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basya - popular foods

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When I saw [this post] on the conlangs group and I wanted to do that, too.  I'm a huge fan of kids' textbooks, so it was right up my alley. I feel these are more for my reference than anything, though, since I'm not putting the complete phonology/grammar up with it. Just know these things:

1. Vowels with an accent have the y (as in 'yes') sound inserted before them.
2. Vowels with an umlaut have the w (as in 'wood') sound inserted before them.
3. Ĉ = ch (as in 'church')
4. Ŝ = sh (as in 'shoe'), unless it is at the end of a word (in that case, it is silent)

And now, a note about two of the dishes:

Povra: an Pusriwin dish of biscuits (unsweetened cakes) covered or stuffed with a cheese and/or meat and vegetable mixture. Traditionally, it’s fried, but many bake the dish these days. The saying usually is that it’s "delicious enough for the mayor, simple and cheap enough for the fool." (It is similar to the Russian dish pirozhki.)

Susu ba: the full name of this dish is "Susu ba du Gitu", which is loosely translated to "Southern Mommy Cake". Black like Basya's southern neighbors of Susu, it’s a rich, chocolate dessert. One usually eats it when they’re sad or in some other bad mood, because your mama is supposed to make you happy. Meecan (a mind-altering substance similar to cannabis) is used in its preparation on rare occasions.

This was a lot of work mainly because, while I've been working hard on Basmai and its' orthography, Bassi (which is an alphabet), I don't have a font. I'm just using separate png files for each letter. It works in a pinch, but it isn't ideal. really want [FontCreator], but [FontStruct] must do for now.

All pics are from Google. I tried not to include any from stock photo sites or anything from an artist/photographer.

EDIT: Like my 2014 ID, I edited this with all the letters that I remade this week.
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They are delicious!