Characters and pronunciation

Characters

Note that when romanized, the double letters (like UH, FI, ZH) are alwayed capitalized to avoid confusion.
Zanktooks Alphabet

Pronunciation

Remember that there is a column for pronouncing it with an overline (a macron over the Zanktooks letter, while romanized the character just becomes capitalized) , when the field is blank, there is no character with an overline for that letter.

Letter	Pronunciation	With Overline
a	A in father	A in make
b	B	P
c	CH in cheese
d	D	T
e	E in bed
g	G in go
j	J in jolly
l	L	From Aluric 'lh', position tongue for an l, but hiss instead.
m	Position to make an M sound but close off air you're nose,* don't worry, this letter is very rare.
n	Position for an N but close off air to nose*.
o	O in boat
q	Like English K except as far back in the throught as possible.
r	English R	Slightly trilled like aluric R
u	U in cut	OO in food
v	W	V
y	Y in jolly
z	Z	S
UH	OO in root with Aluric HH (rasping sound with back of tongue slightly raised
IH	Zanktooks y with Aluric HH
FI	F with Zanktooks y
EH	Zanktooks e with Aluric HH
SH	SH in shoe
YH	Y as in yard
ZH	S in pleasure, Aluric ZH, or French j

* This is because Zaynktooksians don't have noses.

Punctuation

The punctuations are at the beginings and ends of letters

Sentence marks: Indicates the begining and end of a command or statement, the terminal sentence mark is not to be confused with the "IH."
Question marks: Replaces sentence marks when it's a question.
Quotation marks: Replaces sentence marks when the sentence is part of a quote.
Interrogative quotation marks: Replaces question marks when the question is part of a quote.
Pause: A pause in speech (for maybe breath or effect); like '?' or the '-' (dash) when a quote is interrupted, not to be confused with the "g."