The Sisters Klein

Consonants

*Notes for language nerds on the various spellings of [k]:
Originally, about a thousand years before the events told in The Sisters Klein, the Echuvīs had a cause to interact with some people who wrote using the Latin alphabet, and thus their language was written down and codified in the Latin alphabet. At this point in time, c represented [k], ch represented [x], and q represented [q]. Over time, these three sounds merged into [k]. ch represents [g] between vowels because, at some point before said merge, all fricatives became voiced between vowels: [f s ʃ x] > [v z ʒ ɣ]. The same sound change that turned [x] into [k] also turned [ɣ] into [g].

**The sound represented by r is a bit of a tricky one for most English speakers. In informal speech in the General Australian and General American accents (among others), /t/ and /d/ become [ɾ] in certain contexts. The prototypical examples are water and ladder. If you don’t feel the need to be really precise with your pronunciation, you can simply use a regular R sound, like in rabbit.

Vowels