Re: Dune Conlang

If I remember aright, these are the orthograpic conventions of Galach:

Consonants:  pretty much as per English (foo).

Vowels:

  a     /&/
 aa     /a/
  e     /e/
 ee     /eI/
  i     /I/
 ii     /i:/
  o     /O/
 oo     /oU/
  u     /U/
 uu     /u/


Mind you, the Dune Encyclopedia never bothered to use any sort of IPA or
APA notation, they tried to approximate it by using English word
examples, so this is as much a guess as memory on my part.  Also, the
article was very vague regarding the status of unstressed syllables, but
I got the impression that unstressed vowels all flowed into /@/.
Diphthongs also had some unique features that were not orthographically
trivial, like "au" actually stood for /aU/ not /au/ or /a-u/ (two syllables).

Thus, our sample Galach sentence could be transcribed as:

/b@-rid-it/ /ne-hi:d-it/ /beId/ /gw&rp/ /taU/ /nU-bUkt/

Again, this is a guess.