Bird language

Birdlang · Post by **Birdlang** » Tue Dec 30, 2014 9:20 am

This is spoken by alien birds, they can speak English.
Vowels
A, â, e, ê, i, o, ô, ơ, u, ư vowels can be long with a macron
A, 6, E, e, i, O, o, 2, u, y
Consonants
B, č, c, d, ð, þ, f, g, gv (can be written as a g with a stroke), h, j, k, Łł, l, m, n, ń, p, q, r, s, š, t, v, w, x, y, z
b, tS, ts, d, D, T, f, g, G, x, Z, k, L\, l, m, n, J, p, q, r, s, S, t, v, w, H, j, z
Numbers base 14
Alāq 0
Klīyit, 1
Kījūr, 2
Kūl, 3
Krāynī, 4
Jūyčī, 5
Jūyalā, 6
Ndjūl, 7
Kdjūyīrip, 8
Ldjīyik, 9
Krīl, X or 10
Kīlīt, ( or 11
Kāzêt, ε or 12
Knâīnơt 0 or 13

kusuri · Post by **kusuri** » Wed Dec 31, 2014 2:54 am

Do the birds consider all sounds, including g with a stroke, to be vowels? Is this a statement on conbird conculture? Do these birds sing?

Birdlang · Post by **Birdlang** » Wed Dec 31, 2014 5:04 am

alt wrote:Do the birds consider all sounds, including g with a stroke, to be vowels? Is this a statement on conbird conculture? Do these birds sing?

They sing in their language, and they consider the consonants consonants.

WeepingElf · Post by **WeepingElf** » Wed Dec 31, 2014 8:10 am

How do they make labials and rounded vowels with beaks?

Birdlang · Post by **Birdlang** » Thu Jan 01, 2015 5:58 am

They have lips and teeth, but the lips are invisible, so the p and b sound like beak snaps.

Birdlang · Post by **Birdlang** » Thu Jan 01, 2015 5:06 pm

This is a more simple dialect. The main language has 70 consonants and 20 vowels that can be long or nasalized or rhotacized or two of those or all three.

Birdlang · Post by **Birdlang** » Thu Jan 01, 2015 5:07 pm

WeepingElf wrote:How do they make labials and rounded vowels with beaks?

Beak snapping and closing the beak when pronouncing a vowel.

Halian · Post by **Halian** » Thu Jan 01, 2015 5:36 pm

Could you tell us more about their singing?

Birdlang · Post by **Birdlang** » Thu Jan 01, 2015 5:47 pm

They sing. But they have vocal chords and the instruments they play include a keyboard with 20,061 sounds, toys with sound (all are plush or vinyl PVC), a keyboard instrument utilizing air bulbs with reeds under the keys for the different pitches, recorder like reed flute with reed tube instead of reed attached to mouthpiece, and laser harps. The toys are because they LOVE those kinds of toys, they have nothing wrong though. They also sing about love, their homeland, dancing, animals, their toys (which are all made by the same company, Birdco), death, fun, life, and their religious music has themes about gods, goddesses, lost hope and emotions, and they use a Hammond-like organ and the keyboard with over 20,000 sounds. They also have dances that are very ornate, and they are very against talking about personal stuff.

Halian · Post by **Halian** » Tue Feb 24, 2015 7:52 pm

a keyboard with 20,061 sounds

...How

Haplogy · Post by **Haplogy** » Wed Feb 25, 2015 3:34 am

Halian wrote:
a keyboard with 20,061 sounds
...How

gestaltist · Post by **gestaltist** » Wed Feb 25, 2015 4:30 am

Birdlang wrote:They sing. But they have vocal chords and the instruments they play include a keyboard with 20,061 sounds, toys with sound (all are plush or vinyl PVC), a keyboard instrument utilizing air bulbs with reeds under the keys for the different pitches, recorder like reed flute with reed tube instead of reed attached to mouthpiece, and laser harps. The toys are because they LOVE those kinds of toys, they have nothing wrong though. They also sing about love, their homeland, dancing, animals, their toys (which are all made by the same company, Birdco), death, fun, life, and their religious music has themes about gods, goddesses, lost hope and emotions, and they use a Hammond-like organ and the keyboard with over 20,000 sounds. They also have dances that are very ornate, and they are very against talking about personal stuff.

You have very unique imagination.

cromulant · Post by **cromulant** » Wed Feb 25, 2015 2:23 pm

how are their lips
"Invisible"

Birdlang · Post by **Birdlang** » Thu Feb 26, 2015 10:08 am

Haplogy wrote:
Halian wrote:
a keyboard with 20,061 sounds
...How

I cannot see it.

Birdlang · Post by **Birdlang** » Thu Feb 26, 2015 10:09 am

Halian wrote:
a keyboard with 20,061 sounds
...How

Hweir Music makes all sorts of synth sounds and can accurately make a flute sound or even a kheej! A kheej is a Hmong reed instrument, and some of the sounds are sound effects, drums, heavy metal guitar, and power synth charang. and chiff er lead.

Birdlang · Post by **Birdlang** » Thu Feb 26, 2015 10:11 am

cromulant wrote:how are their lips
"Invisible"

They are inside their mouths.

xroox · Post by **xroox** » Fri Feb 27, 2015 12:43 pm

Can they make clicks with their beaks?

Birdlang · Post by **Birdlang** » Fri Feb 27, 2015 3:48 pm

xroox wrote:Can they make clicks with their beaks?

Yes. It is in the main Bird language, but only the velar click.

Aili Meilani · Post by **Aili Meilani** » Fri Feb 27, 2015 3:53 pm

Birdlang wrote:velar click

How?

Halian · Post by **Halian** » Sat Feb 28, 2015 12:36 pm

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Birdlang · Post by **Birdlang** » Sat Feb 28, 2015 4:46 pm

Because they are aliens, they can pronounce it. Also, I made a bunch of languages with velar taps. And one with every unpronounceable sound.

Hallow XIII · Post by **Hallow XIII** » Sat Feb 28, 2015 8:46 pm

Sure but using "aliens" as a reason to "I'll make a human language but stupid" isn't exactly the most creatively deep endeavour you might undertake

clawgrip · Post by **clawgrip** » Sun Mar 01, 2015 5:57 am

A language with "every unpronounceable sound" seems somewhat unrealistic, to say the least.

kuroda · Post by **kuroda** » Sun Mar 01, 2015 8:53 pm

Birdlang is cutting corners. Obviously the cool and smart thing that is desired is a conlang composed of all the inconceivable phonemes -- each and every single one of them. Until I see that, or he kicks down some of the turbocharged drugs he's on, which weren't around when I was his age, I don't see any point in commenting on this nooblangery.

Yaali Annar · Post by **Yaali Annar** » Mon Mar 02, 2015 12:31 am

Halian wrote:
a keyboard with 20,061 sounds
...How

A synthesizer can make infinite amount of sounds. I don't see why it's special?

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