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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".

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.

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.)

If there isn't any second glyph for the illuminant to sit under, it must go underneath the vowel directly.

The vowels Ÿ and A are unique in that they have different final sounds than the other vowels and in order to make sure that their illuminated forms are pronounced at the end of words there must be space to indicate that the illuminant under them is in fact not connected to the previous vowel. It's easy if there are clearly no other vowels for the illuminant to connect to, however in a word with more than that it gets a bit tricky. For words ending in infixion glyphs, simply insert a lesser of the same before it to disconnect the previous vowel from the illuminant.

If the word does not end in an greater planet, the ♊︎ or geminator is used instead, as it applies to median planets.

If they are both supposed to be illuminated, then there needs to be two illuminants.

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 chart.

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. They represent a nasal (N /n/ in general, M /m/ with the P orbit, N /n/ with the T orbit, N /n/ with the Ch orbit, Ng /ŋ/ with the K orbit, N /n/ with Y, and M /m/ with W), a sibilant (S /s/ with unvoiced plosives, Z /z/ with voiced plosives), an L /l/, and an R /ɹ/. Their values are read first. These infixes are only used with median planetary glyphs, not greater planetary glyphs or the H, which instead use the corresponding lesser planetary glyphs.

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