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Nytal is a costructed fantasy language, born to be isolated and not related to any linguistic family in the world.

Phonology and Pronounce

Basical pronounce

a = like the a in f'a'ther

b = as in English

c = always like ch in church

d = as in English

e = like open-mid e in lady or the close-mid e in men

f = as in English

g = always like g in get

h and ' = they represent a phoneme which is unknown to the most European languages: the glottal stop. Danish language has it and use it very often for distinguishing words but does not give it an alphabetic sign. Semitic languages use it more and more largerly, in fact it is considered as a single consonant. It is not easy to pronounce, in English we can find some example in the stop we make when we pronounce Bat'man. The real glottal stop is a fast movement open/closed of the vocal cords, but for the speakers who do not know how to pronounce it we advise to pronounce it as a little stop during pronunciation.

i = always like ee in meet

j = always like ee in meet

k = as in English

l = always like l in lane

lij = as in Spanish LL

m = as in English

n = as in English

nij = as in Spanish ñ

o = like open-mid o in rock or close-mid o in orange

p = as in English

q = sounds like k

r = rolled Spanish-like r

s = as in English, but can only be unvoiced

š = like sh in shop

t = as in English

u = like u in put

v = as in English

x = as in English

y = this is the most difficult vowel to pronounce, because it appears in no romance or germanic languages. Instead, a slavic speaker finds no difficults with its pronounce. It almost corresponds to Czech Y or Russian Ы. A romance or germanic speaker can pronounce it by saying the ee of meet (or i in "ilusiòn" for Spanish, "illusion" for French and German) but lowering the tongue in the middle of the oral cavity and obtaining a sound middle-way between close-mid e and ee.

z = as in English, it can be voiced or unvoiced