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The following explains the positions of Stellar Vowels and Infixes with the glyphs for T, L, and the nova (which can appear in all positions), and the order in which to read them.

The lower position (T, or on median planets, not H) is for the stellar infixions (-n-/-m-, -s-/-z-, -l-, -r-), the illuminant (-e) or nova. If a stellar infixion occupies the lower position then it is always read first.
The central position (L, or on greater planets and H) is only for the illuminant and nova.
The illuminant is read and romanized last like the English "silent" -e that lengthens/illuminates the previously occuring vowel that is only separated by a single consonant or a stellar infixion cluster ("hope", "haste", "wilde").

Only the nova and illuminant can occupy this position and only for median planets (except H). This space is only used if the lower position is filled. The illuminant is read, and usually romanized or transcribed, last in connection with a vowel.

No matter the mode used when writing with Lumellis, the same reading rules are applied universally: The Stellar Infixion in the Lower Position on Median Planets (Not H) is read first, then the planet itself, then the Stellar Vowel in the Upper Position, and finally the Illuminant in the Lowest Position. If a word is made up of multiple planetary glyphs, look for an illuminant under the next planet after the first: unless it is obstructed by a gemini or something else, that Illuminant is connected to and therefore illuminating the previous vowel and it read with it.

Using the Universal Mode which presents a more common set of vowel associations, the following words are pronounced as follows:

The sibilant in the stellar infixion position is read first; because the planet presented is unvoiced, the sibilant is read as S. Next is the planet itself which is a K. Following that is the top diacritic which is the stellar vowel being A. Finally the last to be read is the bottom most illuminant which illuminates the only vowel it can connect to, the A, giving Ae and the word "skai".

The first glyph is a Greater Planet and cannot have a Stellar Infixion, a possible nova would only need to be noticed and a possible Illuminant would be read last, which is not present. What is present is an A in the Upper Position giving La. Next is an Illuminant in the Lower Position which must connect to the previous A giving La-e. The planetary glyph itself is a Qu with an A in the Upper Position giving "laquea" or for perhaps a more readable spelling "laequa".

Using the English Mode in which has undergone the Great Vowel Shift, the following words are pronounced as follows:

The Stellar Infixion in the Lower Position is read first as an S because the planetary glyph T is unvoiced producing St, followed by an A in the Upper Position and finally an Illuminant in the Lowest Position, resulting in "stae".

The first glyph here features a T with an A in the upper position and an S in the lower position. Because there is an infixion in the lower position it is read first, and because there is no illuminant the A is read last, giving us "sta". The lesser R is there because the greater L cannot take a stellar infixion, being a greater planetary glyph. The final illuminant connects to the previously occuring I making the word "starlite".

The first to be read is the F planetary glyph because there is no star in the lower position, followed by the star in the upper position being I giving us Fi. Next is the B, but since there is a star in the lower position that must be read first giving Fir. There is a star in the lowest position but since we can tell that it is connected to the previous vowel I because there is no other planet preventing it, it must be illuminating that previous I and thus gives us Fire; if the illuminant was separated from the previous vowel then it would be read after the stellar vowel in the upper position because it would have to be connected to it instead. Next is the planetary B followed by O in the upper position giving Firebo. Finally there is a single lesser L giving us the word firebol, or "fireball".
While the literal transcription of "firebol" may actully be "firbeol" but due to the difficulty of reading it, this transcription is up to preference.

Similar word examples are "storme" (storm), "rẅnde" (round), "moste" (most), "starle" (sterile), "stande" (stained), and "kẅnteiŋ/kẅnetiŋ" (counting):

aEyvTU Xt/sWU Vy/aEU aErzTU aErsWU GtaWUq:

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