Welcome to the Kaskhoruxa Introduction Guide!
This isn't a full tutorial on the language, but rather is a tutorial of a few concepts for people new to languages, constructed or otherwise. After reading this, you may have a much easier time learning the Kaskhoruxa language, and perhaps many other languages outside of this site.
DISCLAIMER: You do not need to know all of the symbols within the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) to learn Kaskhoruxa; only a few are used. I am providing the complete chart of all IPA symbols for your personal reference and later self-education, should you find interest in it.
The International Phonetic Alphabet is used on this site to demonstrate how words are pronounced. This is because the time and storage space required to record, edit, and organize audio pronunciations of all the words is not practical for my current work situation, and also because the IPA is the standard for constructed language designers and linguists across the planet.
The symbols used in the IPA represent single specific sounds that are made when speaking any language in the world. If you know what one of these symbols means, then you know what it means in every language you come across, when written in IPA. Because of how standardized this is, I have elected to write all pronunciations on the site in this system.
If you learn the necessary IPA symbols, then you will know exactly how a word sounds when you go to pronounce it yourself, regardless of your knowledge in a specific language's writing system.
Because this is a beginner's guide, however, I have also included a section where audio samples are provided for all romanized Kaskhoruxa letters and native glyphs.
[1] ⟨ ' ⟩ is sometimes used to represent contractions within words. However, this system of marking contractions is not used in all romanized Kaskhoruxa communities. Knowing when to pronounce ⟨ ' ⟩ is usually a matter of recognizing a possible contraction, and then deciding that it is not meant to be pronounced.
[2] The [ ə̆rː ] sound, romanized as ⟨ rr ⟩, is always treated like a vowel, and not a consonant. This sound is pronounced by making a long rolled "r", while subtly vocalizing an "er" sound.
[3] The romanized letter ⟨ s ⟩ will be pronounced as [ s ] when starting or ending a word. Otherwise, it will be pronounced as [ z ].