Datacron Database:Pronunciation
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Below are key pronunciation symbols to guide you in articulating words and names.
Note: an apostrophe (') is used after the emphasized syllable in each name.
The following text was taken from Star Wars: The New Essential Guide to Characters page 10.
Vowels
- ă: short a sound as in the words bat and act.
- ā: long a sound as in the word age or rate.
- ä: open a sound used for words like part, calm, and father. It duplicates the short o sound of the word hot.
- ĕ: short e sound used in edge or set.
- ē: long e sound used in equal or seat.
- ēr: This vowel sound before r may range from ē through ĭ in different dialects.
- ĭ: short i sound used in hit or pit.
- ī: long i sound used in bite or whine.
- ŏ: short o sound used in hot and pot.
- oi: a diphthong vowel sound that is a combination of an ō and an ē, such as in the words boy and toy.
- ō: long o sound used in moan and tone.
- ōō: long o sound used in toot and hoot.
- ô: relatively long o used in order and border.
- ŏŏ: short double o sound used in book and tour.
- ŭ: the short u sound used in up and sum.
- ûr: the u sound used in turn and urge.
Consonants
- kh: a hard k pronounced at the back of the throat, such as in loch or ach.
- hw: a soft w sound used in the words who and what.
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The following text was taken from Leland Chee's Instagram.
Holocron Phonetic Pronunciation Key This only applies to syllables that end with a vowel sound, not a consonant. The idea is that adding an H after a vowel gives it the soft vowel sound. Adding an E after a vowel gives it the hard vowel sound.
soft vowel sound
- -AH (like cat)
- -EH (like in pet)
- -IH (like in kit)
- -OH (like in COT) [yeah I know, this one sometimes looks wrong so I often like to add additional clarification or figure out a different way to spell it out]
- -UH (like in cut)
hard vowel sound
- -AE (like in hay) [-AY works just as well]
- -EE (like in bee)
- -IE (like in tie) [sometimes using with certain consonants make us want to read it differently (ie SIE) so addition clarification or an alternate phonetic spelling might be helpful
- -OE (like in toe)
- -UE (like in due)
There's not a whole lot of difference between AA and OH, so I tend to go with AA to avoid confusion.
The idea is for this to be a clear and simple system, but it's our knowledge of the English language that ends up fouling things up.