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Phonetics

Phonetics are pretty important, aren't they?

My main question for this matter is, do we want it to sound natural or artificial? Because if it's the former, it would be about selecting groups of phonemes, common groups, and the occasional unusual phoneme. If we don't care about it sounding natural, it's just a matter of choosing some phonemes that seem right to us without worrying about it.


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Reply by Rain!

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im in favour of it sounding more natural and leaning towards a simpler but sliightly unusual set of consonants

Like maybe we could have an aspirated-unaspirated distinction with the plosives instead of voiced-unvoiced, regular m and n nasals and two sibilant fricatives: s and ɕ<ś>. I should prolly add something else but I can't think of anything else


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Reply by Explorer of Wonder

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>an aspirated-unaspirated distinction with the plosives instead of voiced-unvoiced.

I don't get convinced by this, maybe we can have a lot of liquits consonants? Like: ɾ, ɽ, l

And also nasals to get my beloved Ñ: ɲ, m, n, ɴ

And to complete the postalveolar column we can add: d and t to make the classic couple

and we have 9 consonants easy no?


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