The 210 basic syllables

The basic syllables are the core of Nonlen. They have lexical, semantical, morphological and syntactical functions. By combining these syllables, you can express any possible content expressable in a language.
The syllables can be used as whatever part-of-speech. So one syllable can be at the same time a noun, an adjective, or a verb.

E.g. "gan" means "(body) organ, to digest, to process, administration, official"
"wi" means "vision, to see, to perceive, to look"
"ganwi" means "organ to see" i.e. "eye"
"hau" means "house, home, to dwell, domestical"
"haugan" means "house of administration" i.e. "public office, administration office"

The basic syllables are easy to pronounce. They all begin with a consonant and end with either a vowel, a diphtong or a vowel plus "n".

Phonetic form of a basic syllable: C + V (+n) or C + D

where C = {p, b, f, d, t, s, j, c, x, g, k, h, y, w}; V = {i, e, a, o, u}; and D = {ai, au}

I removed six possible syllables because they could be difficult to distinguish from other syllables: {yi, yin, wu, wun, wau, yai}

List of the basic syllables

The first row shows the Nonlen syllable.
The second row shows a possible mnemotechnical term.
The third row shows English translations of the basic word.
The forth row shows the German translations of the basic word.
And finally the fifth row shows the short form used in word-to-word translation.