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Aha! It has a name!

A sound change has a certain way of diffusing through a lexicon; it starts off slow for quite a while, then suddenly a whole massive chunk of the lexicon is affected by the sound change, before it then starts to go slow again; graphing it against time looks like an s. It's comparable to an epidemic,...

So that shows how much I really know about geography... and the details of the Zone itself...

And that other topic didn't really answer my question properly.

Aha, but I have my strange, convoluted raisins! I just like spelling physics as fizzix, or reasons as raisins. Maybe at times I can be a bit of a hypocrite. But usually if make a mistake it's when my keyboard's really slow (not now, or all the time, just sometimes) and types double letters by accide...

Now I'm not an expert on geography. By any stretch of the imagination. But I do know something, and this is sort of related to Space and therefore fizzix, which I'm alright at, but I'm not keen on it anymore, linguistics (and maths) being my calling(s) in life, especially lately. Anyway, our closest...

Can I point out that /ks/ is two phonemes in English, not one. Ahribar implied that it was one.

I once made this code-type script with faces, bodies, legs and feet, and different equivalent forms for each. But it was a binary system based on the order of our alphabet, so not exactly related in any featural way really....

What writing systems are there on Almea except Verdurian and Elkaril, and how do you write them? (Indeed, have you got this information?)

Have you made any languages not from Erel?e? Like from a completely different continent?

I never really had much trouble pronouncing German; I had the best '?' in my class, to the best of my knowledge, although I was told it was verging on being an 'i'. A lot of others insisted on not pronouncing umlauts, as well, or just generally pronouncing it with an Anglicised or Scottish-ised acce...

How do you pronounce clicks and implosives? I've never quite understood it, having no frame of reference. I think I may have clicks about right, though.
And how do you pronounce !Xóõ (the name) properly?