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From the description: "The studio trailer for the 2022 blockbuster film "Ak fia kora", meaning "to my love" or "to my heart", based on the epistolary novel by Sara Beāto. Ak fia kora tells the coming-of-age story of Sara, a 25 year old college student, through the letters she sends to her 'best friend' Silvi (as well as texts, essays, and other authentic documents). The novel intersperses these with the letters sent by Ioana Sōlāks, 19th century queen of Okśa, to her best friend Karīn Sylvestre Penri. It's a beautiful story of love, friendship, adolescence, and the impact of history on our modern world. The movie takes these letters and brings them to life, telling a heartbreaking yet life-affirming tale of young love and inevitable loss."

In reality, this is something I made because creating in-universe conlang documents is fun! If you haven't seen my last posts, Oxeoli is the language of Okśa, a fictional island country just west of France. It's a romance language with heavy Brittonic Celtic lexicalization (and some other sources of course).

I'll put the gloss/ explanation in the comments. Key points on phonetics: "ś" is /ʃ/, "ɬ" is, well, /ɬ/, five vowel system with length distinction (macron is long vowel), although young speakers are starting to collapse it into an open-close vowel distinctions where short vowels are pronounced more open, which you can sort of hear here. More on grammar and lexicon in the comment. Hope you enjoy!

credits are in description of video, but i'll repost it here:

All footage comes from:

"Light Light Light", 2023, dir. Inari Niemi

"L'Apollonide: Souvenirs de la maison close", 2011, dir. Bertrand Bonello

"L'échange des princesses", 2017, dir. Marc Dugain

as well as stock footage from pexels.com

Music by Bensound.com/free-music-for-videos License code: H3D4S4HINCSKPM3X Artist: : Benjamin Tissot

Narration recorded by me, put through AI voice filter (I hope that's okay) and then further edited by me in Logic Pro. nothing here is purely AI generated becaused f*ck that.

posting this here because there's lots of conlang things going on! i'm a huge fan of that niche genre of "administrative/cultural subdivisions described by wojaks", and so I decided to make one for my fictional country Okśa, describing the four major regions (Western, Eastern, Britja, and Pacejo) and certain important sub-regions or cities.

BRITJA

Also spelled Britia (Okśa spelling is not super standardized, that's a different story), Britia is located in Okśa's northeast. it's sometimes considered the secret "seventh celtic nation", due to a wave of Brittonic migration in the 5th century and another wave of Welsh migration in the 19th century. this makes their dialect (called "Tavod") incomprehensible to outsiders. Hence the old man who says:

diol ir'didd unu

greetings DEF-day that

good morning

which in Standard would be:

salu iɬe did ic

though they would really just say "salut" or "borebok". the younger woman doesn't understand- this dialect is dying out quickly, young people don't really speak it.

PACEJO

the Pacejo Autonomous Region is an island to the west of Okśa where a bunch of radical Esperantists settled in 1911. nowadays, the 70,000-odd people living there, who are Okśa citizens but govern themselves, speak their own dialect of Esperanto as well as Okśa. for instance, the band name Laj Nenioj (The Nothings) in standard Esperanto would be La Nenioj- the definite article wouldn't agree with the number of the noun.

Pacejanoj are also stereotyped as young, artsy hippie stoners, which the Wojak represents. see the phrase:

vi volas plati cxu

2.SING want-PRES flatten-INF Q

"plati" is a slang term for "to chill, to hang out", often involving weed and jam sessions. Pacejo is a pretty chill place!

MONTŚINOK

Ahh, Śinok, the capital and largest city with a major superiority complex! let's jump to the two sentences:

es wido iɬos Militōnēs abandie?

be-2.SING.PRES see-PST.PRTP def-M.PL Militōnēs yesterday

the interrogative is marked with rising intonation, as in English or French. the Militōnēs or "soldiers" are the football (for you Americans: soccer) team of Montśinok, who have a fierce rivalry with the Portosantok Muxēs ("Mice"):

wek kɬeb i Muxēs

"wek" is a colloquial way of saying "yes". i is either a shortened definite article or a form of the demonstrative "ic"- young people use it both ways. most interesting is "kɬeb", a shortening of "īskɬebi", itself the imperative form of "kɬebi", "to get sick". in Okśa, to wish illness upon someone is to say fuck them.

finally,a noko is someone from Montśinok, and a gleti is a kind of buckwheat dessert- in Śinok, a glazed buckwheat donut, and in Santok, a bowl of buckwheat noodles covered in cinnamon sugar. speaking of which...

PORTOSANTOK

Okśa's second largest city and historic capital, bitter rivals of Montśinok. not much stuff here conlang-wise, except for the phrase:

est bola wek

be-3.SING.PRES crazy yes

"bola" is a versatile slang word that can mean crazy, bizarre, cool, hopping, sexy... basically anything, depending on context. the etymology is unknown, but you'll here it all the time especially in Santok, but also elsewhere.

MELTIS
Okśa's third largest city, located in the Western region but culturally quite different. Meltis is a college town, pure and simple, and home of Okśa's indie/punk/emo scene. besides that, not much going on. it's common for tisonēs (people from Meltis) to proclaim their hatred of the city (like Winnipegers saying "I hate Winnipeg!") but deep down, they know they'll hate to leave:

īskaxe ik urbe

IMP-shit DEF city

fuck this city

in the Meltis dialect, īskaxe is a more common expletive than īskɬebi, and ik is more commonly used as a demonstrative than i. other than that, pretty straightforward. also represented: glasa atera or "black ice cream", a Meltis specialty made with charcoal, and the infamous existentialist philosopher Matis Post, a Meltis native and local legend.

RŪVIO/ WESTERN REGION

Rūvio is technically a department within the larger Western region, but it's so much the hub of Western culture/ identity that they're basically synonymous. the folk song, Iɬe sol nāscādra denovo or "the sun will rise again", already displays two distinctive features of the Western dialect: the dipthongisation of /a/ before two consonants (so naːska͡uːdra in lieu of naːskaːdra) and the centralization of word-final /e/. the dialogue shows more:

aist todi plo bono tśa iɬos okonēs

be-3.SING.PRES still more good COMP def-M.PL city-slickers

which in standard would be:

est todi plu bono tśa iɬos okō

more dipthongization (/e/-/ai/), and a different pluralization of the slang term "oko" (from Montśinok and Portosantok, meaning city people or Easterners in general!) the response:

volō diskādek

want-1.SING.PRES leave-INF

in standard, that would be

wolō diskādek

because the distinction between /w/ and /v/ is collapsed in Eastern.

there's not much more to analyse- the Kipjeno section is in English, because Kipjeno is basically a giant tourist resort for French and English people- so...hope you enjoy! if you have questions/ comments feel free to put them in the comments:)

if you don't know, this is a game where i give you a random sentence accompanied by some nonsense; and you have to back-construct just enough of a clong to make the nonsense translate into the sentence. got it?

todays nonsense:

Easy level:

did you see the pink dolphin?- Ŵo plipu kožlu gii opi e eu prepapi?

Hard level:

they rode together silently in the car, wishing things could be different- Pitoči ipi putopipri pi ažlu tiklibu, pata čipiğli i i či dei pi ažlu gikri tati

good luck, and happy speedlanging!