Clesh
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Clesh is the official language of the Republic of Clairone. It is a Romance language, spoken by approximately 8 million people around the world. Clairone is a member of the Latin Union
Writing system
Clesh has 17 letters (b, c, d, j, v, t, s, g, p, z, l, f, a, e, i, o, u) and 17 digraphs (jh, nh, sh, lh, th, gh, ch, ss, ea, ei, ue, ie, ai, oe, au, ii, ui), of which seven are consonants. Common geminate consonants are /mm/, /tt/, and /nn/. These don't differ from /m/, /t/, and /n/ in length or pronunciation. Another geminate consonant, /ss/, represents /x/ (ɪks).
Sounds
Consonants
Bilabial | Labio-Dental | Dental | Alveolar | P-Alv | Palatal | Velar | ||
Nasal | m | n | ɲ | |||||
Stop | voiced | p | t | ɟ | c | |||
voiceless | b | d | g | |||||
Fricative | voiced | f | ð | s | ʃ | |||
voiceless | v | z | ʒ | x | ||||
Affricative | voiced | ʧ | ||||||
voiceless | ||||||||
Approximant | ʎ | |||||||
Lateral | l |
Basic vowels
- A, a - /ɑː/ as in English father
- E, e - /ɛ/ as in English met
- I, i - /ɪ/ as in English fit
- O, o - /oʊ/ as in English code
- U, u - /uː/ as in English goose
R coloring
When followed by /r/:
- /o/ colors to /ɔə/
- /u/ colors to /ʊ/
Diphthongs
- ai - /aɪ/ as in price
- au - /aʊ/ as in mouth
- ea - /aɪə/ (no English equivalent)
- ei - /ei̯/ as in Spanish rey
- ie - /jɛ/ as in yes
- ii - /i:/ as in fleece or bee
- oe - /ɔɪ/ as in toy or boy
- ue - /u̯e/ as in Spanish nuevo or fuego
- ui - /ʊi:/ similar to English bouy
- iei - /i:ei̯/ similar to French potier
Special
- tz or zt - /ts/ as in pizza
- úr - /ɜːɹ/ as in fur
- our - /ɔr/ as in tour
- jie - /yaɪ/ as in yikes!