Let's create a tonal language!

[BokaBB]

Another language project by me for making a tonal language.
I won't be authoritary,I promise. Please join.
Have a good day!

BokaBB

[Schiaparelliorbust]

Another language project by me for making a tonal language.
I won't be authoritary,I promise. Please join.
Have a good day!

BokaBB

I don't know. I don't know if I can even speak something like this. I can try though.

[BokaBB]

Another language project by me for making a tonal language.
I won't be authoritary,I promise. Please join.
Have a good day!

BokaBB

I don't know. I don't know if I can even speak something like this. I can try though.

I think I can do that relatively well.
What number of tones we should have?I recommend 2-6.
Have a good day!

BokaBB

[BokaBB]

I invite fluffykitty here.
Do you forgive me?
Have a good day!

BokaBB

[fluffykitty]

I invite fluffykitty here.

I think I'll wait until this is a bit more fleshed out to join.

Do you forgive me?

Okay.

[BokaBB]

I invite fluffykitty here.

I think I'll wait until this is a bit more fleshed out to join.

Do you forgive me?

Okay.

Thanks infinitely!
Can you at least say your preferred tone number?
Have a good day!

BokaBB

[fluffykitty]

How about three?

[BokaBB]

How about three?

Looks relatively good. Let's ask the rest.
What will be our orthography?I personally would prefer to write with Chinese Pinyin with diacritics since I find it to be easiest to write and remember. However, that way we are limited to 4 tones.
Have a good day!

BokaBB

[Schiaparelliorbust]

How about three?

Looks relatively good. Let's ask the rest.
What will be our orthography?I personally would prefer to write with Chinese Pinyin with diacritics since I find it to be easiest to write and remember. However, that way we are limited to 4 tones.
Have a good day!

BokaBB

Three is fine if I'm ever going to speak this language. I don't know if I can automatically adjust tone for meaning, it's not something my brain is wired to do. That should also be easy to type.

[BokaBB]

We are probably going to have āàá tones (ignore a, just look ar diacritics). We can remove ā if most agree.
Pinyin is the easiest way to write tones I know of.
Here is a proposed phonology:
/a/ /e/ /ə/ /i/ /o/ /u/ are the vowels (say if you don't like /ə/,it might be tough to type).
/b/ /c/ /d/ /f/ /ɡ/ /j/ /k/ /l/ /m/ /n/ /p/ /r/ /s/ /ʈʂ/ /t/ /v/ /x/ are the consonants.
Just a proposal,I am open to changes of every kind.
Have a good day!

BokaBB

[fluffykitty]

What do you think of /ɣʷ/?

[BokaBB]

What do you think of /ɣʷ/?

What kind of meaning has that W above?
Can you direct me to a link to hear its sound?I don't think I can input it, altrough I can /ɣ/. I will need some learning to pronounce it. Wikipedia claims it exists in Serbian,but it doesn't, in the example Wikipedia gave Х is /h/ as usually.
Have a good day!

BokaBB

[fluffykitty]

What do you think of /ɣʷ/?

What kind of meaning has that W above?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labialization

Can you direct me to a link to hear its sound?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Labi ... cative.ogg

[BokaBB]

What do you think of /ɣʷ/?

What kind of meaning has that W above?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labialization

Can you direct me to a link to hear its sound?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Labi ... cative.ogg

An interesting sound, altrough we are going to need a simple way to write it if we want it. I think w is capable of that.
Let's ask others about that sound.
Isn't it a bid weird to have a weird sound and no similar sounds?I think we either should remove your sound or add similar ones,best /w/.
Other suggestions?
Also,can you make a new spreadsheet for this language, please?
Have a good day!

BokaBB

[fluffykitty]

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/ ... sp=sharing

[BokaBB]

Isn't it a bid weird to have a weird sound and no similar sounds?I think we either should remove your sound or add similar ones,best /w/.
Have a good day!

BokaBB

[fluffykitty]

Maybe we could change /x/ to /xʷ/. That would make a nice pair.

[BokaBB]

Maybe we could change /x/ to /xʷ/. That would make a nice pair.

I agree.
Can I get its sound?
Have a good day!

BokaBB

[fluffykitty]

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/ ... cative.ogg

[BokaBB]

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/ ... cative.ogg

Okay,but I think we would need /w/ then to keep this language natural - looking, which I want.
Have a good day!

BokaBB

[fluffykitty]

Okay, but then how would we write /ɣʷ/?

[BokaBB]

Okay, but then how would we write /ɣʷ/?

Y?
What about writing /ə/?I have no problem with removing it.
Have a good day!

BokaBB

[fluffykitty]

Y?

<y> isn't used for anything else so far, so that would work.

What about writing /ə/?I have no problem with removing it.

Okay.

[BokaBB]

Y?

<y> isn't used for anything else so far, so that would work.

What about writing /ə/?I have no problem with removing it.

Okay.

Should we remove /ə/ then?I didn't quite understood what you meant with ,,Okay.". If not,we need a way to write it. Maybe a digraph?
The links with the pronunciations of the rare sounds MUST be in the spreadsheet.
I think we need to make at least some words, just to mark that we began this seriously.
I leave them to you.
Have a good day!

BokaBB

[fluffykitty]

Should we remove /ə/ then?I didn't quite understood what you meant with ,,Okay.". If not,we need a way to write it. Maybe a digraph?

Yes, let's remove it.

The links with the pronunciations of the rare sounds MUST be in the spreadsheet.

Added.

I think we need to make at least some words, just to mark that we began this seriously.

Not necessarily. For Hunting's project we didn't make any words or affixes until around page 5.