The Denkan seasons or kozem /‘kɔzɛm/ are 5 and are listed above in the Zør dialect. Their translation is:

okud /ˈɔkʉð/ spring
vanar /ˈvanaɾ/ summer
satse /ˈsatsɛ/ rainy season
idu /ˈiðʉ/ autumn
mize /ˈmizɛ/ winter

The Denkan year starts after the spring equinox and is divided into 12 to 13 lunar months, each one of them with 29 days and a characteristic etymology. The ending -rar comes from lar /laɾ/ that means moon or month. The main kozerem /ˈkɔzɛɾɛm/ or festivals are New year, on the first day of Laimirar, the summer festival on Natserar 5th, Foundation day (Kørar 10th), that marks the beginning of the Denkan civilization, and the Revelation day (Izerar 14th), a religious holiday commemorating the illumination of the prophet.

1. Laimirar /ˈlaimiɾaɾ/, from laimi beginning. It opens the year.
2. Vethurar /ˈvɛθʉɾaɾ/, from vethu to prosper, when the fields come up.
3. Zotherar /ˈzɔθɛɾaɾ/, from zoth, the colour that covers both green and blue.
4. Natserar /ˈnatsɛɾaɾ/, from nats wheat.
5. Satserar /ˈsatsɛɾaɾ/, from satse, the rainy season.
6. Kørar /ˈkœɾaɾ/, for the Kør dynasty, the first Denkan one.
7. Botserar /ˈbɔtsɛɾaɾ/, from botser seven, its place in the year.
8. Izerar /ˈizɛɾaɾ/, from izen cold.
9. Snikrar /ˈsnikɾaɾ/, from snik ice.
10. Meburar /ˈmɛbʉɾaɾ/, from mebu snow.
11. Sirar /ˈsiɾaɾ/, for the Sir dynasty.
12. Hozerar /ˈhɔzɛɾaɾ/, from hozer to thaw.
13. Donurar /ˈðɔnʉɾaɾ/, the intercalary month, from donu to add.

I have ADHD. (I guess a fair proportion of the rest of you do as well, since people with ADHD tend to like the same things.) Combine this with a poor short-term memory and a poor long-term memory, and I have been a trial and a frustration to myself and the people around me for the last fifty years, and will become even more so if I follow my mother and grandmother into early-onset Alzheimer's.

I was thinking about this the other night, when I put an elastic band around my wrist to remind myself that I was meant to be salvaging a set of shelves from around the block by unscrewing it and carrying it home, rather than the other half-dozen things I was also thinking about. The elastic band method is superior to the old-fashioned knot in the handkerchief, in that one may more easily overlook the handkerchief unless one has a cold. But they both have the weakness of having no semantic content besides that one does in fact have a task to perform.

My solution is wut beads. These are to be cheaply 3D printed from plastic, to clip onto a wut bracelet, to represent what I'm meant to be doing.

A wut bracelet:

1. Must have as many points of attachment for wut beads as may be necessary.
2. Must be waterproof, so that you never have to take it off except maybe at airport security.
3. Should correspondingly be hard to take off and then lose, more like a wristwatch than a bangle.
4. Should make it easy to attach and detach wut beads, but hard to detach them by accident (there are a number of simple spring mechanisms which achieve this).

I would have a set of wut beads, my wife would have another, with plenty of duplicates because what the heck, they're cheap. She could attach a wut bead to the bracelet, and she or I could detach it when I'm done. The same technique could be applied to toddlers, or anyone else who requires careful management. Sweet treats could be dispensed on completion of a task ... and I guess some sort of reward system would also work for toddlers.

As an additional benefit, having a wut bead on one's bracelet would demonstrate that one was busy doing something without needing to explain this fact or say what it is, one could just hold up one's hand and point to one's wrist. This would come as a huge relief to those of us who have enough distractions inside our heads without other people getting involved.

As an initial spec for the beads, this is what I've come up with:

1. The beads shall be tiles with various outlines, and with holes for points of attachment.
2. A bead shall have the same simple raised design on both sides.
3. The outline of the bead combined with the design shall convey all the semantic information of the bead.
4. For each shape and design of bead, the background color of the bead and the foreground color of the design shall be standardized.
5. The design must be simple; it may be highly stylized and conventional to achieve this: it can be a mere clue, so long as the clue is in fact sufficient when one knows the answer. The colors should help here.
6. The designs shall not depend on any existing alphabet or system of numbers. However, designs with widespread international recognition (the heart for love, a dollar sign for money) may be used.
7. The outline of a bead shall suggest its semantic category. As wut beads are a very limited language, our usual categories of nouns, verbs, adverbs, etc are of little use. Instead I tentatively suggest the following system, which can be amended and/or expanded.

• A square represents the object that the task is about.
• A Rouleaux triangle represents an action to be performed to accomplish the task.
• A circle represents the goal of the task.
• A square with dished concave sides represents the place where the task takes place.
• A hexagon represents the time at which the task takes place.
• A star represents a person involved in the task, as a beneficiary, assistant, etc.

(The picture attached to the post gives the right idea for the shapes but they're not to quite to the right relative scale, 'cos I got Google AI to hack it out for me.)

That's as far as I've got, and it seemed to me that thinking about the designs and the colors would be a pleasant community project; I will document what we come up with.

Note that this would supply a very crude international auxlang between people familiar with wut beads: you couldn't discuss philosophy using them (that's what toki pona is for), but you might well be able to communicate simple requests by producing the beads or drawing them.

The colors represent what language script the variants and dialects use for those who don't know. Feel free to post your maps of your language's variants and dialects.

Imagine if a speaker was trying to learn English. How would your conspeakers say this sentence:

"I don't know if the man here went to the village"

Include IPA and adapt the english sounds to how your conspeakers would pronounce. Make sure to include grammatical mistakes where a conspeaker carries features from their native langauge like missing articles or different word order

In **Cukui**:

I don't know of the here man went to village

/aĭ ˈdon no owă dʲi hʲiă man wen tu ˈwiridză/

Cukui has CCVN syllable structure, so the final consonant is either dropped or an epenthetic a is added. For the Complementiser, they use **i** and the closest english equivalent is "of" and modifier mostly come before nouns so here is before man.

Feel free to add explanation to yours:

The Worst Conlang Ever!

Welcome (for the first time)! This challenge is literally about showing off your WORST conlang (in the sense of being extremely difficult or a "curselang"). Show a conlang that is impossible for any human to utter even a word in.

NOTE: Whoever wins this episode will earn the Grand Title of Best Curselanger and the chance to choose the next challenges/constraints and/or what to translate into the curselangs. Every Wednesday, I will announce the official results along with the next episode.

Please use IPA, glosses, a translation (literal or otherwise), or any other method to aid understanding.

Let the games begin!

Hello everyone, I've been making an Iranian language called Zindari (also known as Zindari Persian), part of the Indo-Iranian branch. Though it is close to Persian, Tajik and Dari, Zindari is actually more independent and evolved from its own Iranic branch (Zindaric, I'd consider it to be a Southeast Iranian language). The language is over 2,500+ years old.

Zindari as a language is spoken by the Zindari people who live in Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan and (to an extent) Russia. The language is spoken by roughly 13.3 million people (the 3 million speakers reside in Russian Caucasia).

Historically, Zindari used the Pahlavi and later Perso-Arabic script, but it switched to the Cyrillic script around 1930 after a small portion of its population migrated toward the USSR. Zindari uses both Cyrillic and Perso-Arabic as its writing system, though I'm sticking to Cyrillic because it makes Iranian languages (like Tajik or Ossetian) look more interesting to read.

Here is a small vocabulary I made for Zindari, this is just a small starter thing so you know what's going on. More of the vocabulary and grammar of Zindari will come soon.

Here's also the copy-pasted text of the vocabulary (this was pasted from my Notepad):

Салам алайкум/Салам (Selām alājkum/Selām) - Hello, peace be upon you

Зарад бехомад (Zarād behomād) - Goodbye, bye, see you soon

Халь чаторы (Hal' čatory) - How are you

Сепас (Sepās) - Thank you

Хошдид (Hošdid) - Welcome

Бадид олсунь (Badid olsun) - Congratulations

Хош тодид (Hoš todid) - Nice to meet you

Кам ман заборех (Kam mān zaboreh) - How may I help/assist you

Thank you for reading, let me know if you have any thoughts on this language project. Feel free to share your language's vocabularies down in the comments, or if you also have some form of an Iranian language, feel free to share it as well! Thank you so much!

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...

Sketch of a conlang by /u/Miserable-Method-431

amʌˤlʌŋʌŋkʌ - deverbal noun - meal of fruit, eaten by an animal

Borrowed into Ąą’vo Tì

amǫlǫn‘ - noun V - fruit bowl - [amɤlɤnʔ]

Here's to another 800!

Peace, Love, & Conlanging ❤️

Hi everyone,

I love this space, but I’ve noticed that while the conlanging community is amazing here, discussing complex linguistic concepts, phonology, and grammar can sometimes be a bit daunting for those of us whose first language isn't English (I’ve actually been accused of being a bot before just because I use a translator when my English isn't quite up to par for certain topics).

This isn't about dividing the community, but rather about providing a comfortable entry point for native Spanish speakers to dive deep into conlanging without the language barrier.

I wanted to ask the community (and specifically check) if the current moderation team has any insight or existing alternatives for this: do you feel there is a need or interest in having a dedicated space (like an official sister subreddit) to discuss and share conlang projects exclusively in Spanish?

To be clear, I am not looking to promote a personal project or build an independent audience here. Instead, I’m wondering if the current r/conlangs mods have ever considered handling a Spanish-speaking branch, or what options might already exist for this. What do you all think? If there is enough interest, it would be amazing to see something officially supported or guided by the existing community framework.

Mods: I hope this discussion post is okay. If it violates any rules, please feel free to remove it!

In my language the schwa phoneme is a separate sound (and letter in the neograph), but I really struggle with how to transliterate it in a way that is easy to read.

My other vowels:
/i/ - transliterated as "i"

/u/ - transliterated as "u"

/o/ - transliterated as "ò"

/eɪ/ - transliterated as "è"

/ɔ/ - transliterated as o, unless it precedes an r, then it's "ar"

Here are my unsatisfactory transliteration rules for /ə/:

- if the syllable does not have a coda consonant, then it's "a"

- if the vowel precedes an r, then it's "er"

- otherwise it's "uh", but I don't like this

So, if you use the schwa as a dedicated (?), intentional phoneme, not simply an unstressed vowel, how do you transliterate in your language?

(I understand that many unstressed vowels will shift to a schwa sound over time.)

In this game, I'll supply some words that aren't very commonly used in English and you can make translations for them or near translations in your conlangs.

Today's words:

1. Naufrage(n.): a shipwreck in which the ship is completely destroyed

2. Multisonous(adj.): having many sounds

3. Gloaming(n.): the time of day in which the fireflies come out

4. Umbra(n.): the shadow of a planet; a celestial shadow

5. Exfiltrate(v.): for an army to sneak away

WILDLÜPH

• Order: MVSOT. (M: Momentum // T: Terminus)
• Morphosyntactic alignment: Ergative-Accusative Tripartite.
• Grammatical casses: 73.
  • Possessive (12)
  • Associative: (9): adjectival relationals.
  • Adverbial (6): adverbial relationals.
  • Relacional (11): adjacent relationals.
  • Affinitive (8): affinity between nouns.
  • Spatial (8): spatial affinity.
  • Temporal (9): temporal affinity.
  • Noun (2): spatiotemporal affinity with spatiotemporal nouns.
• Polarities
  • Positive: true, always, synthesis, redone.
  • Negative: false, never, antithesis, undone.
  • Mediative: mediocre, sometimes, incomplete, possible.
  • Version: nonspecific, incomplete, ineffective, complete, effective.
• Momentum:
  • Grammatical Tenses:
    • Stative: past (near, far, uncertain), present, future (near, far, uncertain), uncertain.
    • Fixed: two units before, one unit before, punctual, one unit after, two units after.
  • Grammatical Spaces:
    • Stative: near (near, far, uncertain), distant (near, far, uncertain), horizon (near, far, uncertain), uncertain.
    • Fixed: personal or seasonal limit, broad personal limit, signaling limit, distant signaling limit, non-perceptual limit.
  • Grammatical Perspectives: These are spatiotemporal markers that can be used to indicate the beginning, end, concept, or blurring of a subject or action in space and time.
    • delimited, proximal, inceptive, attenuative, gradative, depletive.
  • Transitivity: intransitive, transitive, ditransitive, tritransitive, tetratransitive, extransitive, ultransitive.
• Semantic roles (hand in hand with adjetivals):
  • Infinitives: conceptual, relative.
  • Oblique, adjetivial, intransitive, meddlevoice.
  • Estructural: ergatives.
  • Absolutives: patient, locational, middle, collaborator, recipient, dated, stimulus, connective.
  • Parallels: tema-descriptive, comparative-referencial.
• Adjectival (hand in hand with semantic roles):
  • Infinitives: for semanthic roles conceptual and relative.
  • Oblicuos: for semantic roles adjetivial, intransitive, middlevoice.
  • Participles: active and passive. These are used for structural semantic roles alongside absolutive and supine semantic roles.
  • Linear: for the semantic roles of topic-descriptive and comparative-referential.
• Modals (34).
• Aspects (39).
  • Fases: nonspecific, punctual, iterative, repetitive, intermittent, recurrent, frequentative, argumentative, hesitant, fluctuating, suddenly.
  • Frequency: nonspecific, always, usual, norm, frequent, "sometimes", occasional, rare, "almost never", never, probable.
• Modilocutions:
  • Indicative: assertive.
  • Subjunctive: desirable, imagined, possible, verbal.
  • Imperative: admonative, direct, adverse, verbal.
  • Condicional: condicional, dubitative, potential, jussive, verbal.
  • Hortative: animative, hortative, verbal.
  • Interrogative: verifiable, specific, irratorical, hypothetical.
  • Reportative: citation, declarative, verbal reportative, verbal hypothetical.
  • Necessary: ​​necessary, certain, causative, verbal.
  • Expressive: admiring, frustrating.
  • Pragmative: thankful, salutative, insulting.
  • Commissive: promising, permittive, verbal.
  • Scientific: none, axiomatic, refutative, refutative, allegative, theoretical, hypothetical, conjectural, verbal, adverbial.
  • Perceptual: none, memorial, apparent, intuitive, presumed, imaginative, verbal, adverbial. Evidential: none, direct, evident, reliable, deductive, inferential, cultural, reported, presumptive, intentional, conspiratorial, rumor, putative, tentative, dubitative, imporable, metaphorical, clairvoyant, altered, invalidating.
• Terminus
  • Synchronic (7): equivalent to coordinate clauses and sanctions.
  • Diachronic (22): equivalent to subordinate clauses and sanctions.
  • Achronic (6): equivalent to juxtaposed clauses.
• Functions
  • Potential: This refers to the potential energy of a verb. It is equivalent to the stative form of a verb.
  • Kinetic: This refers to the kinetic energy of a verb. It is equivalent to the dynamic form of a verb.
• Pointers
  • Inductivity:
    • Reflexive: x=y (x, y are not distinct).
    • Reciprocal: R(x,y); R(y,x).
  • Respectivity:
    • Ordinal: (a+b+c+d)(w+x+y+z)=aw+bx+cy+dz.
    • Inverted: (a+b+c+d)(w+x+y+z)=az+by+cx+dw.
  • Refracted: (a+b+c+d)(w+x+y+z)=ax+by+cz+dw.
• Adjective Roles
  • Nominal: oblique.
  • Attributive: qualitative, apparent, conditional, sentimental, compositional.
  • Numerical: objective, animate, operative, ideological, ordinal, counter.
• Pronouns:
  • Persons: internal stoic, internal common, whole exclusive, whole inclusive, near presence, medium presence, distant presence, external non-presence.
  • Number: singular, dual, trial, tetra, inclusive plural, and exclusive plural.
  • Genders: feminine, masculine (both for animate beings), neuter (for inanimate or unknown beings).
  • Animity: inanimate, microbe, mechanical, artificial, animal, intelligent, divine.
  • Tangibility: intangible (for physical and supernatural phenomena), tangible, ideal (for ideas and imagination).
  • Other: agglutinative, honorific (for intelligent or divine animate beings).
• Articles:
  • Gender: neuter, masculine, feminine, ambiguous.
  • Number: unknown, singular, dual, trial, tetral, plural.
  • Nature: indefinite, definite universal, random, ambiguous, demonstrative.
  • Closeness: none, inclusive, exclusive.
  • Connectivity: indefinite, separate, connected, fused.
  • Consistency: indefinite, similar, dissimilar, diffuse.
• Theme-Rheme: focus, presupposition, alternate, reasoning, manner, place, time, subject, object.
• Perceptual Sensations
  • Biases (65): emotions, feelings.
  • Environmental (20): climate, atmosphere.
  • Olfactory (16).
  • Emotional (17): feelings, emotions, passions, sins.
  • Bodily (4): health, energy, sexuality, cravings.

FONEMAS:

• Consonantes (32):
  • Nasales: m, n, ɲ, ɴ.
  • Oclusivas: p, b, t, d, ʈ, ɟ, k, g, q.
  • Fricativas sibilantes: s, ʃ, ʐ, ʑ.
  • Fricativas no sibilantes: f, v, ɹ̠̊˔, ð, ʝ, x.
  • Aproximantes: ɥ, w, ʯ (sch-sound), ɹ̠ʲ/j˖, ɰ̊/ɧ.
  • Vibrantes: ⱱ, ɾ.
  • Laterales: l, ʟ̠.
• Vocales (28):
  • Nucleares: u, i, e, o, ä.
  • Orbitales: ы, ə, a, ɒ.
  • Palatales (iotadas): ю, е, ё, я.
  • Labiales (uatadas): ʷi, ʷe, ʷo, ʷä.
  • Laterales: ɫi, ɫə, ɫa.
  • Vibrantes: ɹu, ɹə, ɹɒ.
  • Sibilantes: ᶳы, ᶴы.
• Clusters (14)

WRITING

• Form:
  • Featural-Suborditense: writing for the Momentum and the Terminus.
  • Abugida-Scriptural: for nominal.
  • Syllabary-Grammatical: for pure grammar.
  • Logogram-Sensational: for sensations.
• Writing systems:
  • Floral: floral appearance, syllabary.
  • Angular: angular appearance, syllabary.
  • Linear: linear appearance, abugida.
  • Separatist: consonant-vowel appearance, alphabet.
  • Triangular: resembling Ithkuil and Hebrew, alphabet.
  • Human: with our characters, alphabet.

There's still much more to add, especially regarding grammar, semantics, and pragmatics. But I'll add things little by little. And I'll upload the writing soon, though it's somewhat complex because grammar, sensations, and nominal-verbal language aren't written the same way.

For vowels mine is definitely /y/ imo its so satisfying to say and hear. Then for consonants id probably say my favourite is either /ɲ/ or /ʎ/, i really like palatals

Edit: I’m aware the title should be “What are you favourite phonemes??” Sorry for the bad grammar

I have a postfix '-ke' to indicate that the verb is a verb. The onset of the word is the base meaning, which on its own can be used as a noun. For Example, 'maukke' means to build, fabricate, or produce, but when you cut the '-ke' the mauk mean building or creation. What confuses me is the infinitive doesn't usually stay on unless it is the sole verb or the final verb of the phase. Yet, without it you can't tell if the verb is a noun or an adjective. Should I keep it or find an other way to indicate verbs that isn't is unconjugated/not main verbs.

✦ LENDARI ✦

The Gifted Language

Official Codex · General Compendium (Version 9.0 — English Edition) Working script: Latin · Native script: in design

"DARI AZI, DARI GIVE." Whoever shares the language, gives a gift. Whoever receives it, belongs.

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🏛️ Chapter I — The Two Names

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👥 Chapter II — The Persons (Pronouns)

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⚖️ Chapter III — The Social Order and Derivational Mechanisms

The five ranks

⚠️ Sacred law: -API belongs only to human blood. It is never granted to a stranger nor to a non-human offspring (for that, the P- mutation exists, see below).

The two voices of gender

-yeo (masculine) · -yeq (feminine), attached to a descriptive root: SINTE-yeo/yeq (intelligent) · KUAP-yeo/yeq (foolish) · ELIZ-yeo/yeq (happy) · AJAA-yeo/yeq (sad) · WEN-yeo/yeq (tall) · VAT-yeo/yeq (short) · KUY-yeo/yeq (ugly)

This gender system is not limited to adjectives — it has also been confirmed as productive in fauna: KIKIRIYEO (rooster) / KIKIRIYEQ (hen), from the root KIKIRI-.

The old (irregular) adjectives

Suffixes, Prefixes, and Productive Mutations

• -ed (Event / Occasion): a root + -ed names the celebration or occasion tied to that concept.
  • DARI-ed (gift + ed) → party / celebration
• -z (Plural of common nouns): unlike the personal plurals (FEET, FESI, FEIS, FEEQ), -z marks the plural of objects and general nouns. It attaches directly to the root.
  • THORT → lathe · THORT-z → lathes
  • General rule: ASA → ASA-z, MIAK → MIAK-z, ALT → ALT-z
• P- mutation (Diminutive / non-human offspring): the root's initial consonant is dropped and replaced with P-; if the root begins with a vowel, P- is simply prefixed without removing anything.
  • KIKIRIKI → PIKIRIKI (chick)
  • ASA → PASA (little house)
• YA- (Mini-authority prefix): distinct from the rank suffixes above, YA- is a prefix that softens or reduces the authority/weight of a root.
  • YASAN (YA + S + AN) → book
• -si (Subject / field of study): any root + -si names the academic subject corresponding to that concept — distinct from -len, which still means "language."
  • MATESI (math, from "matemáticas" + si) · OLTSI (history, from OLT "old age" + si) · OUGSI (science, from OUG "known" + si) · LINSI (art, from LIN "line/stroke" + si)
• -len (Language / structural framework): ESPASILEN (Spanish), SIKITLEN (system).

🏗️ The Two Laws of Spatiality and Interrogation

1. The Contraction of Interiority (-IEST): When the interiority prefix I- (inside) joins the root ET (place/space), they contract into the productive suffix -IEST (room / enclosed space). I + ET → -IEST (e.g., LUN + IEST = LUNIEST, bedroom).
2. The Interrogative Prefix (MI-): The root MI- (point of reference) attaches to concepts to form basic question words.
   • MI + EST (state) → MIEST (Where?)
   • MI + ENAT (time) → MIENAT (When?)
   • MI + QANT (thing) → MIQANT (What?)

Uppercase and Lowercase System

Lendari uses a mixed system, where letter case marks whether an element carries its own semantic weight or is purely grammatical function:

The P- mutation (PIKIRIKI, PASA) and YA- compounds (YASAN) are written entirely in uppercase: although built from pieces, the result already functions as a closed dictionary root, not as root+suffix.

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⚡ Chapter IV — The Engine of the Verb and Syntax

The Law of Order (SOV)

Lendari is strictly SOV (Subject + Object + Verb). The verb always closes the sentence. Formula: [Subject] + [Object/Complement] + [Root + AZI + Tense]

The Engine's Particles

Examples:

• LI LEN Lendari AIT AZI → "I the-language Lendari learn" (I learn the Lendari language)
• FEET WALEN FIXSH BAIL AZI GEEP-y → "We the-syrup buy on-the-avenue" (We buy syrup on the avenue)

Note: the Canonical Verses in Chapter IX are kept in their original order (closer to SVO) as an archaic/ceremonial record — they are not retroactively rewritten.

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🧬 Chapter V — The Roots (The DNA of the World)

🕯️ Society, Philosophy, and Mind

OUG known · FREGO friend · SINTE intelligence · KUAP foolishness · LAN beauty · KUY ugliness · ELIZ happiness · AJAA sadness · AGGZT anger · LAI love · DARI gift · OLT old age · FRAIT honor · ZALDUT courage / valor

✨ Theology and the Sacred

• ERTIALDEN — god / divinity / creator (native root)
• IX — giver of life (root inspired by Ixchel, Maya goddess of medicine and childbirth)
• MESIASE — messiah / savior

🌍 Body, Space, and Nature

MIE manner · WEN height · VAT lowness · LEN language · LUN sleep · LUMIX light · ASA house · NEEB bathroom · GEEP street · WALEN water · OUILIER above · REM rain (visual iconicity: R=cloud, E=drops, M=person under the rain) · REN sky/firmament · ATA to fly/elevation · ET place/physical space · I- interiority prefix

📜 Study, Art, Writing, and Metalinguistics

AIT learning · FOULEN phonetics · LIN line / stroke · LINFIP feather/quill (for writing/bird) · ALT word · EQT equivalence/equality (productive element) · S pages or canvases together (a set of writing/image surfaces) · AN composition connector element · KROMA color · MI point of reference / interrogative base · QANT thing / concept / "that"

🐾 Fauna and Creatures

MIAK cat · LIBNON wolf · SPYTAR spider · KEP dog (visual iconicity: K=face, E=body, P=tail — replaces DEROK, discontinued) · KIKIRIKI bird, generic (onomatopoeic origin)

🍞 Sustenance, Objects, and Clothing

FOU food · PAN bread · ARNE meat · ZIIPIT clothing · LOON pants · SHER t-shirt · HEVO egg (loanword from Spanish, adapted) · PLASTIK plastic (loanword)

💼 Economy and Combat

ORKART work · BAIL to buy · PEEL to sell · PIECKT sword · HIILD shield

🏥 Medicine

• IXSH — doctor (IX + SH; inspired by Japanese 医者 isha)
• FIXSH — medicine / drug (final form; discarded forms: FIXCH, FIBISH)

🎮 Technology, Systems, and Art

• KIT — video
• JASA — game
• KETO — keyboard (loanword, informal register)
• KOMPTER — computer/PC (loanword, informal gamer register)
• DULIT — doll (loanword from "doll")
• MODTIL — module
• ORKST — orchestra
• EIGNTI — engineering/technical engine
• NEUSINTE — neural
• SIKIT — video as a subject/field

🪑 Furniture and Everyday Objects

• LUT — door
• THORT — lathe
• TALEI — table (loanword from "table," adapted)
• JAKET — card (loanword)
• CREDIT — credit (direct loanword, unadapted — "raw" register)

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👨‍👩‍👧 Chapter VI — Blood (Family)

IXEL mother (reanalyzed: IX "giver of life" + EL "senior blood") · BEEL father · AL grandfather · ALYEQ grandmother · BRET brother · BRIS sister · LIX-API my son/daughter · FE-API your son/daughter / nephew-niece

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🏛️ Chapter VII — Compound and Derived Words

🎓 Education, Art, and Subjects (-SI)

AITLEN school · ESPASILEN Spanish (ESPASI + LEN, "language of Spain") · YEQLEN-y / YEOLEN-y female/male teacher · YEQLEN-at / YEOLEN-at female/male student · EQTALT synonym (EQT + ALT) · ALTSAN story/tale (ALT + S + AN: "words + pages together") · YASAN book (YA + S + AN: "pages with mini-authority/content") · LINSI art · KROMAZI to paint · LINAZI to draw · LINASA canvas · LINALTAS comic

🌤️ Nature and Celestial Phenomena

• RENATA — flight / celestial ascension (REN + ATA: "sky + fly")
• REMATA — fog / mist / dew (REM + ATA: "rain + fly")
• REN EXIET — lost sky / the nonexistent firmament (REN + EXI + ET: "the sky that is a place that no longer is")
• REN-LUMIX — celestial light / dawn
• REN-WEN — the zenith / the height of the sky

🗺️ Places and Spaces (Applying the -IEST and ET rule)

• LUNIEST — bedroom (LUN + IEST)
• NEEBIEST — bathroom (NEEB + IEST)
• ASA-ET — plot of land / lot (ASA + ET: open space)
• GEEP-ET — the plaza / place of the street

🍽️ Table, Clothing, Combat, and Code

FOUTA banquet · WALEN FOU drink · FOU ARNE meat dish · FOU PAN bread breakfast · ZIIPIT-y uniform / formal clothing · LOON-y dress pants · WALEN FIXSH syrup / liquid medicine (water + medicine) · LEN PIECKT insult · LEN HIILD verbal defense · SINTE PIECKT strategy · SINTE HIILD prudence · FRAIT-yeo/yeq person of honor · ZALDUT-yeo/yeq brave person

💻 Technology and Systems (The MONSE Acronym)

• SINTASA — formal computer (SINTE + ASA: "house of intelligence")
• KITJASA — video game (KIT + JASA)
• SIKITLEN — system / structural framework (SIKIT + LEN)
• MONSE — (Acronym for MODTIL ORKST NEUSINTE SIKITLEN EIGNTI). Engineering engine of the system's modular neural orchestration.

🎉 Fun, Fauna, and Economy

• JASA-DULIT — doll (recreational use)
• JASA-PLASTIK — toy
• JASA ASA — to play at home
• JASA DARI-ed — party (play + celebration)
• KIKIRIYEO — rooster (KIKIRI + YEO)
• KIKIRIYEQ — hen (KIKIRI + YEQ)
• PIKIRIKI — chick (P- mutation)
• PASA — little house (P- mutation)
• IXSH-EL — doctor with a maternal-care connotation (IXSH + EL)
• VATAT — poverty (VAT "lowness" + AT "low rank": "lowness of rank")

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🔗 Chapter VIII — The Bridges (Connectors and Question Words)

Question Words (the MI- System)

• MIEST — Where?
• MIENAT — When?
• MIQANT — What?

Connectors and Directions

• QANT — that (conjunction) / thing
• LO QANT — because
• MIESIT — exit / destination
• OUGBA (hello) · OUGIS (goodbye)
• hai (and) · peis (but)

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💬 Chapter IX — Canonical Verses

1. YEOLEN-y LINFIP-y AZI SINTELEN WEN HAI FOULEN. The teacher writes the Great Language and phonetics with the pen of honor.
2. PIECKT-y ZALDUT HAI FRAIT AZI GEEP-y. The warrior walks the avenue with courage and honor.
3. KEP HAI MIAK EXI LUN AZI ASA. (updated: DEROK → KEP, following DEROK's discontinuation) The dog and the cat do not sleep in the house.
4. Fe BRET ZIIPIT AZI SHER LANI HAI LOON-y. Your brother wears a pretty shirt and dress pants.

Note: these verses are preserved in their original word order (closer to SVO) as an archaic/ceremonial register and are not retroactively rewritten to strict SOV.

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✍️ Chapter X — The Writing That Draws (Visual Iconicity)

A confirmed word-formation mechanism where the written shape of each Latin letter visually represents a part of its referent — not its sound. Unlike onomatopoeia (which imitates sound) or borrowing (which imitates another language), here the letter itself acts as a pictographic stroke.

Pending: decide whether this technique stays reserved for fauna and natural phenomena, or expands to other vocabulary categories.

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🔞 Chapter XI — The Forbidden Lexicon

"A language without swear words is a dead language. The forbidden lexicon lives at the heart of the community."

Taboo Dictionary

Syntax of the Intensifier (NILTU)

NILTU LANI = damn pretty · NILTU KUAP-yeo = fucking idiot · NILTU ZALDUT = pure courage / extreme bravery · NILTU SPYTAR = damn spider

Law of Social Etiquette

• Among OUG (peers): forbidden words express affection, fondness, or extreme trust.
• Directed at a -y or an -el: an act of insubordination or a declaration of social war.
• From an -at toward a superior: automatic demotion in rank or a service fine.

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🗣️ Chapter XII — Phonology and Pronunciation (The Breath)

Based on Latin American Spanish phonetics.

1. Vowels: 5 pure vowels (A, E, I, O, U). Fluid diphthongs.
2. Consonants: SH = /ʃ/, Z = /s/ (seseo), Q = /k/ (silent U). Complex clusters (SPY-, ORKST) with optional vocalic support.
3. Stress: Penultimate syllable if the word ends in a vowel, N, or S; final syllable if it ends in another consonant. The verbal particles (AZI, EIT, NAI, EXI) carry rhythmic emphasis.

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🚧 Chapter XIII — What Still Sleeps (Pending Items)

✦ Numbers (MATESI): basis for commerce and systems. ✦ The Native Alphabet: drawn with LINFIP. ✦ The 3 Relics of the Forbidden Lexicon: the fighting cock/dick, the fart, and the sacred blasphemies. ✦ The Founding Manifesto and server structure. ✦ Additional furniture: chair, bed, window. ✦ Scope of Visual Iconicity: expandable to the whole vocabulary?

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I'm very daunted by the prospect of creating a whole language from scratch, but I have an idea of how to easily create a language for my world I'm currently working on building. I plan to have a story set in my world and make a web comic to tell the story.

My idea for how to "create" the language is very lazy and simple, which is why I'm curious if it's been done before and if there's a name for it. My idea is to take a real world language and simply create a scheme for shifting the sounds of that language. For example, every instance of [d] becoming [z], etc. and shifting all or most of the sounds of that real language in this manner. The end result will be a language that is not recognizable but basically a cipher? Of a real one.

Has this been done before? Is there a name for this type of thing? Thanks.

A while back, I happen to find the following decision from the Copyright Review Board while doing some Wikipedia editing. I'm surprised I could not seem to find discussion of this. It is not even mentioned in the memo Dentons wrote up about conlang copyrightability for the Language Creation Society or several other papers on the subject.

Cyan Inc. applied for a copyright on the characters of the D'ni language ("Newly created symbolic characters for new language") from the MYST series. The Board rejected its filing for copyright registration because it decided A.) The character designs were not original/unique enough to be copyrighted, and B.) The characters constituted a system of communication, which by law can not be copyrighted. Cyan Inc.'s counsel appealed the decision, and the Board again rejected their claim to copyright.

The Board then decided that, whether or not the characters in themselves have sufficiently original design to be copyrighted, they still necessarily represent a distinct system of communication, and no system of communication can be copyrighted.

TLDR: Systems in general can not be copyrighted. The Dn'i alphabet, with its characters being inseparable from its function as a system of communication, could not be copyrighted.

This really seems to be the most relevant standard for conlangs inherently being public domain. While not a literal court ruling, these decisions are good guidance where the law and precedent don't give clear answers.

Edit: Clarified some stuff.

Hi I wanna make a conlang for a bird species in my world and I ofc wanna make it sound like its really their language.

The species is a mix of secretary bird and barn owl, so Im wondering how I can transcribe the sounds they make into noises that can be used as a basis for letters and such.

Thank you for any advice :)

Sangodel'ya Hello!

This is Conlang Tultish, on latin alphabet, onomatopeoic morphology and epistemological ontological methodology.

Who would like to participate in application of it in real life adventure, please respond us here or find in "Conlang Tultish Club" in Facebook.

Reu Da See You!

mi=me,tu=you/other,ja=being/existence,do=movement,ka=cause,ma=good,pu=bad,ni=this,lo=more,ki=part,en=everything,the name of the LAI is endoki,it's SOV and changes to SVO when with question
Example text:Tuja ma means "He is good"

SETTING

Gavörkesjabze [gavørkes'jabze] is a language spoken by the people of Snourmorkas (short Is-Prišk name for the Northern Mountains Empire, neighbor of the Čemek Empire, where Is-Prišk is spoken), situated in the north of Magna Terra Orientalis, one of the continents of Is-Mirnaþ, my first and currently only worldbuilding project (work-in-progress as this conlang still is).

PHONOLOGY

Vowels

Gavörkesjabze has 8 vowels ( <a> [a] ; <e> [e],[ɛ] ; <i>[i] ; <y> [ɨ] ; <o> [o],[ɔ] ; <ö> [ø] ; <u> [u] ; <ü> [y] ). All have longer counterparts (ā, ē, ī, ȳ, ō, ő, ū, ű) and each one, except for ö and ü, has its nasal counterpart ( <ą> [ã]; <ę> [ẽ],[ɛ̃]; <į> [ĩ]; <ǫ> [õ],[ɔ̃]; <ų> [ũ]; <ỷ>** [**œ̃] ).

The distinction short/long vowel is productive, while the nasalisation is just original or might have phonological reasons (assimilations etc.).

Consonants

​Nasals: <m> [m], <n> [n]

Plosives: <p> [p], <b> [b], <t> [t], <d> [d], <kj> [c], <gj> [ɟ], <k> [k], <g> [g], <kw> [kʷ], <gw> [ɡʷ]

Fricatives: <f> [f], <v> [v], <þ> [θ], <ð> [ð], <s> [s], <z> [z], <š> [ʃ], <ž> [ʒ], <hj> [ç], <jj> [ʝ], <h> [x],[h]

Affricates: <c> [t͡s], <č> [t͡ʃ]

Vibrant and tap or flap: <r> [r],[ɾ]

Approximants: <j> [j], <w> [w]

Lateral approximants: <l> [l], <lj> [ʎ]

As you can see, almost every letter is a 1:1 reproduction of a sound, except for some digraphs ( <kj> [c], <gj> [ɟ], <hj> [ç], <jj> [ʝ], <lj> [ʎ] ) or two cases of allophony ( <h> [x],[h] ; <r> [r],[ɾ] ), due to position of the relative sound in the word.

GRAMMAR

Gender and number

The language has 3 grammatical genders (masculine -ø, neutre -o and feminine -e) and two numbers (singolar/plural -yn).

Syntax

The general structure of the sentence is mainly SVO or SOV, but it can be free thanks to the case system (Nominative, Genitive, Accusative and Dative), in auxilium of which prepositions come to express more complements that cannot be expressed by the cases in their pure form.

Personal pronouns

There are 7 personal pronouns: 1st singular (jak), 2nd singular (ty), 3rd singular (m. őr , f. sō, n. uno), 1st plural (am), 2nd plural (jīv), 3rd plural (hon) and a reflexive one that appears only in declinated form (so no nominative). The 3rd sing. neutre can be used also for an indefinite person (as in German man).

Adjectives

They take the same endings of the substantives, accordingly to gender and number (masculine singular adjectives have -i or -j ending, differently from zero desinence of the masculine singular substantives).

Verbs

Probably the most articulated sector of the language.

They can be expressed in 5 moods: infinite, indicative, ottative, participle and gerund.

Indicative has 5 tenses, of which 3 are simple (present, past and future) and 2 are compound (past perfect and future perfect. All of these tenses, except for present, have aspect duality (imperfective/perfective).

​As you can see, the compound tenses are created through the union of the simple tense and the participle past (for perfective) or gerund (for imperfective) of the main verb.

Personanl endings

Singular: 1st -ę , 2nd -iš , -3rd -(i)t

Plural: 1st -yn\* , 2nd -yt\* , 3rd -ynd\* (\* if the verbal theme ends in -v or -w, the endings shift to -un, -ut and -und).

Thank you for your attention.

I am available for any question, curiosity or any other kind of feedback.

Formanian is the conlang of only two letters (Except pronouns, which are only one letter). Formanian plural words are duplicated (Ri means frog, RiRi means frogs). I will plan to dub TV shows and movies into Formanian.
The subreddit for Formanian is r/formanian.

Selected words in Formanian:
Ga - cat
Lu - eye
Vo - Angry
Şi (Pronounced shee) - Lizard
Ñe (Pronounced nyeh) - Smile
Xo (Pronounced kso) - Chocolate
Þy (Pronounced thigh) - Rat
Ço (Pronounced cho) - Cloud
Ðo (Pronounced zho) - Desert

Are you interested in the language or want to know the translation of a certain word? Comment down below.

Hello all!

This is one part of a conversation between two spacers about how they ended up in the trade. The language they used is now called Classic Bittic, a pictographic international trade language based on bits.

[Personal name] of [ship name]

Since Bittic lacks a phonological component, names in spoken languages cannot be directly transcribed into Bittic. Instead, the "speakers" of Bittic took the opportunity to make new names for themselves usually through combining two glyphs. To avoid potential confusion when multiple people chose the same name, trade ship crewmen would also state which ship they're from. I am planning on how to incorporate family names into Bittic.

"sit" meaning "foolishly"

Classic Bittic only has 13 verbs. When content words are combined with verb glyphs, then the verb loses its core meaning and instead applies a special meaning to the following glyph combination. The verb "to sit" means "the action was done foolishly" when combined with content words.

The fish

Since Bittic uses pixels to make messages, it makes sense that rudimentary pixel art would be used in some messages especially if the conversation is casual.

Thank you all for reading this! Comments and critiques are welcome!