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The Stellar Vowels

The vowels represent in order: the waxing Moon for I; the full moon for E, the full Moon with a mountain peak for Ÿ; the Sun above the Moon stylistically represented by its light and dark forms at once for A referred to as "the crown"; a forest or cliff beside the Moon above crashing ocean waves for Ẅ; either the duality of the Moon or the Sun and Moon together representing a solar eclipse for O; and finally a waning Moon for U.

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The Planetary Vowel Carrier

This carrier represents a mountain, above which stars sit.
Vowels are written atop consonants that they follow. When they occur on their own they are written with the soundless planetary mountain carrier. On their own, vowels are considered "dim".
They are the same in both Universal and English Modes, however because the /ɛʊ/ sound is not commonly used for English it may be replaced with /ɪ/ as an alternate dim I.

The ӱ /ɛʊ/ sound is pronounced by saying “now” and instead of an “ah” sound for the “o” you instead say “eh”, giving “nehw”.
To hear the ӱ /ɛʊ/ sound pronounced properly, please go here and listen to the recording of Upper Received Pronunciation at the top of the page at 2:33 at the start of "Diphthong Vowel Sounds". Because English does not have this sound it is not going to be used in transcribing it, but it would be used in a language that did have it, such as Quenya, and the constructed language this script is made to write in.

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The Illuminant

The Illuminant only affects the sounds of previously written vowels that come directly before it, including above if there is nothing to connect it with prior. Rather than representing the Sun which outshines all other lights, this light causes other lights to shine brighter: instead of a celestial object, this glyph best represents the star within everyone: Love. Because the illuminant is transcribed as -e, if one instead means to transcribe the vowel e then an e with diaereses or two dots (ë) are used instead to differentiate.

The Universal Mode illuminated vowels:

The English Mode illuminated vowels:

Because there is no other sound present, the illuminant is written beneath these mountain carriers to illuminate them, whereas normally they would be written under the following planetary glyph and transcribed as a final -e. (The transcribed illuminant -e will normally be written after whatever it appears, however it may be moved to directly follow the illuminated vowel if it doesn't look quite right.)

Here follows example English words for each sound written in the English Mode, save for a Quenya word for Ÿ ("neuna" adj. second) which is written the same in both modes.

The full vowel chart for Universal Mode:

*Illuminated, **Rhotic, ***Velar Nasal

The full vowel chart for English Mode:

*Illuminated, **Rhotic, ***Velar Nasal

In both modes the Ÿ, A, and Ẅ are unique in that their final sounds are different from their illuminated sounds and therefore require an illuminant if one wanted to end a word in their illuminated sound.
In English you would need to write "alloy", "allay", and "allow" in a way that makes it clear that the first A is not being illuminated, which is eaily done with a ♊︎, geminator, if it is a median planet, or if it is greater a lesser version of that same planet.

Note: see English Transcription about words beginning with /ə/.

If you want to write something that requires multiple illuminated vowel sounds, there must be an illuminant properly connected to it.

When vowels are written together in pairs, called a stellar cluster, they are pronounced seperately, the first vowel taking on an illuminated pronunciation while the second takes the form that is dictated by its position in the above charts.

At the end of words -h may appear after vowels and allow them to end in the vowels' dim sounds which is otherwise impossible (except ӱ). The ♊︎ may be placed before it so it looks better; it may be transcribed as -h or -hh. This form is mostly used for sound effects.

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The Stellar Infixes

The stellar infixes are written below median planetary glyphs (except H which uses preceeding corresponding lesser planetary glyphs). They represent a nasal (/n/ with Y and the T and Ch orbits, /m/ with W and the P orbit, and Ng /ŋ/ with the K orbit), a sibilant (S /s/ with unvoiced plosives, Z /z/ with voiced plosives), an L /l/, and an R /ɹ/. Their values are read first.
English Mode examples:

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The links below cover everything about using Lumellis outside of a computer. If you would like to view the detailed .odt document, which covers what is in the links and how to use the font on computers please follow here:

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