[WIP] Added some villages to the Phoenix Islands

[Pananacakes]

I've filled in most of the Islands' lowland villages. Elves dominate culturally so the names are in my version of an Elvish language. I've supplied a pronunciation guide for anyone language-geeky enough to want to say the names.

The first view is at 100% zoom and the second is zoomed out a bit to show where more of the villages lie.

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How To Pronounce Phoenix Isles Elvish:

All letters, including vowels, are pronounced. There are no dipthongs (groups of two or more vowels together said as a single syllable).

The sounds the letters make:
Æ or æ = The vowel sound in "cat"
È or è = The vowel sound "shed"
É or é = The vowel sound in "straight"
Ì or ì = The vowel sound in "it"
Í or í = The vowel sound in "feet"
Ð or ð = The first consonant sound in "that"
Ù or ù = The vowel sound in "put"
Ú or ú = The vowel sound in "soup"
Û or û = The vowel sound in "up"
Þ or þ = The first consonant sound in "thing"
Ī or ī = The vowel sound in "ice"
Ō or ō and Ó or ó = The vowel sound in "nose"
Ƕ or ƕ = The sound of a combined 'hw', as in Old English "hwæt," or exaggerated stage-speak "what" and "where"
Ƣ or ƣ = The vowel sound in "coin"
Ȣ or ȣ = The vowel sound in "saw"
Ɠ or ɠ = Like the final consonant sound in Scottish "loch," but with a hard 'g' sound in place of the 'c' sound. Same as Arabic 'غ'.
ɧ or ɧ = The sound of a combined 'h-y.' As in, put an 'h' in front of the word "yes" and try to say it like "hyes."
Ʃ or ʃ = The first consonant sound in "shell"
Ʒ or ʒ = The first consonant sounds in "Zsa Zsa Gabor" and "beige."
ʦ or ʦ = The sound of a combined 'ts.' The first and second consonant sound in "tsetse fly."
ʧ or ʧ = The first consonant sound in "chomp"
ˀ or ˀ = A glottal stop. The sound in "uh-oh" besides the 'u' and 'o.'
Χ or χ = The final consonant sound in Scottish "loch."
Q or q = A 'k' sound but formed back in the throat, a little further back even than hard 'g.' Same as Arabic 'ق'.
ᶇ or ᶇ = The sound of a combined 'n-y.' As in the taunt "nya-nya!" or the sound of Spanish 'ñ.'
A or a = The first vowel sound in "father."
B or b = Regular English 'b.'
C or c = Always like the 'c' in "cat," never like 's' as in the first 'c' in "circus."
D or d = Regular English 'd.'
F or f = Regular English 'f.'
G or g = Always hard like the 'g' in "golf," never like 'j' as in "George."
H or h = Regular English 'h.'
J or j = Regular English 'j.'
L or l = Regular English 'l.'
M or m = Regular English 'm.'
N or n = Regular English 'n.'
O or o = The vowel sound in "top."
P or p = Regular English 'p.'
R or r = Regular English 'r.'
S or s = Regular English 's.'
T or t = Regular English 't.'
V or v = Regular English 'v.'
Y or y = Regular consonantal English 'y,' like the first consonant sound in "yellow."
Ẏ or ẏ = Same as the normal 'y' above. The dot only indicates the occurrance of a lexical rule.

[Voolf]

This is great. Nicely done Pananacakes. I definately want to see this in finished maps

[Pananacakes]

Thanks Voolf. It's going to take a while. It's really big. I might not be able to post it here, not the whole map zoomed in 100%, but I hope to get it online somehow.

[Voolf]

You dont have to upload original size. When you finish shrink it down to the size like the secon picture above. It already looks amazing.