EVERYONE GO SAY THANK YOU @rayghosts FOR BEING AN AWESOME LINGUIST AND TAKING THE TIME TO EXPLORE WHAT SOUNDS KINDLINGS MIGHT USE IN LANGUAGE..... As someone who is not. a linguist i will need to figure out what these sounds are but im so hyped
adding some notes since i forgot:
no labiodental or dental sounds bc their mouth and breathing tubes r separate from each other. the two slit things in their chests r what they breathe through, which have lips and a sort of tongue like thing inside originally for preventing waterflow inside. Also no tooth ridge so aveolar sounds are pronounced further back (like /s/ without teeth is /sh/ sound)
no nose bc no nasal cavity but ray had the idea that since there are 2 ports, each port would pronounce one of the sounds (ex 1 would make the /b/ sound, other would make the /w/ sound, together it approximates an m sound).
they also compared the breathing ports to a syrinx in parrots, since it is much smaller and movement is kind of articulated on the inside instead of outside (ex: lip movement). It's also kind of like having two larynx in one, which is basically what kindlings have!
All of this is poorly summarizing my friend ray's ideas for language and its so very cool. Its so so cool i had no idea languages had all these interesting little bits and pieces :)
