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Pronunciation 1
Pronouns 6
Gender 8
Nouns 9
Plurals 9
Articles 11
Verbs 11
Verb Cases 12
Tenses 12
Pronunciation
In this chapter you will learn how to pronounce each letter individually and then you
will learn how to pronounce any other special sounds. They can either be made of more
than one letter or have some rule to accompany it. This chapter will make use of the IPA
(International Pronunciation Alphabet) to represent the different sounds. You can find
many resources on what each symbol means. This is done to have each sound taught
exactly as they are. This chapter will also make us of Pronunciation charts. To this you
will be taught how it works.
Pronunciation Charts:
Consonants:
Consonants and vowels have their own charts, now you will learn the consonant chart.
These charts will have the normal non-IPA letters and IPA characters of english fo the
understanding. Below is the consonant chart:
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Place
Manner Voicing Bilabial Labio- Inter- Alveolar Palatal Velar Glottal
dental Dental
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Charts like these are used to help us pronounce sounds in other languages, we can map
sounds onto these charts and share them with others to help them learn. Now we will
look at the vowel chart for English. We use different charts for Consonants and Vowels
to distinguish between the different sounds
Front Near Front Central Near back Back
Mid E /ɛ,ə/
Open A /ɑ/
Now that you know how the IPA charts work, you can now learn Alvensk pronunciation with
them. Below is both vowels and consonants for Alvensk. Keep in mind these will be different. If
you have troubles pronouncing any of these then you should use outside resources like the
internet to search each sound you need help with.
Front Near Front Central Near back Back
Close I /ɨ/
U /ʉᵊ/
U /ʉᵊː/
Mid
Open A /ɑː/
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A /ɑ/
Å /o/
Å /joː/
Place
Manne Voicin Bilabia Labio- Inter- Alveola Palata Velar Uvular Glotta
r g l dental Denta r l l
l
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This is all the Alvensk Phonology ( The Linguistic term for the sound people make while
speaking a certain language). Now we will look at the Orthography ( The way a language is
written, I.e. English with its Alphabet).
Alvensk uses the same alphabet as english with some more letters added in. Alvensk may use
the same looking letters but they use it in a different way and vowels have a special rule with
them. So first we will look at the straightforward consonants.
Bb “B” in bat
Ss “S” in sat
Dd “D” in da
y
Ff “F” in free
Gg “G” in get
Hh “H” in ha
t
Jj “Y” in you
Kk “K” in kitchen
Ll “L” in la
mp
Mm “M” in map
Nn “N” in na
p
Pp “P” in park
Tt “T” in team
Vv “V” in van
Ww “W” in will
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Zz “Z” in zebra
Aa Ӓӓ Åå Ee Ii Yy Oo Øø Uu
Short “A” in “A” in How “E” in “I” in “Oo” in The “Er”in “Oo” in
aw rat you edit wil l book “o” in british food
say g
lon Butter
the
letter
“o”
Long Hold it Hold Like Like “Y” in Hold it How Hold it Hold
longer the a the how abby longer you longer the u
and longer word you say longer
purse “yo” say the
your the letter
lips letter “o”
“a”
Now you should know how to red and pronounce Alvensk. Now we will move on to pronouns.
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Pronouns
Now we will learn the Alvensk pronouns. A Pronoun is a word used to describe a person or
thing your talking about without saying its name. English pronouns include; he. She, I, You, me ,
They, We, You Guys/ Y’all, and it. We will learn the Alvensk version of all of these and the
possessive pronouns. The pronouns in Alensk are pretty simple and ca be directly translated
into english. Because of this we can look at the table below to learn them.
English Alvensk
I Jak
You Du
They Detta
Me Mig
She hånn
he hann
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English Alvensk
Mine Mina
Yours Ditt
Theirs Ders
Hers Hånne
His Hanne
Its Derj
Gender
Gender in Alvensk is similar to Swedish but closer to German. Regardless of the last sound, the
last letter is categorized into the different genders. A table to show the genders is below:
Male Female Neuter
e a k
i å y
n ä u
r j b
ng d l
t f w
z g
v h
ø m
o p
s
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The application of this is using in inflections and conjugations. For example the word the
becomes a suffix that varies based on the gender. Later on gender will repeatedly reappear in
grammar, so learning which letter is which gender is very important.
Nouns
Nouns in Alvensk are first classed by gender as stated in the last chapter, they are also inflected
by case. One thing you will quickly realize is Alvensk has a lot of inflection. First gender tells
you what versions of the suffixes you inflect with. Then you need to see what case the noun is in,
then finally you inflect accordingly. In Alvensk there is only two casses you can inflect nouns
with, such as with verbs, but they use only one case. The two cases of Alvensk nouns are;
Nominative case and Objective Case. each of which are abbreviated as Nom. and Obj. so there
are six possible noun inflections if your inflecting, more on that in the grammar chapter. Below
is a chart for you;
Gender Male Female Neuter
Nom. - - -u
Obj.
Think of english grammar. The nomm is the subject and the objectwell is the object. You only
inflect when there is an adjective. You can only inflect nouns when there is an adjective.
Otherwise you never inflect nouns ever. This is used for when you have a question with a
adjective in it, well originally now it is used when there is an adjective in general.
Plurals
Much like swedish Alvensk uses prefixes to make thing plural. Plural is the s in english that
makes words become more then one. Take; apple (one apple) and apples (more than one). In
alvensk you add (gender letter)r to the end of words. If their already is a vowel there then you
just add r. Here is another chart for you to understand better
Male Female Neuter
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Articles
Articles in linguistics include “the” ( definite article) and “a” (indefinite article). In english we
use just “the” and “a” and sometimes “an”. But in alvensk we have just one form of a and three
genders to work with. With Alvensk “the” always becomes a suffix, you add it to the end of a
word. Here is your chart
“The”
Male Female Neuter
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Now you know everything there is to know about nouns. You know the inflections, gender, and
pronunciation. Now we will move on to verbs in Alvensk.
Verbs
Verbs in Alvensk work a little differently from nouns, for one they take two totally different
cases and three tenses. The tenses in Alvensk are; Future, Present, Past. it is very easy to learn
these markers. The two different cases are; Perfect, and imperfect. Perfect means you for sure
do it for example; “I did that” and “ you were doing your homework”. This was an introduction
to verbs
Verb Cases
There are two verb cases; Perfect and Imperfect. You use perfect when your definite that
something is happening and imperfect when something is unsure. Example of both;
Imperfect:
you could have done that (past tense).
Perhaps you can see (present)
You might be doing that (future)
Perfect:
You did that (past)
You are doing that (present)
You will do that (future)
In alvensk you mark your verbs with another inflection! And depending on gender this can
change a lot;
Imperfect | Perfect Imperfect | Perfect Imperfect | Perfect
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Tenses
There are three tenses in Alvensk, Future, Present, and Past. For present you leave the verb
alone, and for future you add a word before the verb somewhat like english. But for the past
tense you add a suffix, only one this time no gender either. You add “ -(o)te” to the end of a verb
and you can get the past tense. For future you add yet again only one marker, “får” before your
verb.
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