I've been enjoying seeing all the pictures you have with your posts.

o.O *wanders into Ccwiicc* *realizes where he is*
You finally got a subforum! I'm looking forward to exploring! Good thing my medical insurance is in effect now.

Thanks for the welcome, Juliet. It's going to be fun to explore your world.

Yeah, me too! They are really cool, and add a nice touch to each thread.

* grabs hand and shakes lots and lots * A Wolf! I'm so glad you are here. I hope you have fun exploring. I don't know how I am going to do with having a sub-forum...I was kind of reluctant to ask for one...I don't talk about my world much. But I'll do my best.

Thankyou. * curtsies * I wanted to draw the signpost, then I thought it might be cool to have it on the thread. Then I thought it might be cool to draw some more. I love drawing, I just need ideas for things to draw, so it was a nice opportunity.

Well, I hope it becomes a pattern on your subforum, it sets it apart in a really neat way.

I agree.

If I may ask, how does one pronounce "Ccwiicc"?

*looks around for a sign * Boy am I lost! I wonder where I... oh look... there I am... I'm in Ccwicc! Alright *looks at map * if Ccwicc is here, and I want to get here then... oh boy.. I really did wander far out of my way.

*looks up *

Oh! Juliet fancy meeting you here!

Just when I thought I'd seen everything your family had up their sleeves.

The conversations that you must have...

I really love what I've seen here so far.

But I've got to say that when I read Ccwiicc, I mentally pronounce it has k-ch-wik-ch. I haven't the foggiest idea where that came from, but then you said it was pronounced "quick"...I almost felt linguisticly let-down.

<ii> is kit. <i> is kite. <x> is a sound that I have not heard of in any language (though Patrick might have seen it somewhere) – <b> with the tongue on the upper lip. <y> is yes.

* nods * Definitely.

Oh, the <e> the <g> and the <u> are different too. <e> is pronounced sort of like half between met and hate (though it's sort of an accent nitpick – either of those would be fine to use I suppose, they'd just know you aren't a native ). <g> is a sound that is in Hebrew, sort of a <kh>, voiced, and very deep in the throat. <u> is like in blue, not like cup.

Might <x> be a glottal fricative? *hopes*

<g> is a voiced glottal stop?

*walks forward* Oh! I'm in Ccwiicc! Well looks like I'm stuck here for good if Rwebhu doesn't give us the map.

No... You know how you say <b>? Your lips are together, but they part plosively to produce the sound. <x> is the same, except it's not your lips – it's your upper lip and your tongue. * @#!*% head and hopes that was clear *

<g> is a voiced glottal stop?

Glottal stops are normally voiced, aren't they? Unless you're sick, or whispering, of course... But no...actually it's more like the fricative glottal stop you mentioned above, I think. It's like gargling, you know? You do <k>. You do <k> fricative. You do it fricative and voiced. Then you do that way down deep in your throat, as far as you can go.

Oh, and <o> isn't pronounced joke. The <o>, <i>, <a>, an so on, sounds are not single vowels, you know – they are vowels doubled with <y> and <w>, which are sort of half vowels. <o> is the cut sound with <w>. But what I mean by <o> here is the met sound with <w> on it.

Yes, that was clear. What you are describing is a mono-labial (I believe that is the right word) version of <b> which is bi-labial (that means two lips). I actually use that same sound in one of my languages (but I can't recall which one). Another example of a mono-labial vowel is /f/ which is actually articulated with the lower lip against the upper teeth (labio-dental, technically).

OK, so it's a glottal fricative. Very difficult to learn to pronounce (at least for me)

Your sound system seems to be very well thought out.

goes off to explore Ccwiicc for a while.