Leshing

A free language
Hei bu!

This project began in summer 2021, after many languages which I never completed cause there wasn’t the time to create enough words. Said that, this language is still in progress.

Leshing is mostly derived from English, many words are in fact a kind of english Verlan or anagrams of english words, some words have other origins and many other have no similarities with any language. It is designed to be simple to learn and to have many short words. Everything in the way I like it to be, and I hope other people would like it too.

Alphabet
The names of the consonants are represented by the consonant sound plus a schwa, while the vowel are represented by their respective sound preceded by a glottal stop. For the letters Cc, Qq and Xx they're called respectively /ʧə/, /kwe/ and /iks/.

Consonants
Consonants are pretty similar to english ones, the major difference in this language is that any consonant phoneme correspond to one letter and don't change with position or anything.


 * W and Y can only occur word initially or between two vowel.
 * digraphs TS and NG can appear initially but there are fewer words than with other sounds.

Vowels
Vowels are quite different from the english ones and probably speakers of other languages would have less challenges than english speakers.


 * Letter A it's preferably open-front but can be pronounced closer or more in the back.
 * Letters E and O can be pronounced either close-mid or open-mid (/ɛ/, /ɔ/) depending on the speaker or the word, and I don't exclude a mid pronunciations (/e̞/, /o̞/).
 * The letters I and U differently from other letters, do have to change in pronunciation, they can become semiconsonants (/j/, /w/), it happens whenever they are preceded or followed by another vowel in the word or in the sentence. Alternatively the sound can change into /ɪ/ and /ʊ/, which are easier for some speakers.
 * The schwa sound it's not represented by any letter, instead it appears between consonant sounds that doesn't go well together, for example: "I quite like him" which is "mo nil kel hu" /mo nil kelə hu/. The appearance of this sound avoid the elision of final consonants or the fusion of sounds (between the two words) and should appear naturally between words, more natural it is, the better. The same can happen between consonants forming clusters, but again it is done for fluidity or because of speaker capacities. Words without vowels like single consonant words (16 of them), or the words "sh" and "ng" can take this sound more often, for example when final in the sentence, which don't happens with other words, they always do. The schwa sound can even appear at the beginning of a word (really rare), one notable case is the interjection "mm" /əm/.

Glottal Stop appearance
Vowels different from the ones in diphthongs don't occur together, so when a word beginning with a vowel is preceded by a word ending with a vowel (if the two vowels don't form any of the diphthongs) a glottal stop appear at the beginning of the second word. This sound appearance is reflected in the text (differently from the schwa sound) by adding an apostrophe, for example: "I love you" which is "mo 'aim o". That's the reason because there are no words starting with an apostrophe at the beginning of any sentence, so none has to worry on how to capitalize an apostrophe, but just in case you wonder: is the vowel to become a capital letter.