Babies are funny, my 7 month old is only making noises while breathing in. I wish more of our language had breathing-in based sounds, it could double our information transfer rate!
“ They are now transcribed ⟨ɓ̥ ɗ̥ ᶑ̥ ʄ̊ ɠ̊ ʛ̥⟩ or occasionally ⟨pʼ↓ tʼ↓ ʈʼ↓ cʼ↓ kʼ↓⟩. “
I now have ASCII characters to quote my son!
It might mean fewer pauses for the purpose of inhaling. But pauses for that purpose are already close to being 0% of speaking time.
I wonder if anyone has ever tried to make a "nightmare" language that is as hard to learn as possible.
Thinking like.. 13 tones, pops, clicks, whistles, every possible grammatical structure from other languages at once... etc