The Language of Whispers (Working Name) – Working Phoneme Set
The Language of Whispers has what we can call Liturgical Whispers, a working language used for texts and ceremonies, as well as at least three modern dialects: Heretical, Rebel, and Institutional, which include some phoneme shifts in each.
This may not be a complete list, as it only has 22 11 consonant sounds and 5 vowel sounds. But it’s a start.
I based the set off of a gibberish language I’ve used from time to time.
ssuhssuh nuhbahr nuhchuh nihbah nuh sseedush…
labial | labiodental | dental | alveolar | alv-pal | velar | glottal | |
stops | (p)b | t d | (k) | ||||
fricatives | f(v) | θ ð | ss | sh | h | ||
affricates | pf | ch j | |||||
approximants | l | ||||||
nasals | m | n |
Added a couple when I made it a table; they’re in bold. Dialectical differences are in parentheses.
ss
n
m
ch/k
h
rr
sh
t
b/p
d
f/v
uh
oe/oo
ah/ae
eh
ee
ih
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You have sounds worked out! I need to go back in the morning and make a list of mine. Also the notes on how to say them. I admit to going ‘this is how I want that to sound, now what does my dictionary say about that?’
I do! I’m being so very slow on this…