Diary 2025-11-22
I'd kind of forgotten how bite-sized the Conlang Year stuff is when I'm not flailing around with sound changes for, I think, longer than was intended, so I was able to do a quick writeup on modern consonants, vowels, and phonotactics. There are some details in there that I didn't explain properly, or nail down, but I've got all of the stuff that was in my head written down, so let's go.
Checking ahead, I see that tomorrow is considering romanization. I can basically nail down what I think makes sense off the cuff:
- long vowels are simply doubled
- palatal approximant is y
- postalveolar fricatives are sh and zh
- postalveolar affricates are ch and j, but geminate as tch and dj
- otherwise gemination doubles the consonant, and specifically the first letter in a digraph
- coda nasals are represented as n
- other coda consonants are represented by "the same letter"
- coda consonants are followed by an apostrophe if the next letter is the same, a vowel, or an approximant
- Everything not mentioned just uses the same letter from the phonology, because all that's left is latin letters with straightforward readings.
That will be a system that is easy to type and read, at least for native English speakers. There's definitely room for trying to be "more precise" or whatever, but I don't see a reason for me to do that besides trying to flex. Which... who's going to care?
Anyway, I let it get late, so time to get ready for bed.
Good night.