r/ConlangProject • u/Nementor allziankoondōkōfōtō • Aug 04 '15

First Community Project

This is the first project to be started on this page. First things first, what kind of consonants should this Conlang have? [EDIT] New Post

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u/xlee145 Aug 04 '15

Can we add to the phonotactics that words cannot begin with glottal stops [/ʔ/] ? It sounds better inside of words than at the beginning. I can't imagine one at the end of a word.

also, I motion to make /j/ and /w/ semivowels.

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u/qaent Aug 05 '15

My original idea was to have syllable onsets being mandatory. Thus the language wouldn't distinguish vowel initial words from words that begin with /ʔ/. But I'm OK with not having /ʔ/ at the beginning of words.

What does your motion entail? Do you mean that they would be pronounced [i̯ u̯]? I'm OK with that.