The Ultimate Guide On How To Speak Mermish!
written by Zasha Tonks
Have you ever wondered how people like Albus Dumbledore know how to speak Mermish and can easily communicate with Mermaids and Merman; well here is your chance to find out how!
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05/31/21
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True Mermish: Pronunciations, Vocals and Grammar
Chapter 3
True, Old or Genuine Mermish, is a primarily-whistled and sung language that carries for long distances underwater and is almost un-reproducible in the human mouth. However, merfolk being the curious mimics which they are, have taken up many human words and integrated them for speech with the sailors, fishermen and beach-walker whom they often encounter during gatherings, transformations and adding to the Collective. Merfolk use long whistling melodic phrases which can be represented in human’s transliteration by hyphenated sentences, the hyphen (drawn as a wave form to signify the Mermish Tongue) is placed between separate words where they can be distinguished as individual comments.
True Mermish is sometimes difficult to separate from emotion and behavior of the speaker as they are blended into the song the Mer sings. For example, a Mer speaking in True Mermish might give a sharp dual cough (Uk~Uk) and this could mean ‘No’ as in a command or as a feeling depending on the amount of trilling they do in-between.
To learn how to speak True Mermish is pretty simple as long as you don’t over complicate the process. Using the knowledge of the human alphabet that the Mer’s adopted (as art is there way of words, but difficult to make universal around the world) they only spoke in vowels and melodic sounds:
BEHAVIOR VOWELS: A = aa, E = ee I = ii O =oo U and Y
EMOTION SOUNDS: Ih = ih, Ae =ae, Uu = uu, Sh = sh
MERMISH SONG: Pa, Whoosh, Ba, Ooww, Drr-drr, Www-ooo, Hummm
When pronouncing the Vowels:
‘aa’ sounds like ‘~ah~’,
‘ee’ sound like ‘~eh~’,
‘ii’ sounds like ‘~ee~’
‘oo’ sounds like ‘~ooh~’
‘u’ sounds like ‘~ou~’
‘y’ sounds like ‘~eee~’
When pronouncing the Sounds:
‘ih’ sounds like ‘~uh~’
‘ae’ sounds like ‘~aye~’
‘uu’ sounds like ‘~you~’
‘sh’ sound like ‘~shhh~’
When pronouncing the Song:
‘pa’ sounding like ‘~pah~’ (Dripping Water And Light Rain)
‘whoosh’ sounding like ‘~wa~shhh~’ (Sound Of The Waves)
‘ba’ sounds like ‘~baaa~’ (Sound Of Underwater Bubbles)
‘Ooww’ sounds like ‘~oou~’ (Sound Of Whales)
‘Drr-drr’ sound like two clicks (Drips and Dolphin Talk)
‘Www-ooo’ sound like a descending high pitch whistle (Dolphin Talk)
‘Hummm’ sound like high pitch humming (Mermaid Talk)
True Mermish is sometimes difficult to separate from emotion and behavior of the speaker as they are blended into the song the Mer sings. For example, a Mer speaking in True Mermish might give a sharp dual cough (Uk~Uk) and this could mean ‘No’ as in a command or as a feeling depending on the amount of trilling they do in-between.
To learn how to speak True Mermish is pretty simple as long as you don’t over complicate the process. Using the knowledge of the human alphabet that the Mer’s adopted (as art is there way of words, but difficult to make universal around the world) they only spoke in vowels and melodic sounds:
BEHAVIOR VOWELS: A = aa, E = ee I = ii O =oo U and Y
EMOTION SOUNDS: Ih = ih, Ae =ae, Uu = uu, Sh = sh
MERMISH SONG: Pa, Whoosh, Ba, Ooww, Drr-drr, Www-ooo, Hummm
When pronouncing the Vowels:
‘aa’ sounds like ‘~ah~’,
‘ee’ sound like ‘~eh~’,
‘ii’ sounds like ‘~ee~’
‘oo’ sounds like ‘~ooh~’
‘u’ sounds like ‘~ou~’
‘y’ sounds like ‘~eee~’
When pronouncing the Sounds:
‘ih’ sounds like ‘~uh~’
‘ae’ sounds like ‘~aye~’
‘uu’ sounds like ‘~you~’
‘sh’ sound like ‘~shhh~’
When pronouncing the Song:
‘pa’ sounding like ‘~pah~’ (Dripping Water And Light Rain)
‘whoosh’ sounding like ‘~wa~shhh~’ (Sound Of The Waves)
‘ba’ sounds like ‘~baaa~’ (Sound Of Underwater Bubbles)
‘Ooww’ sounds like ‘~oou~’ (Sound Of Whales)
‘Drr-drr’ sound like two clicks (Drips and Dolphin Talk)
‘Www-ooo’ sound like a descending high pitch whistle (Dolphin Talk)
‘Hummm’ sound like high pitch humming (Mermaid Talk)
