Homework for Week Beginning 12/03/21

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.

Watch the next section (from ~15 mins till the next natural subject change) 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. - this is your most important homework this week. !! 

Start planning the phonotactic rules of your language. (Review the reading on phonotactics. (What letters and sounds go next to which letters and sounds…)

Read pp. 45 - 56 in book version of The Language Construction Kit. Use your phonetic inventory and your emerging phonotactic schema to make a few words.

Keep dreaming 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?