20:00 < qort> well if [German] didn't exist it would not be a passable conlang
20:00 -!- qort is now known as badconlanger
20:00 < badconlanger> hey, check out my conlang family! it's set in europe
20:01 < badconlanger> one of the languages has a phonemic set of pharyngealized vowels, and contrasts /y/ and /}/
20:01 < badconlanger> some of them are tonal, except one turned one of the tones to vowel glottalization
20:01 < pthagnar> there's a really cool sound it's like
20:01 < pthagnar> a mixture of /x/ and /S/
20:01 < pthagnar> i came up w/ a special symbol for it
20:02 < badconlanger> some of them have three vowel lengths!
20:03 < badconlanger> except one only contrasts all three in the high vowels
20:03 < badconlanger> there's another that has initial /jC/ clusters
20:04 < badconlanger> and another that has a syllabic dental fricative
20:05 < badconlanger> oh, i forgot to mention, there are actually two of them that contrast /y }/
20:05 < badconlanger> there's one that has a full series of phonemic nasal vowels, but only one
20:05 < badconlanger> and, best of all
20:06 < badconlanger> a lot of them have larger vowel systems than any other language in the world!
20:06 < badconlanger> by the way, some of them have retroflexes
20:06 < badconlanger> and some of them have that weird vowel that appears in chinese


20:08 -!- jort is now known as yurt
20:08 < yurt> um, actually,
20:08 < yurt> /nick ger