(First published on: 4/18/2005)

The sounds (phonemes) needed for pronouncing Láadan words:

a as in "calm, father"; e as in "bell"; i as in "bit"; o as in "home"; u like "oo" in "soon"

th like "th" in "think"; zh like "s" in "pleasure"

b, sh, m, n, l, r, w, y, h, d (as in English)

lh -- a sound that doesn't exist in English, made by pressing your tongue against the roof of your mouth, drawing back the corners of your mouth as you would for a smile, and then trying to say "sh" [Always signals negative semantic content]

Tone: An accent mark over a vowel means that it has high tone. For English speakers, this means that you should give it slightly higher pitch and more emphasis, the way you would a stressed syllable.

Creatures

[From A First Dictionary and Grammar of Láadan: Second Edition]

animal, domestic -- shamid
animal husbandry -- ewomil
animal, wild -- romid
ape -- omamid
bee -- zhomid
beetle -- yum
bird -- babí
butterfly -- áalaá
camel -- hibomid
cat -- rul
cow -- dithemid
creature -- mid
dog -- lanemid
earthworm -- shéeba
elephant -- domid
fox -- dumidal
goat -- éezh
insect -- zhub
livestock -- womil
man -- withid
mule -- wothemid
owl -- húumid
person -- with
pig -- muda
rabbit -- shanemid
tick -- uhudemid
turtle -- balinemid
woman -- with

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