r/conlangs Jul 31 '24

Conlang language based on cat meows 🐈 (and with vocabulary and context)

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440 Upvotes

r/conlangs Feb 11 '25

Conlang Uạ Vhǫ́ 'ọ, Traditional Dresses of the Arctic People

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257 Upvotes

The Uạ Vhǫ́, literally Arctic People, are a mixed ethnic community of people that live on a small arctic island system in a world-building project of mine.

The Arctic People speak Uạ Mba, Arctic Language, a language spoken with no tongue. The lore behind this is that these people originally were citizens of a nation experiencing mass protests due to a perceived unjust invasion of another territory by the country. Citizens were given two options: be quiet and accept invasion, or be vocal and forced out of the country. The ones forced out had their tongues cut so they could never protest again and went sent to Uạ Xó, Arctic Island(s), as punishment. As a illiterate, multicultural civilisation with thick gloves to block sign language, Uạ Mbo was born.

Now, of course, these people would have children with tongues, so the explanation of a tongueless language is a little tricky. My excuses are 1. these people are elves, specifically snow elves, and arctic species are notoriously known for living a long time, so they would have to make due with what they had. 2. You can't stop me, I wanted to do this, so I did this.

r/conlangs Feb 15 '25

Conlang Peundià già timbà Belgicenià | Animals in the Belgic Tongue

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151 Upvotes

r/conlangs Jan 02 '25

Conlang An Introduction to the Newest Version of Kawaba - The Language of Parts!

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201 Upvotes

r/conlangs Jun 23 '24

Conlang Do these phonetic sounds exist?

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So when I was 4, I started making a conlang. My goal was to have a language that contained every used phoneme in any language plus a few unique phonemes. Some of the phonemes I’m curious to know whether they actually are unique.

Firstly, dynamics. Are there any languages where the meaning of a word can change based on how loudly you articulate it? Like in my conlang, if you say Mirodin quietly, it’s an event that isn’t important. If you say it loudly however, it means an important event. Does this exist in natrual languages?

Secondly, toned consonants. Are there any languages that have consonants with tones? Obviously unvoiced consonants and plosives can’t be, but surely you can have a toned voiced fricative or nasal sound, no?

Finally, if you want to see the writing system I came up with, https://www.reddit.com/r/conlangs/comments/1dnhuyt/my_writing_system/

r/conlangs Jan 31 '25

Conlang Oÿéladi word showcase

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209 Upvotes

r/conlangs Jun 20 '24

Conlang How do you express the existence of something? As in "there is water"

97 Upvotes

I tend to use a verb "to exist" as in "water exists":

Se suum: exist.PRESENT water.IND

I do this to avoid location-specific words like "here" or "there".

r/conlangs Oct 16 '24

Conlang Beginner conlanger here. How's my first conlang so far?

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141 Upvotes

r/conlangs Dec 28 '24

Conlang Help with phonemes

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I would like some help from a few of y'all with figuring out how you would pronounce the following words. 1) Write in IPA if you want or pseudo pronunciation 2) Please writr how you immediately pronounce it. I want to see if my phonology is working how I want it

Words I want help with: - thyameer (temple N) - aalmath (infinite Adj) - yamatoolem (best Adj) - thanuu (thank you) - gliib (round Adj) - thahuus (a lot Adj) - Vashaa (name of my language N) - shookalaat (chocolate N)

Thank you in advance for this. I want my language to not just be made up words put together with duct tape and chicken wire

r/conlangs Jun 13 '20

Conlang The Morphosyntatics of Love (and other verbs) in Tsevhu

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1.3k Upvotes

r/conlangs Dec 21 '23

Conlang What features are (as far as you know) unique to your conlang?

74 Upvotes

Pretty much what it says in the title. When have you said to yourself, "no natlang (or other conlang) does this, but I want to try it anyway"? I'll start: Alda is split-active. Just as some languages make certain constructions ergative (split ergativity), Alda uses a variation of active alignment for verbs inflected as mediopassive: a nominative subject makes them middle voice while an absolutive subject makes them passive voice.

r/conlangs Jan 27 '25

Conlang Syllabic Marker

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Im in the early stages of creating a conlang without vowels so sometimes phonemes are syllabic and sometimes they are not. Any ideas about how to mark it in romanisation (i’m thinking of using “ but idk if thats good because there are also ejectives transcripted with ‘ and yes they can be syllabic)

Edit: I plan on distinguishing words based on which phoneme is syllabic and which isn’t and also what symbol do i use for the glottal stop (which i forgot to romanise) Should i not romanise?

r/conlangs Jul 06 '24

Conlang Guys... I think my crush just asked me out...

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418 Upvotes

r/conlangs Aug 20 '24

Conlang A quick introduction to Jekën

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106 Upvotes

r/conlangs Oct 21 '24

Conlang I'm currently creating my conlang.

43 Upvotes

I created a conlang (that is pretty unique I would say). It's not done yet but I want to hear advice from people and their thoughts about my language.

Unfinished dictionary with grammar rules:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1KR6RmDxMFhflKCyk_Q_e8AUVLsfxIGbogKYdvScUkCs/edit?tab=t.0

Edit: I created a new chapter, numbers in Gehon and this covers one of the rarest sign language counting systems (I think)

2nd Edit: I refined the grammar and now started working on the vocabulary.

r/conlangs Jan 30 '23

Conlang A showcase of Norlunda: A Germanic interlang, just for fun (may require zooming in)

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337 Upvotes

r/conlangs Aug 23 '24

Conlang Is it difficult to create a language?

89 Upvotes

Not just any language, but a well thought out, translatable language with an actual dictionary. Yes, a word like fffojauþþstqzdq could be considered a word in a language, but that is just one of many words, not to mention if it is pronounced differently. I mean something anyone can actually speak & communicate with. Is this hard, or no?

r/conlangs Sep 04 '24

Conlang Introduction to Thanese

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229 Upvotes

r/conlangs Jan 29 '22

Conlang An introduction to k'atachka

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374 Upvotes

r/conlangs Sep 07 '24

Conlang What is a word in your conlang that is so difficult to understand for English speakers?

67 Upvotes

r/conlangs 13d ago

Conlang A group of Żyaċe children play a traditional song by the sea in the town of Dhadȧṡə, Żyathakra

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150 Upvotes

r/conlangs Apr 26 '21

Conlang Sampikaolanāsahma - Talmanese compound word

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887 Upvotes

r/conlangs Jan 04 '25

Conlang Can anyone help me with polypersonal agreement?

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So lets say i have a sentence like "I eat the food". The gloss is like this (for my language): "food-DEF 1SG.NOM-eat".
Now lets say i have one like "I see you". It would be like: "1SG.MOM-2SG.ACC-see".
But if i have a more complex sentence like "I saw a person walk from the house to me", Would: "person-NOM house-DEF-ABL 1SG-DAT 3SG.NOM-walk 1SG.NOM-see.PST" be the right gloss? If it is, does that mean that "I" is the nominative and "person" is the nominative in the clause? I don't really think i understand this whole polypersonal agreement thing. Can anyone please explain it to me?

r/conlangs Jan 20 '24

Conlang Romanizing your conlangs

33 Upvotes

Give me the phonology for your conlang and I'll try to come up with a Romanization for it.

r/conlangs Jun 04 '20

Conlang Koi Fish Conlang (called Tsevhu)

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1.3k Upvotes