o and u; on the other hand, with e or i it is pronounced /ʒ/. /ge, gi/ is written gue, gui.
 * To make the /ʒa, ʒo, ʒu/ sounds, there is historically two ways: using ge + vowel, or by using the letter ġ, which makes the sound /d̠ʒ/. You must learn how to write a word by heart.
 * At the end of a word, ġ makes the sound /ʃ/.
 * Ch makes the sound /ʃ/
 * Tch makes the sound /t̠ʃ/ and it's considered a rare sound.
 * H is aspirated, as in English.
 * R can be pronounced as a tap, as in Spanish, when following a consonant; otherwise, the standard pronunciation is as in French. Parts of the country closer to Spain dialectically tend to pronounce it with a trill instead, as in Spanish, although it is proven that fluidity is slowed down.
 * It is standard that n and r makes the following consonant geminated or longer. It is written like this and not as a double consonant because many dialects still pronounce it as two separate consonants.
 * T and d at the end tend to be left out of the pronunciation.

Vowels
It must be taken into account that:


 * The diphthong ai is pronounced /ɛ/.
 * The hiatus aï is pronounced /aj/.
 * The diphtong au and the vowel o make the same sound /o/. A word is written with one or the other for historical reasons: The former used to be pronounced /ɔ/, but they merged over time, although some regions still make a strong difference.
 * The diphthong aû is pronounced /aw/.
 * The diphthong ei is pronounced the same as ee, /e:/. A word is written with one or the other for historical reasons: The former used to be pronounced /ej/, but they merged over time.
 * The diphthong eu and the vowel ø are pronounced in the same way. A word is written with one or the other for historical reasons: The former used to be pronounced /œ/, but they merged over time, although some regions still make a strong difference. When it is followed by a vowel, eu becomes ew.
 * The vowel e at the end of a word is pronounced /ə/.
 * The diphthong ie makes the /i:/ sound.
 * The diphthong oi is pronounced /wa/, and oï is pronounced /oj/,
 * The diphthong ou is pronounced /o:/.
 * The vowel u is considered rare by itself and common in diphthongs, The only word which is pronounced /u:/ is the singular first person, ew ("I").
 * Û tends to double the following consonant, although this is dialectical.

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