Lizardsquid, maker of noises @lizardsquid@computerfairi.es

I'm 3/4 of the way through Dalek Empire, and I'm liking it a lot.

I genuinely have no idea how it's going to end. Every single episode has added more mysteries, and gone in completely different directions to what I expected.

I should say: whatever romanisation* I come up with, it's solely for my benefit (and the reader's benefit).

The world that tlýqdo speakers come from is not our own, and Rome never existed there.

The actual writing system of tlýqdo is a vertical writing system (similar to the Mongolian or Clear script, (see image)).

*romanisation: the transcription of a language into the Roman alphabet (the one we use in English!)

I think I might make a few changes soon:

• More tones! 2 tones (high and low) is fine, but I find myself wanting to have syllables with rising or falling tones.
• /ʋ/ is going to become /w/, partly because it's much easier for me to pronounce, partly because I think it's a bit more believable, and partly because I'm considering making labialisation a contrastive feature.
• 2 of the vowels are going to be dropped, so it will be a 7 vowel language instead of a 9 vowel one.

I think I've got a half decent romanisation of the language going.

Previously, I'd just write it out phonemically:

sácinátɬ ɛ́ʈʂaʈʂɛ́

which is accurate, but hard to type. Now I can write it as:

sákinátl écacé

Which is much easier.

The main problem with writing this way is my brain starts wanting to pronounce it more like English, which is wrong and bad.

*nyams softly*

New Stuff:

• The BBC Audiobooks are now part of the guide (all 148 of them >_>) — you can find them in the "Misc" segments from 2005 onwards.
• There are some new navigation tools from *outside* the segments: each year of releases is marked, and includes links to jump forwards or backwards a year, and also a small section indicating what's new in that year.

https://averylychee.neocities.org/doctor-who/audio-guide/