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IE as in pier.

OE as the oy in boy.

UI as the North Welsh wy, a combination of oo and ee. Note that OI is never a diphthong, but is two
distinct sounds, as in carnoic (KAR-noh-ik).

Consonants are mostly the same as in English, with these exceptions:

C is always hard as in cat.
G is always hard as in get.

DD is the voiced th as in thin or breathe, but the voicing is more pronounced than in English. It is
opposed to TH, the unvoiced sound as in th or breath. (This is the sound that the Greeks called the Celtic
tau.)

R is heavily rolled.

RH is a voiceless R, approximately pronounced as if it were spelled hr in Deverry proper. In Eldidd,
the sound is fast becoming indistinguishable from R.

DW, GW, and TW are single sounds, as in Gwendolen or twit.

Y is never a consonant.

I before a vowel at the beginning of a word is consonantal, as it is in the plural ending -ion,
pronounced yawn.

Doubled consonants are both sounded clearly, unlike in English. Note, however, that DD is a single
letter, not a doubled consonant.

Accent is generally on the penultimate syllable, but compound words and place names are often an
exception to this rule.

I have used this system of transcription for the Bardekian and Elvish alphabets as well as the
Deverrian, which is, of course, based on the Greek rather than the Roman model. On the whole, it works
quite well for the Bardekian, at least. As for Elvish, in a work of this sort it would be ridiculous to resort
to the elaborate apparatus by which scholars attempt to transcribe that most subtle and nuanced of
tongues. Since the human ear cannot even distinguish between such sound-pairings as B> and no reason to confuse the human eye with them. I do owe many thanks to the various elven native
speakers who have suggested which consonant to choose in confusing cases and who have laboured,
alas often in vain, to refine my ear to the elven vowel system.
PROLOGUE

Eldidd, 1063



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