Phonology

Consonants

The consonant phonemes of standard Fleutesprache are shown in the following table.

	Bilabial	Labiodental	Alveolar	Post alveolar	Palatal	Velar		Glottal
						plain	labial
Plosive	/b/		/d/			/g/
	/p/		/t/	/tʃ/		/k/	/kw/
Affricate			/dz/
		/pf/	/ts/	/ʃ/
Fricative		/v/	/z/
		/f/	/s/			/x/		/h/
Nasal	/m/		/n/			/ŋ/
Rhotic			/r/
Approximant			/l/		/j/		/w/

Vowels

The vowel phonemes of standard Fleutesprache are shown in the following table.

	Front	Central	Back
Close	/iː/ /ɪ/		/ʊ/ /uː/
Mid	/eː/ /ɛ/		/ɔ/ /oː/
Open		/a/ /aː/

Stresses

Stresses in Fleutesprache are predominantly on the second last syllable, with the exception of long vowels and diphthongs.

Umlauts

The letters a, o, and u can have an umlaut and become Ää, Öö and Üü. Their pronunciation are shown in the chart in the next section

Graphemes

Grapheme	Phoneme
a	/a/
ä	/eː/
ae or æ	/aɪ/
b	/b/
c	/s/ before e, ē, i, ī; /k/ otherwise
ch	/k/ at the beginning of words, /ç/ after e, ē, i, ī; /x/ otherwise
d	/d/
e	/e/
ei	/aɪ/
eu	/jœ/ at the beginning of words, otherwise /ɔɪ/
f	/f/
g	/g/
h	/h/ at the beginning of syllables, silent otherwise
i	/i/ as vowel, /j/ as consonant (Iūlius /juːlɪʊs/)
k	/k/
l	/l/
m	/m/
n	/ŋ/ before another velar phoneme, /n/ otherwise
o	/ɔ/
ö	/œ
p	/p/
q	always used in conjunction with u as qu, /kw/
r	/r/ or /ə/
s	/z/ at the beginning of syllables, /s/ otherwise
sch	/ʃ/
ss	/s/
t	/t/
tsch	/tʃ/
u	/ʊ/
ü	/y/
v	/f/
w	/v/ (only used in some non-Latin origin words)
x	/ks/
y	/i/
z	/ts/ at the beginning of syllables, /z/ otherwise