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Topic Started: Nov 3 2009, 11:13 AM (194 Views)
pirmas
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Hello, I am getting back to work on the upcoming update, but before I do I wanted to post this guide to reading the lettering of Anglo-Prussia. This is the first step of many to eventually having the dialog mostly in anglo-prussian.

The alphabet in Anglo-Prussian includes some letters without latin equivalent. These letters are represented with capital letters. This is okay because anglo-prussian in its native form does not have major or minor letters, ie everything is in "lower case." Here is a quick guide and some pronounciation rules as well as examples:

English | A-P | A-P Latin | IPA
a | α | a | - /ei/
á | ά | á | - /a/
æ | e | æ | - /ɛ/
b | β | b | - /b/
c | c | c | - /ʧ/ or /ç/
d | δ | d | - /d/
e | ε | e | - /i/
f | ф | f | - /f/
g | γ | g | - /g/ or /ʤ/
h | ϯ | h | - /h/
i | ι | i | - /ɪ/
j | ԓ | j | - /j/ or /ʤ/
k | ϟ | k | - /K/
l | λ | l | - /l/
m | μ | m | - /m/
n | ν | n | - /n/
o | ο | o | - /o/
ó | ό | ó | - /y/
p | π | p | - /p/
r | ρ | r | - /ɹ/
s | σ | s | - /s/ or /z/
sh | ϛ | S | - /ʃ/
t | τ | t | - /t/
th | θ | T | - /θ/ or /ð/
u | у | u | - /ə/
v | w | v | - /v/ or /w/
z | z | z | - /ʦ/

On top of this there are two types of vowels, hard and soft. The hard vowels are æ, i, and u. The soft vowels are a, á, e, o and ó. There are also three diphthongs, or vowel sounds made up of combinations of other vowels. They are:
eu,εy - /iu/ (soft)
oi,oι - /oɪ/ (hard)
ie,ιε - /aɪ/ (hard) unless it is before an 'n' when it is /iɛ/

Consonants with two sounds differ in sound based after the preceding vowel:
c,c -
/ʧ/ after hard, as in the 'ch' in Chanukkah
/ç/ after soft or as the first letter in a word, as in the 'ch' in Church
g,γ -
/ʤ/ after hard, as in the 'g' in College
/g/ after soft or as the first letter in a word, as in the 'g' in Group
s,σ -
/s/ after hard, as in the 's' in Silence
/z/ after soft or as the first letter in a word, as in the 'z' in Zebra
v,w -
/v/ after hard, as in the 'v' in Video
/w/ after soft or as the first letter in a word, as in the 'w' in Wide

The letter Jut, j or ԓ has two sounds based on the letter that follows it:
/ʤ/ before hard, as in the 'j' in Judge
/y/ before soft or as the last letter in a word, as in the 'j' in the German Junge


Here is some practice Anglo-Prussian (in all three spellings):
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Edited by pirmas, Feb 18 2010, 05:43 PM.
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