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I propose that, in order to optimize for ease of use and accessibility online, the range of characters to be utilized be restricted to those which are present in the Unicode character encoding; and in order to maintain a desirable level of distinctiveness from currently existing writing scripts, th...

The writing system will be a system similar to English or Latin, where each sound has a letter, rather than like Mandarin, where each word has a different letter/symbol. The former would be referred to as an alphabet, the latter a logography. The writing system will use an alphabet rather than a lo...

For symbols, if somebody could suggest something that looks "futuristic" (maybe similar to Aurebesh), that would be good. The writing system will be a system similar to English or Latin, where each sound has a letter, rather than like Mandarin, where each word has a different letter/symbol.

Now for help with symbols for the letters.

So have you decided on phonology yet? I think the serious suggestions where: a) p t k m n ŋ w j s i a u b) p b t d k g m n s h l r j w a e i o u ə c) p b t d k g m n f s ʃ w r l y i u e o a I like these, it allows for a simple-to-learn language like Spanish or Latin. I think I'll go with p, b, t, d...

Hallow XIII wrote:Caleb, he hasn't been here for weeks and I'm pretty sure he's thoroughly been mobbed off the board. So, that's nice of you, but next time read the thread.

Actually, I have been watching it, waiting for real suggestions like he made.

OK, I now have a lot of interesting suggestions for letters, which I will consider. Just for now, can somebody help me come up with the letter scripts? I don't want the letters to look at all related to Latin script. Maybe they could be similar to the Star Wars Aurebesh symbols. However, they must b...

Might I suggest that you change the name from "Telnesian" to "Telanesia", "Telenesia", "Telonesia", "Telinesia" or "Telunesia"? Monolingual speakers of a great deal of languages are going to struggle to pronounce the word "Telnesian". The reason being that it contains an /l/ sound which does not oc...

Vardelm wrote:

Nortaneous wrote:

Vytautas wrote:The first comments I am searching for are suggestions on the sounds that should be in the language.

All of these.

And please, keep the Romanized orthography simple as well.

What do you mean?

The first comments I am searching for are suggestions on the sounds that should be in the language.

Hello. I am making a conlang for a near-future nation known as Telanesia. However, I am quite new at conlanging. Also, the language would be more naturalistic (i.e. have more quirks and funny idioms) if it was crowd-sourced. While I had created the sounds for it, I think that if I crowd source it I ...