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Interesting. Can we see some info on it? A phonology and Romanisation would be a good start, then maybe some grammar?
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BTW, what does it sound like to you?
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OTʜᴇB wrote:Interesting. Can we see some info on it? A phonology and Romanisation would be a good start, then maybe some grammar?
Phonology-wise, what you see is what you get, but as for anything unusual about the phonology, it would be the use of uh to represent schwas and dh to represent soft th's. Also, y in my invented language is a Finnish y, not an English y. http://www.forumbiodiversity.com/showth ... d-language
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It sounds very English. I can hear a lot of English words in it. Does it use English as a proto-language or ancestor?
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OTʜᴇB wrote:Interesting. Can we see some info on it? A phonology and Romanisation would be a good start, then maybe some grammar?
Phonology-wise, what you see is what you get, but as for anything unusual about the phonology, it would be the use of uh to represent schwas and dh to represent soft th's. Also, y in my invented language is a Finnish y, not an English y. http://www.forumbiodiversity.com/showth ... d-language
Interesting. Can we see it properly laid out in IPA? It's very helpful as "English y" could mean anything from /j/ to /i/ for me, and probably something different to say a Geordie.

EDIT: Here's an example of a phonology from one of my conlangs:
/ p b t d k ɡ / 〈 p b t d k g 〉
/ m w n ɾ l~ɫ ŋ j / 〈 m w n r l ŋ j 〉
/ i ɯ e o æ / 〈 i u e o a 〉

IPA allows everyone to know exactly how a language is pronounced regardless of interpretations due to accent or dialect. For example, if someone says a word is pronounced "or-tum", then you could get all sorts of different pronunciations like /ɔ˞tʌm/, /ɔʔəm/, or /ɔtum/, but as soon as you tell everyone it's pronounced /ˈɔ.təm/, everybody can say it the same.
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Welcome to the CBB!

It basically sounds based off English with mostly English sounds and English words rearranged with some foreign or unique words thrown in there.

I listened and took a stab at the phonology and got the following on a one time pass:

m n ŋ
b t d k g ʔ
f v ð s z
l ɹ j w

i ɪ u
ɛ ʌ o
ä

ai aʊ ɔɪ ua

I don't know for sure you've made a cipher or not but that is quite different from an entire language. A cipher is like a code used to obscure a message like a system like pig latin does. What O to the B says about the usefulness of the IPA is spot on the nose. It is almost essential for this hobby :)

Can you describe some things about your language like the grammar and sound system yourself?
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Haven't listened to the youtube link, but I would presume that Finnishy means agglutinating. Can't tell though, as I haven't seen the link.
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teengirlsquad wrote:BTW, what does it sound like to you?
Taglish ba. Especially the "mizmo fasyon" bit. The accent to me sound Tagalog.

Is this your first foray into the wonderful world of glossopoesy (the fashioning of tongues)?
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OTʜᴇB wrote:Interesting. Can we see some info on it? A phonology and Romanisation would be a good start, then maybe some grammar?
Phonology-wise, what you see is what you get, but as for anything unusual about the phonology, it would be the use of uh to represent schwas and dh to represent soft th's. Also, y in my invented language is a Finnish y, not an English y. http://www.forumbiodiversity.com/showth ... d-language
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lM_HYl_pMmA
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teengirlsquad wrote:
OTʜᴇB wrote:Interesting. Can we see some info on it? A phonology and Romanisation would be a good start, then maybe some grammar?
Phonology-wise, what you see is what you get, but as for anything unusual about the phonology, it would be the use of uh to represent schwas and dh to represent soft th's. Also, y in my invented language is a Finnish y, not an English y.
That's not phonology (how the language sounds), that's orthography (how the language is written down).
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teengirlsquad wrote:BTW, what does it sound like to you?
So. . .were any of the answers close? As expected? Totally off the chart?
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elemtilas wrote:
teengirlsquad wrote:BTW, what does it sound like to you?
So. . .were any of the answers close? As expected? Totally off the chart?
Did you also spot the Finnish loanwords?
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teengirlsquad wrote:
elemtilas wrote:
teengirlsquad wrote:BTW, what does it sound like to you?
So. . .were any of the answers close? As expected? Totally off the chart?
Did you also spot the Finnish loanwords?
Alas no, that wasn't me! But I wouldn't know Finnish from Karelian or Hungarian!

So, Tagalog was nowhere close!?
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elemtilas wrote:
teengirlsquad wrote:
elemtilas wrote:
teengirlsquad wrote:BTW, what does it sound like to you?
So. . .were any of the answers close? As expected? Totally off the chart?
Did you also spot the Finnish loanwords?
Alas no, that wasn't me! But I wouldn't know Finnish from Karelian or Hungarian!

So, Tagalog was nowhere close!?
There is Tagalog there too, yes, but you only guessed because of my accent and not because of any loanwords, because in the clips, there aren't many of them.
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Your original video and the others sound like English with a completely altered grammar with some East-Asian-sounding words thrown in, to my ears.
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Frislander wrote:Your original video and the others sound like English with a completely altered grammar with some East-Asian-sounding words thrown in, to my ears.
Well, I mean, I'm pretty sure that can be used to describe any language.
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qwed117 wrote:
Frislander wrote:Your original video and the others sound like English with a completely altered grammar with some East-Asian-sounding words thrown in, to my ears.
Well, I mean, I'm pretty sure that can be used to describe any language.
But in this case it was almost like a text written in English with the words rearranged and some then replaced with forms from other languages/a priori.
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Frislander wrote:
qwed117 wrote:
Frislander wrote:Your original video and the others sound like English with a completely altered grammar with some East-Asian-sounding words thrown in, to my ears.
Well, I mean, I'm pretty sure that can be used to describe any language.
But in this case it was almost like a text written in English with the words rearranged and some then replaced with forms from other languages/a priori.
I only speak two languages, that's why.
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teengirlsquad wrote:
Frislander wrote:
qwed117 wrote:
Frislander wrote:Your original video and the others sound like English with a completely altered grammar with some East-Asian-sounding words thrown in, to my ears.
Well, I mean, I'm pretty sure that can be used to describe any language.
But in this case it was almost like a text written in English with the words rearranged and some then replaced with forms from other languages/a priori.
I only speak two languages, that's why.
I can speak 1.01 languages (the 0.01 is French that I learned to GCSE and haven't used in well over a year) and even my first language had pretty much nothing in common with English.
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