Learn Shavian/Vowels/1

The first two letters you will learn are called if and eat. They look like this

Name	Letter
if	𐑦
eat	𐑰

You can imagine that someone wanted to make the if letter longer, so they broke it in the middle and tried to pull it apart to lengthen it. That is how we got the eat letter.

Vocabulary

Latin	Shavian
if	𐑦f
eat	𐑰t
this	th𐑦s
these	th𐑰se
in	𐑦n
we	w𐑰

Reading Practice

Now w𐑰 can use th𐑰se letters 𐑦n some text like th𐑦s.

𐑦n the quaint v𐑦ll𐑦ge of W𐑦llow Cr𐑰k, L𐑦l𐑰, a l𐑦ngu𐑦st𐑦cs 𐑦nthus𐑰ast, d𐑦scovered an old manuscr𐑦pt contain𐑦ng m𐑦sterious s𐑦mbols. 𐑦ntr𐑰gued, sh𐑰 𐑦mbarked on a l𐑦ngu𐑦st𐑦c journ𐑰, unravel𐑦ng the en𐑦gma. The gl𐑦phs led her to an ancient librar𐑰, where sh𐑰 met an 𐑦ccentr𐑦c librarian named B𐑦ll𐑰. W𐑦th a tw𐑦nkle 𐑦n h𐑦s eye, B𐑦ll𐑰 r𐑦v𐑰led the s𐑰crets of a forgotten langu𐑦ge, 𐑦gnit𐑦ng L𐑦l𐑰's cur𐑦os𐑦t𐑰. Am𐑦dst dust𐑰 tomes, they d𐑦ciphered 𐑦ntr𐑦cate scr𐑦pts, 𐑦mmers𐑦ng themselves 𐑦n the thr𐑦ll of l𐑦ngu𐑦st𐑦c exploration. As they uncovered h𐑦dden phonet𐑦c patterns, the echoes of “𐑦f” and “𐑰t” resonated through the silent corr𐑦dors, transform𐑦ng the forgotten 𐑦nto a l𐑦ngu𐑦st𐑦c s𐑦mphon𐑰.