So while I play with making my own dialect(s) of Bonefall's Clanmew, I run into more and more situations where I need words that simply don't exist, and coming up with them is very scary and hard! Luckily, there is GenWord, a conlanging tool that allows you to randomly generate words based on specific settings. I hyperfixated a little too close to the sun and worked out as complete a set of rules for Clanmew as possible, which I'll put here for any other dialect-makers to use :3.
First, the categories. These parts tell the generator what consonants and vowels are available, as well as the frequency with which they appear. I used a character frequency counter to determine the order. The main two categories are consonants and vowels. You could add more categories for your different types of consonants (stops, liquids), but when I tried that I think I made it less Clanmew-y and I was too tired to keep playing with it. That feature does give you more control over your consonant clusters, though, if you'd like to play with it. There's a tutorial on the site that goes over how. Anyway!
C=rRhkwbpsfnmglSHcYCqFP tdj
V=aoeiuy
I've put a space between T, D, and J at the top because they only show up in 1-4 words (out of over 1.6k) in the current Clanmew lexicon. According to Bones, J is Townmew-specific and there shouldn't be any dental consonants, so some people may choose to omit those.
The capital letters do matter for something called the Rewrite Rules, which tell the generator to swap out certain characters for consonant clusters. I am also including some illegal consonant clusters to prevent those from showing up. These are all the ones I noticed in Clanmew, but feel free to let me know if I missed any:
S||ss
Y||yy
R||rr
B||pb
H||sh
C||ch
P||pf
F||ff
rrrr||rr
cp||p|c
pm||mp
ii||i
kk||k
Now comes the hard part: syllables. These are pretty hard because there's no easy way to check for frequency, so I just kinda....stared at the list and did my best. This section checks for how consonants and vowels can show up in a syllable. If that makes sense. It is also ordered by frequency again.
Single-word syllables:
VC
VCC
CVC
CCVCC
CCV
VCCC
Word-initial syllables:
CV
V
CVC
VC
CCVC
CCV
Mid-word syllables:
CV
V
VC
CVC
Word-final syllables:
CV
V
VC
CVC
Honestly, I could probably refine that a bit more, add more syllable types and play with the order, but it's actually starting to break my brain, lol. I would love better control over the frequency of specific clusters (rw for example), and I'm sure I could achieve that with some more work, but this will do for now. People with more patience and Clanmew/conlang experience than me, feel free to tweak stuff and show me!
Also, just for reference, here is a post Bones made about how they come up with words, which you can take or leave as you see fit :3.
pixelskylines
kaledo-art
romaincrisis
annaxmalina
dededos
janainaart
