Pronouncing Pravic

Tvo-Pravic has 43 sound units, consisting of six vowels and 37 consonants. A Pravic word is either a consonant-vowel-consonant single syllable, or vowel-consonant pairs can be added to make multisyllabic forms. Words can also end in a final vowel, which is a grammatical marker of word type and verb tense (see Basic Word Grammar in Pravic for more on word formation).

The vowels have one sound each, although five of them have a different sound when they occur at the end of a word. One vowel sound can be pronounced in two ways reflecting different dialects. The vowel sounds are:

Vowel	Sound	IPA Symbol	Terminator	IPA Symbol	Pravic Letter
a	pat	æ	bark	ɑː
e	pet	e	bake	eɪ
i	pit	ɪ	beet	ɪː
o	pot	ɒ	bone	əʊ
u	put	ʌ or ʊ	boot	uː
y	pyre	ɑɪ	byre	ɑɪ

Some of the 37 consonants consist of two English consonant sounds; but they are represented by single letters in Pravic and treated as single consonants (as X represents the consonant sounds KS in English). The consonants are:

Consonant	Sound	IPA Symbol	Pravic Letter	Pravic Capital
b	bat	b
bb	grab bag	b͡b
c	loch	ç
ch	chat	tʃ
d	dad	d
dd	red dog	d͡d
f	fat	f
g	get	g
gg	big gap	g͡g
gr	green	gɹ
gv	gv	gv
h	hard	h
k	kind	k
kl	clutch	kl
ks	links	ks
kv	kv	kv
l	links	l
ln	ln	ɫn
m	mat	m
mm	home made	m͡m
n	net	n
p	pet	p
pr	price	pɹ
r	real	ɹ
rd	hard	ɹd
rr	arroyo	r
rz	bars	ɹz
s	sat	s
sh	shape	ʃ
sk	ask	sk
ss	moss side	s͡s
st	stop	st
t	tab	t
th	thin	θ
tr	trick	tɹ
v	vet	v
z	zit	z

The double consonants should be pronounced with a short unvoiced gap without changing mouth position (red dog, not redder; big gap, not bigger; and so on).

The consonant cluster at the beginning of the root in a word is indicated by capital letters. The first root syllable is always the stressed syllable of a tvo-Pravic word.