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[Lambda]

Oooh, languages.

How powerful is this ability? Is the daeva's (acquired) fluency capped to the summoner's fluency?

[jalapeno_dude]

Also:

"Enjoy your new knowledge of obscure techical vocabulary in Támádh," Jarvis says dryly.

Googling produces no useful results for Támádh, even after stripping out accent marks. Am I missing something?

[Alicorn]

The language thing copies approximate fluency but not exact vocabulary.

Támádh is a Sunnyverse demon language of kappa's devising.

[Kappa]

The Sunshine demon Lazarus instance is one of the kind of demon that speaks it.

[Tamien]

Out of pure linguistic geekiness, do the acute accents over the 'a's indicate a change in pitch, stress, length, or some other thing? Also, I am assuming the dh is pronounced as a voiced dental fricative (/ð/; the sound th stands for in "them") - is that accurate?

[Kappa]

That is indeed accurate! Hang on, I've got a chart...

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 á	fAther, sOng
 â	whAt, trUck
 ä	cAt, lAdder, sAd
 é	sAY, nEIgh
 ê	lEt, sEt
 í	mEEk, frEE
 î	sIt, pIck
 ó	nO, gO
áì	dIE, trY, fIre
äu	nOW, lOUd
éì	sAY, nEIgh (but with subtle differences from a bare 'é' - like plAYer rather than AIr)
êì	No English equivalent; pronouncing like 'éì' is close enough
 w	Closest English equivalent in floWer, Wet; sOOn/dUE would be a mostly adequate substitute
 ý	dIE, trY, fIre (but with subtle differences from 'áì' - spoken shorter, draws out differently) 
 m	triM, Mother
 f	staFF, Furniture
 v	Volume, aVerse
 l	Load, aLL
dh	THem, anoTHer
th	THin, cloTH
 d	Derelict, reD
 t	Ton, aTTracT
 s	thiS, Several
 n	Not, alteratioN
 r	waR, Real
hr	As 'h' followed by 'r'; English does this in 'her' and nowhere else I know of
 k	luCK, Kill
 h	Hat, unHoly

Each of those letters or pairs-of-letters represents one symbol in the Támádh alphabet.

[Tamien]

While I am utterly squeeing out that you have a whole phonetic alphabet chart, I run into the problem that your dialect clearly does vowels differently from mine, because the a in "father" and the o in "song" are different vowels when I say them. Do you know IPA?

my best guesses at IPA for Támádh

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á /ɑ/
â /ʌ/
ä /æ/
é /ɛə/
ê /ɛ/
í /i/
î /ɪ/
ó /o/
áì /ai/
äu /aʊ/
éì /ɛɪ/
êì /ɛi/
w /ʊ/
ý /aɪ/
m /m/
f /f/
v /v/
l /l/
dh /ð/
th /θ/
d /d/
t /t/
s /s/
n /n/
r /ɹ/
hr /hɹ/
k /k/
h h

Would anyone be interested in a new thread in which to discuss conlangs? Because I will be totally happy to create that thread and continue this conversation there to avoid derailing this one.

[Kappa]

Totally go for a new thread XD

[AndaisQ]

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[Kappa]

A SANDBOX WITH ALICORN, KAPPA, AND AESTRIX SIMULTANEOUSLY

T ͠H̶ E̛ . C ̷I̢ ̀R͢ C͢ ̷L̡ ̷E͘ ͜ . I S . E ͘V͡ ͏E͏ N . M ̶O ̡R̨ ͝ E . C ̕O M P̧ ̶Ĺ E ͝ T ̢E̴

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