Vote Up A Language! (A community language-construction project)

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I'll be honest I don't know what constitutes ''breezy'' ''airy'' ''dark'' or ''light''. Is breezy and airy something with lots of fricatives? or just voiceless fricatives? Is dark voiced and nasalized sounds and light voiceless ones?

Here's what comes to mind for me, at least, when I hear the terms light or dark.

Darkest:
- consonant clusters
- voiced sounds
- nasals and stops
- place of articulation in the back of the mouth
- consonantal nuclei (l, r , m, n)

Lightest:
- (C)V structure
- unvoiced sounds
- approximates
- articulated closer to the front of the mouth

I'd be curious how BWR's definitions compare, because 'light' and 'dark' aren't exactly clearly defined.

Also how do I get superscript on this thing?

This converter is a pretty useful tool. If you don't know x-sampa, just remember that to superscript something, put an underscore before it.

I'm low on time now, so I can't say much on the bulk of your post, but it looked pretty cool and well thought out from what I saw. If we do decide consonant clusters are something central to a dark sound, those would probably make up the roots and the different stress levels would cause certain sounds to elide. Or something.