Elð na g-celínec ochtentín: How Celinese is pronounced
Celinese is a pluricentric language that is sometimes considered to comprise a branch of the Tygenoci languages in itself, particularly since the idea of a single standard Celinese language is a recent concept tied with the birth of a united Elithoan nation state just under a hundred years ago. In this guide, we will be concentrating on SEC - Standard Elithoan Celinese (also known by its Celinese acronym, CHE: celínec hocorig elithoëg), a compromise dialect based largely on the speech of Ioðinbêr, the national capital, and Perís, the main city in the mid-North and arguably the nation's cultural heart.
SEC is readily understood across the Celinophone world, despite a number of other varieties - particularly those of Chlasc and East Inðrowyr - being quite distinct in their pronunciation. In this guide, we will mostly confine ourselves to discussing SEC and the differences, where important, between Ioðinbêr and Perís pronunciation. In the near future, we will also discuss on separate pages some of the more distinctive Elithoan dialects, as well as those of Circassio, Sairstír and other nations where Celinese is spoken.
The Celinese orthography, inspired mostly by that of Laurieneg (the Celinese language of the capital region), is not entirely phonemic but is relatively regular. Most letters are pronounced the same in all positions, or have a limited number of allophones which are distinguished in a regular manner.