Re: Phonemes

On Wed, 12 Apr 2000 21:54:45 -0400 Dave Mezynski <dmezynski@...>
writes:
> I'm new at this...all apologies if this has been hashed to death.
> The advice I have suggests trying to make up new sounds to create a
> language.  This way, it says, you can avoid making too "Englishy".
> I've tried using the charts of nasals, fricatives, dentals, etc and
> making
> new sounds but they all end up sounding like L's or F's.  How did
> you guys
> start the ball rolling?
> Thank you for your help and a very entertaining listserv.
>
> Dave
.

Well, this may not help you that much, but my one "root" of my conlang
(Rokbeigalmki) started as a phonetic English orthography invented by my
brother.  A while after he made it, we tried to make a conlang by taking
those sounds and adding in sounds from other languages that we knew, like
Hebrew and Spanish.  Then, when that conlang (ool-Nuziiferoi) was
abandoned, i transfered it's inventory of sounds almost exactly into my
new language.

Maybe you should try making strange sounds with your mouth, figuring out
how you're doing them, and keeping them if you like them.  Just play with
your vocal tract a little!


-Stephen (Steg)
 "do not fear night-terrors, nor the arrows that fly by day."