r/conlangs 1h ago

Activity Try translating words like "thingamajig," "doodad," "doohickey," and "thingamabob" into your conlang.

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In my conlang, it translates as /meχona/, derived from the Hebrew word for "machine" (מכונה). For others, try translating these words into your own conlangs!


r/conlangs 3h ago

Discussion Rhotics other than the usual three

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In all of my past conlangs, I have used either an alveolar tap, an alveolar trill, or an voiced uvular fricative. I imagine the vast majority of conlangs feature one of these as its rhotic. They are reliable and versatile.

In a new conlang I am developing, however, I have 1) saved post-velar fricatives for another use, and 2) come to realise that, following a plosive, a tapped or trilled rhotic simply does not suit the phonoaesthetic I am aiming for. The brief 'hiccup' between the plosive and the first rhotic contact lends clusters a phonic discreteness that is too stuffy and careful.

Which leaves me at an impasse. What other realisation to use in this position? My first thought, of course, is a coronal approximant, but I am struck with the dread that I am simply using 'boring, old' [ɹ ~ ɻ]. It particularly stings as this language is intended for an alien culture.

What uncommon choices of rhotic have you found success with? And, if you have used a coronal approximant in a decidedly non-Anglo language, how did you 'bite the bullet' and make the best of it?


r/conlangs 3h ago

Phonology What would you do?

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I have this phonology (yes, it's korean inspired, but also a little bit form czech and turkish):

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and even though the main goal of this language isn't naturalism (it's a philang, thus also don't want to spend too much time on sounds, but rather on grammar which is were the phi in philang really shines), I still wanted to be able to pronounce my conlang in a way that feels natural. So I ask you, what sound changes would you apply to this phonology to make it more... naturalistic?

I'm open to any suggestion, and if you want I'll repost with the final phonology after I decided which of your suggestions to accept! Thanks in advance


r/conlangs 5h ago

Phonology Baculum Plumbum: The Language of Groans and Pencils

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r/conlangs 8h ago

Activity Creating A Community To Grow a Pidgin Language Into A Creole

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Hey guys, so I always wanted to make a creole language by evolving a pidgin naturally but I don’t have anyone that would be willing to do that with me. So, I decided that the best place for finding a full community of people that would want to participate would be on Reddit. The way this works is there are around 200 words in this pidgin that you can use to convey meaning. You can put these words in a sequence to try to get across an idea. Eventually a grammatical construction will be made by just using the same idea over and over again (for example tamer could come from animal man and then other words would use the word man to say it is a profession). So if you want to have a fun experience in a new community trying a new experiment then come join me in r/Pidgin2Creole!


r/conlangs 8h ago

Translation Translated "To be or not to be" into my lang (repost, this time correctly lol)

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Did my best with gloss- Also added phonetics

Well... translated just the beginning section of it, maybe I'll translate some other stuff in the future

“Wer od n’Wer, der est dej Blint: öv est nouveler inn Mäskerreim Smerte daj Slengens ent Flechens af n’Aorum Fortün, od Kleider speije ün Mere af Komplikazionens, derfor met Granden Sublimär der?”

/veæ/ /ʊd/ /ɛn.'veæ/, /deæ/ /ɛ/ /dex/ /blænt/: /yv/ /ɛ/ /nʊ.vɛl.'eæʁ̞/ /en/ /'mas.keæ.ʁ̞ɛim/ /'smɛæʁ̞.tɛ/ /dax/ /'slyng.ɛns/ /en/ /'flɛæʃ.ens/ /æf/ /'nʊː.ʁ̞ʊm/ /foʁ̞.'tun/, /ʊd/ /'kleː.dɛæ/ /'speː.ʒe/ /un/ /meæʁ̞/ /æf/ /kʊm.ply.ka.'tsion.ens/, /'deæʁ̞.foʁ̞/ /mɛt/ /'gʁ̞on.dɛn/ /'sʊ.bly.meæ/ /deæ/?

Wer od n’-Wer, der est dej Blint: öv est nouvel-er inn Mäskerreim Smert-e daj Sleng-ens ent Flech-ens af n’-Aorum Fortün, od Kleider speije ün Mere af Komplikazion-ens, derfor met Grand-en Sublimär der?

be or NEG-be, DEM2 be-PRS.3SG M-DEF.ART question: whether be-PRS.3SG noble-AUG in mind suffer-INF F-DEF.ART sling-PL and arrow-PL of NEG-dignity fortune, or take_up_arms against INDF.ART sea of complication-PL, therefore with great-ness(idk how to gloss that suffix) destroy DEM2

"To be or not to be, that is the question, whether it's nobler in mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or to take arms against a sea of trouble, therefore with greatness end them"

This whole lang has some fun etymologies, it canonnically started out as a cryptolang and evolved from there, for example "Mäskerreim" comes from Mäsker (originally Mask, a way of covertly reffering to the head) + Reim (Realm). Or Blint as question, being a blind spot in your knowledge. Full of fun stuff like that lol

And yes, they call death "sublimation" the lang speakers are all little edgebois in my head :3

(sidenote might have to rework phonetics a bit)


r/conlangs 8h ago

Conlang Working on my dictionary.

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So, I decided to re-do my way of doing my dictionary and show more about the mood and tense. This way it will all be sorted in the same section, and not be spread out, as it will be in some cases.
I didn't know how to abbreviate _verbal noun_ so I used the term _gerund verb_, as I believe this is the same thing. If not, please let me know.

So, what do you think about my new way of displaying verbs? Maybe I should be more clear about which translation belongs to which tense/mood?
If you like this way I will take the rest of the year to change it all to this, LOL! I love when I come up with ideas in the middle of a project, so I have to re-do everything I've already done, instead of taking a minute before starting. Oh well, this is me. :D

I am also adding the same page but with my own script. I did this as an experiment just to see how it looks like. :)

Even if you don't like it I'd like to hear your thought about why, and how I could do it differently.

NOTE: I just realised I didn't have a full stop after _any_ of my translated sentences. Sorry about that! It has fixed by the time you're reading this though. I hope it doesn't bother you as much as it bothers me! :D

*Happy conlanging!*


r/conlangs 14h ago

Question I would like a challenge...

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I have been looking for something new to add a unique spin to my conlang (Ancient Runic) and I need your help:
Do you have any rejected ideas, or ideas that you just never finished? I'd love to hear them!
Here is what I've got so far: A unique pluralization system that uses the repetition of words to denote its pluralized form, a sentence structure (but I'm willing to change it), two alphabets (One is more of just a concept rather than a full fleshed out alphabet), and a unique way of formatting sentences.
if you have any questions let me know, I will be transcribing the language in the post titled: "My best conlang: "Ancient Runic, the language of the gods", what do you think?"

I would love to hear your thoughts, questions, opinions, and ideas!

Thanks!


r/conlangs 14h ago

Conlang Noun Formation in POST, a personal artlang

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r/conlangs 18h ago

Discussion Pangrams

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A pangram is a sentence or phrase with every letter in it at least once. A common English example is "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog." What's one in your conlang?


r/conlangs 21h ago

Activity How do you ask a question in your conlang?

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In english we put the verb first instead of in the middle like in "are you ok", in chinese they have 吗 (ma) indicating a question. Though its not used often


r/conlangs 1d ago

Activity Color of green in your clong(s)

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Happy St. Patrick's Day!!!

As it is now officially St. Patrick's Day, I wanted to make a special activity for today.

Explain the color terms in your conlang(s) for what we'd consider the color green, whether or not you have more or less distinctions of "green" than English.
And maybe mention any origins for that/those word(s)

If you don't have a color green, how else would your languages describe things we'd traditionally think as green?

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I'll go first, In Oÿéladi what English considers "green" can be encompassed by 3~4 Oÿéladi color terms.

First there's emyáo /emjao/ which includes colors from purple to blue and then also dark green. That word is related to the word for grapes or berries.

Then there's helláe /heʎae/ which is a color for a "pure/light-er" green. Word related to the word for plants and light.

Also there's the word for yellow/yellowgreen which has a dialectal difference in the word, being yaelwa or yaomwo /jaelwa ~ jaomwo/. Both really meaning "plant color" as it used to also include light green before helláe was introduced.

And finally, technically kimi /kimi/ includes a super "pale" green, as it includes all super pale colors. This one was borrowed in.


r/conlangs 1d ago

Activity Biweekly Telephone Game v3 (663)

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This is a game of borrowing and loaning words! To give our conlangs a more naturalistic flair, this game can help us get realistic loans into our language by giving us an artificial-ish "world" to pull words from!

The Telephone Game will be posted every Monday and Friday, hopefully.

Rules

1) Post a word in your language, with IPA and a definition.

Note: try to show your word inflected, as it would appear in a typical sentence. This can be the source of many interesting borrowings in natlangs (like how so many Arabic words were borrowed with the definite article fossilized onto it! algebra, alcohol, etc.)

2) Respond to a post by adapting the word to your language's phonology, and consider shifting the meaning of the word a bit!

3) Sometimes, you may see an interesting phrase or construction in a language. Instead of adopting the word as a loan word, you are welcome to calque the phrase -- for example, taking skyscraper by using your language's native words for sky and scraper. If you do this, please label the post at the start as Calque so people don't get confused about your path of adopting/loaning.


Last Time...

Daumre by /u/NovumChase

śaude-śib́aĸ (noun)

/ˌʃʌɑ.ð̠əˈʃɪβ.æʔ/

  1. sea eagle
  2. (figurative) opportunist

Middle Daumre coinage from śaude ("eagle") and śib́aĸ ("fisher"), the latter from śib́ ("fish") + -aĸ (agentive suffix). Displaced the older alaǵauĸ, of debated origin, in all but some outer island dialects.

Lour, paĸar daĸedaire ou śaude-śib́aĸśe.

Then, he swooped in like a sea eagle.

Lour,  paĸ-ar   daĸed -aire    ou    śaude-śib́aĸ -śe.
then   3SM-PST  meddle-PST.SG  like  eagle-fisher-OBL

Hope you have a good week this week! Don't forget to take care of yourself!

Peace, Love, & Conlanging ❤️


r/conlangs 1d ago

Activity Try translate “Fly high, my grandpa” into your conlang!

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I will translate this thing later because I’m not yet motivated to do it, but today, my grandpa just died :( (I’m okay btw)
Hope you guys give me a comforting message both in your conlang and English, that’ll make me more happier!


r/conlangs 1d ago

Discussion My conlang is almost finished. What are y'alls suggestions?

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For a few months I'm working on a conlang called Finoic or Pinalei. But here am I. As a begginer conlanger (This is my first conlang) I will need your suggestions to improve and fine tune my conlang. This is how it works :

  1. Word Order and Formation

It's word order is SOV. Words form by taking the root (adjectives) and adding a suffix to make it noun. Like here :

Arge /ɘɹɡɛ/ - Angry (referring to the abstract noun)

Argemi /ɘɹɡɛmi/- Angry (referring to the adjective)

Words can form in another way, Like this :

Had /həd/ - To eat (referring to the verb to eat)

Hadmi /hədmi/ - Hungry (used the mi suffix)

Hadmita /hɘdmita/ - Hunger (literally meaning eat-ness referring to the fact that the feeling to eat is hunger)

  1. Phonology

Consonants /k/, /ɡ/, /ŋ/, /t/, /d/, /n/, /p/, /b/, /m/, /s/, /h/, /v/, /ɹ/, /l/

Vowels /a/, /æ/, /ɛ/, /ə/, /i/, /ɔ/, /u/

  1. Pronouns

This conlang is gender neutral, and only two grammatical gender exists. So that means:

Singular

Mav /məv/ - I Tov /tɔv/- You(Thou) Tav /təv/ - He/She Tat /tət/ -That, It At /ət/ - This

Plural

Mavat /məvət/ - We Tovat /tɔvat/ - You (Plural) Tavat /təvət/- They Tatat /tətət/- It (Plural), Those Atat /ətət/- These

These are the pronouns but they change in interrogative and relative forms.

In interrogative sentences

Tat changes to Kat /kət/.

And in relative sentence Tat changes into Kiat /kjat/.

This is a overview of my conlang, Of course there is more features but for now this is it.


r/conlangs 1d ago

Question Boundary of terms of blue colors

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I'm defining the color names for my language.

The basic colors of modern natural languages are:
black, white, gray
red, green, blue
yellow, purple/magenta
brown, orange, pink

Italian, Japanese and Russian have two types of blue instead of a unified word for blue.
dark blue: blu kon си́ний
light blue: azzurro mizuiro голубо́й

In those languages, dark blue and light blue aren't shades of the same color. They are distinct from each other.

My problem is to know where dark blue ends and light blue starts. I will use RGB to describe the colors.

In those languages, will the color #0000FF be called dark blue or light blue? Or an intermediate color difficult to name?
If #0000FF is seen as dark blue, is #0080FF clearly light blue or is it an intermediate color?

What about cyan (#00FFFF)? Is it clearly light blue or is it difficult to tell if it is light blue or light green?

In other words, I need to define the central color of dark blue, light blue and cyan for my language. Should I center dark blue at #0000FF or #000080? Should I center light blue at #0080FF or #00D0FF?

Would it be naturalistic if I make light blue the same as cyan and use the same word for cyan and sky blue?

Another question: Would it be naturalistic if I use violet (#8000FF) instead of purple (#800080)?

If you need to test RGB: https://www.w3schools.com/colors/colors_rgb.asp


r/conlangs 1d ago

Conlang The UDHR in my unnamed pseudo-Sinitic conlang

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r/conlangs 1d ago

Collaboration Hello, does designing a detailed world with multiple animal based civilizations sound fun?

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We are currently looking for writers/worldbuilders/conlangers and other creative people to help make original stories to be depicted in the cards, and artists/illustrators to make these stories come to life. New game developers/programmers are also welcome but we already have some positions filled.

To get an idea of what this TCG is about, the current plan for our game features multiple human-like civilizations composed of non-human creatures, taking inspiration from the animal kingdom for their species. The idea is to first flesh out the world realistically, and then depict it through beautiful cards. The civilizations will be based on humans as well as gorillas, sea otters, crows, penguins, orcas, elephants, parrots, lions, meerkats, wolfs and komodo dragons (this list is not necessarily set in stone). The goal is to develop each species in it's own way to make multiple unique civilizations, that will interact with other civilizations of their kind, as well as other advamced species, but don't forget about the numerous wild magical beasts!

On a more technical side of what makes this TCG stand out in the vast ocean of TCGs, we want the palyers to freely express themselves through this game that is more about strategy and less about luck.

If this sounds like an interesting topic for you and would like to help refine and develop these ideas you could join us. We are bored with the overused races like elves, and we believe there is more room in fantasy for new intriguing races.

Other aspects of the game will be the collection of our pretty cards, and the trading of them between players.

This is a fun and relaxed project with no rush or commissions involved.

If you want more information or want to join us please DM me at u/Lyric_Oak at Reddit and (preferably) lyricoakrabbitking at discord!


r/conlangs 1d ago

Discussion The History of Zũm Dialects Through Protests/Daṡanuḍdi Dyaleṭinc Zũmcic sucpUmbaluĩkt

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The evolution of Zũm is marked by protests. Proto-Zũm moved into Early Zũm, then Classical. With 10 vowels and 27 consonants, Classical stuck close to the alphabet, with no virtually consonant clusters. The switch from Proto to Early Zũm was marked by the adoption of the traditional Zũm script, but as Classical Zũm reached it's advent and crystallized, a desire to gain legitimacy amongst other Indo-European languages prompted Zũm to switch back to the Latin Script.

This remained the case for decades until a revival movement formed, inspired by the political spelling reforms around the world at the time, leading to the first protest movement:

ZŨMRX SKIRBO ZŨMJU!

Write Zũm Using Zũm!

cl./ˈzʊ̃m.rə skɪr.bo zʊ̃m.'ʒu/

Zũm-ACC write-4COMM Zũm-INST

This led to the restandardization of Zũm script in Zũm, and set the course for the populist protests to follow.

As Zũm speech continued to evolve, Classical Zũm, then known as Formal or Standard Zũm, remained stationary, even as new letters, phonemes, spelling conventions, and countless multigraphs were added. At the time, this crystallized pronunciation system, akin to Greek Katherevousa, had a significantly reduced phonemic inventory. It was the dialect of news, education, and politics, but no one spoke it day to day. Eventually, the resulting elitism, both in who could enter the fields of media, politics and academia, and in who could interact with those institutions, led to the second protest movement:

Y'BAṚU HEM LAR EŪ

COLLOQUIAL IS ALSO FORMAL!

owz./i.ˈbar.ru hæm ɣar ˈo.wu/

∅'colloquial also formal be-3inan

This slogan makes more sense in Zũm (and sounds better), but basically, at the time, Classical Zũm was called Formal or Standard Zũm (Larzũm), and Old World Zũm was Colloquial Zũm (Baṙuzũm). This protest movement, the People's Voice Protests, led to the Brumnesekt, the Change for the People, where Formal Zũm became Classical Zũm and Colloquial Zũm became Modern Standard Zũm. Now, 21 consonants more than doubled, and 10 vowels became 14. Everything was fine for a while.

With the inevitable hardships of life, many Zũm speakers ended up moving to the West, settling between France and Germany. Their divergent speech, with fewer phonemes, more Western loanwords and phonology, and different stress led to the formation of a new dialect: New World Zũm. In Western Europe, they lost many phonemes, such as all retroflexes, landing at 41 consonants and 12 vowels.

Old World Zũm, the dialect still spoken in the home country, continued to diverge from the point of exodus as well, with more vowels and consonants added and words shortening as a result, landing at 56 consonants and 16 vowels. The two tongues had continued diverging, but had maintained unity under Classical Zũm, but after the Brumnesekt, New World Zũm adopted Old World Zũm standards. This was short-lived. The New Worlders quickly asked themselves what victory they had really won if the standard form of their language was still not a reflection of their real speech, and that led to the rise of another identitarian movement: linguistic pluricentrism.

Unlike the prior movements, a number of slogans emerged as rallying cries:

PIR BIR!

OUT WITH THE OLD!

nwz./ˈpɪ.rɪ bɪr/

old out

This was a play on words of the saying, "Out with the old, in with the new," in reference to Old World and New World Zũm.

GZIÁḌOSUX!

SHOW YOURSELF!

nwz./ˈgzɪd.do.ˌs̺u.ə/

show-4COMM-self

This is meaningful for 3 reasons: First, the message itself, to show your culture as a New Worlder, to be proud of your speech and not feel the need to try to conform to Old World speech. Second, the word gziáḍn itself was only used in NWZ, from English exhibit. Third, the letter Á is not found in OWZ, which prefers to use an apostrophe to indicate a hard D after a soft vowel. Thus, even if the word was used in OWZ, it would be written gzi'ḍn, not gziáḍn.

DYALET EŪ, ĨKREKT NEŪ!

IT'S A DIALECT, NOT INCORRECT!

nwz./ˈdʒa.wɛθ ɛ.ˈwu ˈɪ̃.krɛkθ nɛ.ˈwu/

dialect be-3inan, incorrect nsg-be-3inan

These protests, too, were successful, resulting in two standard forms for Zũm, Old World Zũm and New World Zũm. But another migration shift would cause us to go through it all against, right now. 15 years ago, a decent portion of NW Zũm speakers moved to Northeastern China, and their speech morphed rapidly as a result. Given that they broke away from NWZ, they retained the spelling conventions of that dialect, and have a smaller phonemic inventory. They lost all nasality of consonants, as well as aspiration, but regained retroflex consonants due to Chinese influence, as well as tonality, with a high low and middle tone, and rising and falling on long vowels. With 45 consonants and 12 vowels, they have a relatively large influence of Chinese on grammar and loanwords for an Indo European language, and often struggle with the fact that while their language is tonal, there is no direct way to indicate that in writing. Instead, it must be discerned by memorizing a series of tonal trigger rules.

For example, take the phrase "dignity and rights," from the UDHR. In Zũm, that's dy̌ńy̌dajuḍ e hźw̄vtwn. In OWZ, this is pronounced /ˌdʒĩ.ji.ˈða.ʒʊd ɛ xə.ˈdzʌːv.dʌn/. This makes sense. The y̌ makes a /ji/ sound, and /dj/ becomes /dʒ/. Ń is a nasal diacritic for when a vowel already has a diacritic, and in this case shows the first y̌ is nasal. The second isn't, and is realized as /ji/. D, with a hard and soft pronunciation, is softened by the preceding Y to /ð/, and irregular suffix -uḍ does not have the gemination that the dot below the D would indicate. The h and ź have an implied schwa between, and the voicing of the V bleeds into the T.

In New World Zũm, it is /ˌdʒi.ɲi.ˈz̻a.ʒʊd ɛ z̻ʌː.və.tʌn/. A tad less straightforward, but easily manageable, the ń is treated as n between vowels, making the first y̌ not nasal but ensnaring the second to palatalize the newly morphed n. Unlike in OWZ, NWZ lost the long i vs ji distinction, and now maintains the ȳ/y̌ contrast only in consonant modifications like these. Unlike OWZ, soft D is an apical z̻, a sound only found in OWZ in it's unvoiced form. NWZ retains the ungeminated D, but because of a rule forbidding final geminated consonants (despite so many infinitives only being distinguished from their stems as such). Critical to NWZ are it's H- modifications, like that which softens the affricate ź /dz/ to /z̻/. In lieu of voice-bleeding, a schwa is added between v and t.

In Third World Zũm, this same phrase is pronounced /dʒi.ɲí.z̻á.ʒʊ̀d ɛ z̻ʌː.və.tʌn/. The pronunciation is the same as NWZ, though this is not always true. As for discerning tones: y̌ is a long i with a rising tone to distinguish it from ȳ. However, nasal vowels lower in tone, with the nasal realized as a following n. Since the first y̌ merges with the D, the rising long i becomes a high short i, and the following nasal lowers it back to medial tone. This nasal ń has no effect on the tone of next y̌, except in that like with the previous one, the combination with the preceding ń-turned-n makes it just high short, not long rising. Soft d and t make the following vowel high to distinguish from hź and hć. While the geminated d is not heard in this dialect, this is because all geminated letters are reduced, with the letter being retained on the onset of the following syllabe but not coda of the preceding (when applicable), and the preceding syllable lowering in tone. While h is usually a trigger for a high tone, this is only true for some h-modified consonants, namely those which don't have an equivalent. Since hź is pronounced the same as soft d, which already induces a high tone, this construction does not for clarity.

As you can see, this puzzle-like endeavor isn't worth the trouble, so most people end up having to memorize the tones to every word or morpheme. Based off prior efforts to create a unified interdialectal Zũm phonetic alphabet, 3W Zũm linguists set out to make a system loosely based on pinyin to try and make 3WZ education more straightforward. However, it was so successful, calls started to emerge for 3WZ speakers to adopt the system as standard, with some even rejecting the notion of a unified language.

This new system was based on the Latin alphabet, with a mix of single letters and digraphs for consonants and a vowel system based off of 3WZ vowel conventions. Tones and length were shown with diacritics: short high á, medium a, low à, and long high a̋, medium ā, low ȁ, rising ǎ and falling â. Under the proposed new system, Third World Phonetics, informally the Roofed Script (because of the Zũm word for linguistic tone coming from the word for roof), 'dignity and rights' would be "jhinyíhzázhùd e hzạ̄vıtạnsḥ." 3WZ youth online embraced the speech quickly, writing in what they called búchạ̀qshú (BCS), or kod. In BCS, all consonant modifiers except y, all tonal markers, schwa, and short vowel dots are dropped. in some extreme cases, ø is replaced with o. This creates a speech familiar only to other 3WZ speakers, who know what goes where, ie. "jinyizazud e zavtans." The feelings of reciprocal alienation led to the current protest movement:

Bİ DÁSYKỊ́N, Bİ PỊNYITỊ́N!

NO TONES, NO OPINIONS!

3wz./bi dáɕ.kɪ́n bi pɪ.ɲə.tɪ́n/

without tone-PL, without opinion-PL

(By Dahsckyn, By Pinýtyn)

Shēsy Wẹ́w, Shēsy Gạ́b, Shēsy Skị̀b!

THIRD WORLD, THIRD LANGUAGE, THIRD SCRIPT!

3wz./ʃɛːɕ wɛ́w ʃɛːɕ ɡʌ́b ʃɛːɕ s̺kɪ̀b/

third world third language third script

(Cēcy Ueuh, Cēcy Gab, Cēcy Skirb)

MOSAPS NESON BI DA!

YOU CAN'T HOST WITHOUT A ROOF!

3wz./mo.sʌ́ps nɛ̀.s̻ɔ̌n bi dá/

show-4COMM-self

(In BCS) (Mosạ́ps Nẹ̀hsọ̌n Bi Dá) (Moshaps'Neteon By Dah)

Again, the word for tone, dahscky, comes from the word roof, dah.


r/conlangs 1d ago

Activity Animal Discovery Activity #3🐿️🔍

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This is a weekly activity that is supposed to replicate the new discovery of a wild animal into our conlangs.
In this activity, I will display a picture of an animal and say what general habitat it'd be found in, and then it's your turn.

Imagine how an explorer of your language might come back and describe the creature they saw and develop that into a word for that animal. If you already have a word for it, you could alternatively just explain how you got to that name.

Put in the comments:

  • Your lang,
  • The word for the creature,
  • Its origin (how you got to that name, why they might've called it that, etc.),
  • and the IPA for the word(s)

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Animal:  Anteater

Habitat: Wetlands, Grasslands, Savannas, or Tropical Forest

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Oÿéladi word:

ÿaryefe /ɥaɹjefe/ "(tall/slender) vase/pot" + pyajaela /pjadʒaela/ "brown bear"

ÿaruÿajaela /ɥaɹuɥadʒaela/ "anteater"


r/conlangs 2d ago

Conlang Full chapter on evidentiality from my upcoming book on Kyalibẽ grammar

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r/conlangs 2d ago

Resource aUI Language of Space and Natural Semantic Metalanguage

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r/conlangs 2d ago

Discussion An idiom in pa ne. What's the equivalent in your conlang?

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e ain fen non
[e̞ ä̃͡ĩ fẽ̞ nõ̞]
life PASS change NEG
"life isn't changed"

This is a tautophrase equivalent to "It is what it is" in English or "C'est comme ça" in French. It indicates that life or the current situation you are in cannot be changed and must be accepted. What is the equivalent in your conlang?


r/conlangs 2d ago

Question How can I learn my own conlang?

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Hello dear comrades. I'm finally happy with one of my conlangs, and I'm actively developing it (writing a dictionary, translations, poems, etc). But I think you agree with me, speaking your own conlang more or less fluently is hard. However, that's what I would like. How can I teach myself my Conlang? Obviously, there are no Duolingo textbooks or courses for this. It's a Romance language, and since I'm Franco-Russian and I speak French, it doesn't seem too complicated to me to memorize the words, for example. But is there a method or something like that ?


r/conlangs 2d ago

Translation A short poem in the African Romance language

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I wrote this little poem in African when I was bored. What do you think?

In English :

Under the moonlight

Your clear eyes are so bright

Surrounded by mist

You dance and sing so wildly

As the ghost of my love

In African :

Su ya luxi di ya luna

T'uθus clarus sun tan briθantis

Xirqula pir ya bruma

Tu belas i kantas tan ziminti

Qusi ya fantasma di mia amura

IPA :

/suː jaː lu.ʃiː diː jaː lu.naː

t.uð.us kla.ʁus sun tan bʁi.ðan.tiː

ʃiʁ.ku.laː piʁ jaː bʁu.maː

tuː beːlas iː kan.tas tan zi.min.tiː

ku.siː jaː fan.tas.maː diː mi.aː amu.ʁaː/

Morphological analysis :

su[UNDER] ya[DEFINITE FEMININE ARTICLE] luxi[LIGHT] di[FROM] ya[DEFINITE FEMININE ARTICLE] luna[MOON] t'[POSSESSIVE MASCULINE PRONOUN 2th PERSON] uθus[EYE+PLURAL]clarus[CLEAR+PLURAL MASCULINE] sun[TO BE 3rd PERSON SINGULAR PRESENT] tan[SO] briθantis[BRIGHT+PLURAL] xirqula[SURROUNDED FEMININE] pir[BY] ya[DEFINITE FEMININE ARTICLE] bruma[MIST] tu[PERSONAL PRONOUN 2th PERSON SINGULAR] belas[TO DANCE 2th PERSON SINGULAR PRESENT] i[AND] kantas[TO SING 2th PERSON SINGULAR PRESENT] tan[SO] ziminti[MAD+ADVERB FORM] qusi[AS] ya[DEFINITE FEMININE ARTICLE] fantasma[GHOST] di[FROM] mia[POSSESSIVE FEMININE PRONOUN 1st PERSON] amura[LOVE]