Goofy Ahh Language Dec 9: bouba kiki

#goofyahhlanguage #conlang
Obviously bouba is the spiky shape and kiki is the blobby shape. A whole 5 percent know this!
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[@Imacrab398]

The word for cat 💀

[@janmusi]

remember how nouns can change meaning based on gender? where are those forms

[@mattheworchard481]

I haven't made much progress on Goofy Ahh Language

[@janmusi]

@@mattheworchard481 maybe the fem. form can mean cat, and the masc. form can mean dog.
pair that with all the possessor/possessive conjugations and i too, would jump of a cliff trying to make this

[@mattheworchard481]

@@janmusi I'm actually thinking of *not* doing that for *all* nouns. I'm instead gonna make the 5th gender, bread, and make cat bread gender. While we're at it, bread is *also* bread gender.

[@brinleyhamer729]

@@mattheworchard481 bread shoud not be bread gender. thats just too logical for this conlang

[@mattheworchard481]

@@brinleyhamer729 Ah. Big 🤦‍♂️ on my part. Bread should be cat gender.

[@janmusi]

-i was taking a look at the U.G.A.A., and i saw that (u) ʉ and (uw) ɰ share a symbol.-
nevermind they're just really similar

[@mattheworchard481]

This is actually because most "ʉ"s in GAL used to be "ɯ"s. I changed the sound because [ʉ] sounds closer to how I usually pronounce the ū in English