title_body: Designing a mildly weird phonology I want to design a mildly weird phonology with the following features
  
  
  Not particularly difficult to pronounce for speakers of average European languages
  Feeling somewhat unnatural or weird
  
  
  The weirdness should be noticeable (like the OSV word order in Klingon is). It may include statistical effects (some phones are used more frequent than others thereby producing the effect of weirdness).
  
  What techniques can I use to achieve this effect?
upvoted_answer: Probably the best technique is making the language weird by absence. Instead of giving the language weird phonemes, make it lack the most common phonemes. A language with 5 vowels but no /a/, /i/ or /u/. A language with several consonants, but no /p/, /t/, or /k/. Or totally without bilabials. Or with no stops.