A Conlang!

[The Pilot]

WHO KNOS WAT TAHT IS?

A conlang is short for "constructed language". I invented one for an alien race of mine, and it's been in development for about 2 years.

If anyone else has any fictitious languages of their own, feel free to share!

[The Pilot]

Sennin

Sennin is a very old language, spoken by O'Ardenas, the Mariners. It's a language that I developed for vocalization underwater, which proved -and still proves- to be an extremely difficult task.

For a better description of it, the alphabet, grammar, and ever-developing word list, go heer:

sennin-sen.blogspot.com

[Lady Hammer]

I don't have a fully developed language, but I have bits and pieces of the dead Perdu language developed. Nothing more than some vocab tho, really. At least so far. :/ I don't even have a NAME for the language, lol.

[The Pilot]

I hear that building a language is far more difficult it you have premeditated pieces of it to start with, like words and phrases.
Rofl, then again that's all you might need.

[The Pilot]

ROFFLE.
Actually, I think I'm just gonna post things here.

[The Pilot]

^That's the alphabet. You'll notice that letters are missing, and that's because I either don't like how they sound, or saying them underwater would probably be impossible. (C'mon people... the fetter F?)

Pronunciation is as follows:

A - as in "saw"
B - as in ... "buh"
C - as in "catch", never as an "s"
D - as in "DUH"
E - as in "meh"
G - as in "gurgle"
I - as in "keel" (couldn't think up a word where the I was long)
L - as in "love"
M - as in every other word with "m' ever
N - same here.
O - as in "on"
R - as in "roll"
S - as in "sick"
T - as in "toss"
U - as in "duration"
V - as in "volt"

Diphthongs:

AI - as in "hi"
AO - as in "how"
AU - as in "aw": slightly deeper than "o", but not as much as "u"
EI - as in "day"
IA - almost always said as "yah"
IE - almost always said as "yay"
II - rare. Always said as "yee"
IO - almost always said as "yo"
IU - almost always said as "you"
OI - as in "oi!"
UA - always said as "wah"
UE - always said as "way"
UI - always said as "wee"
UO - always said as "woh"
UU - rare. Always said as "woo"

Because of how I've set it up, I and U are found paired with other vowels more often that they are found alone. I like the sound of A, E, and O a little more than I and U, so they're usually flanked by consonants, and are much more likely to start a word than the two "weak" vowels.

Which brings me to my second point. Notice how both I and U seem to be comprised of two marks? Well, that's not the case. The larger mark is used in the off chance that I or U might be caught all by its lonesome, and the smaller marks are used when creating those neat diphthongs. Say you want to write a story about Aiuron, the valiant prince who cut off the finger of a god before being crushed to death. His name, pronounced "Ai-you-ron", seems to have two diphthongs in it, so where do you put the small "I"? In a case like this, put the dot beneath the "A", and mark the "U" as normal next to it.

Easy as pie!