Peoplese Spelling

"Sound Spell Same"

Overview

                    The Alike English (AE) version of Peoplese is the learner's  version; it uses English spelling with Peoplese structure.

        In pure Peoplese (SSS version), there is a one-to-one correspondence between a Peoplese alphabet letter and i'ts sound.
                    Thus, reading a Peoplese word, you know how to pronounce it.  Hearing a Peoplese word, you know how to spell it.
                    (The Peoplese alphabet is almost the same as the English alphabet.  Details below.)      

        Because Peoplese SSS spelling is intuitive and consistent, it is relatively easy for native- and non-native English speakers to learn.

        Guideline on capitalization, singular and plural nouns, ordinal numbers, abbreviations, acronyns, and romanization,
                     are the same in both Alike English and Sound Spell Sames versions.  They are outlined on the Alike English page.

Features of pure Peoplese (SSS) spelling

                Short vowels:  a, e, i, o, u.  Long vowels are marked with a line over the vowel:  ā, ē, ī, ō, ū. 

                Each alphabet letter corresponds to one sound, each sound corresponds to one alphabet letter.

        No letters are doubled.  (No double consonants, no double vowels.)

        No letters are silent.  (All letters are pronounced.)

        “y” is a consonant, not a vowel.  As in:  yes, you, yellow.

Long and Short Vowels are distinguished at a glance, with a simple, intuitive system

            In the chart below, the 3rd column is International Phonetic Alphabet, IPA.  (English is in parentheses.)

            Letter "u" in Peoplese is pronounced like English "you" without the initial consonant "y" sound.  Rhymes with "blue".

            Because English has three sounds for letter "a" and Peoplese has two, some words will sound a bit strange at first to English speakers,
                       in the same way that Australian English sounds a bit strange to Scottish English speakers.       

            Click on the sound image below, then press "OK", to hear the letter's sound.

            Peoplese long vowels, designated by long line over the vowel (left column):

	ā		eɪ	pronounced like letter “a”, as in bā (bay), sā (say), mā (may)
	ē		i	pronounced like letter “e”, as in mē (me), sē (see), hē (he)
	ī		aɪ	pronounced like letter “i”, as in bī (by, buy), fīv (five), ī (eye)
	ō		oʊ	pronounced like letter “o", as in bōd (bode), gō (go), hōm (home)
	ū		u	pronounced like Peoplese letter “u”, which does not include English initial “y” consonant sound.  As in tū (too), blū (blue)

                       Peoplese short vowels are unmarked (left column) :

	a		a	as in  English above, French madame, as in Spanish madre, Chinese mandarin 妈.
	e		ɛ	as in bed, edit, pet.
	i		ɪ	as in bid, it, hit, sit.
	o		ɔ	as in pod, offer, off, cloth
	u		ʌ	as bud, under, up.

	b		b	as in by, lab
	θ		θ	"th" as in thigh, thiink (only one "th" sound)
	d		d	as in die, do, day, good
	f		f	as in family, friend, if
	g		g	as in good, give, flag
	h		h	as in high, how, hello
	j		ʒ	as in French " bonjour", English "pleasure", "vision"
	k		k	as in kite, cat, coat, back
	l		l	as in lay, leg, bill
	m		m	as in my, man, mom
	n		n	as in night, no, ten
	p		p	as in pie, pet, map
	q		ʧ	"ch", as in chat, choice, chow
	r		ɾ	as in Spanish "pero" (slightly rolled "r")
	s		s	as in say, sun, miss
	t		t	as in tea, together, get
	v		v	as in vine, voice, five
	w		w	as in why, wet, window
	ʃ		ʃ	"sh" as in she, show, bush
	y		j	as in you, yes, yellow
	z		z	as in zoo, zone, ooze

Syllable Stress

      In Peoplese (like English), in all multi-syllabic words, one syllable is stressed (emphasized, accented, spoken louder than the others).

            Peoplese (unlike English) has strict rules of which syllable to stress.
                        English native speakers automatically learn which syllable to stress for each word by listening as children.
                        Non-native speakers of English must memoirize which syllable is stressed in every single word.
                        Peoplese speakers spend no time learning whiich syllables to stress.  Countless hours of rote memorization avoided.

            Peoplese stress rules apply to the root word only, regardless of prefixes and suffixes.

     Stressed syllables:

            2-syllable words:  the first syllable is the stressed syllable

                     Examples (with English in parentheses):  anger-ē (angry), buter (butter), ōnlē (only), welkum (welcome), leson (lesson)
                                 alōne (alone), agō (alone), kumplī (comply), rēlēf (relief), re-insert, hapē-nes (happiness)

            3 & 4 syllable words:  the 2nd syllable is stressed

                     Examples of 3-syllable words:  karpentōr (carpenter), terifik (teriffic), residens (residence), advertīz (advertise)
                     Examples of 4-syllable words:  ilūmēnāt (illuminate), optimizm (optimism), ekspērēens (experience), valid-itē (validity)

            5 and more syllable words:  the 3rd syllable is stressed.

                     Examples:  internaʃunal (international), reprēhensabel (reprehensible), komūnēkāshuns (communications)

            So to English speakers, some Peoplese words at first will sound a bit strange.

Letter differences between Peoplese and English  (English in parentheses):

                                   If the English sound is “k”, as in "cat" and "kitten", the Peoplese letter becomes “k”.
                                   If the English sound is “s”, as in "city" and "say", the Peoplese letter becomes “s”.

                                   If the English sound is “g”, as in "go", the Peoplese letter remains “g”.
                                   If the English sound is “j”, as in "jump", the Peoplese letter becomes “j”.

     Word Endings

Proper names

            Peoplese uses native names for geographical and geopolitical entties.
                         So English "Greece" becmes Peoplese "Hellas", Russia becomes Rossiya.
                         Albert Einstein becomes Albert Īnstīn.  Pablo Picasso becomes Pablō Pikasō.

               In books, proper names that would puzzle intended readers are  generally footnoted to the language of the intended reader.
                         In shorter publications, parentheses are commonly used.

               For more details, click on the Geographical and Geopolitical orange buttons below.      

Definitions:

            “Root word”:  the core word, which never changes spelling, to which prefixes and suffixes are sometimes added.

            “Prefix” and “suffix”:  both add meaning to the root word, from which they are separated by a short hyphen called a hyphen۔et (  ۔ ).

                        Each suffix and prefix has one unique meaning, and can be attached via hyphen to any root word.
                                    E.g. re۔send-d (English "resent").

            “Word beginning” and “word ending”:are attached to the root word without added a punctuation mark.
                        Unlike prefixes and suffixes, word beginnings and endings do not have unique meanings.

Sample text:  For sample texts in both versions of Peoplese (Alike English and Sound Spell Same), click on orange Spelling tab above.