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Lorebook: Blocs

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TheLibrarian: Created page with "'''Blocs''' are groups with shared stories and/or shared interests Somewhere Else. The various organizations, guilds, clans, and even prominent families make up the various Blocs found Somewhere Else. Blocs often offer benefits to their members such as access to land, housing, education, shared resource pools, or simply, "friends". While many blocs do not have any specific position on most other blocs, some blocs can have either strong ties with or heavy rivalry/animosit..."

'''Blocs''' are groups with shared stories and/or shared interests Somewhere Else. The various organizations, guilds, clans, and even prominent families make up the various Blocs found Somewhere Else. Blocs often offer benefits to their members such as access to land, housing, education, shared resource pools, or simply, "friends". While many blocs do not have any specific position on most other blocs, some blocs can have either strong ties with or heavy rivalry/animosity with specific others.

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Lorebook: Summiteering

2026-03-14T20:35:32Z

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'''Summiteering''', strictly speaking, is the act of reaching to the top of a mountain, though less strictly it can also refer to the process involved up until there without actually reaching to the peak as well.

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Summiteering

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Lorebook: Love

2025-11-29T17:25:41Z

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'''Love''' was and is the reason for creation, as made most clear by the All-Creator ("The Original Lover"). It is seen prominently in '''giving'''. Some do not understand it; but those who witness it are again and again forever changed by it. The greatest [[Lorebook: Meaning|meaning]] is found in love.

==Romance==
While [[Lorebook: Romance|romance]] is one aspect of love, love is not strictly romance, going far beyond what is considered romance. However, '''romance''' is one of the pinnacles of love as at its finest it demonstrates what love is about: giving and laying down. It also does seek a return of this love (a beautiful phenomena that can lead to [[Lorebook: Love#Oneness|Oneness]]), but continues giving even when that isn't received. True romance, much like love, involves putting another person's needs ahead of one's own, surrendering to something greater than oneself, and truly caring about the person on the other end. Romance also involves affection for the other person and feelings of deep admiration for them (see [[Lorebook: Attraction|attraction]]), often from which these actions and feelings initially stem. This romance is hoped to be requited, though Unrequited Romance ("unanswered" or "unreturned") also does exist. Sometimes precisely out of love for the other and placing their needs above one's own, one will stop their romantic pursuit of them, although if the love be real, love itself ([[Lorebook: Love#Friendship|friendly]]/[[Lorebook: Love#Family|familially]]) will continue for them.

Romances can fade as [[Lorebook: Attraction|attraction]] goes down, but the greatest romances involve love that continues beyond the window of that attraction. [[Lorebook: Marriage|Marriage]], in particular, involves a lifelong bonding and commitment that includes attraction, but also transcends it. For this reason, marriage is not built on a foundation of only attraction. Even when attraction has seemingly "run out", the romance of marriage continues because of the covenant created between the two (now one) involved and the ontological change that has occurred in them making them one. The All-Creator sustains this love that is no longer based on feelings, just as He sustains all other love as well. This can also re-ignite attractions previously experienced, although in the new light of the times spent and things learned that weren't there the first time attraction began.

Because romance generally involves attraction, pursuit, self-giving, laying down (and hopefully, reciprocity of this), and, at its highest levels ([[Lorebook: Marriage|Marriage]]) the bringing together into intense Oneness, it is often used to present the imagery for other occasions of love. Even the Creation can be seen as an act of romance in that the All-Creator admired, pursued, gave, laid down for, and brought together His Creation, particularly [[Lorebook: People|people]].

==Friendship==
'''Friendship''' is that love extended to others without regard to any bond, kinship, or obligation. No romantic [[Lorebook: Attraction|attraction]] is necessary to ignite this form of love, although Romances have been known to transition into friendships. Like all other love, friendship involves giving and care and ultimately observes the other aspects of love as well (thanking, hurt, and reconciliation). '''Kindness''', found in friendship, is sometimes extended to one who would not consider the one extending it a 'Friend'. In this way, friendship is extended to them whether or not it is recognized. Great friendships usually involve shared interests or beliefs, but have been known to transcend this and can involve great experiences shared even beyond those with very different interests or beliefs. Unlikely friendships have been known to form time and again pointing to the supremely transcendent nature of Love available to those who will pursue and practice it.

==Family==
'''Family''' can spring out of or involve both friendships and romances, but also involves a special bond that exists of "kinship", whether by blood or by other covenants. These covenants are unable to be truly broken by [[Lorebook: Love#Hurt|hurt]] although that is not to say that hurt can not very significantly strain them. While true love is never merely out of obligation, familial ties do necessarily enjoin love because of the [[Lorebook: Love#Oneness|Oneness]] inherent to what family is: more than one person brought into one through "kinship".

==Generosity (Giving)==
'''Generosity''' is fundamental to love. Love fundamentally involves giving while expecting absolutely nothing in return. This seems to surpass or even contradict [[Lorebook: Logic|logic]], as it is often not a "fair" transaction, but love is not zero-sum and those who have experienced Love know that somehow they still end up gaining more from this '''Love''' then if they were to withhold it because of not receiving it in return. While this generosity extends to concern for future generations or one's kin, it extends far beyond it because it is not about oneself in any way. It is simply about '''giving''', to give and to help someone else. It was by Generosity that the All-Creator created.

Note that generosity does not negate exclusivity, and rather it is much the other way around. '''Exclusivity''' is essential to the fullness of true generosity and hence incredibly important for love. ''General'' love can and is meant to be given to all life, but certain kinds of love can ''only'' be truly given to one place. Trying to be "generous" by giving these forms of love due only to a certain party elsewhere results in not effectively giving them where they are devotedly due in the first place; it actually links with selfishness and inhibits the full giving critical to generosity. Again, other more generalized forms of love can be given elsewhere, but certain love demands devotion and the "forsaking of all others" in order to be actually true to the nature of generosity: laying down and giving.

==Gratitude (Thanking)==
'''Gratitude''' is also fundamental to love and is particularly essential to its reciprocity. While generosity involves giving truly expecting absolutely nothing in return, one way of seeing gratitude is as the elation experienced when the love ''was'' reciprocated and something ''was'' received in return. However, one can experience and practice gratitude even when this return has not occurred, because of the other things there is to be thankful for. This gratitude (thankfulness) can then be applied to others, even those whom one has no reason to particularly thank, in a further turn of Generosity. In this way, love continually gives and gives, even when others may not give into it.

==Hurt (Being Offended or Transgressed Against)==
Many are surprised to find that love involves '''hurt'''. Love, when idealized, particularly when set upon [[Lorebook: Love#Romance|romance]] as its finest expression but through a receiving rather than a giving lens, seems to be only an experience of continual elation and joy that does not run out. But love can involve hurt: not hurting the other person, but being hurt and yet continuing to love anyway. Love does no wrong, but it also transcends wrongs and looks beyond wrongs including those done to it. For this reason among others, love is the greatest force and is key to who the All-Creator, who defines Love, is.

==Reconciliation (Forgiving; Peace-Making)==
The hurt experienced in love can be so great that it creates separation and obstacles inhibiting the free exchange of love and peace that love so deeply seeks. '''Reconciliation''' is the healing of these separations and obstacles and the bringing back close of those who have been set far off from one another. True love seeks reconciliation even with those who have wronged it. It doesn't appear to force it, but it does seek after it with a pursuit as fierce (if not fiercer) than the grave.

==Oneness==
Love ultimately seeks '''Oneness'''. [[Lorebook: Marriage|Marriage]] is a particular kind of Oneness to be experienced only by two people made into one by the All-Creator, but Oneness itself is also to be experienced by all of those who [[Lorebook: Love|love]] each other, even with the kinds of love not exclusive to Marriage. '''All''' love is generous and self-giving, and this is witnessed by any and all who love. This generosity and self-giving, when reciprocated, leads to the Oneness deeply sought for by all of Creation. The All-Creator is the source of Love, and therefore the reason why all of Creation seeks this Oneness so innately and longingly. Ultimately, the All-Creator uses both Romance and Marriage with His Creation as ways to demonstrate how He seeks and will provide this great Oneness with His creation at the [[Lorebook: Culmination|Culmination]] of all things. The joy found in the Oneness inside Marriage points to but is ultimately only a hint of the joy to be found at that time, when the love of the All-Creator will finally be further experienced and understood in greater Oneness. Even those who never married another person will still see this Marriage, which is the greatest form of Marriage to exist, as it is the bringing together of the All-Creator with His Creation. The All-Creator will still remain above His Creation (neither [[Lorebook: People|people]] nor the rest of creation will become All-Creators) but will be one with it in a '''mystery''' that realities like Friendship, Family, and Marriage point to but that is unable to be fully understood yet.

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Lorebook: Work

2025-11-27T19:40:22Z

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'''Work''' (also called '''business''') is productive and creative activity that results in positive changes/developments to the world around it. Many erroneously associate the mere idea of work with the idea of painfully difficult toil marked by confronting resistance, but these and other '''burdens of work''' are merely symptoms of [[Lorebook: Trespass|the Trespass]] and [[Lorebook: False Fullness|False Fullness]] like most issues Somewhere Else. Work has existed since the times of [[Lorebook: Blisse|Blisse]] but was actually marked there by pleasure and [[Lorebook: Purpose|purpose]], and the '''fruit of work''' was consistently positive. The Work of Blisse involved developing, joining in creative processes as inspired by the All-Creator, and enjoying, not merely preserving or guarding. While there are still positive experiences with work Somewhere Else, there are also negative ones. In work's corrupted state, labor does not always bear the extent of positive fruit intended to. [[Lorebook: Onward|Onward]], when a renewed Somewhere Else and [[Lorebook: The Other Side|The Other Side]] unite, work will return fully to its original character.

Work comes in many different forms, such as [[Lorebook: Fashioning|fashioning]], building, tracking, cultivation, artistry, gathering, fishing, [[Cuisinebook: Preparation|cooking]], and more. Some people do many forms of work, but most normally have one to a few principal calls, encouraging cooperation and trade, and most importantly encouraging [[Lorebook: Love#Giving|giving]], [[Lorebook: Love#Oneness|communion]], and an understanding of [[Lorebook: Purpose|purpose]].

When someone has some main form(s) of work they do on a regular basis, that can be referred to as that person's '''job''' or '''trade''' (in reference to the fact that that form of work enables them to [[Lorebook: Trade|trade]] for the fruits of other forms of work).
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Lorebook: Faunawatching

2025-11-27T19:38:51Z

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'''Faunawatching''' is the act of looking out for [[Floraunabook: Fauna|fauna]] to identify different species and observe or appreciate them.

'''''Flyerwatching''''' refers to the act of specifically looking out for flying fauna, who can often be harder to spot and who may spend so much time airborne and hidden away that entire species go unnoticed by most unattentive [[Lorebook: People|people]].

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Lorebook: Faunawatching

2025-11-27T19:38:11Z

TheLibrarian: Created page with "'''Faunawatching''' is the act of looking out for fauna to identify different species and observe or appreciate them. '''Flyerwatching''' refers to the act of specifically looking out for flying fauna, who can often be harder to spot and who may spend so much time airborne and hidden away that entire species go unnoticed by most unattentive people. Category: Lorebook"

'''Faunawatching''' is the act of looking out for [[Floraunabook: Fauna|fauna]] to identify different species and observe or appreciate them.

'''Flyerwatching''' refers to the act of specifically looking out for flying fauna, who can often be harder to spot and who may spend so much time airborne and hidden away that entire species go unnoticed by most unattentive [[Lorebook: People|people]].

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Lorebook: Flyerwatching

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Floraunabook (Flora): Makh

2025-11-27T19:33:14Z

TheLibrarian:

'''Makh''' is a soft substance that grows easily and quickly to cover the surface of [[Atlas: Bodies|Bodies]]. It can come in different shades but most often tends to be red. It most commonly grows in "messy" arrangements with blades crossing and covering one another or "fluff" arrangements where blades come together to seem like seas of cohesive pieces instead of a bunch of individual blades.

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Lorebook: Soundsand

2025-11-27T19:22:26Z

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'''Soundsand''' is a material that forms shapes responding to the sounds made in its environment.

Soundsand has been used for sound to make tangible impacts on the environment, such as for lock systems that only activate and unlock based on composites of sounds being made present in the environment around them.

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Lorebook: Flyerwielding

2025-11-27T19:15:09Z

TheLibrarian:

'''Flyerwielding''' is a practice used by certain folk to send flying [[Floraunabook (Fauna)|fauna]] to assist them, most commonly in fighting but also in scouting or even [[Lorebook: Fishing|fishing]]. The flying fauna otherwise tend to rest on or close by their [[Lorebook: People|people]] partners when not actively assisting them in those acts, holding close bonds with them. The bond can be of such strength that no commands be necessary, the fauna naturally rising to the aid or assistance of their folk.

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Lorebook: Flyerwielding

2025-11-27T19:13:50Z

TheLibrarian: Created page with "'''Flyerwielding''' is a practice used by certain folk to send flying fauna to assist them, most commonly in fighting but also in scouting or even fishing. The flying fauna otherwise tend to rest on or close by their people partners when not actively assisting them in those acts, holding close bonds with them. Category: Lorebook"

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Atlas: The Gold Continents

2025-11-27T18:59:15Z

TheLibrarian: Created page with "'''The Gold Continents''' are a set of continents rumored to exist on one of the bodies nearby Qaramay. They are not actually composed of gold but appear that way in contrast to the rest of the body's surface. Category: Atlas Category: Atlas (Regions)"

'''The Gold Continents''' are a set of continents rumored to exist on one of the bodies nearby [[Atlas: Qaramay|Qaramay]]. They are not actually composed of gold but appear that way in contrast to the rest of the body's surface.

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Lorebook: Milennum

2025-11-27T17:17:41Z

TheLibrarian: Created page with "'''Milennum''' is a substance, most frequently found in either liquid or gas form, found in abundance and that composes some Seas. It is completely clear, even when in vast quantities in liquid form. When in gas form it still allows a remarkable number of things to float on it, as if it were a liquid. Thus it not only composes Seas in liquid form but is known to compose certain Seas of gas as well. Category: Lorebook"

'''Milennum''' is a substance, most frequently found in either liquid or gas form, found in abundance and that composes some Seas. It is completely clear, even when in vast quantities in liquid form. When in gas form it still allows a remarkable number of things to float on it, as if it were a liquid. Thus it not only composes Seas in liquid form but is known to compose certain Seas of gas as well.

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Lorebook: Vanna

2025-11-27T17:10:42Z

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'''Vanna''' is a substance, most frequently found in liquid form, found in abundance and that composes some Seas. It has a lightly sweet smell and taste and can be potable, it tends to be of a color ranging from a light orange-yellow hue resembling [[Lorebook: Honey|honey]] to light greens. Entities move quickly through it and its density allows many things to float upon it.

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Lorebook: Soundsand

2025-11-26T18:48:45Z

TheLibrarian: Created page with "'''Soundsand''' is a material that forms shapes responding to the sounds made in its environment. Category: Lorebook"

'''Soundsand''' is a material that forms shapes responding to the sounds made in its environment.

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Soundsand

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Lorebook: Vanna

2025-11-26T15:43:28Z

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'''Vanna''' is a substance, most frequently found in liquid form, found in abundance and that composes some Seas. It has a lightly sweet smell and taste and can be potable, it tends to be of a color ranging from a light yellow hue resembling [[Lorebook: Honey|honey]] to light greens. Entities move quickly through it and its density allows many things to float upon it.

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Vanna

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Vanna

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Floraunabook (Flora): Makh

2025-11-22T19:52:25Z

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'''Makh''' is a soft substance that grows easily and quickly to cover the surface of [[Atlas: Bodies|Bodies]]. It can come in different shades but most often tends to be red.

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Makh

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Lorebook: False Fullness

2025-11-22T19:41:32Z

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'''False Fullness''' (also known as '''False Oneness''', '''False More''', '''Separation''', or '''Imperfection''') is the state that trespasses perpetuate Somewhere Else, having likewise entered at [[Lorebook: Trespass|the Trespass]]. Somewhere Else was originally created to experience deep [[Lorebook: Love#Oneness|Oneness]] and [[Lorebook: Love|Love]], but at the Trespass this great [[Lorebook: Meaning|Meaning]] was perceived as insufficient or inferior compared to a purportedly superior one it was "traded" for, which turned out to be False Fullness.

False Fullness purports to provide a better fullness in some way than that of the All Creator's, but since Fullness beyond what the All-Creator has created is unfeasible, what False Fullness actually does, according to the [[Lorebook: Prophecy|Prophets]], is corrupt true Fullness by converting means into ends. Creation, notably [[Lorebook: People|People]], have thus been repeatedly deceived into thinking that they will receive their great desires and feel complete, but because the "desires" are detached from the ''true'' desires underneath, they thus continue feeling '''Unfull''' (perhaps increasingly) because the desires were meant to point to greater realities than themselves. False Fullness's results are thus congruent with its reality, incapable of making someone Full or bringing them the deep Love and Oneness they and all of Somewhere Else were created for, perpetuating Sickness and Separation, necessitating Redemption.

==Separation==
'''Separation''' is a term used for False Fullness to emphasize its antithesis to the [[Lorebook: Love#Oneness|Oneness]] sought after Somewhere Else. The symptoms of False Fullness evidence that the world is Separated rather than Integral the way it was intended to be. The world is in a sick state and suffers from Asundering Stains due to the Trespass and worsened by the many trespasses that have followed it, falling increasingly further over time from true Perfection and Satisfaction. There are still vestiges of the Oneness of Somewhere Else found throughout the world; Separation has not blotted out all of them. However, the only way to truly take hold of the Oneness found in them is through Redemption.

==Redemption==
[[Lorebook: Redemption|Redemption]] is the way Separation is overcome and Oneness is able to be realized once more.

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Lynguistykon: Commonscript

2025-11-06T19:58:56Z

TheLibrarian:

'''Commonscript''' is the name of a writing system developed to be able to write the various [[Lynguistykon: Language|languages]] of Somewhere Else using one common phonetic ([[Lynguistykon: Phonemes|phoneme]]-representing) script. Different native writing systems exist for different languages Somewhere Else but Commonscript is able to be used for all of them and facilitates communication and recordkeeping (such as for the Encylopedia) for the [[Lorebook: People|People]] of Somewhere Else.

There are alternative renditions of Commonscript that visually present the letters differently, but all have the same names, sounds, and order, so the script still remains the same even when the letters themselves may look different. Commonscript follows its rules consistently, thus each [[Lynguistykon: Language#Words|letter]] will ''always'' make the sound assigned to it (adjusted to the speaker's accent), and there are no "silent" letters. In order to know where to place an emphasis on a word, each word has an emphasis letter (letter 53) placed above the letter emphasized. The size of the emphasis letter denotes whether it is merely a small emphasis or a significant emphasis. There are no uppercase or lowercase in Commonscript.

Although Commonscript letters are "consistent" and always make the sound assigned to them, this does not negate the fact that different [[Lynguistykon: Language#Dialect|accents]]/[[Lynguistykon: Language#Dialect|dialects]] and different [[Lynguistykon: Language|languages]] exist. This has two significant implications. First, while the Commonscript letter itself is consistent, a letter may be habitually pronounced in a specific way by a speaker with one accent and habitually pronounced in a slightly different way by another (sometimes blurring the line between letters, especially for speakers whose native language does not use that sound); or a speaker may have a habit of placing emphasis on a different part than what's written. Second, a word may be written in Commonscript in a way that a specific language or dialect renders that word, but a speaker from another language or dialect may recognize how their own language/dialect would alter and render that same word and may thus pronounce it differently, according to the frame of reference of their own language's practice and technically using those letters rather than the ones that are written. For example, a standard [[Lynguistykon: Ramaysh|Ramaysh]] speaker may pronounce words ending in (Letter 39, Letter 23; transliterated "sa") that they recognize with the pronunciation of (Letter 43, Letter 23; transliterated "zha") instead because "sa" is a [[Lynguistykon: Bases|base]] from [[Lynguistykon: Umshk|Umshk]] that was passed on to [[Lynguistykon: Ramaysh|Ramaysh]] but converted in pronunciation to "zha" in the process. Meanwhile many other of the languages that also maintained this base did not change its pronunciation in the process and it is still pronounced "sa" for them, so the Ramaysh speaker may still write it using (Letter 39, Letter 23) for their sake, knowing that they themselves would pronounce it differently than how they're writing it and how others from other languages will pronounce it.

==Letters==
Commonscript has 53 letters that are consistent (though letter 53 can vary in size to denote the scale of an emphasis). Note that there are presented common transliterations of Commonscript letters to Wherescript, but as can be observed, Wherescript does not follow the rules of Commonscript, so the same letters in Wherescript may refer at different times to different letters in Commonscript, and the same letter from Commonscript may be transliterated multiple different ways, including ones not found listed here. Also, different languages and dialects may have morphemes or words with the same origins, but diverge on how they habitually pronounce them, with their language or dialect habitually trading the original sound for another (known as [[Lynguistykon: Letter/Morpheme Shifts|Letter/Morpheme Shifts]]; refer to the example of how [[Atlas: Brusa|Brusa]] is pronounced in [[Lynguistykon: Umshk|Umshk]] versus in [[Lynguistykon: Ramaysh|Ramaysh]]). It can therefore be particularly hard to discern exactly which sound is written when something is written in Wherescript, but one learns patterns.

As an example of a Letter/Morpheme Shift, [[Atlas: Brusa|Brusa]] written in Commonscript according to its original pronunciation in [[Lynguistykon: Umshk|Umshk]] would be (Letter 28, Letter 51, Letter 6, Letter 39, Letter 23, with a large Letter 53 over Letter 6), but the way most residents there (many of whom speak [[Lynguistykon: Ramaysh|Ramaysh]]) would now pronounce it and most other words with the [[Lynguistykon: Affixes|affix]] "sa" would be with a Letter 43 and Letter 23 at the end (instead of Letter 39 and Letter 23). The word may be customarily written or transliterated "Brusa" despite the fact that it's actually pronounced by most people "Bruzha", since Brusa is the original pronunciation of the name. This same spelling/pronunciation phenomenon could work the reverse way as well. As an example of a transliteration ambiguity, the transliteration "ch" can refer to either Commonscript Letter 35 or Letter 41 (which have very different sounds), Letter 41 can be transliterated either "ch" or "kh", and "j" can refer to Letter 43, Letter 44, or others.

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|+Commonscript Letters
!Written in Commonscript (A)
!Phoneme
!Common Transliterations to Wherescript (A)
!(Order)
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|<phonos file="Phoneme (Commonscript) (Accent 0) (1) (Male).mp3"></phonos> / <phonos file="Phoneme (Commonscript) (Accent 0) (1) (Female).mp3"></phonos>
|e, eh
|1
|-
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|<phonos file="Phoneme (Commonscript) (Accent 0) (2) (Male).mp3"></phonos> / <phonos file="Phoneme (Commonscript) (Accent 0) (2) (Female).mp3"></phonos>
|ei, ey
|2
|-
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|<phonos file="Phoneme (Commonscript) (Accent 0) (3) (Male).mp3"></phonos> / <phonos file="Phoneme (Commonscript) (Accent 0) (3) (Female).mp3"></phonos>
|eimm, aynn
|3
|-
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|<phonos file="Phoneme (Commonscript) (Accent 0) (4) (Male).mp3"></phonos> / <phonos file="Phoneme (Commonscript) (Accent 0) (4) (Female).mp3"></phonos>
|e, i, ii
|4
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|<phonos file="Phoneme (Commonscript) (Accent 0) (5) (Male).mp3"></phonos> / <phonos file="Phoneme (Commonscript) (Accent 0) (5) (Female).mp3"></phonos>
|imm, inn
|5
|-
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|<phonos file="Phoneme (Commonscript) (Accent 0) (6) (Male).mp3"></phonos> / <phonos file="Phoneme (Commonscript) (Accent 0) (6) (Female).mp3"></phonos>
|u, oo
|6
|-
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|<phonos file="Phoneme (Commonscript) (Accent 0) (7) (Male).mp3"></phonos> / <phonos file="Phoneme (Commonscript) (Accent 0) (7) (Female).mp3"></phonos>
|o, au, eu
|7
|-
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|<phonos file="Phoneme (Commonscript) (Accent 0) (8) (Male).mp3"></phonos> / <phonos file="Phoneme (Commonscript) (Accent 0) (8) (Female).mp3"></phonos>
|ah, oh, ouh
|8
|-
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|<phonos file="Phoneme (Commonscript) (Accent 0) (9) (Male).mp3"></phonos> / <phonos file="Phoneme (Commonscript) (Accent 0) (9) (Female).mp3"></phonos>
|a, ah
|9
|-
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|<phonos file="Phoneme (Commonscript) (Accent 0) (10) (Male).mp3"></phonos> / <phonos file="Phoneme (Commonscript) (Accent 0) (10) (Female).mp3"></phonos>
|amm, ann
|10
|-
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|<phonos file="Phoneme (Commonscript) (Accent 0) (11) (Male).mp3"></phonos> / <phonos file="Phoneme (Commonscript) (Accent 0) (11) (Female).mp3"></phonos>
|a, ah
|11
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|<phonos file="Phoneme (Commonscript) (Accent 0) (12) (Male).mp3"></phonos> / <phonos file="Phoneme (Commonscript) (Accent 0) (12) (Female).mp3"></phonos>
|au, ow
|12
|-
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|<phonos file="Phoneme (Commonscript) (Accent 0) (13) (Male).mp3"></phonos> / <phonos file="Phoneme (Commonscript) (Accent 0) (13) (Female).mp3"></phonos>
|au, aumm
|13
|-
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|<phonos file="Phoneme (Commonscript) (Accent 0) (14) (Male).mp3"></phonos> / <phonos file="Phoneme (Commonscript) (Accent 0) (14) (Female).mp3"></phonos>
|ae, ai, aimm
|14
|-
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|<phonos file="Phoneme (Commonscript) (Accent 0) (15) (Male).mp3"></phonos> / <phonos file="Phoneme (Commonscript) (Accent 0) (15) (Female).mp3"></phonos>
|i, eye, aye
|15
|-
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|<phonos file="Phoneme (Commonscript) (Accent 0) (16) (Male).mp3"></phonos> / <phonos file="Phoneme (Commonscript) (Accent 0) (16) (Female).mp3"></phonos>
|a, ay, ae, ey
|16
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|<phonos file="Phoneme (Commonscript) (Accent 0) (17) (Male).mp3"></phonos> / <phonos file="Phoneme (Commonscript) (Accent 0) (17) (Female).mp3"></phonos>
|ae, aye, ai
|17
|-
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|<phonos file="Phoneme (Commonscript) (Accent 0) (18) (Male).mp3"></phonos> / <phonos file="Phoneme (Commonscript) (Accent 0) (18) (Female).mp3"></phonos>
|oi, oy
|18
|-
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|<phonos file="Phoneme (Commonscript) (Accent 0) (19) (Male).mp3"></phonos> / <phonos file="Phoneme (Commonscript) (Accent 0) (19) (Female).mp3"></phonos>
|uy, ui
|19
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|<phonos file="Phoneme (Commonscript) (Accent 0) (20) (Male).mp3"></phonos> / <phonos file="Phoneme (Commonscript) (Accent 0) (20) (Female).mp3"></phonos>
|or, ur, uhr, uir
|20
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|<phonos file="Phoneme (Commonscript) (Accent 0) (21) (Male).mp3"></phonos> / <phonos file="Phoneme (Commonscript) (Accent 0) (21) (Female).mp3"></phonos>
|u, ue, ew
|21
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|<phonos file="Phoneme (Commonscript) (Accent 0) (22) (Male).mp3"></phonos> / <phonos file="Phoneme (Commonscript) (Accent 0) (22) (Female).mp3"></phonos>
|u
|22
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|<phonos file="Phoneme (Commonscript) (Accent 0) (23) (Male).mp3"></phonos> / <phonos file="Phoneme (Commonscript) (Accent 0) (23) (Female).mp3"></phonos>
|u, uh, a
|23
|-
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|<phonos file="Phoneme (Commonscript) (Accent 0) (24) (Male).mp3"></phonos> / <phonos file="Phoneme (Commonscript) (Accent 0) (24) (Female).mp3"></phonos>
|uhmm, uhnn
|24
|-
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|<phonos file="Phoneme (Commonscript) (Accent 0) (25) (Male).mp3"></phonos> / <phonos file="Phoneme (Commonscript) (Accent 0) (25) (Female).mp3"></phonos>
|i, ih
|25
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|<phonos file="Phoneme (Commonscript) (Accent 0) (26) (Male).mp3"></phonos> / <phonos file="Phoneme (Commonscript) (Accent 0) (26) (Female).mp3"></phonos>
|' ("pause")
|26
|-
|
|
|
|
|-
|
|
|
|
|-
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|<phonos file="Phoneme (Commonscript) (Accent 0) (27) (Male).mp3"></phonos> / <phonos file="Phoneme (Commonscript) (Accent 0) (27) (Female).mp3"></phonos>
|y
|27
|-
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|<phonos file="Phoneme (Commonscript) (Accent 0) (28) (Male).mp3"></phonos> / <phonos file="Phoneme (Commonscript) (Accent 0) (28) (Female).mp3"></phonos>
|b
|28
|-
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|<phonos file="Phoneme (Commonscript) (Accent 0) (29) (Male).mp3"></phonos> / <phonos file="Phoneme (Commonscript) (Accent 0) (29) (Female).mp3"></phonos>
|d
|29
|-
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|<phonos file="Phoneme (Commonscript) (Accent 0) (30) (Male).mp3"></phonos> / <phonos file="Phoneme (Commonscript) (Accent 0) (30) (Female).mp3"></phonos>
|d, t
|30
|-
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|<phonos file="Phoneme (Commonscript) (Accent 0) (31) (Male).mp3"></phonos> / <phonos file="Phoneme (Commonscript) (Accent 0) (31) (Female).mp3"></phonos>
|t
|31
|-
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|<phonos file="Phoneme (Commonscript) (Accent 0) (32) (Male).mp3"></phonos> / <phonos file="Phoneme (Commonscript) (Accent 0) (32) (Female).mp3"></phonos>
|g
|32
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|<phonos file="Phoneme (Commonscript) (Accent 0) (33) (Male).mp3"></phonos> / <phonos file="Phoneme (Commonscript) (Accent 0) (33) (Female).mp3"></phonos>
|g, gy, ghy
|33
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|<phonos file="Phoneme (Commonscript) (Accent 0) (34) (Male).mp3"></phonos> / <phonos file="Phoneme (Commonscript) (Accent 0) (34) (Female).mp3"></phonos>
|k, c
|34
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|<phonos file="Phoneme (Commonscript) (Accent 0) (35) (Male).mp3"></phonos> / <phonos file="Phoneme (Commonscript) (Accent 0) (35) (Female).mp3"></phonos>
|ch, kh
|35
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|<phonos file="Phoneme (Commonscript) (Accent 0) (36) (Male).mp3"></phonos> / <phonos file="Phoneme (Commonscript) (Accent 0) (36) (Female).mp3"></phonos>
|h
|36
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|<phonos file="Phoneme (Commonscript) (Accent 0) (37) (Male).mp3"></phonos> / <phonos file="Phoneme (Commonscript) (Accent 0) (37) (Female).mp3"></phonos>
|f, ph
|37
|-
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|<phonos file="Phoneme (Commonscript) (Accent 0) (38) (Male).mp3"></phonos> / <phonos file="Phoneme (Commonscript) (Accent 0) (38) (Female).mp3"></phonos>
|th
|38
|-
|
|<phonos file="Phoneme (Commonscript) (Accent 0) (39) (Male).mp3"></phonos> / <phonos file="Phoneme (Commonscript) (Accent 0) (39) (Female).mp3"></phonos>
|s, c
|39
|-
|
|<phonos file="Phoneme (Commonscript) (Accent 0) (40) (Male).mp3"></phonos> / <phonos file="Phoneme (Commonscript) (Accent 0) (40) (Female).mp3"></phonos>
|z, s
|40
|-
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|<phonos file="Phoneme (Commonscript) (Accent 0) (41) (Male).mp3"></phonos> / <phonos file="Phoneme (Commonscript) (Accent 0) (41) (Female).mp3"></phonos>
|ch, x
|41
|-
|
|<phonos file="Phoneme (Commonscript) (Accent 0) (42) (Male).mp3"></phonos> / <phonos file="Phoneme (Commonscript) (Accent 0) (42) (Female).mp3"></phonos>
|sh
|42
|-
|
|<phonos file="Phoneme (Commonscript) (Accent 0) (43) (Male).mp3"></phonos> / <phonos file="Phoneme (Commonscript) (Accent 0) (43) (Female).mp3"></phonos>
|zh, g, j, jh
|43
|-
|
|<phonos file="Phoneme (Commonscript) (Accent 0) (44) (Male).mp3"></phonos> / <phonos file="Phoneme (Commonscript) (Accent 0) (44) (Female).mp3"></phonos>
|j
|44
|-
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|<phonos file="Phoneme (Commonscript) (Accent 0) (45) (Male).mp3"></phonos> / <phonos file="Phoneme (Commonscript) (Accent 0) (45) (Female).mp3"></phonos>
|l
|45
|-
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|<phonos file="Phoneme (Commonscript) (Accent 0) (46) (Male).mp3"></phonos> / <phonos file="Phoneme (Commonscript) (Accent 0) (46) (Female).mp3"></phonos>
|m
|46
|-
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|<phonos file="Phoneme (Commonscript) (Accent 0) (47) (Male).mp3"></phonos> / <phonos file="Phoneme (Commonscript) (Accent 0) (47) (Female).mp3"></phonos>
|n
|47
|-
|
|<phonos file="Phoneme (Commonscript) (Accent 0) (48) (Male).mp3"></phonos> / <phonos file="Phoneme (Commonscript) (Accent 0) (48) (Female).mp3"></phonos>
|p
|48
|-
|
|<phonos file="Phoneme (Commonscript) (Accent 0) (49) (Male).mp3"></phonos> / <phonos file="Phoneme (Commonscript) (Accent 0) (49) (Female).mp3"></phonos>
|v
|49
|-
|
|<phonos file="Phoneme (Commonscript) (Accent 0) (50) (Male).mp3"></phonos> / <phonos file="Phoneme (Commonscript) (Accent 0) (50) (Female).mp3"></phonos>
|w
|50
|-
|
|<phonos file="Phoneme (Commonscript) (Accent 0) (51) (Male).mp3"></phonos> / <phonos file="Phoneme (Commonscript) (Accent 0) (51) (Female).mp3"></phonos>
|r
|51
|-
|
|<phonos file="Phoneme (Commonscript) (Accent 0) (52) (Male).mp3"></phonos> / <phonos file="Phoneme (Commonscript) (Accent 0) (52) (Female).mp3"></phonos>
|rr
|52
|-
|
|<phonos file="Phoneme (Commonscript) (Accent 0) (53) (Male).mp3"></phonos> / <phonos file="Phoneme (Commonscript) (Accent 0) (53) (Female).mp3"></phonos>
|´, ‾ ("emphasis")
|53
|-
|}

===Handwriting===
Here are examples of Commonscript handwriting, where the stroke order is more apparent.
{| class="wikitable"
|+Handwritten Forms
!Font
!Order
!Phoneme
!Handwritten
|-
|
|1
|<phonos file="Phoneme (Commonscript) (Accent 0) (1) (Male).mp3"></phonos> / <phonos file="Phoneme (Commonscript) (Accent 0) (1) (Female).mp3"></phonos>
|[[File:Standin_Image_1.jpg|200x200px]]
|-

[[Category: Lynguistykon]] [[Category: Lynguistykon (Grammar)]] [[Category: Lorebook]]

Lorebook: Pahqruun and Pahmsruun

2025-11-05T06:13:52Z

TheLibrarian:

The '''Pahqruun'''/'''Pahmsruun''' ("popular folk") are a form of [[Lorebook: People|People]] relating relatively closely to the Original Folk. It is believed that they originate from the [[Lorebook: Ruktruun|Ruktruun]], but split off from them many centuries ago (depending on who is asked). Unlike the Ruktruun clans, they believed they needed to welcome in order to reconcile all groups outside of their own. Unable to do so there, in droves their ancestors set sail on the river that flows down from [[Atlas: Mount Taurikip|Mount Taurikip]] and followed it all the way down to the sea, colonizing the lands along the way as well as founding a capital in [[Atlas: The New World (Qaramay)|the New World]], [[Atlas: Great Laurikin|Great Laurikin]].

Both being terms with the same original meaning, at some point, the terms Pahqruun and Pahmsruun began to refer to two different sets of [[Lorebook: People|People]] of the same form. While both are known for their historic diplomacy and integrations with other cultures, the '''Pahqruun''' are incredibly diverse physically and culturally, with their identities tending to be tied much more to their culture or historical homelands than to their being Pahqruun, while the '''Pahmsruun''' maintain a core shared identity, institutions, and generally physical features (continuing to appear more similar to the Ruktruun). Mostly-friendly disputes continuing to today regarding which set diverged from the other. Certain Pahqruun hold their particular group's existence in [[Atlas: Qaramay|Karamay]] as predating and completely independent of the sailing from Mount Taurikip. Other than the difference in diversity and culture, they are the same form of People and thus for many other [[Lorebook: People|People]] the less heterogeneous Pahmsruun are simply seen as a subset of Pahqruun, regardless of which diverged from which.

==The Pahqruun==

The '''Pahqruun''' are arguably the most diverse set of People in [[Atlas: Qaramay|Karamay]] (other than the similarly diverse [[Lorebook: Teakani|Teakani]]). Their identities tend to be tied much more to their culture or historical homelands than to their being Pahqruun.

==The Pahmsruun==

Though they are known for being more apt to mixing with other People groups (both through simple social integration and through marital mixing), the '''Pahmsruun''' are known for maintaining a sense of uniquely Pahmsruun pride and culture regardless, strengthened by the continuing prestige of the [[Lorebook: Original Families|Original Families]], the Pahmsruun Institutions, and the relatively strong likelihood of their appearance traits passing on. They are not monolithic, but are less physically heterogeneous than the Pahqruun. Some Pahmsruun see themselves as simply one subset of the ancestors that ended up "sticking together", while others see the Pahqruun as a group that splintered off contrary to the ancestors' intentions.

Despite being spread out over the world, most Pahmsruun hold a common culture in many ways due to various structures uniting them across space and time, like Great Laurikin and the [[Lorebook: Pahms Trading Company|Pahms Trading Company]]. Great Laurikin is renowned for its access to the rest of 'the world', due to both Pahmsruun folk's desire to return home at their whimsy and their desire to educate and get to know the rest of the world. Laurikin holds many of the world’s most powerful shipping networks and has trips out from it through various means of transportation.

[[Category: Lorebook]] [[Category: Lorebook (People)]]

Wherespeak

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Wherescript

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File:Phoneme (Commonscript) (Accent 0) (51) (Female).mp3

2025-11-04T22:07:10Z

TheLibrarian: Audio of the phoneme for Commonscript letter 51 (pronounced by female).

== Summary ==
Audio of the phoneme for Commonscript letter 51 (pronounced by female).

File:Phoneme (Commonscript) (Accent 0) (51) (Male).mp3

2025-11-04T22:06:52Z

TheLibrarian: Audio of the phoneme for Commonscript letter 51 (pronounced by male).

== Summary ==
Audio of the phoneme for Commonscript letter 51 (pronounced by male).

File:Phoneme (Commonscript) (Accent 0) (40) (Male).mp3

2025-11-04T22:06:30Z

TheLibrarian: Audio of the phoneme for Commonscript letter 40 (pronounced by male).

== Summary ==
Audio of the phoneme for Commonscript letter 40 (pronounced by male).

File:Phoneme (Commonscript) (Accent 0) (40) (Female).mp3

2025-11-04T22:06:16Z

TheLibrarian: Audio of the phoneme for Commonscript letter 40 (pronounced by female).

== Summary ==
Audio of the phoneme for Commonscript letter 40 (pronounced by female).

File:Phoneme (Commonscript) (Accent 0) (38) (Female).mp3

2025-11-04T22:05:44Z

TheLibrarian: Audio of the phoneme for Commonscript letter 38 (pronounced by female).

== Summary ==
Audio of the phoneme for Commonscript letter 38 (pronounced by female).

File:Phoneme (Commonscript) (Accent 0) (38) (Male).mp3

2025-11-04T22:05:24Z

TheLibrarian: Audio of the phoneme for Commonscript letter 38 (pronounced by male).

== Summary ==
Audio of the phoneme for Commonscript letter 38 (pronounced by male).

File:Phoneme (Commonscript) (Accent 0) (49) (Female).mp3

2025-11-04T19:45:13Z

TheLibrarian: Audio of the phoneme for Commonscript letter 49 (pronounced by female).

== Summary ==
Audio of the phoneme for Commonscript letter 49 (pronounced by female).

File:Phoneme (Commonscript) (Accent 0) (49) (Male).mp3

2025-11-04T19:44:58Z

TheLibrarian: Audio of the phoneme for Commonscript letter 49 (pronounced by male).

== Summary ==
Audio of the phoneme for Commonscript letter 49 (pronounced by male).

File:Phoneme (Commonscript) (Accent 0) (44) (Female).mp3

2025-11-04T19:44:03Z

TheLibrarian: Audio of the phoneme for Commonscript letter 44 (pronounced by female).

== Summary ==
Audio of the phoneme for Commonscript letter 44 (pronounced by female).

File:Phoneme (Commonscript) (Accent 0) (44) (Male).mp3

2025-11-04T19:43:38Z

TheLibrarian: Audio of the phoneme for Commonscript letter 44 (pronounced by male).

== Summary ==
Audio of the phoneme for Commonscript letter 44 (pronounced by male).

File:Phoneme (Commonscript) (Accent 0) (43) (Male).mp3

2025-11-04T19:43:09Z

TheLibrarian: Audio of the phoneme for Commonscript letter 43 (pronounced by male).

== Summary ==
Audio of the phoneme for Commonscript letter 43 (pronounced by male).

File:Phoneme (Commonscript) (Accent 0) (43) (Female).mp3

2025-11-04T19:42:50Z

TheLibrarian: Audio of the phoneme for Commonscript letter 43 (pronounced by female).

== Summary ==
Audio of the phoneme for Commonscript letter 43 (pronounced by female).

File:Phoneme (Commonscript) (Accent 0) (42) (Female).mp3

2025-11-04T19:42:22Z

TheLibrarian: Audio of the phoneme for Commonscript letter 42 (pronounced by female).

== Summary ==
Audio of the phoneme for Commonscript letter 42 (pronounced by female).

File:Phoneme (Commonscript) (Accent 0) (42) (Male).mp3

2025-11-04T19:41:56Z

TheLibrarian: Audio of the phoneme for Commonscript letter 42 (pronounced by male).

== Summary ==
Audio of the phoneme for Commonscript letter 42 (pronounced by male).

File:Phoneme (Commonscript) (Accent 0) (36) (Female).mp3

2025-11-04T14:27:23Z

TheLibrarian: Audio of the phoneme for Commonscript letter 36 (pronounced by female).

== Summary ==
Audio of the phoneme for Commonscript letter 36 (pronounced by female).

File:Phoneme (Commonscript) (Accent 0) (36) (Male).mp3

2025-11-04T14:27:02Z

TheLibrarian: Audio of the phoneme for Commonscript letter 36 (pronounced by male).

== Summary ==
Audio of the phoneme for Commonscript letter 36 (pronounced by male).