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Deviousness `anmari has been spreading her infectious positivity throughout our community for over 6 years. Throughout this time Ana has been at the core of all things devious, passionately developing an eclectic gallery, helping organise devmeets, participating in chat events and also recently completed dedicating her time as a Community Volunteer. We are absolutely delighted to bestow the Deviousness Award for May 2013 to `anmari, congratulations! Read More
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Hmm, Any chance of getting international phonetic symbols on this thing. I don't know what you mean, for example, by nn (is it palatal?)
The nn (an similar) is more for my guidance than anyone else's, since I had an archaic system of pronouncing I've modified with those new accented Latin letters. But I'm still not used to the new system since I assigned them only this year, so I need something that relates to my old system so I can remember. xD
If you see a word you don't know, just combine two and look them up (for example unvoiced velar fricative) on wikipedia. You'll get an explanation and a handy sound file so you can hear it.
In addition to [link] right here on devart, I recommend this guy [link] as a good (free) authority on designing interesting languages. A more authorial authority is [link] who actually wrote a book on the subject (it's lovely and hilarious).
For more "real" linguistics, check out [link] and [link]. They're like crossword puzzles for linguists, and solving them will give you a good background in different kinds of possible grammar systems (however keep in mind that these are all human grammars, and as such (probably) obey certain basic rules that we're born with. Aliens might be different.) A good book on the subject of human language is [link]. Another on how languages evolve is [link].
I'd love to see examples of what you've developed of yours. :]