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For now the only language transcribable with Liëth is English, but at a later date that may change to include other language modes. Please stay tuned $m

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Transcribing English

The transcription of English is based off of how English photetically sounds according to the available sounds in Liëth, not how it is orthographically written in English.
Take the word "seasonal" for instance: in general American English, the pronunciation is /sizənəl/, the O and final A being unstressed reduce to /ə/. In Liëth writing, even if an unstressed O, A, or Ẅ would be pronounced as /ə/, it would still be written as whatever sound was closest to it, in this case U for /ʌ/. The exception to this is if a word begins in a sound combination (such as a- in about) that is also a short form; those exceptions are marked with an *.
When transcribing the /ɝ/ sound (as in "learn"), Liëth technically has two options: ẅr naturally produces this sound and ӱr has practically lost its /ɛʊɹ/ pronunciation taking on /ɝ/ as well, also that /ɛʊ/ does not exist in American English. While ẅr is the default way of writing it, there is still a choice. The /əl/ sound in "little" and "seasonal", being similar to the /ɝ/ sound with an -l, is written ẅl. Regarding the /tʃ/ sound in "tree" and the /dʒ/ sound in "drink", I usually use a Ch or J because they are rarer glyphs unless someone is specifically pronouncing something without the second sound, however you may choose to write T or D as it is written in English instead, unless there would be confusion.

The apostrophe s ('s) is written out in Liëth, the s becoming a z when applicable and the apostrophe being represented by an bar in the upper stellar position over the s or z.

The apostrophe is also written on other places where possible, such as "it's", and "you're", “we're”, and “I’ve”. These don't change pronunciation in any way.

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Short Forms

The general rules of writing don't apply in the creation of short forms. The majority of rule breaking in short forms is because they obviously cannot be read as anything else that makes sense. If you ever see a word on its own that doesn't make sense, or the first part of a word, check to see if its a short form of something. In general the short forms make some amount of sense, such as the lone illuminant under a single planetary glyph representing a preceeding /ɪ/ or /ʌ/, or an S infixion representing a preceeding O, or an S infixion plus lower illuminant representing a preceding A. A nasal bar, either below or above is as likely to reference "the" in combination abreviations just as much as a nasal sound. Assume all short forms with an initial illuminant can begin any English word, such as "itself" and "also". Most other short forms may also be used as compounds if it can't be read any other way.

Both of the above are acceptable ways to write "without" because there isn't a vowel present on the Th glyph to connect to the "out" short form, so there's no confusion if you know that there's a short form for "out" and know what it is.

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The links below cover everything about using Liëth 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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