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<p>Posted by <b><!--poster-->Irgend Jemand</b>
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It is said that Verdurian ë is pronounced as a romanic e with a y-sound
before it. But there are different y-sounds in English. Is the one in ë
pronounced as a consonant, like in "yard", as a vowel like in "cry" or as a
vowel like in "certainly"?
<p>I also suppose that different vowels following each other in Verdurian are
pronounced as different sounds, not as one sound; is that right? (Sorry, I guess
I'm to much used to German there)
<p>As for the sound of Verdurian in general, when I tried reading some Verdurian
sentences out loudly a while ago, an acquaintance of mine commented that it
sounded like Portuguese; is that how it's supposed to sound or does it mean that
I completely butchered it?
<hr><i>Mark responds:
<p>I really need to figure out how to make sound recordings. :) It's
hard to guess what a German speaking with a Portuguese accent sounds like!
But Portuguese is probably about right... the vowels are Portuguese-like,
and the <b>sh</b> and <b>zh</b> sounds would definitely mark it as not
being Spanish.
<p>The <b>ë</b> basically palatalizes the previous consonant;
so for instance <b>në</b> should be pronounced as in French
<b>vignette</b>, Spanish <b>gruñéramos</b>, or Russian
<b>nyet</b>.
<p>For the middle question: yes, two adjacent vowels have to be
pronounced separately.
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