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Syllables and stoof
DAY TWO: Define possible syllable structure and phonetics.
The syllable structure itself, at least, I'm happy with - (C)V(V)(C) - so I'm keeping that. Onwards to my phoneme notes...
"add ‘h’ between two vowels when the first one is a front vowel"
Right... I think this was an arbitrary decision and I have no idea where I was going with. Looking at it now, I am left wondering why the first vowel is the one that matters? Would it not make more sense to have a... breath-stop or whatever the heck that's supposed to be before a specific kind of vowel...?
Let's look at my vowels, first. I have six vowel sounds, which are all unique letters: ah, eh, ee, ih, oo, oh, loosely speaking, which I romanize as a e y i u o, respectively. The "front vowels" are e, i and y. Playing with the sounds aloud, I like the idea of having a "silent consonant" stuck in before front vowels, so I'll change 'first one' to 'second one'.
"add ‘i’ between two consonants when the second is a fricative"
Well now that I've identified these as 'silent consonant' and 'silent vowel' it's easier to understand what I'm doing here. Now the question is, why fricative, and do I like it?
The available fricatives are f, th, s, sh and h. There are... a lot of fricatives, considering I only have fifteen consonants. I mean, I did that on purpose, but I'd forgotten. >.> That makes having a special pronunciation case for fricatives seem like a poor idea. On the other hand, going from, say, a stop to a fricative doesn't sound the way I want, so maybe I will keep this one. I'll give it a test run when doing vocab construction.
fricatives can’t be next to other fricatives or affricates
Geez, self, way to prevent yourself from putting half your consonants next to each other. >.> I'm going to keep this, though.
no alveolar + (velar, alveolar-palatal, or glottal)
.Okay, my alveolar column has s, ts, r, and l. Velar has k and kh, alv-pal has sh, glottal has h. This seems reasonable enough, no reason not to leave it.
r can't go before a consonant
Sure, why not!
This leads me to "what if word construction/etymology breaks a pronunciation rule?" which leads to SOUND CHANGES.
I shall do sound changes tomorrow.
The syllable structure itself, at least, I'm happy with - (C)V(V)(C) - so I'm keeping that. Onwards to my phoneme notes...
"add ‘h’ between two vowels when the first one is a front vowel"
Right... I think this was an arbitrary decision and I have no idea where I was going with. Looking at it now, I am left wondering why the first vowel is the one that matters? Would it not make more sense to have a... breath-stop or whatever the heck that's supposed to be before a specific kind of vowel...?
Let's look at my vowels, first. I have six vowel sounds, which are all unique letters: ah, eh, ee, ih, oo, oh, loosely speaking, which I romanize as a e y i u o, respectively. The "front vowels" are e, i and y. Playing with the sounds aloud, I like the idea of having a "silent consonant" stuck in before front vowels, so I'll change 'first one' to 'second one'.
"add ‘i’ between two consonants when the second is a fricative"
Well now that I've identified these as 'silent consonant' and 'silent vowel' it's easier to understand what I'm doing here. Now the question is, why fricative, and do I like it?
The available fricatives are f, th, s, sh and h. There are... a lot of fricatives, considering I only have fifteen consonants. I mean, I did that on purpose, but I'd forgotten. >.> That makes having a special pronunciation case for fricatives seem like a poor idea. On the other hand, going from, say, a stop to a fricative doesn't sound the way I want, so maybe I will keep this one. I'll give it a test run when doing vocab construction.
fricatives can’t be next to other fricatives or affricates
Geez, self, way to prevent yourself from putting half your consonants next to each other. >.> I'm going to keep this, though.
no alveolar + (velar, alveolar-palatal, or glottal)
.Okay, my alveolar column has s, ts, r, and l. Velar has k and kh, alv-pal has sh, glottal has h. This seems reasonable enough, no reason not to leave it.
r can't go before a consonant
Sure, why not!
This leads me to "what if word construction/etymology breaks a pronunciation rule?" which leads to SOUND CHANGES.
I shall do sound changes tomorrow.