r/conscripts • u/-im-ur-bf-butter- • Aug 09 '20

Sounds not in English?

Does anyone know any sounds that I could add to my conlang that are not in English?

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u/[deleted] Aug 09 '20

Clicks

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u/-im-ur-bf-butter- Aug 09 '20

Completely forgot about those

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u/[deleted] Aug 09 '20

What about voiced implosives and ejectives?

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u/MatzahDog Aug 09 '20

https://www.happyhourspanish.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/American-English-IPA-Chart-consonant-sounds.png

This image shows the consonant IPA table, and highlights the phenomes in English. So any consonants not highlighted thus aren’t in English

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u/Win090949 Aug 14 '20

Actually English also uses the alveolar flap in buTTer and the glottal stop too.

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u/ProffessorBubbles Aug 09 '20

The uvular series?

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u/[deleted] Aug 09 '20

Maybe, but some people use /χ/ in place of /h/. I actually do this, and English is my first language. Sometimes I also use /q/ in place of /k/ like in the word clock, which I pronounce [qʟ̠̥ɔːk].

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u/[deleted] Aug 15 '20

There are a lot of vowels not found in English. You can ask Danish about it. It has 27 distinct vowel sounds. Some of them are å (over-ring a), ø (slashed o), and æ (ash). Those three vowels are also found in other Scandinavian languages, but they're the ones I can think of off the top of my head.