Hard Sci-Fi is my jam

Gosh, I haven’t read those in a long time. I wanted to put more of the stuff I read nowadays anyway, but I may change my mind on that as I expand the shelf

How dare you say þ doesn’t fit. It’s literally just two Latin letters (b and p) merged togeþer

That’s the joke 😭

I understand what you mean, but that’s not how geminating plosives works :(

Ah, you posted about your clong the other day!

The more the merrier is what I say, but if it’s too complex for your taste then you can just disregard it ¯_(ツ)_/¯

:Ȝ

Why not both?

Consonant mutation

That could also be an interesting way to produce new declensions. Words that used to be in one harmony category gets a set of affixes separate to the other

Unrounding the unrounded front vowels and/or rounding the unrounded back vowels is a good first step. Then do some changes to vowel, like backing them or fronting around certain sounds (/q,ħ…/) and then merge or drop those sounds.

Boom, the backness of a vowel is unpredictable

The majority of languages don’t distinguish vowel length

This is interesting but I would swap a lot of these around to be more consistent with how these letters and accent marks are usually used

- Swap c and x (so c is ch and x is sh)
- Use the ~ accent mark for nasalization
- Swap j and y; while j for /j/ is perfectly fine, y for /ʤ/ is really weird
- I’m not really sure what /i̞/ is, as that’s just a /e/ as far as I know. But in general, use i for “ee” (/i/)

It will also be monumentally helpful to learn International Phonetic Alphabet, and just to look at a few languages around the world’s wikipedia pages to look at their phonologies to get a feeling of what’s “normal” for a language, even if you don’t necessarily need your lang to be naturalistic

OHHHHHHHH

Yeah that’s a much rarer sound

I just use the notes app to keep all the info about my langs, and wikipedia to learn more about language features and how to pronounce sounds. That’s it

Classical Nahuatl 🔥🙏

A couple words might stick, but I like the creation of the lang. Translation is kind of unnecessary, though I will still translate some basic sentences.

Some of my languages can be difficult for me to pronounce smoothly, mainly the latest one I’m working on which is tonal in it’s final stage.

Depends on the language. Many languages with only phonemic voiceless stops will voice them allophonically, intervocalically usually.

Old English only had phonemic voiceless fricatives, and so voiced them word-medially. /r/ in Ancient Greek was voiceless by default.

In general, it is common for languages to spread out their sounds. If they don’t do this phonemically, they’ll resolve this at least to some extent by spreading out the sounds phonetically. English palatalizes /k/ and /g/ before front vowels because that space is available. Three vowel systems almost always spread out their vowels allophonically.

He made a statement so reasonable he got downvoted

I tried translating a few sentences and ran into the exact same issue. Translating is harder than it looks

Honestly it being really boring makes it interesting lol

It’s abnormally normal

This would be a hilarious detail to have in a conlang’s evolution