Whale Speech [MMS]
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[Deactivated User] on 20 June 2016
Language type
Artistic Language (Artlang)
Species
Human/humanoid
About Whale Speech
A language based on the sounds made by whales!! Is that not hecka cool?! It's still in the early stages of development, but it's tonal, has clicks, and a nasal M vowel!
In the late 90's, a whale named NOC attempted to mimic human speech. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4Uy_QOQfbs
This language is simply my attempt to do the reverse! :D
I'm going to do a full overhaul of this language, including it's name. I plan on adding an e sound, and making the vowel system more streamlined ( :P ) by using tones only for grammatical porpoises. This will make word building much easier, and the syllabic consonant M easier for humans to produce, as this is the tongue that whales communicate with humans with in my mythos. This is gonna be a lot of fun! WHEEEOOO!!
In the late 90's, a whale named NOC attempted to mimic human speech. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4Uy_QOQfbs
This language is simply my attempt to do the reverse! :D
I'm going to do a full overhaul of this language, including it's name. I plan on adding an e sound, and making the vowel system more streamlined ( :P ) by using tones only for grammatical porpoises. This will make word building much easier, and the syllabic consonant M easier for humans to produce, as this is the tongue that whales communicate with humans with in my mythos. This is gonna be a lot of fun! WHEEEOOO!!
Sample of Whale SpeechCan't find any yet.
Phonology
Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | ||||||||
Nasal | m̰̩̀ m̩ m̩᷄ | n | ŋ | |||||||||||||
Plosive | k | g | ||||||||||||||
Fricative | f | s | ʃ | |||||||||||||
Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||||||
Approximant | j | ʍ | w | |||||||||||||
Click | ǀ |
Vowels | Front | Back | ||
Close | u ṵ̀ u᷄ | |||
Open-mid | ɛ ɛ̰̀ ɛ᷄ | |||
Open | ɒ ɒ̰̀ ɒ᷄ |
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Whale Speech. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
Whale SpeechOrthography [edit] | |||||||||||
Aa/ɒ/ | AA aa/ɒ̰̀/ | AB ab/ɒ᷄/ | Ee/ɛ/ | EB eb/ɛ᷄/ | EE ee/ɛ̰̀/ | Ff/f/ | Gg/g/ | Jj/j/ | Kk/k/ | Ll/l/ | Mm/m̩/ |
MB mb/m̩᷄/ | MM mm/m̰̩̀/ | Nn/n/ | NG ng/ŋ/ | Ss/s/ | SH sh/ʃ/ | Tt/ǀ/ | Uu/u/ | UB ub/u᷄/ | UU uu/ṵ̀/ | Ww/w/ | WH wh/ʍ/ |
✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] |
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