X-1

X-1
Spoken in:	n.a.
Timeline/Universe:	n.a.
Total speakers:	n.a.
Genealogical classification:	a priori experimental language
Created by:
Jörg Rhiemeier	2005-

X-1 (for 'eXperimental language #1) is the provisional designation for an experimental language that is intended to be a briefscript as well as a loglang. X-1 is based on a 2005 discussion in the CONLANG mailing list about an article by Jeff Prothero titled "Near-optimal loglan syntax" and incorporates ideas from Ray Brown and others.

Phonology

The language has 16 phonemes, written with the following letters:

j g l z ñ d µ b p m t n s r k h

To each of these 16 phonemes is a 4-bit pattern assigned, running from 0000 to 1111 in the sequence given above.

How is this pronounced? You certainly have realized that this looks like all consonants, and actually, each phoneme has a consonantal value followed by a vowel. The vowels are inserted according to an automatic rule that is described below. The phonemes are realized thus:

Bits	Letter	Pronunciation
0000	j	zero followed by a front vowel
0001	g	[k] followed by a back vowel
0010	l	[l] followed by a front vowel
0011	z	[s] followed by a back vowel
0100	ñ	[n] followed by a front vowel
0101	d	[t] followed by a back vowel
0110	µ	[m] followed by a front vowel
0111	b	[p] followed by a back vowel
1000	p	[p] followed by a front vowel
1001	m	[m] followed by a back vowel
1010	t	[t] followed by a front vowel
1011	n	[n] followed by a back vowel
1100	s	[s] followed by a front vowel
1101	r	[l] followed by a back vowel
1110	k	[k] followed by a front vowel
1111	h	zero followed by a back vowel