Hive English Orthography
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Inspired by a couple of the Norwescon panels, I came up with yet another conlang idea.
The syllable structure is strictly (C)V (but maybe word-final (C)VC).
Consonants:
* Voiced: b, d, g, m, n
* Voiceless: p, t, k, q (= [?]), h
Probably, p, t, k are aspirated. They are also the consonants that could occur word-final.
Vowels:
The first phone for each vowel is used after a voiced consonant, the second after a voiceless consonant. I'm not sure if I have the CXS exactly perfect. The _a phones are intended to be narrow deeply grooved "whistling" sibilants, and the _m phones are intended to be wide shallow sibilants. Optionally, a fricative could be used instead of [l].
It's not clear if |h| is actually pronounced, or just indicates voicelessness.
I'm using "Hive English" as a temporary working title because:
1) I want to use English as a lexifier, if I ever figure out how to convert English phonemes to the aforementioned. Low vowels are an especial problem.
2) Just the sound of the language spoken should give people the hives.
The syllable structure is strictly (C)V (but maybe word-final (C)VC).
Consonants:
* Voiced: b, d, g, m, n
* Voiceless: p, t, k, q (= [?]), h
Probably, p, t, k are aspirated. They are also the consonants that could occur word-final.
Vowels:
v [v] [f] z [z_m] [s_m] s [z_a] [s_a] r [z`] [s`] i [j\] [C] u [G_w] [x_w] x [R] [X] l [l] [K]
The first phone for each vowel is used after a voiced consonant, the second after a voiceless consonant. I'm not sure if I have the CXS exactly perfect. The _a phones are intended to be narrow deeply grooved "whistling" sibilants, and the _m phones are intended to be wide shallow sibilants. Optionally, a fricative could be used instead of [l].
It's not clear if |h| is actually pronounced, or just indicates voicelessness.
I'm using "Hive English" as a temporary working title because:
1) I want to use English as a lexifier, if I ever figure out how to convert English phonemes to the aforementioned. Low vowels are an especial problem.
2) Just the sound of the language spoken should give people the hives.