#edit: i forgot to include q and talk about y being used twice lmao. well next post i guess

[brainshock-alpha]

okay!! first complete pass at nmd phonetics!!!!!

i’m pretty happy with this, all things considered! i’ve been hung up on how to analyze some of the graphs for a while and honestly sometimes it just feels good to Make A Decision on stuff lol. but also i know there’s room for improvement of course. like, there were sounds that i really wanted to include for fun/aesthetic value but they made for weird consequences in other areas -- like <c> and <x> defs could stand to be other phonemes, and <sh> is uh kind of a hot take lmao. anyway i think i’ll iterate on this a couple more times before i move onto phonology. exciteing !

more info below...

HOW TO READ THIS CHART: all sounds are in ipa. letters enclosed in <> indicate the corresponding grapheme (when it doesn’t match the phoneme’s ipa symbol). parentheses indicate a co-articulated sound, in w’s case, or a marginal sound only used in loanwords, in ʒ‘s case. why did i use parens for these two distinct cases? it was an accident lol

HOW TO READ THIS CHART IF U DON’T KNOW IPA OR LINGUISTICS: uhhh i don’t have time to help you with that right now,,, sorry!! when i release a final product (or major snapshots) i intend to make it more accessible to the general audience. until then, umm, you can learn about the ipa online if u want. here’s a nice starter resource (3min video)

SOME PRONUNCIATION EXAMPLES:

Dedusmuln /dɛdʊsmʊln/

Odozeir /ɔdɔzɛɪɾ/

Yiithorn /çɪːtʰɔɾn/

Moodbleen /mɔːdblɛːn/

Tyiclarnaikh (random h1 place) /təɪt͡slaɾnaɪkʰ/

technically these are all broad (inexact) transcriptions cuz they don’t have allophony rules yet lol. but there u go

A VERSION OF THIS CHART WITHOUT GRAPHEME CLUTTER: