11-19-2021 – Finishing Diacritics & Beginning Phonology of Your Conlang

To be up to date, make sure you have posted/published your phonologies for Mandarin, Koine Greek, and Spanish (indicate the sounds you missed, maybe with a different font color). Also post your answers to the related questions.

Also, please take a stab at vowel charts for your three languages and compare them to an online source, to each other, and to English).

We'll hopefully record our yppaH yadhtriB video today.

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Let's finish looking at diacritics. Watch these:

Part 3: Vowel diacritics
Part 4: Consonant diacritics
Part 5: Review / less useful diacritics (optional)

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We're going to start applying our phonological learning to creating a new spoken language.

Start by watching  the first ~15 minutes of this video on creating a language in 1 hour. In it, David J. Peterson leads people through the process of choosing sounds for a language. I want you to make your own choices (rather than following what they are doing). Transcribe your sounds into a blog post.

Read pp. 13–49 in book version of The Language Construction Kit or the Models and Sounds sections in the online version. Feel free to skim when appropriate. Much of this will be review for you.

Also, just start dreaming a little about how your constructed language might fit into a D&D campaign. Is it merely a naming language to add flavor to the map and objects of the world? Will you have an encounter with beings who speak the language and the players will have to decipher something? Maybe it could be a NACLO-like problem they have to solve?

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This is a fair amount of work this week. Your weekly NACLO problem is optional but encouraged this week.