In this article it was proved, that Novoslovnica and an Interslavic language in common should possess 49 phonemes. Novoslovnica seeks to bijective reflection of phonemes and letters, thus there are 49 letters in its alphabet too (with the soft symbol as addition).
You should know that in Novoslovnica primary softness belongs to vowels rather than consonants. That is because of the fact that with combination of “consonant + vowel” we can always determinedly understand what the consonant is like – hard or soft.
It the next table you can see the letters in Latin and Cyrillic script with examples for English reader and references with the phonemes.
# | Latin | Cyrillic | IPA | Allophones | Examples |
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1 | A a | А а | [a] | Example, past (British forms) | |
2 | Á á | Ā ā | [a:] | [ɑ] | Mark, park |
3 | Ä ä | Я я | [æ] | Cat, rat (American English) | |
4 | Å å | Å å | [ʌ] | Cut, wonder | |
5 | B b | Б б | [b] | [bj] | Better, bear |
6 | C c | Ц ц | [t͡s] | [t͡sj] | Tea, team (In some American or British dialects), Zeit (Deutsch) |
7 | Č č | Ч ч | [ʈ͡ʂ] | [t͡ɕ], [t͡ʃ] | Cheese, check |
8 | D d | Д д | [d] | [ɟ] | Do, dinner |
9 | Đ đ | Џ џ | [ɖ͡ʐ] | [d͡ʑ], [d͡ʒ] | John, Jun |
10 | E e | Е е | [ɛ] | Pet, set | |
11 | É é | Ē ē | [ɛ:] | [ɜ] | Bread, эхо (rus. echo) |
12 | Ë ë | Є є | [e̞] | Crederci (it. to think), Человек (ru. human) | |
13 | Ě ě | Ѣ ѣ | [e] | [ɪ] | Петух (rus. cock) |
14 | Ę ę | Ѧ ѧ | [ɛ̃] | [ɛŋ] | Pain (fr. bread) |
15 | F f | Ф ф | [f] | [ʋ̥], [fj], [ʋ̥j] | Feather, phone |
16 | G g | Г г | [ɦ] | [ɦj], [ɣ], [ɣj] | Horn, behind (Australian English) |
17 | Ĝ ĝ | Ґ ґ | [g] | [gj] | Go, grow |
18 | H h | Х х | [x] | [h], [xj], [hj] | Hair, horror |
19 | I i | И и | [ɨ] | Kitten, rid | |
20 | Ï ï | І і | [i] | Meet, seat | |
21 | Ǐ ǐ | Й й | [j] | My, tie (the last part of the diphthong) | |
22 | Į į | Į į | [ɛ̃] | [iŋ] | Evening, morning |
23 | J j | Ј ј | [ʝ] | Yogurt, yard | |
24 | K k | К к | [k] | Calm. pocket | |
25 | L l | Л л | [l] | [ʎ], [l̥] | Lemon, climate |
26 | M m | М м | [m] | [mj] | Month, memory |
27 | N n | Н н | [n] | [ɲ] | Noun, coin |
28 | O o | О о | [o] | Cotton | |
29 | Ó ó | Ō ō | [o:] | [ɔ] | Pole |
30 | Ö ö | Ё ё | [ɵ] | Bird, sir | |
31 | Ô ô | Ô ô | [o̞] | Pool, good | |
32 | Ò ò | Ъ ъ | [ə] | Renner (du. runner), bitte (ge. please) | |
33 | P p | П п | [p] | [pj] | Pear, sweep |
34 | R r | Р р | [r] | [rj] | Through |
35 | Ř ř | Ҏ ҏ | [r̥] | [r̥j] | Rhagfyr (welsh. december), norsk (no. norwegian) |
36 | S s | С с | [s] | [sj] | Press, costume |
37 | Ŝ ŝ | Ѕ ѕ | [d͡z] | [d͡zj] | Day, dime (In some American or British dialects) |
38 | Š š | Ш ш | [ʂ] | [ɕ], [ʃ] | Shine, mushroom |
39 | T t | Т т | [t] | [c] | Todd, torture |
40 | Ŧ ŧ | Ѳ ѳ | [ѳ] | Throne, health | |
41 | U u | У у | [u] | Put | |
42 | Ú ú | Ӯ ӯ | [u:] | [ʉ] | Poor |
43 | Ü ü | Ю ю | [ʉ] | Pure, cure | |
44 | Ų ų | Ѫ ѫ | [ɔ̃] | [oŋ], [uŋ], [aŋ] | Quand (fr. when) |
45 | Ŭ ŭ | Ў ў | [w] | [ɥ] | Wonder, way |
46 | V v | В в | [v] | [vj], [ʋ], [ʋj] | Valve, velvet |
47 | Y y | Ы ы | [ɯ] | [ɨ] | înot (ro. i swim), caol (ir. narrow) |
48 | Z z | З з | [z] | [zj] | Zone, zoo |
49 | Ž ž | Ж ж | [ʐ] | [ʒ], [ʑ] | Closure, measure |
50 | j | ь | SOFT SYMBOL |