Both are copied from the Finnish phonemes, since Finnish was a major inspiration for Quenya. This means that the ⟨iu⟩ diphthong is a “falling” one – according to Appendix E of The Lord of the Rings, this is the original pronunciation, but by the Third Age (the time in which The Lord of the Rings is set) it had become a “rising” one, so I may change the phoneme later, not sure.master
| phsource/ph_punjabi \ | phsource/ph_punjabi \ | ||||
| phsource/ph_pyash \ | phsource/ph_pyash \ | ||||
| phsource/ph_quechua \ | phsource/ph_quechua \ | ||||
| phsource/ph_quenya \ | |||||
| phsource/ph_romanian \ | phsource/ph_romanian \ | ||||
| phsource/ph_russian \ | phsource/ph_russian \ | ||||
| phsource/ph_russian_lv \ | phsource/ph_russian_lv \ |
| .group i | .group i | ||||
| i i | i i | ||||
| // TODO iu (no suitable diphthong in ph_latin) | |||||
| iu (+ iu | |||||
| // light penultimate syllable: put stress on antepenultimate | // light penultimate syllable: put stress on antepenultimate | ||||
| i (AX =i | i (AX =i | ||||
| i (CAX =i | i (CAX =i | ||||
| .group u | .group u | ||||
| u u | u u | ||||
| // TODO ui (no suitable diphthong in ph_latin) | |||||
| ui (+ ui | |||||
| // light penultimate syllable: put stress on antepenultimate | // light penultimate syllable: put stress on antepenultimate | ||||
| u (AX =u | u (AX =u | ||||
| u (CAX =u | u (CAX =u |
| phoneme ui | |||||
| vwl starttype #u endtype #i | |||||
| length 270 | |||||
| lng | |||||
| FMT(vdiph/ui_4) | |||||
| endphoneme | |||||
| phoneme iu | |||||
| vwl starttype #i endtype #u | |||||
| length 280 | |||||
| lng | |||||
| FMT(vdiph2/iu_2) | |||||
| endphoneme |
| include ph_pyash | include ph_pyash | ||||
| phonemetable qya la | phonemetable qya la | ||||
| include ph_quenya | |||||
| phonemetable sjn qya | |||||
| phonemetable sjn la | |||||
| phonemetable es-la es | phonemetable es-la es | ||||
| include ph_spanish_la | include ph_spanish_la |