#daybreaker languages

This sound caused wars on Reddit and made us the persona non grata of linguistic and conlang subreddits because we (are plural, and) have a sound that is extremely easy and natural for us to say and simply isn't in the IPA and is impossible to transcribe.

The creator of Gëŕrek didn't know IPA, he just used the sounds that are most common where he lived.

Today's contestant is: t̪ˢʼ

Note that the sound isn't affricated enough to be a t͡s and speakers approximate t͡s as ᚦᛋ (t̪ˢs). Also note that the sound is pronounced with your upper and lower teeth touching each other, and the tip of the tongue touching the border between them, but not with the tongue in between the upper and lower teeth as in θ, the teeth are touching, and the tongue is not visible.

Also note that it is contrasted with ᛏ (t͇ʼ) (alveolar) even for speakers who pronounce ᛏ as dental (t̪ʼ).

In outworld languages, everytime we say "we" meaning our system, singlets insert themselves in and it's very annoying

some outworld languages distinguish "we including you" and "we not including you" but Gëŕrek goes far further

é = I/me

ó = you

i = my people

u = your people (rarely used)

a =he/she/it/they/whatever 3rd person

you just combine them to make the rest

éó = me and you

éi = me and my people/group/etc

éió = me you and our friends

éa = me and them

éóa = me, you and them

éióa = everyone (this one is actually éióuan because long story)

óa = you and them

óu = you and your people

etc

This was a wonderful idea of T́aigëŕ (currently Winter), it was é i ó u a n, the n being "their people", which got dropped

The sentence "It's not that I would go but I'd just like the opportunity to be asked." got translated as kémaniś ma vélrakvalkéma, which means "I won't go to them but I want them to say they want me to go to them"

T́ai néikéiť k ťai néikéi veŕť dağ

or, rather, just the first part yet

Toma rek-vé, roka hanu

nokśan vel-vé, lodśan véla ya

śon vis valé, vélkamé ya nu

lodzad fel-vé, fel som niman zdať ya

vélśan va fela sa åŕråť nå

fāŕdağ kaméó fōŕ génzédkam

zodé hanu, vélzódrékó sońa fāŕdağu

• dream

• love

• worries

Compounding already existing words gets wonky, fast, and goes against the core principle of speaking faster.

When compounding words, try to avoid cultural stuff that don't apply, for example: dream as "night illusion" is nice but assumes people sleep at night, which isn't granted (and there is no night in Gëŕruť).

I know the passion of only using thr verb "bler" to express love but it's difficult to use.

Like Water and Flower. The only flower native to Gëŕruť is the Biskuŕ, this is a native word that is pretty recognisable but the word "flower" is not. flower became "fluva" and then "flyua" in Gëŕrek but none of those spellings turned out to be intuitive, and so what actually caught on was "fluwa" which preserves the original w.