--Language, Amirite?--

Yeah so I made a few languages (kind of, at least), and this here language dump is where I'm gonna dump information about them :D! I'm gonna also eventually add my notes that I've been writing about them as they've developed, but that's for later in a few months when I stop writing the notes. For now, I'll get to writing about Anshens

Anshens, Anšens, Аншэнс!

Anshens is easily the most developed of my languages, and is my personal favourite (as evidenced by its developedness). It has a certain choppiness to it that reflects my own manner of speech, and has a lovely vowel-reducing speed to it that really speaks to how I speak (almost like I made it wow crazy how that works).

Anshens also has an alphabet, but since I don't feel like making a font or whatever, I made a romanization using special characters, then I realized that I couldn't easily write with a computer, so I made a second one without special characters, before finally making a cyrillization, which was much easier and fits much better, seeing as Anshens has an alphabet of ~32 characters, and russian (the alphabet that I'm most familiar with in the cyrillic script) has ~33. Granted, two of the letters in russian don't actually make a sound, and two Anshens letters can't really be expressed without writing two letters (ng and mn), and there's also two letters that make a sound but also don't sometimes but y'know. it's close enough.

RNSPC	RWSPC	Cyrillization	IPA
E, e	E, e	Э, э	[ɛ]
A, a	A, a	А, а	[a]
I, i	İ, i	И, и	[i]
O, o	O, o	О, о	[o], [ɔ]
U, u	Ū, ū	Аъ, аъ	[ʌ], [ə]
K, k	K, k	К, к	[k]
B, b	B, b	Б, б	[b], [p]
G, g	G, g	Г, г	[g]
D, d	D, d	Д, д	[d̪], [d]
L, l	L, l	Л, л	[l̪], [l]
M, m	M, m	М, м	[m]
N, n	N, n	Н, н	[n̪], [n]
Mn, mn	Mn, mn	Мн, мн	[m͡n̪]
R, r	R, r	Р, р	[r], [r̥], [ɾ]
S, s	S, s	С, с	[s]
Z, z	Z, z	З, з	[z]
V, v	V, v	В, в	[v]
F, f	F, f	Ф, ф	[f]
W, w	W, w	У, у	[w]
Zh, zh	Ž, ž	Ж, ж	[ʒ]
Th, th*	Þ, þ*	Ть, ть*	[θ]
Ch, ch	Č, č	Ч, ч	[t͡ʃ]
Sh, sh	Š, š	Ш, ш	[ʃ]
Ng, ng	Ņ, ņ	Нь, нь	[ŋ]
Tv, tv	Tv, tv	Тв, тв	[t͡v]
H, h	H, h*	Х, х, Ь, ь	[h], [χ], n/a
P, p	P, p	П, п	[p], [b], [p̚]
T, t	T, t	Т, т	[t̪], [t]
Ih, ih	I, ı	Ы, ы	[ɪ]
Y, y	Y, y	Й, й*	[j]
'	'	', Ъ, ъ	[ʔ], n/a

*Some letters have different romanizations when paired with other letters— specifically h and ', due to the pronounciations changing (e. g. oh= [u]), and й due to russian having palatalized vowels that one can write instead. I'll make a separate mini-table for that later.

It is now later:

RNSPC	RWSPC	Cyrillization	IPA
E, e	E, e	Э, э	[ɛ]
Eh, eh	Ê, ê	Эь, эь	[e]
A, a	A, a	А, а	[a]
Ah, ah	Â, â	Аь, аь	[æ]
O, o	O, o	О, о	[o], [ɔ]
Oh, oh	Ô, ô	Оь, оь	[ɔ͡w]*
O', o'	Ŏ, ŏ	Оъ, оъ	[u]
G, g	G, g	Г, г	[g]
Gh, gh	Ġ, ġ	Г, г	[x], [χ]
W, w	W, w	У, у	[w]
Wh, wh	Ŵ, ŵ	Уь, уь	[ʍ]
Th, th	Þ, þ	Ть, ть	[θ]
Dh, dh	Ð, ð	Дь, дь	[ð]

*This is an approximation, I kinda suck at transcribing vowels, especially when I'm the one saying them

I didn't add a section for the russian soft vowels, because it's just 'ye, ya, yo, yu' get turned into 'е, я, ё, ю' any symbols that would normally come after any of them (esp w/ o) are simply added to the end as if it were the original letter.

The keen-eyed amongst you may've noticed some oddities in both the phonology and the romanizations/cyrillization! Let's talk about that: first off, the phonology! What's odd about it? Well, o, u, b, d, l, n, r, h, p, and t all have multiple phonemic values. This is because phonology is stupid. Just kidding! It's because of fun rules that everyone loves because rules are great and awesome and we all (everyone in the world) love and follow them! Kinda! Regardless, let's break the oddities into chunks, shall we?

• The vowels of o and u occasionally experience some reduction from [o] and [ʌ] to [ɔ] and [ə] respectively. You might now be wondering to yourself, "Well gosh gee golly Toldy, why oh why aren't letters such as e, a, and i reduced?" Well, that's because their reductions are already written! E ([ɛ]) becomes [ɪ] or [e] and those're already written as ih and eh respectively (we'll get to eh later dw abt it), a ([a]) becomes [ʌ] or [ə] and is written as u, and i ([i]) becomes [ɪ] or [j] and is written as ih or y respectively.
• The bilabial plosives (b and p) are very much complicated for no good reason. They're just weird. Ok so technically it's just because the letters are really just indicators telling the reader to close their mouth, and b is only initial and p is only medial and/or final. So really, they're basically the same letter except for a few happenstance phonological differences (b can't be [p̚] simply because it can't come at the end of a word, and as well can't be [ɓ] because [ɓ] only appears between any vowel and [j] because that sound has been retconned now just now on 06/3/2025); but overall, they're just like that for no reason.
• The alveolar consonants (except for r) are like that for a much better reason than that of the bilabial plosives: They're dental by default, but become alveolar when the proceeding consonant is an alveolar or postalveolar fricative. You may be thinking to yourself now, "But wait! What about when the proceeding consonant is an alveolar trill or tap or also dental??" Well worry not, for I have answers! Is the proceeding consonant an alveolar trill or tap? Nothing changes and you just have to pronounce a dental and alveolar next to each other! Is the proceeding consonant also a dental consonant? Once again, nothing changes! Kind of.... Well— it depends. You see, there is one exception to the dental rule of staying dental next to dentals, and that is the combination of [t̪] and [l̪]. Due to the general way that I say things, tl done got pronounced as the unholy [c̪͡'l̪ ] early in the development of Anshens, and hasn't changed since. This may seem like a silly reason, but hey, english and french have the same justifications for their shoddy spellings, so I feel like I'm fine in this regard.
• R has two values because it's usually a voiceless alveolar trill, but can become voiced if the pro- or preceeding consonant is voiced (this does not apply to vowels). Also it's occasionally expressed as a tap in loanwords from a different language that I made up called Ektari Tai, in which the tapped r is more common.
• H and gh are fun. Generally, h is pronounced three different ways, and gh is pronounced in two— [h] is initial and can only be written as 'h', [χ] is initial or medial and can be written with 'h' or 'gh', and [x] is medial or final, and can only be written with 'gh'. As you can see, there's some overlap between the pronounciations. This is a problem. You might now be thinking, "Oh but surely, for such a problem there's a simple solution!" Ehhhhh it's hard for my miniscule mind to explain well, so here's an example: The word 'haroodih' (harŏdı, хароъды), meaning 'fine', or 'okay' as an adjective, is pronounced [ˈχaːr̥ʊd̪ɪ]; except when it's pronounced [haˈr̥udɪ]. What's the difference? The first form is used in a sentence, and the second form is used as a single word; the existence of two slightly different forms of the word makes it a great example for this. Basically, whenever there's emphasis on the proceeding letter, [h] or [x] becomes [χ] (hencewhy there's no final [χ]). You may now also be wondering about the 'n/a'! That is there because there's a second form of 'h' that acts as sound-changing symbol, but I lump it in with 'h' for convenience and historical reasons (it used to just be the same letter and then Things happened).

Now onto the oddities in my attempts to fit an alphabet into the confines of unrelated alphabets!

Why is it, you might be wondering, that there's two sets of two letters that make the expected sound? Why do they need separate units in the letter chart and not combinations that actually make different sounds, like 'tl'? Well you see dear reader, because everything is relative, it just so happens that you are looking at an alphabet from a perspective that doesn't make sense. If you recall, Anshens has its own alphabet, and in this alphabet lies the answer to your burning hypothetical question: it's only one letter in anshens, and frankly I couldn't find a typable latin character that would really fit the letters well. Yup, that's it! That's why it's all 'mn' and 'tv', and why [ŋ] is 'нь' in the cyrillization!
The rest of those oddities in the '-zations' is really just 'ih' and the weird choices of letters for 'ть', 'аъ' 'нь'. In essence, this all can be chalked up to the same as the above— there just wasn't a letter that I felt represented those sounds in a standard american or russian keyboard, and it works fine enough that I don't mind it. Except for 'аъ' but the only other choice would've been 'ю' and that's already taken by itself with y.