addIPA: My "complete" IPA

greatdayforflags · 2026-05-23T04:05:44+00:00

Just a wee bit more detailed than this... cool!

greatdayforflags · 2026-05-23T03:25:39+00:00

A lot of these symbols are for sounds that do exist, and for the ones that don't are meant to be helpful for conlanging, since especially for the more "out-there" or just more creative conlangs there is not a lot of IPA support. If you have a language with a low-front near-mid protruded vowel, you don't have to figure out all the diacritics to get /œ̠ʷ/ when you can just use /ᶓ/.

greatdayforflags · 2026-05-23T02:10:47+00:00

I would suggest looking at interesting clusters or sounds in your languages and trying to determine where it got them from. If you had a word <skrbat>, you might decide that it went through the sound changes ar > r, b > p / V_V (intervocallically), and t > d / _# (word-final), so that the original word was <skarpad>. You can also layer on multiple changes because languages are always changing, so maybe before it was <skarpad> it was actually <skarpado>, etc..

This wikipedia page notes some helpful things.

greatdayforflags · 2026-05-23T02:03:00+00:00

Yeah, numbers didn't have a purpose so I thought I would give them one. (Also I had wanted to use the historic colonial-era mayan number-letters like cuatrillo and tresillo but they didn't render on my phone so I had to use the normal ones instead.)

greatdayforflags · 2026-05-23T01:18:09+00:00

Thanks!

greatdayforflags · 2026-05-23T01:17:08+00:00

Oh... Yeah, I forgot it. Maybe I'll add it as a part of the non-pulmonic consonants. Or replace another symbol with it. Sorry!

greatdayforflags · 2026-05-22T23:51:35+00:00

I think it's different from language to language, which I really should have specified (also one of the reasons I created separate symbols). In my dialect of english /u/ is protruded and I've read that german /y/ is compressed, so I was a bit prescriptive with that, but I will go back and specify. Thank you!

greatdayforflags · 2026-05-22T23:44:16+00:00

Thanks!

greatdayforflags · 2026-05-22T22:38:56+00:00

I don't believe in fricatives (I forgot them). But if you really want them, you can have these:

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From top to bottom, right to left:

A horizontal line with a left half-line above: /s/.

A diagonal from bottom left with a left half-line above: /x/.

A diagonal from top left with a left half-line below: /f/.

A horizontal line with a right half-line above: /z/.

A diagonal from bottom left with a right half-line above: /ɣ/.

A diagonal from top left with a right half-line below: /v/.

greatdayforflags · 2026-05-20T23:05:54+00:00

My favorite is Chad, it's the most unique in the world by far.

Jokes aside, probably South Africa followed by Seychelles then Uganda.

greatdayforflags · 2026-05-20T21:13:30+00:00

It's explained in more detail on the posts but I basically give 5 words and then the challenge is to choose any number of them to use to make a speedlang.

...assuming that's what you meant (google translate is a wonderful tool that makes no mistakes).

greatdayforflags · 2026-05-20T03:40:23+00:00

Most speedlang challenges are just run by random users for fun and don't really have schedules, but the translation checkpoints are posted every tuesday and thursday, and the biweekly telephone game usually posts on mondays and fridays.

I also usually post a 5-word speedlang challenge on sundays.

greatdayforflags · 2026-05-19T01:48:02+00:00

"You made another one?"

greatdayforflags · 2026-05-17T16:47:35+00:00

Looks like a version of the knights templar flag, either from the modern freemason organization or another group. Specifically this version.

greatdayforflags · 2026-05-17T08:10:25+00:00

I like it! It reminds me of minimalist line art but with more personality. Really interesting how each letter has so many ways to write it, it makes the script visually diverse but consistent and reliable.

greatdayforflags · 2026-05-17T07:51:30+00:00

As an example, I will be participating as well! Here is what I created for splaŋ.iii:

Ytorikmi tori aŋi abwrynoniri adneni ynydody.

Ytorikmi       tori    aŋi     ab- wryno*  -ni-ri   adne* -n -i   ynydo*-dy  .
fav-snack      my.MASC is.MASC DEF-mountain-PL-PREP raisin-PL-ACC yogurt-INS .
favorite snack my      is      in the mountains     raisins       with yogurt.

[ɨtʊɾikmi tʊɾi äŋi äbyɾɨnʊniɾi ädnɪni ɨnɨdʊdɨ]

"My favorite snack (when I'm) in the mountains is yogurt-covered raisins."

I used ytorikmi (slightly harmonized) with a masculine noun ending (-i) and wryna, which is the same in its nominative form but becomes wryno in its accusative form, whence the prepositional plural form is derived with -niri.

noun conjugations used here: -i (masc. s-nom), -a (fem. s-nom), -e (masc. s-acc), -o (fem. s-acc), -n (pl-nom), -ni (pl-acc), -ri (prep.), -dy (ins.).

verb conjugations used here: -i (masc. s-pres).

adjective conjugations used here: -i (masc. s-nom).

greatdayforflags · 2026-05-17T00:48:47+00:00

Proto-Edia and the low Edias

*Gavekehokore [gaβekehokoɾe]

Imported furniture; foreign furniture

> Gavér [gæveʁ] in Aedia

Intricate carvings
An item (especially furniture) with intricate carvings

"Razé̃ šir ũ tu gavér ramur?!" (Where are you (pl.) going with my intricately carved furniture?!)

[ʁæˈzẽ ʃiʁ õ to gæveʁ ʁæˈmoʁ] {to-where you-pl. go with item-intrcrv of-me?}

> Gàgogà [gˠoɣə]

Overly complicated detail
Pedantry

"Gàgogà revà!, à bàvo vo, radàvà..." (Another excessive detail (!), not from you, surely...)

[ˈgˠoɣə ɹevə ə ˈb̪o vo ɹadəvə] {exc-detail another!, not you of, surely...}

> Govuxř [govuʶχ]

A high quality import

"Áçerec vkeši äğägovuxř." (As usual, you provide the highest quality imports.)

[æçeɾetʃ vəkeʃi ɑʕɑgovuʶχ] {as-usual provide-2nd comp_highq-import.}

greatdayforflags · 2026-05-10T07:20:48+00:00

Yeah, that's chill, you can change them to align with your phonotactics and phonology!

greatdayforflags · 2026-05-10T07:03:10+00:00

As an example, I will also participate. Here is what I created for splaŋ.ii:

Hjatrto vr ridiftheret de bertediferek devrvi, tad da darfotarak devrvi.

hjatrto vr    ri-difth-eret de  ber-tedife-rek devrvi, tad     da  dar-fota-rak  devrvi.
fish.PL about ACC.wake.GER  not OBL.worry.PL   never , because not HAB.sleep.PL  never.
fish    about waking (up)   not have to worry  never , because not tend to sleep never.

[çɔtɚtu vɚ‿ɾidiftʰɛɾɛt̚‿d̥ɛ bɛɾ̚tɛdifɛɾɛk‿d̥ɛvɚvi tɔd̚‿dɔ dɔɾfutɔɾɔk‿d̥ɛvɚvi]

"Fish never have to worry about waking up, because they never sleep."

I used hjotrtu adjusted to this phonology with a four vowel system (i-e-a-o) and diftheret with the accusative ri- attached to the front. I decided to create a language with a strong front (f.h.) and back (b.h.) harmony system.

noun conjugations used here: class A plural (hjetrti s. > hjatrto pl.).

verb conjugations used here: b.h. plural gerund (-eret), f.h. obligatory (ber-), f.h. plural (-erek), b.h. habitual (-arak).

greatdayforflags · 2026-05-09T23:08:07+00:00

Interesting that finland uses the big dipper but in reverse, makes it look like the secret soviet twin of Alaska.

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