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...Or a somebody with Spanish as their L1.

...Or a somebody with Spanish as their L1.

From my observations asking local natives (making the repeat a monosyllable like "me", "cue"), it seems pretty clear to me they have diphthongs, even more so with /u/, which has some observable ongoing rounding as the vowel is pronounced. I'm not sure if they'd let me record a video though... (but I'm seriously contemplating it).

Why don't some American users here make a recording?

"Have I spoken unclearly? I meant electric catfish not electric onions."

"Cue"? Try with "boot" or something. To me /i/ and (a true) /u/ are monophthings. Or at least they sound a lot more like monophthongs than /e/ and /o/. Using /ju/, which is what "cue" has, will mess things up, and that one is a diphthong to me.

I wouldn't trust Canepari as a source.... but I'm fairly sure this is true, to the point where if I hear a pure monophthong /i/ or /u/ I think the person is either Scottish or South African.

i'm exaggerating slightly. I can't remember what the irish do.

Drink.

Since the thread is starting to fall down the page, it might be a good time to summarize the results.

Czech's weird rhotic "/r_r/" was surprisingly common for a sound which nobody's sure what it really is.

Consonants at pretty much every POA are common, except:

• Only doctrellor used any labial-velars (/k_p g_b N_m/). In the real world they're fairly common.
• Only tengado used the epiglottal stop />\/, and only CGreathouse had an epiglottal fricative /H\/.
• Only kodé used linguolabials (/t_N d_N T_N/). They're found in some languages of Vanuatu, and apparently developed out of original bilabials when followed by a front vowel. And they're fairly easy to pronounce, so I wonder why more people haven't used them.
• Only JohnQPublik used a bidental fricative.
• Only Curlyjimsam used that Swedish fricative /x\/. But it's thought by some that that one might not actually exist. (Why not? I don't know. Ask them.)
• Only FSI used a non-high semivowel (/e_^/).
• Nobody used any labial-alveolars (/t_p d_b n_m/) or labial-postalveolars (/t_-_p d_-_b n_-_m/). Yeli Dnye of PNG contrasts both with labial-velars.
• Unsuprisingly, nobody used epiglotto-pharyngeals (made by putting the epiglottis on the pharynx), which are only known from one language, Ami of Taiwan.
• One can't really tell when someone reports having /t_d/ whether they mean their /t/s are pronounced like in Romance languages, or whether they contrast /t_d/ and /t/. But I will say that contrasting dentals and alveolars is cool, well-attested and you should do it.

However, not every manner of articulation was exploited for every POA.

• Nobody used velarization on anything other than /5/.
• Only Zhen Lin (/p_p\/) and Anguipes (/b_v/) had labial affricates. This is, of course, attested in German.
• Only Anguipes had a dental affricate (/t_T/). Saanich, a North Straits Salish language, has /t_T_>/ (but not /t_T/).
• Only JohnQPublik used retroflex affricates (/t`_s` d`_z`/). These are reasonably common in the real world.
• Only Nuntar (/c_C J\_j\/) and JQP (/c_C_>/) used palatal affricates. These, too, are reasonably common, though I don't know how common contrasting them with /c J\/ is.
• Only cathbad (/k_x q_X/) and JQP (/k_x_> q_X_>/) used dorsal affricates. /k_x/ exists in dialects of German, and /q_X/ is common in Salishan and elsewhere.
• Several people used the voiceless alveolar affricate /t_K/, but only Nuntar used the voiced version /d_K\/, and only chris_notts used the ejective /t_K_>/. I think in the real world the ejective might actually be more common, since I know several language that have /t_K_>/ but not /t_K/.
• Nobody used any non-alveolar lateral affricates! Dahalo has a palatal ejective /c_L_>/, and Zulu has a velar ejective /k_L\_>/. Now these are cool sounds.
• Similarly, non-alveolar lateral fricatives were missing. Plenty of approximants, but only Primordial_Soup used a palatal fricative /L_0_r/, and nobody used the velar. EDIT: It turns out /C\/ is Z-SAMPA for /L_0_r/. So add JhemethaEqiv and Mr Saturday.
• Two bilabial approximants /B_o/ (Zhen Lin and Nuntar), two unrounded velars /M\/ (JQP and Kuvdamos), one uvular /R_o/ (Dingbats).
• Only Primordial Soup and kodé used the bilabial trill /B\/, and neither of them seems to have paired it with /t/ as /t_B\/ like Oro Win does.
• Only Curlyjimsam used the retroflex flap /r`/.
• Only Pie Man used the labiodental nasal /F/, but that's okay since I don't know of any languages that actually use it.
• Nobody used bilabial or labiodental flaps.
• Nobody used /h~/. Rhinoglottophilia FTW!

And then there were some kinds of articulations that were hardly used at any POA:

• Only cathbad and Pechel tefalla made use of nasal released stops / prestopped nasals.
• Only Nuntar and Wycoval used /K\/, and nobody used voiced lateral fricatives at any other POA.
• Only Arunas and Radagast used the "voiced aspirates" / breathy voiced stops.
• Only Varamannato and Pechel tefalla had a voiceless flap /4_0/, and nobody had any voiceless trills.
• Only Arunas and pfainuk used any clicks. And of course Eddy, who didn't bother to participate.
• Only Radagast used the "velar aspiration" found in Lakhota.
• Nobody used trill-released stops. (i.e. /tr/ as a single phoneme)
• Only Finlay used a reverse affricate (/s_t/). I've never heard of a natlang using them but they sound kind of cool.
• Nobody used non-explosive stops (i.e. stops without a pressure build-up and release). Which is fair enough, though, since I only just heard of them myself. Ikwere developed them out of /k_p g_b/.
• Nobody used voiceless implosives.

So, if you want something new and unique for your lang, this can be a start.

Corrections/additions welcome.

What exactly is a "Fakeic" language?

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