Lizardsquid, maker of noises @lizardsquid@computerfairi.es

@page@slime.global yes ♥

A very early draft describing the language is available here:

https://averylychee.neocities.org/languages/lang3/

(this link is not a permalink! Once I come up with a name for the language, it will move to a different address – if you're reading this in the future, scroll down this thread to find the more up to date link)

Let me know if I've made any mistakes or if there are any things that need clarifying ♥

@5alive thankyou!

after the optional vowel comes the actual suffix, which (with the exception of the "surprised but believe it's true" form of the Reported evidential ending) is a consonant cluster.

tɬ and ʈʂ are single consonants rather than 2 (voiecless alveolar lateral affricate and voiceless retroflex affricate)

the – before the letters just means that it's a suffix (they're all suffixes)

following that is the optional vowel. This vowel is inserted in between the verb and the rest of the suffix, but ONLY if the vowel's absence would break the pronounciation rules.

Each of the optional vowels has an acute accent above it, which means that it is associated with a high tone. Any vowels without an accent above them have a low tone.

(in this thread, any words that I put with a Capital letter at the start are ones that you can look up on wikipedia and get a fairly understandable explanation)

oh gosh, this looks way more complicated on the screen than it does on paper...

(this is the table of endings for verbs, which indicate Evidentiality and Epistemic Modality)

@makyo sleep softly!

The BBC can't possibly be making a profit off any of these, can they? Why aren't they in the Public Domain, or on a collection disc?

I still need to track down copies of the old BBC radio dramas:

* Doctor Who and the Pescatons
* Exploration Earth
* Slipback
* The Paradise of Death
* The Ghosts of N-Space

I'm particularly interested to listen to the Pescatons, because the story was "unusual for its depiction of a genocide devised and led by Sarah and the Doctor, without either character displaying even a tinge of remorse."

but yeah, look at this cool alien:

The Draconians are really cool aliens – they have a lot of political flexibility, unlike a lot of other non-human-shaped aliens.

My only frustration is that I was starting to headcannon them as a single gendered species, until suddenly one of them was pointlessly sexist.