Gjudiyl

=Writing System= Gjudiyl employs a variation of the Latin Alphabet, productively using 25 of the 26 basic letters, as well as adding in 8 letters with diacritics and 7 digraphs.

Diacritics
There are two different diacritics used in the Gjudiyl alphabet, the ogonek (on a, e and u) and the breve (on a, e, i, o and u).

Ogonek
The ogonek (known in Gjudiyl as the kjų) is placed on the letters 'a', 'e' and 'u' to indicate that that particular vowel is long.
 * ą - the letter 'ą' represents the long vowel /aː/, similar to the 'ar' sound in "car".
 * ę - represents the dipthong /eɪ/ as in the word "café", or simply a longer version of the vowel /ɛ/, depending on your preferred pronounciation.
 * ų - represents the long vowel /uː/, as in English "loot". It is found usually at the end of a word.

The three letters with ogoneks are treated as seperate letters, coming after their parent letter in alphabetical order. So for example the word ază would come before ąbeltĕ.

Breve
The breve is placed over all of the vowel letters to indicate a short, reduced sound or a semivowel sound.
 * ă and ĕ both represent the very short reduced neutral vowel /ə/. Whether the ă or ĕ is used depends on which vowel (a or e) the short vowel sound is reduced from. So for example kuvă (copper) and kuvĕ (sheet) are both pronounced identically.
 * ĭ represent the semivowel /j/ in a dipthong. Both ĭ and j have the same phonetic value in Gjudiyl, but 'ĭ' always appears after a vowel, and 'j' elsewhere.
 * ŏ represents the dipthong /oɪ/, similar to the sound in "boy". In Gjudiyl this sound is pronounced much shorter than in English.
 * ŭ represents the semivowel /w/ in a dipthong, for example in the words aŭtobus and yeŭ.

Digraphs
There are seven digraphs in Gjudiyl. These each represent different phonemes from their component letters and are each treated as a seperate letter in collation and dictionaries, so for example the word gzovn would come before gjullă
 * cz represents the affricate /tʃ/, like the first sound in "cheese".
 * gj represents the sound /ɟ/. This sound does not appear in English, however it is relatively similar to the first sounds in "judge" or "duty".
 * kj represents the sound /c/, the voiceless counterpart of the letter gj. It is similar to the first sound in "cheat" or "tune".
 * ll represents the sound /ʎ/, the palatal equivalent of /l/. Often in speech the letter is pronounced /j/, as in the letters ĭ and j. This effectively means that often the sound /j/ is represented by three completely different letters, making learning the spelling of some Gjudiyl words very difficult.
 * nj represents the sound /ɲ/ similar to the sound in English "onion".
 * sz represents the common sound /ʃ/, the sound in English "sheep". In most written Gjudiyl texts, sz is the most common digraph letter.
 * zc represents the sound /ʒ/, the sound in English "television".

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