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Parahi. Slazi yne savramanyn zdraze emmaythaxocmoropozd. ['paɾ.ahʷ.ɪ slaʒ 'in.ɛ sɒɾ.'am.an.iŋ 'zdɾaz.ɛ vɛ.'m:ajθ.ax.oʃ.'moɾ.op.ozd] man.be.PRS.1P think.PRS.1P it.ACC mean.PRS.such-that.it desire.ACC polite.mouth.anti.in.touch.OP.to I am male. I think of it as referring to the desire for anal interc...

Pyaxymuzi.
['pjax.ym.ʊʒ]
empty-emotion-gnomic tense-verb-1P
I'm bored. (In the same way that kittens are cute or the sky is blue.)

(True story: This could also, quite by accident, be literally translated: I feel the emotion of lacking a penis.)

Saolikc is only agglutinative, not polysynthetic, but I found one word that's interesting:

mwyr-mat-uh-an-da-y-atc
love - fate - always.is - such.that - he - I - each.other
"such that it is destined that he and I will love one another forever"

@Vampyre_Smiles I think the pattern is that any compression in the mouth (either labial or palatal) feels like "flat" to me, and otherwise it feels "thin". So rounded vowels feel flatter than unrounded ones, and vowels closer to /i/ feeler flatter than those further away. The "flattest" vowel is /y/...

@vampyre_smiles I associate vowel sounds with shapes and directions of motion, but that's the only direct relation between sounds and other senses that I can name. For instance /i/ feels like a flat object moving downward to me, like someone slapping a table or a piece of paper floating to the groun...

I don't know about cellar door languages, but I positively despise languages with lots of short syllables, like Italian and Spanish (both of which are for some reason called beautiful by most people ???). I like consonant clusters far better, like in German or English - really any Germanic language....

Mine is nowhere near as exciting as some of y'all's. Characters, and acceptable sounds (in Sälkc alphabetic order - most common pronunciations first) <i> - [ɪ] <a> - [ä,ə] <o> - [o,ɔ] <e> - [ɛ,e,æ] <y> - [i,y,j] <u> - [u,ʊ,ʋ] <x> - [x] <r> - [ɾ, ɽ] <p> - [p,pʰ] <l> - [l,ɺ] <t> - [t,tʰ] <n> - [n,ŋ] <...

According to Wikipedia, it is an IPA diacritic, though a very rarely used on, for consonants which are simultaneously labialized and palatized. *looks up ɧ" *slackjawed* That's it! Reading the description and listening to the sound of it on Wikipedia, I'm pretty sure that's either exactly my H, or v...

No, I tried ɸʷ but it's not right. As I said there's a [j]ness to it. And I think it's labiodental, not bilabial, though I can't be sure. It's got to be either fᶣ or ɸᶣ.

Uhag Hilun ivzile maythtolu - ayam ziryt evyoki. [ʊfᶣäg fᶣɪlun ɪvzɪlɛ mäiθtolu - äiäm zɪɾit ɛvjokɪ] Hil (the sound I express by the letter H) is not a labiodental (lip-tooth) approximant (almost-sound) - it has too much wind. Hil is pronounced as [f] with the mouth in the [ɘ] position, I think, but ...

Vodozaot Unsalar-uskoc djithi, hathat. (evidential assumed Nol like in previous sentence - carries across sentences until changed.) vod-oz-aot - hot-direction-region unsalar-usk-oc - USA-country-in dj-ith-i - began-living-I h-ath-at - continue-living-also. I was born in the South of the USA, and sti...

Nol särm Särólgob yabámgi, jíthwa rívab. Nol - I know for sure that it is true at this time, for I have experienced it directly, that särm - in regards to talking Särólgob - in a manner associated with Sälkc (my language) yabámgi - I presently (though it may change) am not adept, jíthwa - nonetheles...

When I was a child I would say "melancholy" as "mel-AING-koh-lee" because I thought it sounded better that way. XD

(also, sorry for using English spelling instead of IPA symbols, I don't really know them well enough to be confident using them)