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Should you be able to pronounce your own conlang, or do you believe that not to be a requirement.

Title basically. I wanna go to other places with phonology and do things I haven't done before, but that'd require me to do things I'm not actually able to pronounce. So what's your opinion? Should you be able to pronounce your own conlang or can you make conlangs your mouth can't reproduce?

Edit: my tongue is weak 🤭 I meant things the ocnlanger personally can't pronounce, not unpronounceable things.

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u/Matalya2 — 16 hours ago
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Script evolution in Pherilya

Pherilya is a low fantasy Dieselpunk world inspired in WWI, where human emotion and culture creates gods, and ancient empires fuel new decadent empires that are condemned to fall. The setting was thought to take place during the Great Teotarean Nations War (that is 2400 A.I), so I decided to create the history of the world to flesh out the present. Basically, the special characteristic that defines my world is that energy or "magic" comes from humanoid emotions, causing the energy to be stored in the recipient of the emotion. 

History is divided into four ages: the ancient age, the magic age, the dark age and the new age. The maps show you from the start of the ancient age to the end of the dark age. This last age started with a cataclysm named Sayarkham, where a meteor crashed into one of Pherilyas moons and made a huge mess. This made a nation known now as the imperium colapse, hence the loss of the Kalem script.

Pherilya is divided into five human races, left behind by the Nerites: the Vaar, the Enshlik, the Natlak, the Shuman and the Urok. All four have their differences in mind and body, but time and interbreeding would diversify even more the human population, creating cultures, religions and wars. In the depths of the Encata continent, one can find a race of humanoid insects, but these do not possess a written language and have historically been displaced by other races.

u/Blaster1725 — 16 hours ago
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Bad Interpreters - Week 6

Week 6 IPA Prompt - /ˈta.e a.ˈre.hi mos.to.ˈen.ro ˈta.e fain.ˈto.la/

Welcome to Week 6 of Bad Interpreters, the chaotic conlang game where meaning is optional, phonetics are misleading, and everyone is absolutely confident in their terrible linguistic instincts.

Last week's prompt: /sto.ri.ˈnu.o u i.u.an.ˈte.la ˈi.ki hi u ˈolt.no a.ne.ˈro.la/
From that, we got these top picks:
Shoáth: Eshtor ëenūo ūm îshū án telop yëek îkîū plotnáát nëemrolá. (“Give a circle! This is you smiling on my phone call. You blink; friends have stains.”) [Most Sentimental]
Mogahgo: Sdôhdvi, anold elisgi. Ôsmomê lolê. ("Together with the mountain, are all fish calm 6 times? The home would move 9 times.") [Most Random]

How to Play

  1. Decide what the prompt means in your conlang.
  2. Translate it using your phonotactics, grammar, and cultural flavor.
  3. Explain your questionable reasoning.
  4. Have fun!

If you have any ideas for interesting phrases or sentences for the next week, let me know in a DM! This activity will be posted on weekly on Wednesdays.

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u/AnimalThinksItsWrong — 21 hours ago
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Noun Declension using Mutation, Ablaut and Suffix. Does it make sense?

First of all im not sure if this is the right flair, so excuse me if im wrong

In my conlang there are 3 word medial mutations inspired by northern Sami. In this declension theyre colored in blue red and green, and there are examples on the right and left of the declension. They govern the case

The Plurality is governed by an ablaut. Basically in my clong theres vowell harmony, and so to make the plural you need to mirror the original vowell

grodar > grödar

My question is, does this make sense?

u/Pleasant-Maybe-7413 — 1 day ago

Does Anyone Else Case-Stack?

I wonder if anyone else's conlang can well… as the title suggests, case-stack? As in, can a word have multiple cases in your conlang? If so, show me an example! For me it would be:

  • Ⲧⲁⲅⲕⲏⲙⲭⲓⲟⲛ ⲃⲁⲡⲁⲟⲥⲙⲏⲯ ϣⲉⲱⲗⲣⲉ.

Which means "The king's father killed himself for the very king's good", in this sentence, "king" has the genitive and benefactive case, and "father" has the nominative, genitive and accusative case.

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u/Aware_Clock_3936 — 17 hours ago

Late-night conlang, part 1

It's 3 a.m. and I couldn't sleep, so I invented a language. It's called Tuki Tiku (that literally means "language good" in the language itself). Inspired by toki pona, but even smaller.The basics: 7 sounds (u, i, t, p, m, l, k), 22 words, and a hand-drawn symbol for every word — all drawn by me tonight.Each word carries multiple meanings: tiku is good/funny/yellow, liku is liquid/flow/blue/sky, ili is nothing/empty/no/death/black. Only 2 pronouns: mi (I) and tu (you). Opposites share the same skeleton (tiku ↔ iki, lulu ↔ lili), and colors live inside the words instead of being separate.A few first sentences:Mi tumu lulu. — My house is big.

Li pili luku. — To learn. (literally "give head" — it wrote itself and now it's canon)

Mi li pili luku Tuki li tuki. — I know how to speak this language.

This is part 1 — just the words and symbols from one night. If there's interest, part 2 will cover the grammar and a short story written in the language.Would you use a 22-word language? What would break first?

List of words and their meanings:

  1. Tuki = speak, say, language, write

  2. Tumu = house, place, country, state, land

  3. Tiku = good, funny, pleasant, yellow

  4. Iki = bad, sadness, error, mistake, wrong

  5. Muku = eat, food, fruit, bread, cereal, green

  6. Mi = I/me, to have, to own, one

  7. Ilu = thread, tool, power, possibility

  8. Pulu = work, effort, to try

  9. Li = this, that; dative particle; thing; nominalizer

  10. Lulu = big, fast, spacious, extensive, hard, long

  11. Lili = small, slow, soft, white

  12. Pili = give, feeling, heart, love, respect, red

  13. Milu = to want, to desire, to need

  14. Liku = liquid, to flow, movement, blue, sky

  15. Lu = to/toward, with; accusative particle; and, in

  16. Uku = matter, object, solid, metal, stone, gray

  17. Imu = father, person, God, creation, origin, being

  18. Tuku = question (what, why, how, when); because, reason, then

  19. Ili = nothing, empty, zero, no, death, black

  20. Luku = body, hand, head, eye

  21. Lipu = book, law, order, word, number, name

  22. Tu = you, two, to divide

I suppose I'll be open to hearing some recommendations and some complaints about "another minimalist language" circulating in the city

u/Nusskirer27 — 1 day ago

What apps/websites do you use

I'm begginer/noob and I'm just starting out, I just wanna ask what websites and apps do you guys use in your conlangs like how do you keep track of ruled, words and stuff and how do you find pronouncement apps. I see some kind of colored lined translated thingy is common in peoples posts and what is that.

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u/Me_Original_1 — 1 day ago

I'm newby there

Hi there👋 Excuse me, if I spam, I wanna know what I could answer and write in this subreddit. I just tried to post in r/conlangs but my posts were deleted again and again.

Well, that this post isn’t just for the sake of it, I’d like to ask: what typology do you use most often - nominative, ergative or something else? For example, I try to make my own conlang using active-stative alignment logic, though I have no completed conlang project😅

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u/Fasch_1254 — 2 days ago

longest word in salamese

the longest word in my conlang, salamese, is 20 letters long. i think it is the lognest. it is vãtzatempsanportalis. pronounced every vowel in this is pronounced like the standard æɛɪɒʌ system except for ã which is rhoticized schwa. the word means screen, which is vãt (digital) plus zatempsanportalis (window). that is zatempsan (glass) plus portalis (threshold). zatempsan is zatemp* (hot) plus san (sand). digital hot sand threshold. screen.

*za means nothing, it just sounds zingy and hot. warm is satemp, medium is atemp, tepid is pratemp and cold is bratemp. temperature is temp.

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u/AmbitionExotic3586 — 1 day ago

Casual colang mixing latin+spanish and usin a syllabary based on chinese characters.

Ever imagined if Spain conquered China and had to adapt its writing system to the chinese one? Here u have it: a latin+spanish language, but with using a chinese character based syllabary that I am currently developin. Hope yall enjoy it!

u/nicomntiiz — 3 days ago

Try to translate this poem:))

Introduction

I know, I know, I've been spamming this subreddit (and that other subreddit for ConLangs) with new ConLangs, but this one is only for the poems or other literature I'd create. It is situated in China, somewhere beside the Yellow River. It is (or tries to be) OSV 😭. It Is An Isolate 🥀

Text and Translation

Translation: I am the greatest among the greats.

Literal Structure: [Great] [of;among;by] [great] [I;me] [is]

Old: dʰaŋs xɯj dʰaŋs tʰaj dʒaj

蕩之蕩予在

況共予不有

"Yet I cannot own everything."

But;yet;and-also;except all;everything I no;not have;acquire;own

swʰaŋ ɣms tʰai dwurʔ ɮaj

將黮紫天回

"Even if the sky turns deep purple"

Even-if;even;(introduction of a fictional happening) deep;darker(color) purple;deep-blue sky turn;morphs;change(appearance)

zʲaŋ ðʌj tʃus ɣns xraj

共人氓不有

"A mortal can't own everything."

All;everything one mortal;human no/not have;acquire;own;

ɣms draj wʌŋs dwurʔ ɮaj

域人氓,恤求...

"As a mortal, I [only] seek nothing..."

As one mortal;man, nothing;null;no-use seek;find

wʌɣ draj wʌŋs, zdər ŋlaj...

越天之蕩眼

"By the great eyes of the heavens."

As-for;as;based-of;based-on(or by the judgement of) heaven of big eye

wət ɣns dʒət dʰaŋs ŋraj

旁予方神咲

"The gods above me laugh"

Above I;me specifically;"the" god laugh

pʰaŋt tʰaj pɯŋ ɣnts hraj

重予等極遂

Because of our obsession.

Because;for I;me [Pronoun pluralizer] very;too-much want;wish

dʰms tʰaj dʰat dərs zwaj

Activity

Try to translate atleast a few lines (or all of them) of the given poem in your ConLang. I'd love to hear and know how y'all conjugate and decline your verbs and nouns. Oh, and don't forget to put your ConLang's name;)

u/Msk_Bro-1507 — 3 days ago
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Update to Jasu

This is my latest and possibly final update to my 3 year long Jasu project. I will probably be working on more worked building around the setting the language takes in and starting up some more languages from there. I attached some samples of what the work looks like. If anyone has any advice on what I could improve, anything you see I haven't explained well or something I am missing please let me know!

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1X7ySGy7RGe4Z9Jmfk250tfq2mJ3Oe9N3/view?usp=drivesdk

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1\_xdp7wChs1S8NQ6K5yDU2l4BgpNLOWE0/view?usp=drivesdk

(Made it so that you can open it now)

u/Fuckmydogisacat — 5 days ago

Does anyone know what happened here?

It was already becoming quite the extensive list (thousands of entries) with lots of information added by many of us eager to share. Was actually looking forward to browsing throw the list once done, to appreciate other peoples stuff, but alas, it was not meant to be it seems.

u/Volo_TeX — 4 days ago
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How artificial languages get speakers

Today I was interested in the idea of how languages like Lidepla, Globasa, Esperanto, Toki Pona and others acquire native speakers.Because it's very interesting because few people want to waste their time, but with, for example, Esperanto won't help you travel much, but it's still being taught. I don't condemn Esperanto. I'm just interested in how artificial languages get native speakers. So, anyone who knows, please tell me.I would be glad to hear your help.

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u/Andrieeo — 5 days ago

How long does it take you to get to the “just coining words” phase?

What I mean by this is the phase after you’ve formed all the sounds, phonotactics, and grammar. After this, it’s pretty much just working on coining words. Obviously you may want to revise those previous aspects but, in general, you’re done with the core of the language and just have to build out vocab (this phase also comes before evolving your language if it’s naturalistic, but that’s not really relevant to the question)

I ask this because normally my conlangs tend to be very fusional and have a lot of affixation. But I decided I wanted to work on a analytical conlang that uses word order and a handful of auxiliary words to handle the things my affixes normally would.

And I got to the word coining phase way quicker than I normally do. I suppose this makes sense, but it makes it feel kind of cheaper. Like normally it takes a few weeks of passive work to get all the grammar stuff sorted out, sometimes longer. But for this lang it took less than a week.

So how long is normal for you to get to this part of language creation?

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u/Whole_Instance_4276 — 5 days ago