Latonic/Pronunciation

Latonic Pronunciation
Latonic Pronunciation is very subject to dialects and local variants, however the most general form is described below:

Doubling of consonants
Just like in English, consonants may be double to shorten the preceding vowel. Normally this is shown in spelling by writing the same character twice, though there some points of attention:
 * ç is doubled as cç
 * qu is doubled as cqu
 * j is doubled as gj
 * z is never doubled
 * l is doubled as ll, making it indistinguishable from the letter ll

Accents and stress
Latonic has three accents, the short accent, corto or acuto (´), the long accent, circoflecso or lugno (^) and the central accent, centrale or gravo (`) These are important to determine stress, though they don't completen control it. The stress in Latonic is normally on the third-to-last syllable, except when If however the ultimate or the penultimate syllable has an accent, that syllable has the stress. To alter stress, the short accent is sually used because it doesn't alter pronunciation (note that vowel with a short accent can still be long) For example: vincere has stress on vin-, but temére has stress on mé-
 * a word has only one or two syllables
 * the penultimate vowel is a, o, or u
 * the penultimate vowel is followed by a consonant group (in which ll and gn count as consonant groups, but qu and gu don't)
 * the penultimate vowel is followed by a doubled consonant

The vowels i and u are pronounced resp. y and w next to another vowel. If this is not the case, this is also marked by a short accent (which can at the same time give the vowel stress, though it doesn't have to). If they are not pronounced fully, but the vowel next to them has stress, that vowel is marked with a short accent. For example: finia has stress on fin-, but finía has stress on í-, parlái has stress on á- and ié has stress on -é

The long accent is more drastic: it always moves stress to one vowel and means that vowel is always long. It is a typical mark of the Perfectu tense, but is also found in other words. It can never occur before a doubled consonant or a consonant group. i.e. vo parlái is you talk, me parlâi is I talked, but you talked is vo parlaste and not vo parlâste i.e.2 sentíre and finîre both have a long i, but finîre is written with a long accent to show it belongs to another grammatical group Accents may also be used to distinguish would-be homonyms. The long and short accent may be used for the purpose, the central accent is only used for this purpose. The central accent is very rare by the way. i.e. e means and, é means their, and è means in i.e.2 no means we, nò means not The letter e at the end of a word is pronounced normally in some variants, dull (like uh) in others, in yet other variants it is silent. Some words have an official synomyn formed by leaving away the e, which is written with a long accent on the central vowel (i.e. bene and bên)