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Isaw a few elcarin words that end in y. How is this pronounced? I looked throug hte grammar and couldn't see anthing that said what it's pronounced like.

oops... I meant elkaril. sorry.

Z covered that one in a post way back in the prehistory of the Elkaril discussion--"ly" is a palatal l, like that in Russian (pronounce it with your tongue up against the roof of your mouth, as if you were going to follow it with a "y"-sound. Or, as one of my old TAs explained Russian palatization, say it as if you has a piece of chewing gum stuck behind your front teeth, so your tongue can't get that far forward ).

That's the only final "y" I know about for sure; I think any others operate the same way--by palatalizing the consonant before it.

p@,
Glenn

I see! thanks!