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How do you make them?

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Magnae clunes mihi placent, nec possum de hac re mentiri. -Multomixtor

You mean for a phoneme inventory?

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任何事物的发展都是物极必反，否极泰来。

I'd love to know how to make a decent looking phoneme inventory chart as well. I've seen people put them in posts and on websites but mine never look as good.

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Ikasmu ati'uki nai uraiur.
Hinai nimuśim naimi nai sasamiur urukani. Śi'ama nai huhumiur na ni'amuśim nai sasamiur.
Pumaki nimuśim śima'a na ami nimuśim ara'a. Hini nihrasum i'aku tumra urukani na nihrasum sanik hraspir.

You can use this table I made; just delete what you don't need. I also have it in ODT format; no DOC, however, sorry.

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UNUS•ET•UNICUS

or just use HPA.

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Áá Āā Ää Åå Ææ Ðđ Ēē Ĕĕ Éé Ëë Əə H́h́ Īī İi Iı Íí Ïï Łł Ññ Öö Øø Ōō Ŏŏ Óó Œœ Ŕŕ Śś Ŧŧ Üü Ūū Úú V̄v̄ Ÿÿ Źź Ξ Φ Ϙ Ϻ

No, don't use HPA.

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Proto-Hyảlim | Bjarmish

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Don't use 'HPA'. And don't try and confuse beginners with non-standard terminology or systems.

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Ikasmu ati'uki nai uraiur.
Hinai nimuśim naimi nai sasamiur urukani. Śi'ama nai huhumiur na ni'amuśim nai sasamiur.
Pumaki nimuśim śima'a na ami nimuśim ara'a. Hini nihrasum i'aku tumra urukani na nihrasum sanik hraspir.

to be fair, I haven't been doing this that much longer than he has,

look the reason I'm suggesting the system is because it fills in gaps left by IPA and is in unicode. I know it won't be official, saves time used alongside real IPA.

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Áá Āā Ää Åå Ææ Ðđ Ēē Ĕĕ Éé Ëë Əə H́h́ Īī İi Iı Íí Ïï Łł Ññ Öö Øø Ōō Ŏŏ Óó Œœ Ŕŕ Śś Ŧŧ Üü Ūū Úú V̄v̄ Ÿÿ Źź Ξ Φ Ϙ Ϻ

You are admittedly new(ish) to conlanging and have created a nonstandard system.
It is better for beginners to use the standard for a few reasons:
1. It is used by the majority of forum users and professionals. (Unlike 'HPA' which is used only by you.)
2. There is a lot more support for learning the standard. (As far as I know 'HPA' has none. It is just a list of symbols.)
3. If everyone starts using whatever system they make up it will be even more confusing to learn.

If you want to pimp your system, do so in the thread for it, not in a thread for helping new conlangers. But you have yet to cultivate any real support for 'HPA' so I wouldn't get too excited.

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Ikasmu ati'uki nai uraiur.
Hinai nimuśim naimi nai sasamiur urukani. Śi'ama nai huhumiur na ni'amuśim nai sasamiur.
Pumaki nimuśim śima'a na ami nimuśim ara'a. Hini nihrasum i'aku tumra urukani na nihrasum sanik hraspir.

point taken he can atleast use both... but IPA primarily

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Áá Āā Ää Åå Ææ Ðđ Ēē Ĕĕ Éé Ëë Əə H́h́ Īī İi Iı Íí Ïï Łł Ññ Öö Øø Ōō Ŏŏ Óó Œœ Ŕŕ Śś Ŧŧ Üü Ūū Úú V̄v̄ Ÿÿ Źź Ξ Φ Ϙ Ϻ

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You can, at least, use some punctuation.

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UNUS•ET•UNICUS

How do you delete letters on the downloads? I don't see an option for editing it

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Magnae clunes mihi placent, nec possum de hac re mentiri. -Multomixtor

Use this document.

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UNUS•ET•UNICUS

What I did was I went to Wikipedia and borrowed their templates, creating my own tables in MS Word or whatever I was using.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:I ... nant_chart
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:IPA_vowel_chart

Granted, you have to know a little about phonetics in order to create the charts for inventories. For instance, you should know the difference between the alveolar plosive /k/ and the palatal plosive /c/. Thankfully, if you refer to the chart on Wikipedia, you should be fine as long as you know what symbols correspond to what sounds.

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Hra'anh, Ponese

I usually access CBB from my (rather aged) Macbook. When I need to type IPA characters, I just open the character viewer (by selecting "Show Character Viewer" from the international menu). There I can easily access any IPA symbol (and lots of other symbols too).

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