#-i do know that cantonese has even more tones and theres languages with EVEn more tones out there. so they might have more than just-

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What does ancient language sound like? Assuming the text in your comics is translated and they don't actually speak English, does it sound similar to the noises iterators make when you don't have a mark of communication?

yee, it is translated. both dialogue n in-universe text- conlang n stuff can be fun but ultimately i only find it annoying and hindering what i feel like is most important with comics n that is communicating the situations, explaining the world and emotional happenings of the characters to the audience

ANYWAY yeah, i suppose! it sounds smth like that! without the electronic effects, stuff's replaced with a cheap underwater voice effect when the words come out of the Ancients' mouths

i like to think that the Ancients have a quite different throat muscle structure than us and it moves in a manner that would creep a normal human the fuck out

i don't really feel like i can draw it well tho ngl sdlgksjcklds this throat stuff is the case because of their lack of a tongue, so the main working things in their speech are lips, nasal cavity, the Mouth cavity (their cheeks can kinda like... go inwards. english.) and then the wet wet throat which does most of the delicate pronounciation stuff (the stuff up there is very simplified, there's supposed to be a lot going on)

i like to think that their language has tones similar to chinese languages, too, so like these

#spot says stuff #rw #ive only ever poked mandarin (gog dang it i really need to go back to learnin that i wanna know how to speak mandarin so bad fuck) but like #-i do know that cantonese has even more tones and theres languages with EVEn more tones out there. so they might have more than just- #-four tones 😔 either way the Ancients' speech is fuckin Bubbly like actual bubbles happenin somewhere in there #accents happen similar to us + when it comes from a different part of the body #some manage to somehow add in their gills into the whole language making mess. high circles depend on nasal cavity a lot #and sparrows likes to roll her “R”s and her sound often comes either from the depth of her chest or the back of her mouth