I'm very new to this. I have some phonotactics and some other rules along with illegal clusters. How do you all generate lists of roots? And words?

I'm working on a script to dynamically generate them based on either phoneme or the phonestheme I want to appear in a root/word.

At first I took the easy approach and just computationally produced a set of all valid combination between 2-6 phonemes long. This gave me a list of 41.5+ million. Then I just filter and sort based on phonemes I want and in which position.

In my language, femboy is a gender, there is a seperate pronoun of femboy, and a word can be considered femboy

From Camalnarese:

##Vowels

A/a /a/

Ä/ä /æ/

E/e /ɛ/

Ë/ë /e/

I/i /i/

Ï/ï /ɪ/

O/o /ɔ/

Ö/ö /o/

U/u /u/

Ü/ü /ʊ/

(The vowels before can also be pharyngalized e.g. /aˤ/ Ȧ/ȧ /æˤ/ Ä̇/ä̇ or can have a ʕ before e.g. /ʕɛ/ Ẹ/ẹ /ʕe/ Ẹ̈/ẹ̈ )

Ə/ə /ə/

Ê/ê /ɜ/

##Consonants

B/b /b/

Č/č /t͡ʃ/

Ç/ç /ç/

Š/š /ʃ/

D/d /d/

D́/d́ /ɖ/

F/f /f/

G/g /g/

Ǵ/ǵ /ɟ/

Ģ/ģ /ɢ/

Ǧ/ǧ /d͡ʒ/

Ɠ/ɠ /ʛ/

Ġ/ġ /ɣ/

H/h /h/

H̦/h̦ /ʜ/

Ḥ/ḥ /ħ/

Ḫ/ḫ /x/~/χ/

X̮/x̮ /ʀ̥ˠᵝ/

J/j /ʒ/~/ʝ/

C/c /k/

Ċ/ċ /kʰ/

Ć/ć /c/

K/k /k’/

L/l /l/

Ḷ/ḷ /lˤ/

Ļ/ļ /ɬ/

M/m /m/

N/n /n/

P/p /p/

Ṗ/ṗ /pʰ/

Q/q /q/

Q̇/q̇ /qʰ/

Q̮/q̮ /q͡χ/

Q̀/q̀ /ʡ/

R/r /r/

Ř/ř /ʕ/ (/ʕʔ/ before vowels)

R̄/r̄ /rːː/ (/r̥ːː/ when doubled)

S/s /s/

T/t /t/

Ṫ/ṫ /tʰ/

T́/t́ /ʈ/

V/v /v/

W/w /w/

X/x /z̪͡ɦ̪͆/

Y/y /j/

Z/z /z/

Ż/ż /z͎/

Ð/ð /ð/

Ţ/ţ /θ/

(Most of the consonants can be pharyngalized, adding a dot under the letter e.g. Ṭ/ṭ /tˤ/)

I've had this idea of starting a project with a group of people essentially making a language from the core. First by having a list of extremely basic words and having to fuse them to make new concepts, grammar, and much more. I have this discord server that is sort of dead and I am partially thinking about making something new out of it. Just wanted to see if anyone had ideas or thought about doing the same thing.

Here it is and yes it's basic on purpose:

Vowels: (a, i, o)

/a/, /i/, /o/

Semi-Vowel:

i /j/

Diphthongs: (ai, oi, ao, iai, ioi, iao)

/aɪ/, /ɔɪ/, /aʊ/, /jaɪ/, /jɔɪ/, /jaʊ/

Consonant:

k (/k/): 

n (/n/):

t (/t/):

The idea is that eventually we will evolve new ideas and sound and concepts as we go. I have already made a list of 50 extremely basic, extremely limiting words. And from those words I have already made new words.

Day+Star → ninai+otana → ninatana (/sun/):

Night+Stone → ninok+ioto → ninoto (/moon/):

Fur+Thing → nataia+ka → nataika (/animal/):

Water+Animal → kaio+nataika → kainatai (/fish/):

Sky+Animal → iton+nataika → itonatai (/bird/):

Friend+Animal → aio+nataika → aionatai  (/dog/):

I wouldn't mind completely reworking the ideas either and maybe giving it more of a PIE sound if you all are into that.

Let's say the UN thinks it's time to make a language that can be used for cross communication. They come to you for answers and you have to assemble the base languages to get a good sound and vocab range. What type 5 languages are you choosing for an International Auxiliary Language (IAL).

So I've known my language to coincidentally result in some unfortunate words, ie. fun to feel → fuck he feels that, or some unfortunate terms, like how many letters have a hard and soft pronunciation, like the soft R and the um, well, this: Ŕ.

Recently though I've been hit with a 1-2 punch that's especially yikesy, and I must stress, entirely unintentional.

Third World Zũm

I accidentally evolved a tonal system for the third dialect of my conlang. It just so happened to be similar to the 3 tone system in Yoruba, but a lot of the sound changes that emerged made it also resemble some Southeast Asian languages. But what to name it? Well, I innocently thought, I call my first Modern dialect Old World Zũm, and it's likely spoken somewhere in North Iran; and I call my second dialect New World Zũm, and it's likely spoken in Western Europe, so since this is the third dialect, Third World Zũm makes sense. I can see no issue naming the dialect with the most retroflex velar and glottal sounds "Old World," the most sibilants and French/German loanwords "New World," and the only tonal dialect which vaguely resembles West African and Southeast Asian languages "Third World." The kicker is the tones evolved internally, not through outside contact, so this likely could have happened anywhere.

I'm not even going to say it I'll let you figure it out

So I love inclusivity. Like a lot. Like enough to only include any form of gender in my language once it got difficult not to, and even then always having a 3 gender, default neutral system (U-n, A-m, E-f). So the word love is duṡ o/dʊsː/ n/dʊs/ t/dʊ̀s/, from Persian دوست. Friend, then, is uḍuṡ o/ʊd.ˈdʊsː/ n/ʊd.ˈdʊs/ t/ʊ.dʊ̀s/. You can replace the U with an E to make it a fem friend, and normally an A for a masc friend, but this uses short W due to an anachronistic holdover.

With U- vowels, there is a double plural, where you make the end plural as normal, but also pluralize the U through a nasal modification. Usually this results in a change to or addition of starting letters, and for uḍuṡ, it becomes unduṡu, with the geminated D becoming ND and the S taking a U suffix for it's noun type.

So what does this have to do with inclusivity? Well these prefixes can be stacked, and you can add a U and A before duṡ and get uaduṡ, someone who loves a man. But to generalize that, we have to pluralize just the second person prefix, A, but not the first U or the end of the word. However, that A is right before the start of the word, so it brings the nasal modification, and since this D is voiced and isn't geminated, it gets changed to N, leaving uanuṡ, one who loves men. But the first U can also be changed, to E or A. But when 2 personal prefixes of the same kind are next to each other, they form a single long vowel. So while woman who loves men is eanuṡ, man who loves men in Zũm (I promise I didn't plan this) is ānuṡ o/'aː.nʊsː/ n/aː.ˈnʊs/ t/aː.nʊ̀s/