🗣 Pronunciation

This guide will teach you how to pronounce the sounds of Arusian, providing you with examples in English whenever possible.

. suP u med he l hg hn ha as fer . s,ajura oM rlet u suP ,al .

Vowels

Roma-sem	Semlek	IPA	English Equivalent
a	a	[ɑ]	Like in the word all
e	e	[ɛ]	Like in egg
ei	,a	[ei ~ e]	Like in made
i	,e	[i]	Like in beach
o	o	[o]	Like in goal
u	u	[u]	Like in school
r	r	[ɜ ~ ə]	Close to a in about
r	,r	[ɛ ~ ɛʁ]	Like in the Portuguese terra, French tèrre, or English egg

Consonants

Roma-sem	Semlek	IPA	English Equivalent
r	r	[(ɜ)ʁ]	Like Portuguese carro, French rouge, German Regen
m	m	[m]	Like in mother
n	n	[n]	Like in night
p	P	[p]	Like in spit
b	b	[b]	Like in boy
f	F	[f ~ ɸ]	Close to f in fate
v	v	[v ~ β]	Like in Spanish gobierno
s	s	[s]	Like in Sunday
j	j	[ʒ]	Like in vision
c	J	[ʃ]	Like in shoes
l	l	[l]	Like in lake
d	d	[d]	Like in demon
t	t	[t]	Like in street
k	k	[k]	Like in scale
g	g	[g]	Like in great
gz	x	[gz]	Like in example
c	,k	[ʃ]	Like in shop
z	-j	[z]	Like in zoo