Allowable words question

[freosan]

So, I've hit a bit of a snag in my word creation and I'm curious. How did you decide what the restrictions were on phoneme positions in your language? I'm particularly interested if you allow consonant clusters: how did you decide which consonants were or were not permitted to occur together?

I've been trying just saying the words aloud a lot, but in some cases I'm not sure if I'm having trouble because English doesn't have the phonemes I'm using, or because it actually would be physically difficult to pronounce no matter what.

Also, does anyone else have syllabic consonants, and if so, under what circumstances do you let that happen?

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[clare_dragonfly]

Nope, haven't even really tried speaking any Artash words. It's just the characteristics of those types of consonants--glides are also known as semi-vowels, so they're easy to put next to other consonants, and fricatives have similar qualities. I'm pretty sure there's something about it in my linguistics textbook...

[freosan]

Hmmmm okay so it is a known linguistic phenomenon, and that means I have to go study the languages that have retroflex consonants and see what they do with them. Thanks!

[clare_dragonfly]

Good luck!