Fĺuðét Intro and Phonetics

WARNING: You will not be able to read certain things (the fĺuðét alphabet parts) without downloading and installing this font: Runic-Fuludhet-Short.ttf, or refer to the alphabet at right, and below.
Fĺuðét is a language that I started that has little or no relation to the world (Dunta) that I am creating, but instead is a language that I am making to entertain myself in the realm of constructed languages while I continue work on the history of my world. I may also post on the history in the background, since that is what this blog is for.

Fĺuðét is a language with SOV word order, an adverb based tense, mood, and aspect system, and a conculture, but no world except our own. It started out being a language that I would not put down on paper, or record in any other way so as to force myself to learn it, but I never got past the phrase: éþ vechu se (“I am walking”). The phonetics, the Romanization, and most of the grammar have thoroughly changed since then, but that sentence is still similar: fiéþ veću þeþe. My no-recording plan did not build the language very large, and it’s pretty hard to learn a language with only three words, so I eventually gave up and put it down on paper, and then a word document, and now a blog.

            Fĺuðét has one peculiarity that may challenge common thought on phonetics: the use of l and r as vowels. I have seen very little on the idea that l and r are vowels. I found only one forum where someone brought it up (see that here), and even the IPA does not realize l and r for their full potential. Even so, I do use l and r as vowels. I use the sounds full (IPA: /əl/), and fur (IPA: /ɛr/) respectively for l and r. I write them ĺ, and ŕ in vowel form for the Romanization (you might not be able to see it, but they have acute accents on top of them).

            All of the vowels in fĺuðét are shown together in the following table:

Romanization	IPA	English Example	Fĺuðét Alphabet
o	/o/	so (like French)	o
u	/u/	rude	u
ŕ	/ɛr/	sure	Ŕ
ĺ	/əl/	gull	Ĺ
i	/i/	machine	I
e	/e/	make (no i glide)	E
é	/ɛ/	wet	é

            The consonants in fĺuðét are all almost all in English, except for the wh (which I suppose is in some dialects of English), and the bilabial fricatives. Fĺuðét (or the speakers of (whoever they may be)) treat ć and j as plosives in most cases rather than affricates. It will mostly only matter in the derivational phonetic simplifications, which are yet to come.

            All of the consonants of are shown in the following table (unvoiced, voiced):

	Bilabial			Alveolar			Post-Alveolar
	Roman	IPA	Fĺuðét	Roman	IPA	Fĺuðét	Roman	IPA	Fĺuðét
Plosive	p, b	p, b	p b	t, d	t, d	t d
Affricate							ć, j	ʧ, ʤ	ć j
Fricative	f, v	φ, β	f v	þ, ð	θ, ð	þ ð	ś, ź	ʃ, ʒ	ś ź
Semi-Vowel	wh, w	ʍ, w	w w	l	l	l	r	r	r

            NOTE: The      is not a part of the fĺuðét letter, but is rather the symbol used to show spaces.

 Fĺuðét Alphabet

Phonetics and the Alphabet

The Language of the Okoda people (called Dega) does not use the same consonants or vowels as English does.

it uses the consonants: Z, S, D, T, G, K, Ŋ (NG), N, M, R (tapped against the back of the teeth like Spanish, but not rolled), and L. It uses the vowels:  U (rude), E (fate), I (need), O (like french "o" (don't open the mouth so wide)), and A (got).
     Another part of phonetics is emphasis, which letter is said the strongest; emphasis does have a little bit of variation. If the word  doesn't always have at least one prefix or suffix attached to it then the emphasis always goes onto the middle of the root. If there are needed fixes like verbs then put it on the middle of the root except treat the fix as part of the root. If there are an even number of syllables in a word put the emphasis on first of the middle two according to the above two rules.
     Dāgo does not use our alphabet; it uses this one: