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Ooh thanks...I wanted those for ages!

Has anyone got the Latin to Romanian sound changes? They would be extremely useful.

Cool. I really wanted those sound changes.

I never read license plates as SAMPA (mainly because I don't really know it), but I do like inserting vowels between the consonants, or sometimes leaving it as it is, and seeing what the word sounds like.

There's hints of it in Kebreni and Elkaril, but I'd like to do a full-fledged vowel-changing system. I've thought about doing so for Tzhuro, or perhaps Dhekhnami. Nifty. I don't know what state you live in, but in many license plates are a fine method of randomizing your roots. :) --Neon Fox That's...

I really like the Elkaril writing system. I had not looked at it until now. It seems very original.

And I've never heard schwas in spanish; the stress changes but the vowel quality does not. I suppose I could just be hearing the unstressed a's as schwas (damn you for f***ing up my ability to understand other langauge's sounds, English!).The point is, I think they're schwas, and therefore screw up...

I have trouble with a lot of sounds in Spanish, even though I've been doing it for 6 years. But the stop + r combinations are difficult for me. And the final o, for some reason, I can never pronounce properly.

In order, I have formally studied German, Spanish, and Japanese, and in class one day, these three languages came together and left me mumbling and scratching my head. There is a word in Japanese, a German loanword, arubaito . This is the Japanese representation of the German word arbeit (the verb ...