Camaraderie is Sorcery - Pronunciation Guide to Standard Angaeic (Centaur Language) · 10:10pm Jul 15th, 2023
As a language constructed for the purpose of standardizing speech across the Third Empire, pronunciation is uniform. This becomes apparent in several ways when Standard Angaeic is represented using pony characters, such as the lack of the letter [c], but is most notable when it comes to the representation of vowels. There are more vowel characters in Standard Angaeic, but because each has uniform pronunciation, there are actually fewer vowel sounds. To denote which vowel sound is represented, umlauts [¨] and special characters [æ] are used. Because of the strict standards of the language, whenever a character in the story who would normally speak Standard Angaeic is speaking Low Equestrian, proper nouns are spelled the way in which they would be in Standard Angaeic to emphasize the difference in representation.
Vowel Pronunciation
[a] – pronounced as in “after”
[ä] – pronounced as in “lot”
[æ] – pronounced as in “table”
[e] – pronounced as in “bed”
[i] – pronounced as in “bid”
[ï] – pronounced as in “steep”
[ö] – pronounced as in “boat”
[u] – pronounced as in “sun”
[ü] – pronounced as in “boot”
[y] – pronounced as in “fly”