@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

@CyanSurfer

Now you've changed phonology, why did you allow /l/ to make the [w] sound when /w/ is already a phoneme? Also, you basically need to change your vocabulary to fit the new phonology

Also, you somehow made the diphthongs worse.... most languages don't even have diphthongs. Just treat them as two separate vowels.

The phonotactics table also needs to be changed

Explain why you need the syllable division symbol.

1. I’ve seen people pronounce the sound like a [w] sound.

2. But the diphthongs ARE two separate vowels, they are just treated as one sound, I also only would have 5 vowels to use so adding diphthongs would make it less restrictive.

3. And I’ll get to working on that eventually when I have time.

4. The symbol is literally there to split syllables, even the dictionary used in Google splits the syllables.

@CyanSurfer

1. If you allow /l/ to be a [w] sound, how do you distinguish it from /w/??

2. I feel like they shouldn't be treated as one sound, like you can just treat them as part of separate syllables, there's basically no difference between /a.i/ and /ai/... Like I said, most languages don't have diphthongs.

3. Ok, I think CVC is a good syllable structure, just make sure the coda is a bit more restrictive (i suggest only allowing voiceless obstruents and nasals in the coda)

4. But like, why do we need the symbol? Isn't it already clear what syllable a sound is part of? If I write 'lemisa' instead of 'le•mi•sa' is it less clear?

There are no voiceless nasals tho.

@CyanSurfer let me rephrase that:

Nasals and voiceless obstruents

Also what about the rest of the things i mentioned?