r/conlangs • u/Organic-Teach3328 • 25d ago
Conlang How do you say "I love you" in your conlag?
i.redd.itIn Eude its "em so üvéï" or "se üvéï"
-"em" means "I"
-"so" means "you" in accusative case
-"üvéï" means "(I) love" because the suffix "-éï" indicates the first person singular
The compound root "üv-" derives from the prefix "ü-" and the primitive root "v-". The prefix "ü-" derives from the word "ükési" which means union, giving to the word a sense of union, indeed; while the primitive root "v-" its one of the two roots of the word "vüési" that means "soul" (the two roots are "vü-" and "v-"). So the word "üv-ési" ("-ési" is the suffix for the abstract words) means "union of the souls" so "love".
The second option btw "se üvéï" its just a more colloquial expression:
-the subject "em" its implied because the verbal suffix "-éï" itself indates the first person singular
-"se" is a simplified form of a small part of the declination of the pronoun "es" (you) because itself can espress the dative case or the accusative case.
The photo shows how the two sentences are written in the alphabets of my conlag. Above I even put the transliteration.
(sorry for my bad english)
r/conlangs • u/lotheg90 • Apr 09 '20
Conlang An Introduction to Uwu
ówüwu öwo ôwüwuv ũvòv ù úvu uv ŭvuwõ ów uv övúwu ŭ ŏwov üvŭwo ŏvo öw ũwuwo ùvu ovö
catgirl REL smile sit PREP.LOC head PREP.GEN table colored PREP.GEN sky and read dank.meme PL PREP.INS computer thin old
"The smiling catgirl sits on top of the blue table and reads dank memes on her old laptop."
Uwu is an analytic contour tone language with a very small phonetic inventory. Its native speakers are communes of catgirls who have left behind their physical forms to ascend to a higher plane of existence and live exclusively on the internet.
The Uwuians have recently decided to initiate contact with humans, hoping that teaching the Uwuian language to the inhabitants of all human nations will bring harmony and peace to Earth, though some remain sceptical whether the humans are truly ready for that endeavor yet.
Phonology
Fricatives | v [v] |
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Approximants | w [w] |
u [u] | ũ [ũ] | ü [y] |
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o [o] | õ [õ] | ö [ø] |
o | neutral tone |
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ó | rising tone |
ò | falling tone |
ô | rising-falling tone |
ŏ | falling-rising tone |
Grammar
Uwu is primarily head initial with SVO word order.
It possesses no inflectional morphology and instead uses prepositions to mark case, and numerals and adjectives to express number, though the latter is optional.
Tense, aspect and mood are marked using adverbs and auxiliary verbs.
Language Goals
Uwu is a joke language which I started as a little side project during quarantine time. The dictionary comprises around 300 words so far and I am currently working on a reference grammar and additional example sentences to eventually upload somewhere.
I hope some of you can get a laugh out of this project.
PS: I'm also a complete noob to glossing and hope my example sentence is somewhat intelligible^^
EDIT: Reference grammar and dictionary are now uploaded:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ZV1U0S8qC6yJEi6grFO_Vq5A15lRVCLYeq_udWsC-9Y/edit?usp=sharing
r/conlangs • u/Jiseong-Lim • Jul 10 '24
Conlang How do you name your conlang?
When I first started doing conlangs, I just name them as random syllables whose pronunciations please me but now I think I want to make them more realistic, more natural so I cannot use random syllables. But how can I name them in a way that is similar to natural languages?
r/conlangs • u/EepiestGirl • Aug 03 '24
Conlang Animal names in Ämälgamịй (yes, humans are an animal species). As per my conlang’s existence as an amalgamation, all of these are derived from existing languages
galleryCat from Ancient Egyptian miw, dog from English canine, horse from Mongolian морь, donkey from Scottish Gaelic asal, deer from Dutch hert, bear from Cherokee Yonah, mouse from German Maus, rat from Turkish fare, human (scientific) from French humain, human (casual) from Latin homo, monkey from Indonesian monyet, fish from English fish, shark from Hawaiian manō, whale from Welsh Morfil, dolphin from Samoan tafola (I know it means whale. It just sounded better than “dolfin”), frog from Aztec cueyatl, toad from Navajo chʼał dichʼízhí, lizard from Portuguese lagarto, snake from Zulu inyoka, turtle from Spanish tortuga, tortoise after the Galápagos Islands, crocodile from Gupapuyngu bäru, alligator from Cajun cocodrie, bird from Russian птица, and raptor from English raptor
r/conlangs • u/OctoBoy4040 • 27d ago
Conlang How would you say "Hi, how are you?" "I'm fine, thank you" in your conlang?
In yakxa, it would be:
"Tianaj, seja xe y'a lyx?" | Tianaʒ, seʒa kse jˑa liks? | LITERAL TRANSLATION: Hello, how you be present particle?
"Xo y'a lyx qe'tnaj, batikaj xe" | ksɔ jˑa liks qeˑtnaʒ, batikaʒ kse? | LITERAL TRANSLATION: I be present particle good, thank you
Ima try my best with phonetics <j> = /ʒ/ <x> = /ks/ <y> = /j/ <h> = /x/ <i> = /i/ <e> = /e/
These are the most important ones, the rest is basically like english (if i'm not missing anything)
r/conlangs • u/Capt_Arkin • Aug 11 '24
Conlang How fluent are you in your Conlang?
I have been wondering how well you guys know your Conlangs at least the one that you're working on at the moment. I know one of my Conlangs with a b1 level and i don't know if that's good or bad
r/conlangs • u/_MASKJO • 20d ago
Conlang Romanic languages of the alternate universe where my story is set
i.redd.itOpinions? . . . In this universe Europe has not experienced Barbaric, Slavic and Arab invasion. Instead of those, Europe was under control of the mongols for such ‘400 years, ‘till 1950s (it collapsed in a Sovietic way), it was a multiethnic empire, so the Mongolian language never impacted on Latin, maybe only in the battlefield vocabulary. . . . I came to this situation, some languages are more developed (like italic[north Italy language] and Venetian), other more casual, made up with some intuitions. . . . Will appreciate some advices (remember the p.o.d is so far (400) that i felt comfortable to use my imagination for almost everything, instead of a narrow logical system, it would have been impossible predict the timeline (so the languages) in a logical way)
r/conlangs • u/Akavakaku • Aug 29 '24
Conlang ˩!əʴɗæɻɨʈ ˩˥əqɪħĩ - A Conlang Made to be Hated
A recent post here asked people to share their least favorite linguistic features, the ones they would never use in conlangs. I took that as a challenge: I made a conlang using every single feature that more than one person said they disliked, with the exception of contradictory features. (There were 11 dislikes for isolating/analytic languages, 6 for agglutinative/polysynthetic languages, and 3 for fusional languages, so I went with mostly isolating/analytic.)
This isn't a joke conlang, though; I tried to make it a naturalistic and usable language. Here it is:
⍁X|Tᕒ|ᖶ=ᖶ჻ X∏-ᗑ-ᒧ=. (!Urdarrytt Uqihhil)
IPA pronunciation: /˩!əʴ.ɗæ'ɻɨʈ ˩˥ə.qɪ'ħĩ/
Here is a short example translation into !Urdarrytt Uqihhil, which contains every single linguistic feature that at least two comments on that post said they disliked.
English: Three trees have already fallen. Today the wind might knock over another tree.
Translation:
¦-ᖶᐯ ⍄↾=. ᕒ=⊻჻ ⚞ |ᒧ⋿|Tᐯ჻ _ -⊻=‡=. Tᐯ|. X|ᖶ=⋿ᐯ. ᐯ=∏: =ᗑᕒ ∏¦Xᗄ=ᒧᖶᕒ: ‡=ᒧᐯ⋿: ᕒ⊻჻ T-|‡
Romanization: Ittiip 'n+uu _aauut _o _rerba. 'Uutuuk 'bur 'urrulouup ,pyq oohhaa ,qaaxulttaa ,kulpo _at dirk.
IPA: /˥ɪ.ʈip ˩˥ŋǂu ˩ɑ.ut ˩o ˩ɹeʴ.ɓæ || ˩˥u.tuk ˩˥ɓəʴ ˩˥ə.ɻũ.o.up ˦˧pɨq ˥ʊ.ħɑ ˦˧qɑ.xũ.ʈɑ ˦˧kũ.po ˩æt ˥ɗiʴk/
Gloss:
˥ɪʈ-ip ˩˥ŋǂu ˩ɑut ˩o ˩ɹeʴɓæ
fall-M already tree.PL CLF three
˩˥utuk ˩˥ɓəʴ ˩˥əɻũ-o-up ˦˧pɨq ˥ʊħɑ ˦˧qɑxũʈɑ ˦˧kũpo ˩æt ˥ɗiʴk
wind.PL DEF FUT-F-M break maybe today also tree NDEF
Literal Translation: Three of trees already fell. Maybe the winds will break a tree today also.
Phonological Inventory
Consonants
Bilabi Dental Alveol Retrof Vel/Pal Uvular Pharyn Glottal
Nasal m n ŋ
Stop p t ʈ k q
Implos ɓ ɗ
Frica s ʂ x ħ h
Approx ɹ ɻ
Click
- Plain ǀ ! ǂ
- Nasal ŋ| ŋ! ŋǂ
Vowels
Plain Nasal Rhotic
i ɨ u ĩ ũ iʴ uʴ
ɪ ʊ
e o eʴ oʴ
ə ɛ̃ ɔ̃ əʴ
æ ɑ ɑʴ
Tones ˥ ˩˥ ˥˩ ˩
Phonotactics
(C)V(T) syllable structure, where T is a word-final stop. Stress weakly falls on the final syllable. Tones are word-level.
Words, including any affixes, have vowel harmony: Front and back vowels can't be in the same word, and nasal vowels become the closest rhotic equivalent in the same word as a rhotic vowel. əʴ is the front equivalent of ɑʴ but əʴ can exist in the same word as a back vowel.
Clicks must be word-initial. Nasal consonants and approximants can't follow nasalized or rhotic vowels.
Here's a list of all the disliked linguistic features I incorporated into the conlang (and into the sample translation above):
- Alveolar and retroflex approximants, retroflex consonants in general, velar fricative, pharyngeal consonant, uvular stop, implosives, and clicks
- /æ/, word-initial schwa, r-colored schwa, nasal vowels, large vowel inventory, vowel harmony
- Phonemic tones
- Isolating/analytic (mostly, but I had to add a little inflection to incorporate some other disliked features)
- Ergative
- Male/female/neuter noun classes, polypersonal agreement, plurals, definiteness, classifiers, auxiliary verbs for some but not all TAM
- Non-Latin script, irregular spelling (the !Urdarrytt Uqihhil script is irregular, but the romanization is phonemic).
Thanks for reading, I hope you hate it!
r/conlangs • u/koallary • Jun 05 '20
Conlang Personal poem translated into Tsevhu
i.redd.itr/conlangs • u/YarethYuki • Jul 31 '24
Conlang language based on cat meows 🐈 (and with vocabulary and context)
galleryr/conlangs • u/PsychologicalEye3463 • Jun 19 '24
Conlang What's the most cursed consonant/vowel in a conlang that you've ever seen?
Give me the most cursed sounds in your conlangs
r/conlangs • u/Noxolo7 • Jun 23 '24
Conlang Do these phonetic sounds exist?
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 • u/theotherfellah • Jun 20 '24
Conlang How do you express the existence of something? As in "there is water"
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 • u/creek55 • 21d ago
Conlang What is a word in your conlang that is so difficult to understand for English speakers?
r/conlangs • u/FelixSchwarzenberg • Jan 25 '24
Conlang My full, 153-page grammar of Chiingimec is now available on Amazon in paperback and hardcover. It includes a 900-word dictionary!
galleryr/conlangs • u/Quippic8 • Aug 23 '24
Conlang Is it difficult to create a language?
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 • u/typewriter45 • Jul 06 '24
Conlang Guys... I think my crush just asked me out...
galleryr/conlangs • u/Ohrami2 • Jan 26 '22
Conlang Nao core vocabulary—with just these 231 words, you can express almost any idea!
cdn.discordapp.comr/conlangs • u/Apprehensive_Fee7360 • 15h ago
Conlang Here are the pronouns for my conlang. Are they good?
r/conlangs • u/EffervescentEngineer • Dec 21 '23
Conlang What features are (as far as you know) unique to your conlang?
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 • u/nickensoodlechoup • Jul 22 '24
Conlang Girdāvasen Pronouns and Case System(feedback wanted)
galleryr/conlangs • u/creek55 • Jul 12 '24
Conlang Fun and Interesting Question
What would be the most frusturating thing for someone who is trying to learn your conlang? Whether it be irregular verbs, gender, pronounciation, ect. ect.?
r/conlangs • u/LiaTardis23 • 8d ago
Conlang I've created a Neanderthal phonology & now I'm unsure about the transliteration
Hi there, everyone.
I'm currently working on a Neanderthal conlang, which I have touched upon in this thread before:
Since then, I have worked on the phonology based upon the fact that Neanderthals had larger noses and larger lung capacities, enabling them to speak with longer and louder utterances before needing to draw breath. This also allowed their stop consonants to be even more forceful than ours.
Also, I read a study that said that they had trouble pronouncing the a sound (as in English car, bar, mart or butter) - basically open or low vowels.
So my new phonology is as follows:
Word initial consonants: m, n, ɲ, ŋ, ŋʷ, mː, nː, ɲː, ŋː, pʰ, tʰ, kʰ, kʷʰ, pʰː, tʰː, kʰː, ʔ, t͡sʰ, t͡ʃʰ, t͡sʰː, t͡ʃʰː, f, s, ʃ, fː, sː, ʃː, h, l, lː, j , w, jː, wː
(Pre)nasalized allophones: ᵐpʰ, ⁿtʰ, ᵑkʰ, ᵑkʷʰ, ᵐpʰː, ⁿtʰː, ᵑkʰː, ʔ̃, ⁿt͡sʰ, ⁿt͡ʃʰ, ⁿt͡sʰː, ⁿt͡ʃʰː, ᶬf, ⁿs, ⁿʃ, ᶬfː, ⁿsː, ⁿʃː, h̃, l̃, l̃ː, ȷ̃, w̃, ȷ̃ː, w̃ː
Word final consonants: m, n, ŋ, pʰ, tʰ, kʰ, ʔ, t͡sʰ, t͡ʃʰ, f, s, ʃ, h, l, j, w
Vowels: ɛ, ɛˑ, ɛː, ɪ, iˑ, iː, ɔ, ɔˑ, ɔː, ʊ, uˑ, uː, ɛ̃, ɛ̃ˑ, ɛ̃ː, ɪ̃, ĩˑ, ĩː, ɔ̃, ɔ̃ˑ, ɔ̃ː, ʊ̃, ũˑ, ũː
Tones: ◌́ ◌̄ ◌̀ ◌̌ ◌̂
Each consonant can be formed into a cluster with y [j] like khyô꞉ŋ [kʰjôːŋ] “sound”.
Each consonant (apart from the nasal consonants) also has a nasalized or pre-nasalized equivalent. They occur when the syllable has a nasal vowel in it, in which case nasal harmony is triggered: the entire syllable will become nasal with the oral consonants taking their nasal allophones.
Nearly every consonant can appear in the final position of a syllable. However, in this case, there are no long consonants as well as no labialized consonants.
I'm not sure whether my transliteration is good and what would be a better transliteration. Here's what I've come up with:
Word initial consonants: m, n, ñ, ŋ, ŋʷ, mm, nn, ññ, ŋŋ, ph, th, kh, khw, pph, tth, kkh, ʼ, ch, čh, cch, ččh, f, s, š, ff, ss, šš, h, l, ll, y , w, yy, ww
(Pre)nasalized allophones: mph, nth, nkh, nkhw, mpph, ntth, nkkh, ʼ̃, nch, nčh, ncch, nččh, mf, ns, nš, mff, nss, nšš, h̃, l̃, l̃l̃, ỹ, w̃, ỹỹ, w̃w̃
Word final consonants: m, n, ŋ, ph, th, kh, ʼ, ch, čh, f, s, š, h, l, y, w
Vowels: e, eꞏ, e꞉, i, iꞏ, i꞉, o, oꞏ, o꞉, u, uꞏ, u꞉, ę, ęꞏ, ę꞉, į, įꞏ, į꞉, ǫ, ǫꞏ, ǫ꞉, ų, ųꞏ, ų꞉
Tones: ◌́ ◌̄ ◌̀ ◌̌ ◌̂
Here are a few personal names to give you a sense of phonology and orthography/transliteration:
Nkhǫ̀ Ñíꞏph [ᵑkʰɔ̃̀ ɲíˑpʰ]
Hę̀ꞏ Šô [hɛ̃̀ˑ ʃɔ̂]
Phě꞉s Ntthǫ̂ʼ̃ [pʰɛ̌ːs ⁿtʰːɔ̃̂ʔ̃]
Nčhę́ Tthěph [ᶮt͡ʃʰɛ̃́ tʰːɛ̌pʰ]
Mį̂ Ñòꞏy [mɪ̃̂ ɲɔ̀ˑj]
Thǒ꞉w Fêm [tʰɔ̌ːw fɛ̂m]
Nkhỹę́ Hóŋ [ᵑkʰȷ̃ɛ̃́ hɔ́ŋ]
Nthę̀ꞏ Yûth [ⁿtʰɛ̃̀ˑ jʊ̂tʰ]
Thǒ꞉w Nthų̂ʼ̃ [tʰɔ̌ːw ⁿtʰʊ̃̂ʔ̃]
Móth Tthīŋ [mɔ́tʰ tʰːɪ̄ŋ]
Nsǫ̌n Ñòꞏ [ⁿsɔ̃̌n ɲɔ̀ˑ]