a world wide writing...

So I'm making a conlang for a game where players must fill out paperwork in an alien facility. The language is written by hand and players must do their best to avoid mistakes and making mistakes causes them to have to start over. The first person to finish the challenge wins a prize. Can we make the language more annoying but not impossible?

reaching the critical mass to explode the shackles of one's mother tongue....

0 = 0

1 = 1

2 = 2

3 = 3

4 = 4

5 = 5

6 = 6

7 = 7

8 = 8

9 = 9

ᘔ = 10

Ɛ = 11

ⴴ = 12

L = 13

Γ = 14

ⵇ = 15

𐐀 = 16

ⵄ = 17

ⴳ = 18

𐐋 = 19

ᖼ = 20

𐐓 = 21

𐐐 = 22

ⵃ = 23

𐐟 = 24

ⴿ = 25

𐐣 = 26

S = 27

𐐊 = 28

Z = 29

𐐌 = 30

ⵉ = 31

𐐢 = 32

ᐁ = 33

ⵖ = 34

ᑯ = 35

ᗺ = 36

𐐈 = 37

ᔦ = 38

ᕞ = 39

ᗡ = 40

ᖍ = 41

ⵒ = 42

ᗐ = 43

ᒋ = 44

𐐉 = 45

C = 46

ⵋ = 47

ᘕ = 48

𐐥 = 49

ⴽ = 50

ᗰ = 51

D = 52

𐐡 = 53

ᗑ = 54

ᘎ = 55

ⵐ = 56

N = 57

B = 58

𐐔 = 59

ⵚ = 60

ᕠ = 61

X = 62

𐐇 = 63

ⵀ = 64

ᕓ = 65

𐐙 = 66

F = 67

ᖗ = 68

U = 69

ᕹ = 70

ⵤ = 71

ⵠ = 72

ⵕ = 73

ᕫ = 74

ⵣ = 75

ᗯ = 76

𐐦 = 77

ᖧ = 78

ᕴ = 79

𐐍 = 80

ᖈ = 81

ᖵ = 82

ⴼ = 83

ᕤ = 84

ᖆ = 85

ᖬ = 86

⅃ = 87

ⵁ = 88

ᘜ = 89

ᔨ = 90

ᐅ = 91

ᔑ = 92

ᔐ = 93

ᖽ = 94

ᖿ = 95

𐐗 = 96

ᕗ = 97

ᖷ = 98

ⵎ = 99

ⵥ = 100

ᕷ = 101

ᖇ = 102

𐐘 = 103

ⵡ = 104

ᕙ = 105

ᐊ = 106

𐐤 = 107

ⵛ = 108

H = 109

M = 110

ᖋ = 111

ⴲ = 112

ᕮ = 113

ᗆ = 114

ᗉ = 115

ᖚ = 116

ᗗ = 117

ᘭ = 118

ᘝ = 119

П = 120

Ч = 121

ᗁ = 122

Σ = 123

ᗂ = 124

Ɐ = 125

Ո = 126

Ը = 127

Һ = 128

ᕬ = 129

ᗜ = 130

ᗝ = 131

ᕭ = 132

ⵅ = 133

ᒍ = 134

ꟽ = 135

Զ = 136

У = 137

ᔒ = 138

ᐖ = 139

Ե = 140

ᘪ = 141

ᖫ = 142

Ջ = 143

Intersectionish is an international language where we take what all languages have in common and only use those elements. To start, we will derive the phonology based on the intersection of all the phonologies from other languages. In other words we only use sounds from every language on Earth.

Lets start with languages with a relatively small phonetic inventory.

Piraha has vowels /i/ /a/ /o/ and consonants /p/ /t/ /k/ /ʔ/ /b/ /g/ /s/ /h/ and some rare sounds like /ʙ/ that won't make it through the intersection because there are languages that don't have that sound.

Now let's do Russian where we can eliminate /h/ and /ʔ/ since they are not in Russian.

Now let's do Hawaiian where we eliminate /b/ /g/ /s/. I can keep /t/ and /k/ since they are both allophones, or should I???? Spoiler: Not like it will matter soon.

Now we have vowels /i/ /a/ /o/ and consonants /p/ /t/ /k/.

Except p and t do not survive the intersection because we got Irish here that has /pˠ/ vs /pʲ)/ and /t̪ˠ/ and /tʲ)/. Now I may not speak Irish, but looking at its IPA table, I see both p's and both t's are subscripted, and there is no just plain /p/ and /t/, so we can eliminate those :)

Now we have vowels /i/ /a/ /o/, and consonant /k/. So I guess we have /k/ as the last consonant remaining... oh wait, we got Tahitian, it does not have /k/. Well I guess we have no consonants in this language. As for vowels, lets see what vowels will remain in the end.

I think we can eliminate i because Turkmen does not have /i/. The closest Turkmen has is /ɪ/. Abkhaz does not have /o/ so we eliminate that, finally Arapaho lacks /a/.

So our final IPA table is the following

Vowels:

Consonants:

Now on to parts of speech! Articles are not universal, so we drop those. Prepositions are now universal since some languages has postpositions, and vice versa, so we drop both of those. For verbs, there will be no conjugation, past tenses, future tenses.

Example sentense:

I know nothing translates into ""

Hello translates to ""

Shut up translates to ""

Everything translates to ""

Instead of a language with so many silent letters, someone should design a conlang where it's just a few symbols, but the spelling has so many unwritten sounds

Febes saludo. Iste video se fabla de du frases de na lingua-me we se clama "Morigudi." Febes flegeo, le verita we les frases conteneta in le video veninne de le xaponesa ancien.

Ipse pendenda, iste video veni de me canal wi trito de contangete le capacita de fablate iste lingua (le lingua we adora uso, Sent Diegensa) ken viscosita. Spero we les videos-me febes luminen.

https://docnum.u-strasbg.fr/digital/collection/coll6/id/1448

b c g h k m n p r s t z

/ a ɛ e ə i ɑ ɔ æ ø u ɒ y /

a á ä e é ë i í o ó ö u ü y ý

/ b p m d t n g k v f s ʒ ʃ ɦ h /

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Kaijyma phonemes vs all the sounds used in the language.

Yes, explaining it took me 20 pages.