# Phonology and Writing

I am taking inspiration from Lojban, Esperanto, Mandarin Chinese and English to
design the phonology of L'ewa. All of the phonology will be defined using the
[International Phonetic Alphabet][ipa]. If you want to figure out how to
pronounce these sounds, a lazy trick is to google them. Wikipedia will have a
perfectly good example to use as a reference. There are two kinds of sounds in
L'ewa, consonants and vowels.

[ipa]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Phonetic_Alphabet