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Rant about languages because

Okay, so I am a huge language nerd so I'm just gonna rant about one of the conlangs I'm making.

Quick crash course of terminology
-Conlang- constricted language. Think Dothraki from Game of Thrones or Klingon from Star Trek. The languages didn't evolve naturally like Latin or English, rather being created artificially.
-Phonology- the sounds a language has
-IPA- International Phonetic Alphabet. It records most of the sounds used in languages around the world. (I encourage looking it up, it's really cool to see the sounds that English doesn't have)

Alright, now that that's over with, one of the languages I'm creating is called Xhashasíí. It is spoken by the Xhaa, a race of people that instead of legs, they have snake like tails.

The X in Xhashasíí is pronounced with a harsh sound. It's like saying the H sound but instead of breathing it out you kinda move it to the back of your throat and sort of hiss it. The A is pronounced like "ahh that's what that thing was." The sh is pronounced the same as in English. The double Í is pronounced like "ee" but you hiss it for longer than a normal í.

Xhashasíí has four vowels.
a, pronounced "ahh"
i, pronounced "ee"
e, pronounced like the e in "except"

And there's one more, the schwa.
ə
This is a really common sound in English but it doesn't have a set letter. It is pronounced like "uh" like the a is pronounced in "about." In Xhashasíí and using exclusively the Latin alphabet (romanization), it is written "uh"

It also has the consonants of
p, pronounced like in English
t, also pronounced like in English
k, like in English
m, like in English
n, like in English

Then, there's ɹ. ɹ is just the regular "r" sounds without any trilling. Think "round" or "ring"

l is pronounced like in "Later"

ʍ, written as hw in the romanization, is pronounced with a breathy "h" sound in front of a "w" sound.

f, like in English
th, always unvoiced like in "bath." If it was voiced it would be like how "th" is pronounced in "that"
s
Sh
X, pronounced like a harsh h
H

Then there's these.
Ts, pronounced like the ts in "pets"
Pf, this one is not in English, but is used in the German word for horse, Pferd. It is pronounced like showing p and f together. Pretty simple, sorta.

(Okay this is getting a bit too long so I'm gonna put this one more thing down and then wrap it up)

Xhashasíí is a language that shoves words together. In English, we would have to say "Good luck, I wish you good fortune" whereas in Xhashasíí you would only have to say Xhathuhsahase (Xha-tha-uh-sah-hah-seh) I forget what this is called exactly but I'm not going to go look it up.

So yeah. That's the very basics to Xhashasíí!