In response to the name of Sand-Devil, I direct you to this page.
http://www.dandwiki.com/wiki/Sand_Devil_%283.5e_Creature%29I was considering making a djinn, but I really wanted a group of demon/djinn (not quite demons, thus devil) composed of sand (somewhat glitched in the current system, so merely making them the consistency of sand with sand blood) so I am basing them off of D&D. I am not making them the pure murderous evil being like in D&D, but more organised with their own language (thus Arabic, which makes sense and I speak). I could possibly make Djinn a neutral/neutral-good antagonist to the neutral-evil Sand Devils (Jinn are not always evil in folklore as some believe).
The problem with posting a perfect phonetic spelling of Arabic is that a lot of the words look strange to English speakers and do not flow well together if mashed together (like in DF).
I am not exactly which people said they would like to help me, so if so send me a PM and we can get in contact.
An example of word conflicts I have are:
First of all, I removed the word "Ace"
The next challenge is this letter, "
ع" (increased size for readability), which there is no real way to pronounce in English, so it is usually spelled just as "a". Based on the context I have been giving it either "au", (rarely) "ai", and sometimes even "æ". (P.S. It can also be a glottal stop, represented by simply an apostrophe).
The second letter which poses a problem is "
غ", which also has no real equivalent way to say it in English. It is spelled "gh" but it is pronounced kind of like "ghr", but like you can imagine that looks somewhat strange.
Another horizontal problem I am facing is how the letters flow. I have been adding "a"s at the end of most of the words so that they can flow better if mashed. This works because most words in Arabic, even if officially they end at a stop, sometimes in pronunciation have a sort of "
ة" (another conflict letter. This connotates feminine most of the time, and is pronounced more like "eh", but is not usually written in the phonetics) or simply just some sort of vowel at the end.