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An extract from a terribly important paper written by Summel Inquist-Velanthar in the extremely prestigious Journal of Outer Quantasian Philology (May 2017):

Towards the Identification of a New Phonemic Type:

...Currently, academic linguistics recognises thirteen types or categories of consonant sounds: Nasal, Stop, Sibilant & Non-Sibilant Affricate, Sibilant & Non-Sibilant Fricative, Approximate, Flap, Tap, Trill and several categories of laterals; in addition to four places of articulation: labial, coronal, dorsal and pharyngeal. Recently, however, several studies (literature reviews and fieldwork archives) have surfaced that point to the existence of a previously elusive category, the so-called sillybants, that it is believed require further study.

The recently discovered and documented Tsimpanz language (Goodall: 2002) reveals evidence of a kind of bilabial click-like consonant, [X]:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZJW_903eA4

The scanty evidence for Gôtlandish, found in a fourteenth century work on the Asian boondocks (Yue-Tu Bei: c.1355) reveals evidence for what some Eastern linguists are calling a lolling, intralabial, undiquitial lingual trill, [lll]:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxIkqbRR59s
Also the glottal chitter, [???]:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxIkqbRR59s
And the linguo-nasal snert, [Λ~]:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTG2q5q5UCw

Other better known languages also reveal considerable evidence of sillybant use in ordinary language. A field collection of several such phonemes was collected by I.M. Ghahknee (2013):

The bilabial trill, colloquially known as the raspberry, [BBB]:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z066qyOPNyM
The creaky-voice snort, [nkr]:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bs4EEyLfcp0
And of course, the over-long post-pharyngeal bumbulant, [ZZPT]:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrAtYMEmd2Y
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elemtilas wrote:

The recently discovered and documented Tsimpanz language (Goodall: 2002) reveals evidence of a kind of bilabial click-like consonant, [X]:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZJW_903eA4
Contrary to popular belief, the bilabial besandotic fricative does not signify anything amorous, as the semi-analogous 'kissing sound' that it approximates. Rather, among the Little Tsimpanzin, Cornelian Tsimpanzahai, Galenic Jumanjin, and Ziran Tsimpanzali tribes, it often signals utter confusion, unabashed fear, or compleat disgust at some unfinished business in a previous life or other transaction.

The scanty evidence for Gôtlandish, found in a fourteenth century work on the Asian boondocks (Yue-Tu Bei: c.1355) reveals evidence for what some Eastern linguists are calling a lolling, intralabial, undiquitial lingual trill, [lll]:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxIkqbRR59s
Also the glottal chitter, [???]:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxIkqbRR59s
And the linguo-nasal snert, [Λ~]:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTG2q5q5UCw
Big big fan of the Gôtlandish Gaitǫ̂rēsō . Y'know, the winners are traditionally regaled with a chorus of linguo-nasal snerts.

http://image.phoenixvillenews.com/story ... 0&maxw=667


You haven't really won the Gaitǫ̂rēsō until you've been properly snerted, and vice-versa.




The creaky-voice snort, [nkr]:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bs4EEyLfcp0
The best way to tell when your Mangalitsa or Kodomo needs more oil is when it starts snorting creakily.

And of course, the over-long post-pharyngeal bumbulant, [ZZPT]:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrAtYMEmd2Y
I have read that post-pharyngeal bombulance was used to convey coded mesages over long distances between contations of indentured serfs, after the Church of Mans' Love published a Holy-Royal Bull forbidding the making and using of percussive instrumentation in the almost as Good as New World colonies in the year fifteen fifty-twelve (viz. Inter Crura Sonent Clunes).
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How is this a conlang?
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GamerGeek wrote:How is this a conlang?
Things don't need to be conlangs to be here. Any commentary on conlinguistics could in theory go here, as long it isn't intended on impugning the reputation of a member or any other here, or otherwise creating harm or discord.
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qwed117 wrote:
GamerGeek wrote:How is this a conlang?
Things don't need to be conlangs to be here. Any commentary on conlinguistics could in theory go here, as long it isn't intended on impugning the reputation of a member or any other here, or otherwise creating harm or discord.
What the good doctor said. Plus, Gôtlandish & Tsimpanz áre invented languages. Well, to be compleatly honest, wee ickle sketchockies of invented languages!

Technically, it could be called a WIP piece of Satirical Conlinguistics.
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elemtilas wrote:An extract from a terribly important paper written by Summel Inquist-Velanthar in the extremely prestigious Journal of Outer Quantasian Philology (May 2017):
....
The recently discovered and documented Tsimpanz language (Goodall: 2002) reveals evidence of a kind of bilabial click-like consonant, [X]:
....
The scanty evidence for Gôtlandish, found in a fourteenth century work on the Asian boondocks (Yue-Tu Bei: c.1355) reveals evidence for what some Eastern linguists are calling a lolling,
....
Other better known languages also reveal considerable evidence of sillybant use in ordinary language. A field collection of several such phonemes was collected by I.M. Ghahknee (2013):
....

(1) I see what you did there!
(2) How on Earth did I miss this for so long?
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eldin raigmore wrote:
elemtilas wrote:An extract from a terribly important paper written by Summel Inquist-Velanthar in the extremely prestigious Journal of Outer Quantasian Philology (May 2017):
....
The recently discovered and documented Tsimpanz language (Goodall: 2002) reveals evidence of a kind of bilabial click-like consonant, [X]:
....
The scanty evidence for Gôtlandish, found in a fourteenth century work on the Asian boondocks (Yue-Tu Bei: c.1355) reveals evidence for what some Eastern linguists are calling a lolling,
....
Other better known languages also reveal considerable evidence of sillybant use in ordinary language. A field collection of several such phonemes was collected by I.M. Ghahknee (2013):
....

(1) I see what you did there!
(2) How on Earth did I miss this for so long?


I snert you, sir. Most hirquitalliently!

Would that we might pay our snerts to the original author. Wherever he be. Alas, he must be doing field-work
among the Tsimpanz.

Or in faraway Teleran. Or still farther away...
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