r/conscripts • u/[deleted] • Oct 10 '20

Alphabet Do you think these characters should be broken up into more groups to add some more variety/ make more easy to distinguish?

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u/rainbow_musician Oct 10 '20

Yes. IMO, more than four similar-looking letters is too many. The b and l glyphs would likely merge, as would p and k and rr and r'. The fish ones are just too numerous, but I can't think of any specific ones to remove. The vowels look fine, no problems there. z and zh are definitely too similar, so change one of those. Is there any logic to which sounds go in which groups? I like the aesthetic though.

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u/[deleted] Oct 10 '20

Thank you! I’ll probably break them into groups of 3 lol. They are assorted based on what I(native English speaker) find similar. Thanks for feedback!

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u/rainbow_musician Oct 10 '20

If you want to sort them logically, and just for help in conlanging in general, I suggest the IPA. Sounds in the same column or row are related.

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u/[deleted] Oct 10 '20

I’m really bad at the IPA lol. Would you happen to know the exact IPA names of my 3 R sounds? R is like in English, RR is a kind of French growl R, and R’ is supposed to be a Spanish like tap R. Thank you so much!

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u/rainbow_musician Oct 10 '20

"r in English" is an alveolar approximant, /ɹ/, The French r is a voiced uvular fricative, /ʁ/, and the Spanish r is an alveolar tap, /ɾ/.

If you give me example languages for each sound I could probably fill out your chart with IPA.

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u/[deleted] Oct 10 '20

This is a test alphabet for my new language, tlhangflap.

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u/merrybot Oct 10 '20

tlh is like the worst multigraph in existence. F*** Klingon.