Zompist Bboard Again

A challenge just 'cause this has been on my mind!

/pʰ b tʰ ɖ qʰ ʔ/
/t͡ɬ t͡ʃ d͡ʒ q͡χ/
/v ʂ x ɣ/
/m n ŋ/
/w r l j/
/ɑ ɛ ɪ o u/

If this looks familiar, it should. Curious to see what we can accomplish without a cApItAl LeTtErS aBoMiNaTiOn.

There's precedence for giving allophones separate letters in the orthography, but it seems to happen most often in non-native scripts, e.g. the Hepburn romanization of Japanese, and Rotokas getting an s just to write the allophone of /t/ that appears before /i/. Sanskrit did it too with its nasals,...

[*] Why do you write some phonemes as [d] and others as /t/? Usually you would reserve [] for phonetic transcription, and use // for phonemes. [/list] [ b d g ] are word-final and voiced consonant cluster allophones of /p t k/ - it seems too "weird" to me not to assign them their own lett...

@Arelvustw It seems you’re not keen on digraphs. If so, why? I can’t speak for Arelvustẃ, but I don’t particularly like digraphs either; in particular, I don’t like the way that a digraph like ⟨th⟩ can be confused for the two individual letters ⟨t h⟩. Still, I’m willing to tolerate them when it’s u...

I would write /a e i ʌ ɘ u/ with ⟨a e i o w u⟩, so using ⟨u⟩ for /u/ and writing the central vowel with ⟨w⟩ instead. (This is quite similar to what Welsh does.) Actually, Welsh uses ⟨u⟩ for /ɨ/ and ⟨w⟩ for /u/, so the OP's scheme is closer to that than your suggestion is. Oh, I didn’t know that — t...

Hello board! It's been a long time and this is my first time posting on the new board, but I have been an on-off conlanger ever since middle school, though it is only this year that something serious is coming together! I don't want to be "that guy" and be greedy for help right away but......