a͡ɪ ˈkʰə.lɛkt joɹ ˈfɛɪ.vrɪt̚ ˈfo͡ʊ.nimz

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i really really love the clicks!! they're so interesting and so much fun to do - my favorite is probably /k||/ (voiceless lateral click) because a) i can only pronounce the voiceless clicks T.T and b) it's just so lateral

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I'd have to say English /æ/ as in trap. It just does such vastly different things in different dialects, from the unconditioned raising /æ/ > [eə] in the Northern Cities Shift; to the bizarrely complex, morphologically-conditioned and exception-ridden splits in New York City and (differently!) in Philadelphia; to the broad-A split in southern England and dialects derived from that; to the conditioned merger with /eɪ/ before /g/ in places like Minnesota and western Canada—it's all over the place, totally fascinating from a dialectological point of view.

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oooh that’s a good question,, thank you for asking!

/ɬ/ (voiceless alveolar lateral fricative) is my fav… I use every excuse to put it in a conlang. it’s super pleasing to the ear. it’s found in a lot of native languages in the Americas, as well as Africa, and rarely in European languages (Welsh people, you are the exception 🫶)

oh and also /x/ (voiceless velar fricative). I don’t know- I have a thing for voiceless fricatives. It’s pretty cool because it’s sometimes found in English (Scottish & Irish accents, etc)!

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/ɾ/

M has already answered this so I’m going to

[ʃ] is definitely one of my faves and definitely my favourite pulmonic consonants.

[ǃ] is another favourite of mine. I like clicks

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This is tough but I'm a big fan of all L-like sounds and how fluid (pun intended) they are. Right now I'd say it's a tie between

retroflex /ɭ/ because it's not in Sanskrit but it is in many of its daughter languages! Also the letter in Devanagari looks like an infinity sign (ळ)

voiceless fricative /ɬ/ because it's in Icelandic and I just find it fun to pronounce Eyjafjallajökull to flex on people

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you ask too much of me! just one?

it's a toss-up between || and ɬ. both are included in my conlang ise'xhanaani!

I'm a big fan of the alveolar lateral just because it's.... fun to say, i guess? and because it's really cool that it pretty much only shows up in african languages. and it's DIFFICULT to pronounce when you don't come from a linguistic background that uses it. it gets me sometimes, but when i correctly pronounce it, it's like a "yesssss" moment.

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oh, nice blog you got there! I'm partial to fricatives. Voiceless alveolo-palatal fricative [ɕ] occurs in the word for 'happiness' in my native language, as well as in the name of a feel-good comfort dish in my heritage language. which is almost the same thing anyway.

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Oral (not nasal) ingressive velar trill. People who say velar trills are impossible are not catgirls lmao. Best way to purr on command.

If we're sticking to phonemes that actually do exist in language... let's say... oh dang that's hard. ɐ (central near-open unrounded) is nice, ʉ (central close rounded) is charming, and ə (good ol' true central schwa) is classic.

WAIT NO. I KNOW MY FAVOURITE VOWEL. HOLD ON IT'S HARD TO GET THE SYMBOL.

ɯ̟ᵝ, the compressed close near-back unrounded vowel.

central vowels my beloveds!!!

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A common phonemic analysis treats all geminate obstruents as sequences starting with the same consonant: a "mora obstruent", called the sokuon (促音) in Japanese, which can be phonemically transcribed with the non-IPA character /Q/.

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at first i saw this and was like ?? I Don’t Know BUT i do have an answer

kinda basic but im very into rhotic sounds, specifically the ones in Māori that are tapped/flapped. being an NZE speaker it’s interesting, because these phonemes exist in our accent in intervocalic t + d sounds (bu[tt]er or a very languid way of saying ‘i [d]on’t know’), but you hear a lottt of people struggling with implementing it to Māori integrations, particularly place names (Whangā[r]ei or Tima[r]u). commonly ((anecdotally)) people will revert to approximants — like a standard English ‘r’ — or they’ll overcompensate into a trill.

a lot of it has to do with racism in Aotearoa and the general neglect of care and effort when speaking Māori, HOWEVER there is an interesting aspect where monolingual English speakers perceive these sounds as being ‘difficult’ despite incidentally using them in their dominant language. best example of this is looking at a place name like Rotorua, where it starts with a tapped/flapped [r] — it’s harder to implement when there’s no preceding vowel ((assuming the sentence you’re saying doesn’t have one, i.e. It’s raining in Rotorua)) because that sound doesn’t necessarily come up in NZE as a post-vocalic((??)) phoneme.

i most likely butchered explaining this lmao but the rhotic phonemes of Māori and NZE are very inch resting

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hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

honestly i guess ɹ

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