The raymanian language

[hoodlumsworld]

You mean it got approved? I know it's for made up stuff, but still...

[Domnibus]

Here i have the document explaining the pronunciation of raymanian.
If you are not sure if your pronunciation of a sound is correct, you could look at the wikipedia pages of the sounds. Feel free to ask anything!

I am also currently working on a memrise course, but it might take some time until i can share the link with you.

Edit: I made a change to the pronunciation, explained in this post.

[hoodlumsworld]

Thanks for the detailed guide, did you pick the sounds from a specific language? Some are rather unfamiliar!

[Elite Piranha]

Btw, I think the Rabbids also have their own alien language, however I don't know if there is enough material to make an alphabet.

[Domnibus]

Someone else already made a language for the rabbids: https://youtu.be/mQi5_IUDAzg
But the letters in that image are also interesting. It looks more like a syllabary, where each letter is a whole syllable.

[PluMGMK]

Someone else already made a language for the rabbids: https://youtu.be/mQi5_IUDAzg

Oh dear GOD! That's pretty good actually, but I'd have been more interested in hearing about the DomZ language, which is also part of a Michel Ancel creation and designed to sound horrible

[Hunchman801]

Someone else already made a language for the rabbids: https://youtu.be/mQi5_IUDAzg

Oh dear GOD! That's pretty good actually, but I'd have been more interested in hearing about the DomZ language, which is also part of a Michel Ancel creation and designed to sound horrible

All I will remember from that video is "les lapines crétines".

[PluMGMK]

Yeah, that was disappointing. Someone mentioned it in the comments though, so hopefully that guy won't make that mistake again!

[Hunchman801]

Yeah, kinda unexpected for "a channel dedicated to presenting topics in [...] linguistics".

[Domnibus]

I have now finished the first 3 levels of the raymanian memrise course, but it is still far from complete. Levels 1 and 2 are the scripts, and level 3 is basic verb conjugation. In memrise i can only make flashcards, so i will have to explain the grammarper level in a word document. Please let me know if anything does not work correctly!
https://app.memrise.com/course/6037280/raymanian/

Edit: added level 4 about the pronouns.

[hoodlumsworld]

I didn't know the app supported made-up languages! That's pretty cool.

[Domnibus]

Here i have the numeral for raymanian. I think it should be used in both scripts. I already had the words for the numbers done.

[PluMGMK]

I see the names of large numbers start with the least significant digit, like they used to in English before we adopted Arabic numerals!

[Domnibus]

Yes, that's right.

In the attachment is an image of sans serif/handwritten suksǎ script. Not much changes, except for "i" and "u". In serif font, "i" is a big filled circle and a small filled circle, which change to an "o" shape and a dot. "U" is a filled triangle in serif font, but is not filled in handwriting.

[Hunchman801]

"Gaygoy" sounds like something an orthodox Jew would call the depraved Western youth!

Jokes aside, nice progress here.

[Domnibus]

Thank you!

Also, here are the letters of the dāri script in different forms, most notably the letter b. Some curly endpoints can also become spirals.

[hoodlumsworld]

This is awesome! It would look so much worse with my awful handwriting...

[Domnibus]

Hey everyone! I have made a small change to the pronunciation of the vowels. It doesn't change anything to the grammar or script/romanization. Now there are lot of front unrounded vowels: /a æ e̞ ɪ i/, and they may be hard to tell apart or to pronounce sometimes. So in the new version they are like this:

ě: changes from /æ/ to /ɛ/. /ɛ/ is pronounced like the "e" in "help". wikipedia

e: changes from /e̞/ to /e/. It is pronounced like the "a" in "play". wikipedia

ǐ: changes from /ɪ/ to /ɯ/. English doesn't have this sound. It is pronounced like the turkish letter ı (i without dot). Put your tongue in the position of pronouncing /u/, but don't round your lips, like when pronouncing /i/. wikipedia

a and i don't change.

Maybe the romanization should be changed as well, because carons and macrons are difficult to type, especially when a letter has both.

[hoodlumsworld]

I'm not very familiar with the IPA, are there any tools we could use to automatically pronounce Raymanian words for us?

[Hunchman801]

I'm not very familiar with the IPA, are there any tools we could use to automatically pronounce Raymanian words for us?

That's a good point! The only IPA I'm acquainted with is the beer.