Conlangery #48: Designing a Sound System

After a discussion of George’s recent consumption of bear meat, we get to talking about designing your sound system, a topic we meant to talk about in episode 29 but somehow didn’t end up saying much about.  After a long discussion about that topic, we feature perhaps the second most famous auxlang in history, which goes by the terrible name of Volapük. Top of Show Greeting: Quenya (translation by Roman Rausch) Links and Resources: WALS on the velar nasal Arapaho (Wikipedia) WALS on gaps in plosive systems A Survey of Some Vowel Systems WALS on consonant inventories Featured Conlang: Volapük (“Handbook”, Wikipedia, Volapük.com)