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On 20/05/06, Jamie Holm <jimholm@hidden.email> wrote:
I wanted a softspoken fast flowing language, so I cut out all stops. Leaving: f,h,zh,l,m,ny,r,s,v,w,y,z,shwa,sh,th,dh - ah, a, e, i, o, oo, u
Hmm, is this your phoneme inventory, or your orthography inventory? I wouldn't have cut out all the stops if you wanted it French in flavor.
and the words I'm getting are just terrible. Example: "niv dheeaw ov nyeeor."
Not sure how that should sound, but a best guess is: /niv djo ov Jior/ (using the CSX IPA scheme) If that's the case, perhaps you'd want it to look like: nive dieau ove gnieaur (still not quite French in color) Of course I may be miles off the mark with how that should sound.
It's fast flowing, but no where near frenchish in color or appearance. I'm kind of stuck. I also want to have, 3 close dialects of it, and 1 very distant dialect, and another closer dialect that is very low.. context I guess. A poor nation of stupid hungry theiving farmers. Anyhelp or direction would be great.
I would add in stops. You might want similar orthographic rules as French as well (since French orthography is very etymological rather than phonetic, and it's pretty distinct. Really, there's no rule saying you can't import French orthography directly and follow the same rules.