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Pronunciation help

by ShannonCC, November 10, 2013

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yyaann
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yyaann (User's profile) November 12, 2013, 7:41:10 PM

I wouldn't recommend Forvo.com as a reference for good pronunciation, but it happens to provide the correct one for each of the words you said you are/were having trouble with:

Novaj
Kuirejo
Kiuj

Nile
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Nile (User's profile) November 12, 2013, 9:23:10 PM

Those download links only work if you're signed into Forvo, yyaann.
Jen links.
Novaj
Kuirejo
Kiuj

Also, "kuirejo" rhymes with "gooey mayo".

Bruso
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Bruso (User's profile) November 12, 2013, 11:30:05 PM

jismith1989:As for the conlang, I have no idea why anyone would bother creating an artificial language with that many cases to memorize! It'd be just as easy to learn Russian or Latin or something

Are case endings difficult per se? Why? The difficulty with Latin isn't so much that it has cases, but that it has five declensions, with different forms for different genders of the same declension, plus irregular forms, etc. And often different cases have the same ending so you still need context to figure it out.

The conlang Volapük has five cases, but of course there's only one declension with no irregularities so it's not hard. No harder than using prepositions to indicate the same relationships.