My first question right off the bat is, why would you use ergative-absolutive alignment for an IAL? Nominative-accusative is by far the most common alignment, both by number of languages and by number of speakers (of the 20 most-spoken languages in the world, only two, Hindustani and Marathi, employ ergativity). If the goal is to be easy to learn, I would think nom-acc would be the obvious choice.

Edit: Correction, Punjabi also displays split ergativity.

@Eçeþesi apparently my peanut brain forgot the term for it lol, sorry I’ll fix that.

Now now, I'm sure your brain is at least the size of a brazil nut. 😌

• Why two rhotics plus the additional distinction of /l/?

• Why would you have /ə/ instead of /e/ in the five vowel system? /e/ is more common as a phoneme

• It's not a good idea to have three different interchangeable writing systems for an IAL (isn't standardization the point?)

• There's a distinction between /ao/ and /au/?

• What is your phonotactics table??

• There is no point for • to exist

• Is the origin part entirely fictional? because there is no point for it to exist, who is Dr Aurelia Sinclair anyway? Is the image AI generated?

• What do you mean infinite dialects??????

@JiaGbon1234

• The [r] sound is a very common sound so I put it in, I don’t know how you find [l] to be similar but okay.

• I didn't know which of the vowels were more common or would be more efficient to have.

• What do you mean by the “•”?

• The other writing systems were basically just optional things.

• The phonotactics table are the sounds that are allowed in the onset, nucleus, and coda of a syllable.

• Yes the story is fictional, sorry I should make it real lol.

• I said infinite dialects because every sound can be pronounced differently as long as it’s recognizable.

@CyanSurfer

• I know the [r] sound is common, but why do you have two of them [r] and [ɹ]???? Do you expect speakers to distinguish between the two when most languages don't even have two rhotics? And on top of that you still have [l], Japanese doesn't distinguish between [l] and [r], and they still need to distinguish between those two and [ɹ].

• /e/ is more common

• The "•" as in the syllable division symbol as in "ʃi•ta" why does it exist

• Why can you have vowels in the onset? Onset = consonant. Nucleus = vowel. Coda = consonant. You also haven't talked about the distinction between /ao/ and /au/ like whyyyy

• The other writing systems are optional? That means that people who learn the language still have to learn all three to understand other speakers' writing, like why not just one writing system?????

• Well, just to tell you, photography didn't exist in 1788... so... .... why do you have an "Old Photograph of Dr Aurelia Sinclair"

• A lot of languages don't distinguish between /s/, /ʃ/ and /z/; /ʃ/ is only found in 37% of languages, and /z/ in 30%

• Why does the glottal stop exist in your inventory... it's not even allowed in your phonotactics and i feel like you can just delete it and replace it with zero phoneme

• /v/ is only in 27% of languages... (also you can just put the labiodental sounds in the labial section... why make a separate column)

• Sound variation is not dialects, it's allophony in free variation. Dialect means that the vocabulary is different, which i don't think you want

I feel like a much more sensible consonant inventory is this

Very symmetrical and all of these sounds appear in more than 40% of languages (i guess you could make it 50% if you delete /f/ and /d/ but symmetry)

@JiaGbon1234 Thanks, also the glottal stop is only between vowels so I didn’t know where to put it in phonotactics.

@JiaGbon1234 Dialects can include variations in phonology. It doesn't have to include lexical variations. Not sure where you got that idea from.

But yes in this particular context the term Cyan wants is free variation.

@Eçeþesi yea i guess you're right