The Kenybek Alphabet

One of the most crucial pieces to any language is it's alphabet, and the Kenybek alphabet is extremely simple, and 100% phonetic all of the time as to make learning it a bit easier. The alphabet itself is:

aàbcçdeéfghijklmnoprstuùvyz

AÀBCÇDEÉFGHIJKLMNOPRSTUÙVYZ

Pronunciation of consonants:

b, d, f, g, h, k, l, m, ng, p, s, t and v are the same as in English.

• j: s in "pleasure"
• c: Hard, the same sound as k.
• gn/ñ: As in spanish niño. It has two forms of writing because many people cannot type ñ.
• r: Can be any way, preferably soft as in most british and french accents. (Car becomes cah, etc).
• ç/cc: The equivalent of an English ch, such as in "choose".
• ch: The equivalent of an English sh, such as in "shoes".
• dj: The equivalent of an English j, such as in "jam".

Pronunciation of vowels:

• à: a as in Anna, or an.
• a: ah, as in apple.
• e: eh, as in egg. Final -e is pronounced as "uh".
• i: ee, as in irrigation.
• o: oh, as in open.
• ù: the word "uh".
• y: ih, as the i in in.
• u: oo, as the oo in cool.
• é: ay, as in day.
• oe: u as in put.
• ae: ie, as in die.
• ou: ow, as in cow.

In addition to these, you will occasionally see an apostrophe in the typical speech, and that just means that two words were put together. "I am" in Kenybek is "Jé està", and the rule will be described later, but it is written and pronounced as "J'està", pronounced like "Zhehstaw".

Some example pronunciations, as phonetic as I can make them:

1. J'amarà le parl du Bathe: Jah-mah-raw leh pahrl doo bah-thuh.
2. Soem elen chàtà mésin en le vil: Suhm ehl-ehn shah-taw ihn leh vihl.