History: Pronunciation guide in Portuguese

Source of version: 1 (current)

The person who wrote this is not a fluent speaker; corrections welcome. The intention was for use in text-to-speech systems. Below is the little table for the Portuguese Lojban orthography. Portuguese has some issues which may muck things up: # Sequences such as VnC and VmC cause the vowel to nasalize and the /m to disappear. Try, e.g. "baanndo" or "baanndu". # Unstressed vowels tend to get raised. You may need to try things like "eh" and "oh" in those circumstances. Happily, unstressed "o" kinda sounds like Lojban u. ~pp~ ' N/A a aa (Alternately try ah) b b c ch d d e e (Try eh if this doesn't work) f f g g (gu before e and i) i i j j k k l l m m (You may need mm after a vowel) n n (You may need nn after a vowel) o o (Try oh if this doesn't work) p p r r s s t t u u (o might work in unstressed syllables) v v x N/A y N/A z z ~/pp~