Lustelumenya Language LuLa

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Speaking!

The initial development of 'required sounds' was done by three close acquaintances, at age 12 - 16 (and then some). These human beings did not agree with each other.....all the time. And their political orientation put aside the notion of having someone 'in charge', or being the 'decision maker'.......

The end result being, three different versions of the pronunciations of the symbols. This was not problematic. Being from (approx) Central (and not not Middle) England, they were familiar with the notion the the same Group of Letters could have different pronunciations, A.K.A different sounds in a tiny part of the world approximately between Worcester and Stoke-on-Trent. So the notion of a character representing three different sounds didn't seem unusual.
Fig. 1.
Different pronunciation of the same phrase, in approx. 100km x 20km area.
Received Pronunciation Worc. Dudley Wolverhampton Hanley [Etruria]
Correct! Dun'no'bout'thaa' Arr Tizzae'ii? S'raart'entiit?


The chapter "Roman II & III" shows how this all works; but for now, we will think about Roman I, the most basic, standard and simplistic pronunciations:

JOKE: We use the expressions "Roman 2" and "Roman II" to mean the same thing. The joke here, of course, is that we are referring to Roman letters and not Roman Numerals. When we count, we use Arabic Numerals ( which are better because the include a 0. To say nothing of.....well, try writing "7.45723x10^18" in Roman numerals. Or finding a mathematics text which uses Roman numerals.)
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m

 me

q

 qun

r

 rylh

p

 po

t

 nuku

h

 hen

s

 shte

f

 kthu

k

 kin
Up to now, characters are based on Pig-Pen characters. Having used 9, we still have six more characters available from the 'square'. Let's take a look. NOTE (repeat): The 'dotted lines' are for reference only, and not 'part of' the characters. We don't want to confuse

i

and

l

, or

n

and

d

.

i

 shi

n

 nya

l

 lu

d

 dzakan

z

 zin

w

 wooly


To learn, and get used to these sounds, try chanting (according to your rhythm of choice. We do not recommend 2/4 or 'marching'. But 5/4 and 7/4 sit quite nicely.)

me, qun, rylh,
po, nuku, hen,
shte, kthu, kin,
shi, nya, lu, dzakan,
zin, wooly

These are the most basic presentation of the characters. No dots.