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Thank you for the pickles and tea. (Interesting tradition) I would think that they would have a radically throat and mouth structure and therefore radically different sound system. This is very true; a longer oral and nasal cavity would allow more resonances as well more places of articulation. Howe...

I've recently started thinking about creating conlings for the world that I'm building. One of the languages is the languages of a race of sentient humanoid rodents. In thinking of ways to make this language very different from any human language I started thinking of using some sounds normally asso...