The photo's from Meet The Robinsons, a movie where an art style called Zeerust is displayed like a minor character, not that that's a bad thing- I mean that's only reason I saw it when I was 12 (haven't seen it since). It was good, by the way.
Zeerust is Raygun Gothic art without the Gothic part and false sharp edges instead of real ones; the main signs of it are 1) skew angles, 2) bright, warm colors and blue arranged in simple patterns, 3) use of spheres and ellipses more commonly than normal, 4) astrological and surreal motifs due to the intent of funness over elegance or coolness. Also, people in the 50s thought the future was this, so it could be called Boomer Steampunk or Atompunk, too. Note that I do not like the 50s in pretty much all other aspects, just in this one; any and all spammers who post Happy Days or Leave It To Beaver screencaps will get punched.
Long story short, this genre of art from this movie, among other sights sparked the shit out of my inspiration and made me wanna devized a conculture and conlang (for the pretty letter arrangements on the signs and names). The culture, by the way, takes place in a fictional universe where the future came sooner. Economic levels are still to proportion.
Phonology
Inventory
The orthography is deliberately Standard Average European, as the art styles I'm paying homage to have culturally Western European roots (sorta, I don't know it's a guess). But I also wanted it to be beautiful and ornate so I added the central vowels, ejectives, and reverse affricates which have orthography to be appealing to my eye but not causing confusion with anything else or being dissymetric. Outside that, the only odd feature is a lack of /v/ which has been removed for consistency (it exists in loans).
Vowels
/i: ɨ: u u:/ ei ou u ö/ oo
/ɪ ɪ: ɪ̈/ i ë/ ee eu
/e: o (ə)/ ai o ə/ a/ e
/ɛ/ e
/∀/ a
/ᴀ:/ ä/ aa
Notes:
•/ə/ only exists as a phoneme in northern and insular dialects. Otherwise it causes central-ümlaut, lowering /ɪ u/ to /ɛ o/ unless /j or w/ follow in the syllable formerly with /ə/ or the next syllable (if said next syllable is stressed).
Polyphthongs
/aɛ aɪ̯ ɒw/ ae ai au
/ɪ̯a (ɪ̯ə)/ ia ie
/oɒ/ oa
/wɒ (wə)/ ua uo
Notes:
•In metropolitan Ressara City /ɛ/ and /o/ components of diphthongs are pronounced /j/ and /w/, respectively. This is considered urban and prestigious, so it occurs in richer parts around Ussel.
•When /ə/ disappears from a diphthong, /ɪ̯/ and /w/ become /ɪ/ and /u/, respectively.
Consonants
/m n ŋ / m n ñ
/p b t d tʃ dʒ k g kʷ gʷ/ p b t d c j k g q ƣ
/(p') t' (q'~q)/ pp tt qq
/(β͡b) ð͡d (ɣ͡g)/ bh dh gh
/ɸ (v) θ s ʃ z̺ z̻ x/ f th v s ç x z h
/l l̊ r r̊ w j/ l lh r rh w y
Notes:
•/p'/ and /q'/ only occur in northern and northwestern variants. Some speakers on the island of Ktella and laterally parallel areas retain them as /b/ and /g/. Other dialects have geminates instead.
•/(β͡b)/ and /(ɣ͡g)/ are become /bb/ and /gg/ in Rohslor dialects besides the northeast, but some speakers Oice and Lellytue retain them. The archaic pronunciations are /bβ/ and /gɣ/ used occasionally in the easternmost of Ktella.
•/v/ is a phoneme only found in loanwords and onomatopeia.
•Final /l r̊/ become /hˡ h˞/ (not indicated in spelling).
•Obstruents shift voicing from the previous consonant.
•/x/ is /h/ syllable-initially.
•/ʃ/ is pronounced /s̻/ in northern dialects.
Syllable Structure
(S)(C)(G)V(N)(C)
Wherein:
•S is any voiceless obstruent or sonorant.
•C is any consonant.
•G is either /j/ or /w/.
•V is any vowel.
•N is any homorganic nasal, liquid, or /s/ (which is pronounced /z/ before voiced consonants).
Restrictions:
•Ejectives, and geminates must border vowels or null.
•S cannot be /h/ (but the /h/ devoices the previous consonant), /p/ and /kʷ/ before occlusives, or /f/, /ʃ/, /θ/ before obstruents.
