Consonants and Clusters

Defined values

z, w, and r retain ordinary recognizable values.

The fixed digraphs tj, dj, sh, and ng count as one consonant unit for vowel-length rules.

Clusters

Broadly Germanic consonant clusters are permitted and are pronounced literally.

• timb — both m and b are pronounced;
• hvem — both h and v are pronounced;
• stark — the cluster is pronounced as written.

Affixation may produce awkward boundaries. Formal Nordsippisk does not insert repair vowels, delete consonants, or mutate roots to smooth them.