Nuvo Lesson 1; Pronunciation
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[comments] lessonnuvoconlanglanguagephonologyamazinginterestingcool2927wowthesetagsareamazing In order to actually speak a language at a decent level, you need to ́now how to pronounce the words and sounds of the language in question. For example, if I said the German sentence, Ich spreche Deutsch, as /ɪt͡ʃ spɹ̠ʷæt͡ʃi dÿ͡ʊ̯t͡ʃ/, then anybody with a level of German above reading it in an American accent would instantly start making fun of you, or at best, just not understand you.
So that brings us to my newest invention, Nuvo, or Nëvos Gall. It is a conlang I have been making on a Google Sheet and importing here that is mostly based off of the pigments of imagination the float through my mind. In other words, I basically went into this blind and with no natural language influences.
Its phonological system is a lot smaller than my other conlangs', and this is good because having a terrifyingly large number of consonants was a rather bad habit that I found myself stuck neck-deep into. It still has a fairly large number of consonants though, so maybe I'll still be wading in the pool of habit for a while longer. I have a pretty bulky series of fricatives and stops, but more into that later. In terms of vowels, however, I have actually adopted many more than I've put into a conlang in a while. I've also tested my hand at implementing some allophonic variation, but it turns out that I'm kind of bad at it, since my allophones are very scattered and don't make much sense).
CONSONANTS (Not including allophones)
Nasals: m, n, ɲ
Stops: pʰ, b, tʰ, d, cʰ, ɟ ,qʰ, ɢ
Fricatives: f, v, θ, ð, s, z, ʃ, ʒ, ç, ʝ, χ, h
Affricates: t͡s, d͡z, t͡ʃ, d͡ʒ
Laterals: l, ɮ
Approximants: ʋ, j
Trills: r, r̥
As you can see, there is definitely no lack of consonants. I'm gonna assume you know IPA, so you can see that yourself.
There is one oddity among my stack of consonants, one that I haven't shown. That consonant is: ŋ͡m. It is a coarticulated ŋ, and it appears in some African languages, and also in the almighty, all powerful, all hailed, long lived ŋ͡mg͡b. It is simply the best noise known to man. We can blame the paranormal existence of that on some spooky phonological shift from ŋ or ɴ. A notable feature of this language is its apparent lack of any velar consonants at all. I don't know why I did that. It was a half accident, but I'm gonna live with it now.
VOWELS (Not including allophones)
i, y, ɨ, ʉ, u, e, o, ə, œ, ɑ
Vowels have no phonemic length, but I guess you could all random length to random syllables and call it a new dialect...
I'd like to imagine that Nuvo speakers would make vowels super short when they speak, and I have no idea why that idea appeals to me so much. I guess if you want to sound like a native Nuvo speaker, just speak with the shortest vowels humanly possible.
Diphthongs a͡ɪ̯, e͡ɪ̯, o͡ɪ̯, and u͡ɪ̯ also exist fairly prominently throughout the language.
Ok bye I don't know what else to say.
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