sgriifreol

/sgri:v.rɛi̯.ɔl/

orthography

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the solxlanni alphabet is based on the welsh alphabet, only with compound letters swapped out for unused/new letters. it isn't well adapted for typing since letters like eth,yogh, and thorn are used.

alphabets
solxlanni welsh equiv ipa
aa/a/
bb/b/
cc/k/
xch/X/
dd/d/
kdd/ð/
ee/e/
ff/v/
ðff/f/
gg/g/
ŋng/ŋ/
hh/h/
ii/i/
jj/d͡ʒ/
ll/l/
ȝ/vll/ɬ/
mm/m/
nn/n/
oo/o, ɔ, oː/
pp/p/
rr,rh/r, ɹ/
tt/t/
þth/θ/
uu/ɪ, iː/
ww/ʊ, uː, w/
yy/ɪ, iː, ə, əː/

solxlanni vowels are a,e,i,o,u,w,y. based on the welsh vowels, just exluding that in welsh h is sometimes a vowel.

in solxlanni some consonants and all vowels have a long variant. long vowels are written as doubled up vowels or with a circumflex over the vowel(example a -> aa|â). on the other hand there are few long consonants. the long consonants include x,k,ð,ŋ,ȝ,þ. only x,k,ȝ have short consonant equivilants being c,d,l respectivly.

with future tense pronouns, the vowel isn't defined. it defaults to "i", but changes based on what's being said. going from a voiced alveolar fricative to another consonant can sometimes be difficult but using different vowels can make some transitions easier. this is similar to how, in english, the speaker will replace some vowels with shwa's(ə) to make words easier to say. an example is gonna, you don't pronounce it /gon.na/ you'd prounonce it /gən.nə/ when you use it in a normal sentence.