It is an artlang first and foremost, but it’s also an experimental language where I can play with concepts I’m interested in, and possibly a bit of a philosophical lang too. It’s not intended to be in the least bit naturalistic, and I feel free to flout whatever rules natlangs are bound to that I don’t like. I like things that are straight-forward and simple, so introducing irregularities and the like just to make it seem “natural” will probably not happen . . . unless I feel like the phonoaesthetics are off due to excessive repetition. I also dislike conlangs that are over-complicated for the purpose of being over-complicated. It won’t be Toki Pona, but I don’t make split-ergative languages with 111 phonemes, 20 noun classes, 10 verb tenses, 18 levels of evidentiality, etc. etc. all of which are different depending on where you are, who you are talking to, and what colour of hat you and they are wearing . . . just cause you can. I love pretty things, so yes my language *is* meant to be pretty–but I hope that my tastes are such that I am not creating yet another Quenya clone. This is (currently at least) my light, sunshine and rainbows language–lacking for example the “heavy” sounds like [b], [g], the “juh” sound [dʒ], “zh” sound [ʒ] etc. I love weighty languages like Russian, but that’s not the soundscape this lang is meant to create.
*First note on linguistic conventions used here, stuff between square brackets [ ] or between slashes (e.g. /b/) is written in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) which is used to represent all possible speech sounds. [r] is technically the “rolled r” of Russian or Spanish, but North American linguists will often use it for the unrolled r when transcribing NA English dialects because it’s easier to type and everyone knows what you mean–in class I usually use the official symbol cause I can write it just as easily, but here I’ll go with NA convention cause it’s easier to type.
For more info: http://www.omniglot.com/writing/ipa.htm
(^ Omniglot is the best, you should check it out anyways! It was one of the sites that got me interested in linguistics, and I’m even mentioned on a page! 😀 )
To hear each symbol spoken: http://www.yorku.ca/earmstro/ipa/
shy syllables 
Language “essence” March 16, 2012
Tags: the basics
It is an artlang first and foremost, but it’s also an experimental language where I can play with concepts I’m interested in, and possibly a bit of a philosophical lang too. It’s not intended to be in the least bit naturalistic, and I feel free to flout whatever rules natlangs are bound to that I don’t like. I like things that are straight-forward and simple, so introducing irregularities and the like just to make it seem “natural” will probably not happen . . . unless I feel like the phonoaesthetics are off due to excessive repetition. I also dislike conlangs that are over-complicated for the purpose of being over-complicated. It won’t be Toki Pona, but I don’t make split-ergative languages with 111 phonemes, 20 noun classes, 10 verb tenses, 18 levels of evidentiality, etc. etc. all of which are different depending on where you are, who you are talking to, and what colour of hat you and they are wearing . . . just cause you can. I love pretty things, so yes my language *is* meant to be pretty–but I hope that my tastes are such that I am not creating yet another Quenya clone. This is (currently at least) my light, sunshine and rainbows language–lacking for example the “heavy” sounds like [b], [g], the “juh” sound [dʒ], “zh” sound [ʒ] etc. I love weighty languages like Russian, but that’s not the soundscape this lang is meant to create.
*First note on linguistic conventions used here, stuff between square brackets [ ] or between slashes (e.g. /b/) is written in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) which is used to represent all possible speech sounds. [r] is technically the “rolled r” of Russian or Spanish, but North American linguists will often use it for the unrolled r when transcribing NA English dialects because it’s easier to type and everyone knows what you mean–in class I usually use the official symbol cause I can write it just as easily, but here I’ll go with NA convention cause it’s easier to type.
For more info: http://www.omniglot.com/writing/ipa.htm
(^ Omniglot is the best, you should check it out anyways! It was one of the sites that got me interested in linguistics, and I’m even mentioned on a page! 😀 )
To hear each symbol spoken: http://www.yorku.ca/earmstro/ipa/