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/m n ŋ/ <m n ng> /p b t d k g/ <p b t d k g> /f s ʃ x h/ <f s x ch h> /v z/ <v z> /w r l j/ <ü r l j> /ɪ ʏ ʊ/ <i y u> /ɛ œ ɔ ə/ <e ö o ë> /a/ <a> /iː yː uː/ <ii yy uu> /eː øː oː/ <ee öö oo> /æː ɑː/ <ae aa> /ai œy ɑu/ <ai oi au> /æːn twæː triː fjæːr fiːf sɛks seːvən axt nyːn tain/ <Aen Tüae Trii Fjae...

Travis B. wrote: ↑Sun Aug 09, 2026 6:09 pm Is half-voicing supposed to take another whole character width?

It doesn't on my device, but there's no precomposed character for half-voiced k in Unicode.

It's a Katakanisation of a language that doesn't usually use it. Could you fill us into the language and or at least the original text? After doing some Romanising, I think it's Māori¹, but it would be nice to have confirmation. ¹ アオテアロア = Aotearoa, if I'm not mistaken You're correct. The full sche...

Lērisama wrote: ↑Sun Aug 09, 2026 9:45 am Is this a different kind of Romanisation challenge¹? It doesn't look like an attempt at the last challenge.

¹ As in, find a working Romanisation of this text

It's a Katakanisation of a language that doesn't usually use it.

ヘ フェ、ヘ カーイ モウテレ ア アオテアロア イ テ モアナ゠ヌイ゠ア゠キワ。コ カ゚ー モウテレ マトゥ コ テ イカ゠ア゠マーウイ キ テ ラキ・コ テ ワイ゠ポウナム、アラ テ ワカ゠ア゠マーウイ キ ワエカ゚ヌイ・メ ラキウラ キ テ トカ゚

Returning to this after a while. --- Ripping off PIE ablaut would be fun. /m n ŋ ŋʷ/ <m n ñ ñw> /p b t d t͡ʃ d͡ʒ k g kʷ gʷ q qʷ/ <p b t d c j kw gw q qw> /s h/ <s h> /l j w/ <l y w> /r/ <r> /a e o/ + length <ā etc.> Syllable structure is at most CVRC 1 , but resonants, including glides, can be sylla...

I noticed a sound change in the Kartvelian section of the ID. Proto-Kartvelian is presumed to have had three sibilant series (I'll use the voiceless fricative as representative of each one): *s s₁ š (apparently phonetically /s ʂ ʃ/). Georgian merged the retroflex series with the alveolar one and lef...

/m n ɲ ŋ/ <ma na ña va> /ʔm ʔn ʔɲ ʔŋ/ <me ne ñe ve> /p t c k/ <be de je ge> /ph th ch kh/ <pe te ce ke> /px tx cx kx/ <pa ta ca ka> /p’ t’ c’ k’ ʔ/ <fe se xe qe he> /b d ɟ g/ <ba da ja ga> /f s ʃ x h/ <fa sa xa qa ha> /t͡s t͡ʃ/ <re ye> /t͡sh t͡ʃh/ <ze çe> /t͡sx t͡ʃx/ <za ça> /r l j w/ <ra la ya wa> ...

One note I should mention is that you should be able to write words like パーティ in your orthography. Is that "should" as in "you can do that, by the way", or "should" as in "a proper orthography should show the difference"? Because you can show /tɯ ɸa si/ etc.;...

Is it possible for /s/ + voiced plosive to become a fricative without /s/ devoicing the following sound? I'd say it's unlikely, but still certainly possible, especially if your language already tolerates mixing voiced and voiceless consonants in clusters. Actually my main objection to this scenario...

/m n/ <m n> /(p) b t-t͡s-t͡ɕ d-(d͡)z-(d͡)ʑ k g/ <p b t-z-tsch d-s-dsch k g> /s-ɕ (d͡)z-(d͡)ʑ h-ç-ɸ/ <ss-sch s-dsch h-ch-f> /ɾ j w/ <r j w> /a e i o ɯ/ <a e i o u> /t d s z h/ are <z s ss s f> before /ɯ(ː)/, <tsch dsch sch dsch ch> before /i(ː)/ or in combination with following /j/, and <t d ss s h>...

/m n/ <m n> /(p) b t-t͡s-t͡ɕ d-(d͡)z-(d͡)ʑ k g/ <p b t-z-tsch d-s-dsch k g> /s-ɕ (d͡)z-(d͡)ʑ h-ç-ɸ/ <ss-sch s-dsch h-ch-f> /ɾ j w/ <r j w> /a e i o ɯ/ <a e i o u> /t d s z h/ are <z s ss s f> before /ɯ(ː)/, <tsch dsch sch dsch ch> before /i(ː)/ or in combination with following /j/, and <t d ss s h> ...

Is it possible for /s/ + voiced plosive to become a fricative without /s/ devoicing the following sound?

żwiżŷŷdzor [ˈray˨˦.ru̯o˩] 'femboy' oə̯ > u̯o (and vel sim. for other diphthongs) ũpmöĺžĭ [wũf.spaˈc h o] ‘eye’ Glide epenthesis before initial vowels. siazěbů [ˈɻʷeːd.nʷe] ‘ Denversaurus schlessmani ’ Rounding on front vowels becomes rounding on preceding consonants. ’æmniijekolááta [ʔæ̃mˌniːʒˈkwaː...

Some ideas of my own unlikely to get off the ground: - A modern descendant of Dacian spoken in the Carpathians. May still use a variant of the Old Hungarian script. - A descendant of Khazar spoken by the descendants of Jewish converts - essentially the Turkic equivalent to Yiddish/Ladino. - An easte...

/p θ t c k ʔ/ <b th d j g q> /pʰ tʰ cʰ kʰ/ <p t c k> /ɓ ɗ ɡ/ <mb nd ngh> /m n ɲ ŋ/ <m n ñ ng> /ɕ x h/ <s kh h> /z ɣ ɦ/ <z gh x> /w r l j/ <v r l y> /i ɨ ɯ u/ <i eu u w> /e ə o/ <e eo-' o> /ɛ a ɔ/ <ae a ao> /ə/ is <'> when part of a(n assumed) presyllable. /à ā á â àʔ āʔ/ <à a á â àt at> Assuming the...

Anyway, back to the topic at hand. This is great! I've played around with it a bit and it's the best word generator I've seen so far.

Let's try a Hispanic orthography. /eːn mixiʃaː/ <Én Mijixá> /m n/ <m n> /mː nː/ <mm nn> /p b t d k g/ <p b t d c-qu g(u)> /pː tː kː/ <pp tt cc-cqu> /ts tʃ cç/ <tz ch ty> /f v θ ð s ʃ x ɣ/ <f v c-ç z s x j g(h)> /fː θː sː ʃː xː/ <ff çc-çç ss xx jj> /w l j/ <h(u)-uh l y> /wː lː jː/ <hh(u)-uhh ll yy> /...

is something like /pʼ tʼ kʼ/ → /pʔ tʔ kʔ/ → /ɸʔ θʔ xʔ/ → /ɸ θ x/ (ejectives become plosive - glottal stop clusters, simplification of plosive clusters, loss of glottal stops in clusters) very plausible? I echo the thoughts of others here regarding (im)plausibility but here's an alternative: /p' t' ...

[t̪ɨˈsæ̃ːʝbɨ]
thisãeybi

Centralisation of unstressed vowels

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[koːɕønˈtakkuː]
koośöntákkuu
‘swordfight, duel, trial by sword’

Monophthongisation of centring diphthongs