Consonant Transcription

Rainian Phonetica uses word letters for common consonant sounds. Sounds that are commonly represented by unique digraphs in English are represented using Rainian Phonetica digraph letters.

Word-Letter Consonants

Letter	Pronunciation	Example
b	the sound in bat	bat
d	the sound in dog	dog
f	the sound in fish	fish
g	the sound in go	go
h	the sound in hat	hat
j	the sound in jump	jump
k	the sound in kite	kite
l	the sound in leg	leg
m	the sound in man	man
n	the sound in net	net
p	the sound in pen	pen
r	the sound in red and nurse	red, nurse
s	the sound in sun	sun
t	the sound in top	top
v	the sound in van	van
w	the sound in wet	wet
y	the sound in yes	yes
z	the sound in zoo	zoo

Digraph Letters

Rainian Phonetica has six dedicated digraph letters:

Letter	English sound	Example
s̄̄	sh	ship
c̄̄	ch	chip
t̄̄	unvoiced th	think
t̲̲	voiced th	this
z̄̄	zh	measure
n̄̄	ng	sing

Redundant English Letters

The English letters c, q, and x are not used as Rainian Phonetica word letters because their common pronunciations can be represented by existing letters or letter combinations.

C

Hard c is represented by k.

Soft c is represented by s.

The name of the individual letter c is represented by sē.

Q

The qu combination is represented by kw.

A q pronounced as /k/ is represented by k.

The name of the individual letter q is represented by kyū.

X

The common /ks/ pronunciation is represented by ks.

When x has the sound represented by z, it is represented by z.

The name of the individual letter x is represented by eks.

This allows Rainian Phonetica to avoid redundant letters while retaining the sounds they represent.