Would speakers of this language have trouble pronouncing English?
Posted: 13 Mar 2022 17:55
Hello. This is my first experience with making a conlang.
I've been doing my research and putting together a phonology, and so far I have the consonants mostly figured out. One goal I had in mind for the language was for it to be decently "co-learnable," because an established fact of the world it is for is that speakers of the language sometimes learn English. Although they don't have regular contact with native English speakers, they do have TV and other media made by native English speakers to help them learn.
The problem is that while I can test weather an English speaker can pronounce the language, (named Manaic,) I don't know how much trouble a Manaic speaker would have with English sounds that aren't in their language. In particular "h," "r," "sh," and any of our voiced fricatives.
I've been doing my research and putting together a phonology, and so far I have the consonants mostly figured out. One goal I had in mind for the language was for it to be decently "co-learnable," because an established fact of the world it is for is that speakers of the language sometimes learn English. Although they don't have regular contact with native English speakers, they do have TV and other media made by native English speakers to help them learn.
The problem is that while I can test weather an English speaker can pronounce the language, (named Manaic,) I don't know how much trouble a Manaic speaker would have with English sounds that aren't in their language. In particular "h," "r," "sh," and any of our voiced fricatives.