First éyam post
The name of this conlanguage is éyam...
One of my design goals with this conlang, is to see how much of a coherent conlanguage I can form, when using these pieces from real languages...
Therefore, the first post will be what parts compose this language. Note: My notes on the IPA symbols for these langauges stem from B.Comrie's book The World's Major Languages.
Vowels borrowed from the Tamil family)
..FrontCentralBack
Highlong í ' ú
.short i . u
Midlong é . ó
.short e ə o
Lowlong æ á c
.short. a
Dipthong. ai . au
Spirantized Stops (borrowed from Hebrew)
b d g p t k
β ð ƒ θ χ
note: oddly, the IPA symbol Mr. Comrie used for <.g.> does not show up on the X-Sampa wiki page.
Nasals (borrowed from Malay)
mnñŋ
Semi-Vowels (borrowed from Thai)
wbilabial
ypalatal
One of my design goals with this conlang, is to see how much of a coherent conlanguage I can form, when using these pieces from real languages...
Therefore, the first post will be what parts compose this language. Note: My notes on the IPA symbols for these langauges stem from B.Comrie's book The World's Major Languages.
Vowels borrowed from the Tamil family)
..FrontCentralBack
Highlong í ' ú
.short i . u
Midlong é . ó
.short e ə o
Lowlong æ á c
.short. a
Dipthong. ai . au
Spirantized Stops (borrowed from Hebrew)
b d g p t k
β ð ƒ θ χ
note: oddly, the IPA symbol Mr. Comrie used for <.g.> does not show up on the X-Sampa wiki page.
Nasals (borrowed from Malay)
mnñŋ
Semi-Vowels (borrowed from Thai)
wbilabial
ypalatal