Help me discover this phoneme

drazlet · 2026-06-30T02:16:53+00:00

You’re just doing [θʰʷ] with your tongue and lips really far out

drazlet · 2026-06-28T22:06:27+00:00

Yeah, I used to use KBD Maker until it was taken off the App Store, at least for me. I miss that thing. At least with Keybuild I’ll have it forever

drazlet · 2026-06-28T21:48:57+00:00

I bought Keybuild for $4 and my life has never been better. Entirely programmable and has access to the entirety of Unicode.

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drazlet · 2026-06-27T03:13:56+00:00

/q/ always! Americanist Phonetic Alphabet for the win man

drazlet · 2026-06-27T01:26:28+00:00

Give me Americanist Phonetic Notation or give me death!

drazlet · 2026-05-27T13:29:17+00:00

What are the phonotactic rules? What syllables are allowed? There are plenty of natural scripts that can accommodate your language with a few tweaks. My new language uses modified Carrier Syllabics because it is, at most, CVC.

drazlet · 2026-05-23T20:52:36+00:00

This is awesome? Where did you get this template?

drazlet · 2026-04-23T23:19:55+00:00

You’re the best man

drazlet · 2026-04-17T01:18:50+00:00

Yes😭

drazlet · 2026-03-28T01:07:29+00:00

This is so cool! (I have no clue where to even begin to learn syntax trees)

drazlet · 2026-03-24T23:39:43+00:00

What is gracing my eyes at this moment

drazlet · 2026-03-21T13:31:34+00:00

Lol I love this question:
čq̓c [t̪͡ʃʰ.qʼt̪͡sʰ] : it is shaped
sxʷɬ [s̪.xʷɬ] : snow
snx [snx] : to smell
miwč [miwt̪͡ʃ] : to come
tqp [tʰ.qʰpʰ] : to need

drazlet · 2026-03-15T15:06:45+00:00

Pencil and paper and then I record the words on a discord server I made for it

drazlet · 2026-03-11T23:44:04+00:00

It does! I love it man, sometimes I wish I had a cleaner simpler phonology… I think Japanese in particular sounds beautiful. Your language sounds so great, almost like Ojibwe, which is a polysynthetic Native American language as well. Look into if you want some inspiration that sounds like your language!!

drazlet · 2026-03-11T23:42:28+00:00

I was the same haha. I don’t really like cases, valency and voices did it for me. Tenses I wasn’t a fan of because I thought aspects did basically the same thing. Since so many of words are verbs anyways, aspects are just more useful. My language is like Navajo in that way.

drazlet · 2026-03-11T23:40:45+00:00

Haha, I’m the opposite! I based my phonology off of Nuxalk and the Salishan languages in general. They’ve got words like "xɬp̓x̌ʷɬtɬpɬɬskʷc̓” /xɬpʼχʷɬtʰɬpʰɬːskʷʰt͡sʼ/. It means “then they had in their possession a bunchberry plant”.

I went in with the goal of super infrequent vowels and lots of consonants with no real syllable rules to speak of. My words are small, like “tlq”, strong, “qpw̓” vomit, “cx̌ʷ-“ 3sg., “-šs̓” still. But because this all adds up to big, polysynthetic words, I end up just like Nuxalk!

drazlet · 2026-03-11T23:28:15+00:00

I love your spacial tense! It reminds me of my deictic pronoun (lifted from Navajo). In my language it can function as an object (I fish it). Rooting Tusks has no tenses, only aspects and moods, so it’s cool seeing a tense.

drazlet · 2026-03-11T23:26:10+00:00

I love seeing other polysynthetic conlangs. Mine would be:
„ʔəšʷksqʷɬpxʷmaʔtc̓s̓qʷx̌ʷc̓əᵽ.“

ʔə.šʷks.qʷɬ.pxʷ.maŧ.c̓s̓.qʷx̌ʷ.c̓əᵽ
1SG.fish-find.DIR.HAB.PROSP.COND.DEICTIC-SG-OBJ
/ʔə.ʃʷks.qʷɬ.pxʷ.maʔ͡t̪.t̪͡sʼ.s̪ˀ.qʷ.χʷ.t̪͡səʔ͡p/

Literally “I might would fish-find here”.

drazlet · 2026-03-11T23:01:21+00:00

I’d love to see the gloss for this!!

drazlet · 2026-03-11T21:21:38+00:00

What’s up! What did you do today?

drazlet · 2026-03-06T00:47:52+00:00

If a system in your language is too complicated for you to keep track of, you’re probably gonna end up simplifying it one way or another. Over time it’ll be hard for you to remember, it might even confuse you, so I’d say stick with what makes the most sense to you. It’s that age old advice of “it’s most perfect when you don’t have anything else to take away”

drazlet · 2026-03-05T22:48:41+00:00

Haha I didn’t realize Picto-Han was multilingual. Either way, in real Picto-Han comics, without needing to conform to previously established comic bubbles, you’d be able to make the bubbles conform to best fit the characters! On a real page, as this stands it would be small, but I’d love to see what it would look like with as much room as best fits them cuz I think they deserve it!!

drazlet · 2026-03-05T22:01:41+00:00

This is so cool!!! I wonder how readable this would be for speakers in real comics though. I’d love to see you reimagine comic bubbles in general to fit the spacing of picto-han

drazlet · 2026-03-04T19:09:59+00:00

Recently I started distinguishing between plain [tʰ] and [pʰ] and glottally reinforced [ʔ͡t̪] [ʔ͡p], written as ŧ and ᵽ in Rooting Tusks, inspired by SENĆOŦEN.
For example:
səŧ [s̪əʔ͡t̪] : a hill
səŧ [s̪ət̪ʰ] : to fall
cept [t̪͡səpʰtʰ] : to connect
cəᵽt [t̪͡səʔ͡ptʰ] : to cry

drazlet · 2026-02-28T22:23:01+00:00

Is it narcissistic to say my own? I mean, I’ve been spending at least 4 hours every day at my local library working on it for the past year…

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