Lesson 1: The Frostan Alphabet/ ÐÎT BÄDŌFÊ ÎN LÛNG-LgÔKSÐƏR
The word for alphabet, or BÄDŌFÊ, in Frostan, is named after the first three letters in they're alphabet: Bä, Dō, and Fê.
I used a system to limit the amount of letters by having letters have both constanant (no bar over) and vowel (bar over) forms. The names would be inspired by their usage; B/Ä would be called Bä, hence. The name for the vowel form would have the indentifying prefix, NÂÜN-, hence a name such as, NÂÜN-BÄ. The name for the vowel that looks like a turned "e," or Schwa(Ə), is called "LÜ.ÑÂ.BÄ.T.", standing for, Lüpēngər Ñâün-BädōfêTərt, or Infinite Vowel-Alphabet.Part.
Please note that some of these letters will require you to look at the pronouciation key below the image. Well, here is the 36-character alphabet (Sorry, no special fonts yet):
Notes:
- The script is traditionally written right-to-left like Hebrew and other Semetic languages—unlike the left-to-right for English and many other languages.
- Ə, or Schwa, is a weak vowel, especially before such constanants as L or R in English.
- Y/Ý is only in constanant form, so therefor there is no vowel titled, "Y."
- Vowels: Ü/Ů: Ü in Über, OO in Root; Î/Ĭ: I in Sit; Û/Ŭ: U in Cut; Û/Ŭ: U in Cut; Ä/Å: Au in Taught; Ó/Ō/Ω: O in Tone; Ê/Ĕ: E in Pet; Ē/Í: Ea in Seat; Â/Æ: A in Fat, A in And; Oy/Œ/Ƣ: Oi in Coin; Ā/É/Ë: Ai in Maid, A in Cane; Ô/Ŏ: Ou in Bought, O in Rot; Ī: Ie in Pie, Y in Cry.
- Lg: This sound is like a Z or L sound, but it is pronouced with blowing into the right/ left cheek. Perhapes, try to make a Z sound, but then an L sound with the same mouth position. An example of the sound: LgÔKSÐƏÜ (Frotónia) LgÊKFÂST (Dinner)
- They do not have a sound for, J (Also DŽ or Ǯ), since they can not pronounce it, and they would spell it as the equivilent of DŽ or given DƷ given that the J is but those two sounds put together. Also, the W is only for transliteration of English, as well.
- Ʒ/Ž/Ż/Zh: G in Genre, S in Vision.
- Ð/Dh/Th: Th in That.
- Ħ/X/Ch/Hh: Ch in German Ich or Ach, Scottish Loch. This sound is never used in English, but this sound is used in many languages, including Russian, Greek, Scottish, German, Hebrew, and even Klingon. It has two pronouciations: One that is a throught-clearing sound in the back (try to make it soft), another that occurs in the front of the throught. You may spell this as Ch, but it could be confused with Ch in English Chime.
- There is a Č/Ć/Ċ/Ch/Tch sound, but it is spelled as TŠ.
Sorry aboot the long explanation.
-Eben "Frostey"/ ĦŌLÊBÎN
Frostan Word of the time: LÛNG-LgÔKSÐƏR= Frostan [as a language]