bahá¿ Hello Friend (You and I are being in relation to each other)
Pronunciations[]
Pronunciations are fairly simple, and there are only a few sounds which do not exist, or are not written, in the English language.
a (as in father, or ah)
ä (aw in law, o in not)
e (ay in day, eigh in weight)
ë (e in bet)
i (ee in beet)
ï (i in bit)
o (oa in boat, o in broke)
u (oo in boot, u in Luke)
ü (oo in look, rook) This sound is not truly a separate sound, it is, in fact, just another way of pronouncing u.
ÿ (diphthong ie in die, lie)
Consonants that are the same in English.
b, h, k, l, m, n, p, s, t, w
x (sh)
c (ch)
q (this sound can be found on the internet in sound files for the Quechua language)
ts (ts in itsy bitsy)
ñ (n sound in sung, lung, rank, think. Not like n in fun, run)
Glottalized consonants
¿ (Glottal stop)
c', k', t', ts'
Pitch also plays an important roll. Since key combinations don't exist for certain characters, certain ways of writing pitch change can seem rather odd.
a Regular pitch.
á High pitch
à Low pitch
ë Regular pitch, low pitch (Unfortunately there's no way to use ´`on top of ë)
Ë High pitch
Sometimes I will write these letters out as superscript and subscript..
inaá (inaa) I am going
nóon (noon) I do not want it
naáhi¿onëë (naahi¿onëë I would like to do it, I want to do it.
| English | Alphabet | |
| I see you | ÿ si yu | |
| I hate calling him | ÿ he¿ kälin hïm |
ha¿ wiháhya. These are just a few words. (this he has written them)
wuhwaxnaheé See you (We will see each other again)
Numbers[]
There are two sets of numbers, but for now I will discuss only one set.
0 ime
1 xa
2 ma
3 la
4 ka
5 ca
6 cox
7 com
8 col
9 cok
10 cem
11 cemox
12 cemom
13 cemol
14 cemok
15 cel
16 celox
17 celom
18 celol
19 celok
20 ba
21 banox
22 banom
25 banoca
40 beman
50 bemanocem
60 belan
80 bekan
100 becan
120 becoxan
140 becoman
160 becolan
180 becokan
399 becelokanoocelok
400 baha
401 bahanox
800 baheman
820 bahemanooba
7999 bahecelokanoo becelokanoo celok
8000 biman
160,000 bilan
3,200,000 bikan
64,000,000 bicoxan
1,279,999,999 = bicoxanecelokanoo bikanecelokanoo bilanecelokanoo bimanecelokanoo bahecelokanoo becelokanoo celok
Here is the same number in the second set.
1,279,999,999 = kokookokookokooko
Links[]
(Note: I am moving away from using pa for the number 4, so in the links 4 is still pa.)
Beginning Yama in pdf format. [1]
Yama Reference in pdf format. [2]