RomanizationThis dictionary will use english letters in order to code for Hoisanese words, the following is a list of how the sounds will appear in the dictionary:
a - pronounced like the "a" sound in crawl
au - pronounced like the "au" sound in cow
ai - pronounced like the "ai" sound in I
b - pronounced like the "b" sound in bat
ch - pronounced like the "ch" sound in chart
d - pronounced like the "d" sound in dog
e - pronounced like the "e" sound in met
ei - pronounced like the "ei" sound in weigh
eu - pronounced as a combination of the sounds "e"(as in met) and "u" as in moo
f - pronounced like the "f" sound in fun
g - pronounced like the "g" sound in goat
h - pronounced like the "h" sound in heavy
i - pronounced like the "i" sound in see
iu - pronounced as a combination between the "i" sound(as in meet) and the "u" sound(as in shoe)
j - pronounced as the "j" sound in juice
k - pronounced as the "k" sound in camera
l - pronounced as the "l" sound in laser
m - pronounced as the "m" sound in maybe
n - pronounced as the "n" sound in night
ng - pronounced like the word pong without the po at the beginning
o - pronounced like the "o" sound in cold
oi - pronounced as the "oi" sound in join
ou - pronounced as the "ou" sound in groan
p - pronounced like the "p" sound in play
s - pronounced like the "s" sound in sooth
t - pronounced like the "t" sound in tap
thl - pronounced by opening the mouth slightly with top and bottom teeth a little bit apart then pressing the tongue against your top teeth and forcing air out from the sides of your mouth, it should almost sound like a combination of the "th" sound(as in thick) and the "l" sound(as in lick)
u - pronounced like the "u" sound in boom
ui - pronounced like the "ui" sound in buoy
v - pronounced less harshly than the "v" sound in vacuum
w - pronounced like the "w" sound in whale
y - pronounced like the "y" sound in yam
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