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Jutic Lesson #1: How to Read
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Jutic is written with an adapted latin alphabet.
This public article was written by [Deactivated User] on 3 Jul 2018, 18:13. Editing of this article is shared with Conlanger.

[comments] Jutic is an a priori conlang with a grammar similar to the semitic languages. It has a fairly free word order, especially in simple sentences. As the Grammar is not the focus of this lesson, it will be elaborated on later. All that must be known for now is that each word comes from a triconsonantal root, which is put into a vowel stencil. This means that words with similar meanings are also semantically related as well.
Jutic is traditionally written in its own script (inspired by Lortho’s), however this has fallen out of the favor of the aristocrats. The other script is mainly used in personal writings such as letters, and school notes; while the latin script is used for all formal writings.
There is currently two dialects, with colloquial speech being somewhere in between the two. There is the standard dialect, which is phonetic, with a relatively free word order. The farmer dialect has many vowels that become silent (which are not written down in this dialect), and in the other script, they do not write down any of the vowels, with them all being inferred.
Without further ado, this is the latin script of Jutic:

Aa Bb Cc Dd Ee Ėė Ff Gg Hh Ii Jj Kk Ll Mm Nn Oo Pp Qq Rr Ss Tt Uu Vv Ww Xx Yy Zz

As you can see, it is the same as the english alphabet, but with one letter more letter; this being “Ė ė”. “Ė ė” looks like the english letter “E e” but with a dot on top, and is pronounced as a “Schwa (IPA: ə)”. All of the other vowels are pronounced as they would be in spanish. There are also some letters that are pronounced differently than in english, which I have listed below.
Cc: Pronounced as the “CH” letter combination in english. In the IPA (International Phonetic alphabet, not the alcohol) this is written as [t͡ʃ].
Gg:Is always hard, like in English “game”, never like in English “Gypsy”. IPA:[g]
Jj: Softer like in french, or the “s” in english “pleasure”. IPA: [ʒ]
Qq: Farther back in the throat than English. Similar to “ck” in English “clock”. IPA: [q]
Rr: Rolled like in spanish. Rolling is not necessary, but recommended. IPA: [r]
Xx: Like English “Sh” in the word “English”. IPA: [ʃ]
Ww, Yy: These two letters make the same noise as letters Ii, and Uu respectively; but are treated as consonants.
There are also two digraphs. In order to tell when these digraphs are digraphs and are pronounced as such, see if there are another two consonants in the word. In Capitalization, both letters of the digraph are capitalized.
NG, ng: Pronounced like the “ng” in english “Singing” IPA: [ŋ]
TH, th: Pronounced like “th” in english “this type of explanation is dumb”. IPA: [θ]
KH, kh: Like “H” but gurgled like middle eastern. IPA: [χ]

In the next lesson, we will go over the basics of grammar, and how Jutic ([ʒutit͡ʃ]) gets free word order.
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