#conlang intro

[endymia-conlangs]

Xyakàrasikàtut

fuck, I meant to save, not post!

spoken by the Xyakàrasta people (lit. translated as we who speak) is my lastest (wip) creation. It is a highly inflected language with probably the most oversized charts I could ever make. but first, I have to show you you the phonology!

(there's a fuckton more here so be ready)

Phonology

this here is the consonant inventory. you'd be right to guess I didn't mean that /q/ is a glottal plosive but I don't want to add a whole column for one uvular sound. I've also chosen to make the character ⟨j⟩ represent the sound /dʒ/. this is because I am lazy, speak English, and prefer ⟨y⟩ represent /j/ anyways. I also made ⟨c⟩ represent /tʃ/. now, for the vowels...

as you can see, I hate grids and don't think they really suit the liquid nature of vowels. all of the vowels here with diacritics are actually the result of dipthong flattening. specifically between the base character and whatever you wanna call the following phone in a dipthong. every vowel has a flat, acute, obtuse variant. the flat vowel is the base character without a diacritic (a, e, i, o, u). Acute vowels are marked with the uptick (á, é, í, ó, ú). and obtuse vowels are marked with the downtick (à, è, ì, ò, ù). acute vowels are some vowel plus /j/, and obtuse are some vowel plus /w/. although, dipthong flattening has happened to many and, for example has turned /ɪj/ to /i/ as well as changing others into the chart above. how does such a vowel system come into being? I dunno but it sure is fun!

"what are the allophonic systems like?" you may ask, thanks for asking! well when preceding /ɪ/, /i/, /j/, or /ɨ/, the sounds /h/, /x/, /s/, /z/, and /n/ become palatalized. this of course merges /x/ and /h/ into /ç/ because fuck you (not actually though that's mean please keeping reading my yap sesh). the rhotic /ɹ/ tends become the flap /ɾ/ inter intervocalically. as for where these sounds can occur? clusters can theoretically be infinitely long, except:

a fricative cannot directly follow a nasal or a plosive of different voicing or place of articulation (/pf/ is allowed, /ks/ is not)

if /l/ or /ɹ/ occur following a consonant, they become syllabic

nasals cannot follow stops

/s/ becomes voiced intervocalically

Grammar

nouns

there is a noun case system that accounts for amimacy or plurality in addition to whether something is a subject, object, instrument, or genitive/possessive.

this three-way animacy hierarchy is more of a grammatical category than fact, and the "plantish" or sometimes semi-animate largely contains abstract concepts like words and thoughts, in addition to things like plants, rivers, fungi, and sponges (the animal). the animate exclusively contains animals and people, while the inanimate is just things like rocks, cut lumber, tracts of land, and houses.

verbs

verbs are a little overcomplex, conjugated for past, present, and future, subject noun class, and one of 6 classes of evidentiality, the interrogative, the imperative, or finally the infinitive, all adding up to one extremely wide chart.

adjectives & adverbs

adjectives are largely similar to verbs except they don't mark for tense because that's always covered by the copula.

adverbs are, however, a little different

they flatten the semi-animate into the animate, and the paucal into the plural, as well as some of the evidentiality.

now, this is really simple by comparison as it's a pretty common system that word order is generally SVO, but due to all the headmarking and noun declensions and shizzle, you're also pretty much free to do whatever. what's a little odd, though, is that in the interrogative, it's fairly common to switch to OVS, but again, not madatory.

[iislak-mewu]

Īslak Mèwu intro post

Shishīkwa prana!¹ Welcome, travellers! I'll try and keep this post friendly and readable to non-linguists, I just wanna infodump about my language lol. This post has gotten a little long though, so apologies! Hopefully it serves well to give you a feel of it <3

¹/ɕiˈɕiə̯kʋa pʁaˈna/ PL~foreigner.PAT welcome

Consider this a formal introduction post to the conlang (constructed language) i've been making for like, over a year now at this point? on and off, mostly off tho lmao. The vast majority of stuff i've made is the grammar (this is very much my favourite area of langs lol, closely followed by the phonetics side of things), and as a result i really don't have many words or actual forms for things lol

Īslak Mèwu² (lit. valley's language) (or just Īsla for short) is a language spoken by the fictional Rūsawlitwā³ people. While the majority of them are a vertical transhumance culture, living in valleys and farming cattle (herders move the flock up and down the mountains in line with the seasons, while the majority of people live permenantly in the village), some groups have moved further afoot and are living in a more settled way in towns and cities in neighbouring regions.

²/iɐ̯ˈsla-k mɛˈʋu/ valley-GEN language (lit. "valley's language") ³/ʀuɐ̯-ˌsaʋli-ˈtˠaː/ cow-herd-AGN (lit. "cow-herders")

I'll start with Īsla's sounds, then give a (not-so-brief) tour of the grammar.

Phonology / sounds

Īsla has the following consonants: (If you don't recognise these symbols, you can find and listen to them here. You won't find ˠ in there, but it makes things sound more "dark".)

Īsla has eight short vowels, /i e ɛ a y ø u o/, along with the long vowels /iɐ̯, uɐ̯, iː, yː, uː, eː, aː/ and the rather distinctive syllabic fricatives /ʝ̩, ɣ̩ʷ, ɣ̩~ɦ̩/. These syllabic fricatives are high pitch, and often realised instead as breathy voiced vowels depending on dialect.

The syllable structure is (C)(C)V(C). Stress is assigned to the last "heaviest" syllable.

I am currently in the middle of reworking the past maybe 100 years of sound shifts, so this is subject to change (especially the vowel system)

Grammar

For the linguistics nerds among us, Īslak Mèwu is a synthetic language that features noun incorperation, a pretty free word order, 3 grammatical genders, split-S alignment, converbs, a shitty verb agreement system that will likely fall out of use in a generation or two (role marking is mostly done by the case system and emphatic pronouns), and TAM is typically marked via auxiliary verbs (tbf these are a lot more irregular so you do get decent verb agreement thru this). I'll explain these features briefly and how they work in Īsla:

Noun incorperation is a process where nouns and verbs are put together (compounded) into one word. We kinda have this in English - think about mountain-climbing, berry picking, horse riding, dishwashing, etc. In Īsla, this is MUCH more common than in English - this is used for basically every conventional activity. Natives talk about dinner-eating, sheet-changing, cow-chasing, dust-sweeping, fish-chopping, etc. These aren't always obvious from the words they're made of though! "whisky-swimming" actually means "to have thrown, to have deliberately lost a game", named for drinking games where people deliberately lose for the aim of getting drunk.

Grammatical gender. Like in French, German, etc. Īsla has 3 of them, and verbs, adjectives, pronouns, and determiners (think English "some", "most", "the", etc) "agree" with nouns in gender. Case markers merge with the gender markers.

Auxiliary verbs are little "helping" verbs that convey grammatical info alongside a more meaningful verb. English has these - "I will do X", "I should do X", "i have done X". Īsla verbs operate in basically the same way, but they come after the main verb, not before:

/niəsɛ sˠɣ̩mˈmuːs-a ɫʋin/ 3M.SG:ERG cook_dinner-NOMIN 3M.SG.IMP "He should cook dinner" /niəsɛ sˠɣ̩mˈmuːs-a tˠʋo/ 3M.SG:ERG cook_dinner-NOMIN 3M.LOC.COP "He is cooking dinner (for a while)" (lit. "He is in cooking dinner")

Case marking: Like in languages like German or Finnish. Little suffixes added to words to show what their role is in the sentence. In Īsla, the cases are the agentive case (do-ers), patientive case (things that have things done to them), genitive case (possessors), dative case (recipients of things, destinations, also used for expressing opinions as in "to me, X is cool"), the locative case (locations), and ablative case (sources and instruments).

Split-S alignment. ohhhhhh boy. this is FAR too complex of a topic to properly get into in an intro post like this, but the short of it that, Īsla just, can't make up its mind about what case to mark Ss with? For ease of writing, I'm gonna use "S" to refer to the only noun in an intransitive sentence (e.g. in "he walks", S is "he", but in "he hits him", there is no S, because this is a transitive sentence)

In Īsla, the main verb chooses what case the S should be in. There are two (main) categories of this:

"Unaccusative verbs" - S is marked with the "patientive" case (the case given to e.g. "person" in "i chase the person") /ˈtaːmu-∅ miɐ̯ˈlij/ person-PATIENTIVE lie "the person is lying down"

"Unergative verbs" - S is marked with the "agentive" case (the case given to e.g. "person" in "the person chases me") /ˈtaːmy jeˈiɐ̯s/ person:AGENTIVE walk "the person walks"

However, this case preference is overridden by most auxiliary verbs. For example /ʀom/, the inchoative auxiliary (="to begin Xing"), demands an agentive S: /ˈtaːmy ˈmiɐ̯lja ʀom/ person:AGENTIVE lie-NOMIN 3N.SG.INCH "the person starts lying down" /miɐ̯ˈlij/ "to be lying down" is typically unaccusative, but the presence of the inchoative auxiliary means that /taːmu/ is marked with the agentive case, rather than the patientive case as in the earlier example.

On the other end of that, /xe/, the past tense auxiliary, demands a patientive S: /ˈtaːmu jeˈiɐ̯s =xe/ person-PATIENTIVE walk =3N.SG.PAST "the person walked" This is the opposite thing - "walk" suggests an agentive S, but /xe/ overrides that.

The actual system is ofc more complicated than this, but this is enough for a quick overview.

I'm gonna stop talking here, before I make a post so long no one will want to read it, but there's absolutely more posts coming! …when i can fit them in between coursework and the adhd distractableness ofc. Hopefully this has given you a decent feel for the language, and please send asks about stuff if you're interested!! (i hope i've explained things ok) There's a lot I didn't touch on here, and a lotta detail I've left out, and I'd love an excuse to talk more about this stuff <3

[voiceless-lateral-fricative]

toki! im the alt conlanging blog of @ciandoesstuff.

go follow my main if you havent already

no dni but i block at will

[48lexr]

A Proper Introduction

It only now occurs to me that I haven't properly introduced myself (or this blog!) Welcome. I'm happy to have y'all. I'm Lex (they/them) (18+), your local siren, programmer, writer, worldbuilder, conlanger, composer, and gardener. I speak with a bit of a Southern accent.

This is my main (and only, for now) blog, where I mostly post about my writing endeavors and worldbuilding "woes" (I make myself suffer for fun.) In the future, I may make blogs devoted to specific conlangs or concultures, but I will probably make a website for that, first. If that happens, I will post it here. I follow other blogs I like ad nauseam.

Additionally, I'm always taking translation suggestions for any of my conlangs in any of my WIPs. At the moment, I only have two WIPs, which I'll list below, but I'm really only working on one right now.

My WIPs are:

It Will Hurt: And There Will be no Fire - (On hold) A story about a vegan big-V Vampire, her sister, her cofee bar, and a lot of people who want her power for themselves.

Meiste - (Current) A story about several Heroes running around and trying to restore "magical balance" while also navigating political and economic strife.

Moreover, current conlangs I'm accepting translation ideas for:

Ipol (and Sinezo 'speer)

Odapir

Atepsi

Kwalinu and Kwaleynnũ

Ytos and Itaush

Katla-Khi

Bumpe Nende

Knál Bnú and Kanál Banáu

I'm normally down for connecting with writing buddies, so if you're interested, feel free to DM me! I am also willing to proofread/edit others' works, in addition to helping however I can. I can make websites, make languages, and make music lol.

I promise I wrote today, so there will also be an update following this. Take care, y'all.

[thebigcj]

Hi!!!! Hello!!!! Howdy!!!!! Please, come in!!!

I'm thebigcj. I hope you like my incessant ramblings!

I often post about: Queer rights, Queer wrongs (they are mine), Undertale, Deltarune, Avatar: The Last Airbender, The Legend of Korra, Steven Universe, Homestuck (I love Homestuck), Cooking, Philosophy, Storytelling, Fanfiction, Worldbuilding, Linguistics, and Conlanging.

I am 19, my pronouns are she/they (singular) and they/them (plural), I am a plural system (I am trying to get diagnosed with what specific disorder I have, but there's a bunch of us in here). I am bi, nonbinary, and I'm neurodivergent as hell.

Here's some more info about me!

Classpect - Mage of Heart

Starsign - Libra sun // Sagittarius moon

Pokemon Typing - Psychic

Languages - English (first language), Japanese (one semester), Spanish (one semester), Finnish (currently learning), Toki Pona (currently learning), musical notation, set algebra, scratch programming, food, and shitty ms paint art.

Not all of my headmates have blogs, and some of the ones that do would like to be omitted from this post. That said, here are most of the members of my system:

Alli - @alli-bby - if a basic white girl was self-aware and meta

Seth - @sethsfrogblog - they're just here for the frogs

Ray-Ray - @raymondgray - rarely ever fronts

Dave - @knighttime-strider (used #davepost tag) - introject

Terezi - will not tag out of spite >:] - introject

David (not Dave) - does not tag simply for chaos

Ashley - does not tag - doesn't care about tumblr

if you notice any of us reblogging your posts right next to each other, it's because we are cofronting and we noticed you across our dash and really like your vibes.

And if I have followed you but you notice its really only one of the above blogs reblogging your posts, it's because they follow through me.

I run two sideblogs, feel free to check them out!

@thebigcjart - My artblog (asks open)

@into-the-fraymotif - Homestuck Fraymotif Blog (asks open)

My asks are open! Please bother me!

I love all my mutuals so much! /p

And I am always open to making more!

[justeunmetamorphe]

Hello! ¡Hola! привет! 안녕하세요!

I go by Static or Métamorphe (they/them), I’m 22 years old, and this is the little langblr I started as an aspiring polyglot.

For right now this is just a WIP introduction post, but I am studying more right now so I found it fitting to make one that goes over the languages I’m learning!

My native language is English and I’ve been learning Canadian French as a second language casually for about 10 years (and yet I’m still at about A2!!) - it's become the hardest language for me because my education was so bad, so I've decided to pick up some others instead.

My target languages (including, but not limited to):

American Sign Language (ASL)

Mexican Spanish

Russian

Korean

I want to get more familiar with ASL specifically. Hopefully someday son I can say that I’m above A2/Level 1 in some of these languages!!

Some other languages I’m not currently focused on, but am extremely interested in learning are:

Arabic

Hindi or Punjabi

Mandarin Chinese

Irish (Gaielge)

Welsh (Cymraeg)

My big interests right now include languages (especially conlangs and slang/cants like Polari and Toki Pona!!), science (especially life sciences!), philosophy, and video games.

I think that’s all for now… stick around for more I guess!

(btw this is a side blog so I will be following from a different account)

[galacticsand]

Movelang #000 - Introduction to the Language and Noun Class System

Nophhurra, my friends! Today I begin a series of posts showcasing an experimental conlang that I've been working on now and tinkering with for just over a year. At the moment, this language does not have a name in-conlang, and so I'll be referring to it for the time being by the language's project name "Movelang". Originally this language came about as the result of an idea that I wanted to experiment with in a conlang, and the language has since solidified and expanded in more ways than one. In this post, I'll be introducing you all to Movelang, along with the goals that I have since codified for it. As it stands, this language currently holds no connection to my Personal Conworld Project, as it is currently only an experiment, and I don't see it being adapted in any way for it, at least for the time being, but who knows, that could change one day!

The origins of Movelang lay in a discord server that I was and still am actively a part of. At the time, a group of us were discussing neat and nontrivial noun class systems that could potentially be used in a conlang, and one of us (I can't remember exactly who right now, but I do know it wasn't me), suggested an idea for a noun class system that is based on the mode by which nouns in question would be transported or moved around. We all loved this idea right away, and we set originally to put together a server collaborative conlang to implement this idea. After some time passed though, the project fell into obscurity, but I still found this idea to be super cool, and wanted to experiment with it further, and so I ended up stealing the idea, and building it into my own personal experimental piece!

The resulting noun class system shown above is what I ended up with after reconsidering the original class system that we had come up with together. The system I devised consists of 8 noun classes, a slight upgrade from what had originally been 6 more broad classes, which are distinguished by a mode of moving, carrying, or transport used for associated nouns in the appropriate class. I also gave each class a cool name that reflects the mode of movement associated with it as well! The class definitions are of course broad as well, as is the case with all languages that make use of noun classes, and not all nouns that fit into one of these classes will follow the category specified for each one.

In terms of goals, my primary goal was of course to implement the cool noun class concept that the group I was in had originally devised: to set up noun classes based on mode of movement for prospective nouns. Aside from this, my intention is also to experiment with a couple of other aspects of conlanging that I had been wanting to use hitherto. One of the big ones is being able to create a lot from a little in terms of derivations, which I've been able to do for the most part already, in addition to a loose adherence to naturalism, which hasn't been as big of a goal for me with this being an experiment, as already mentioned, but has helped me to keep the language looking plausibly realistic for the most part.

As I continue sharing more bits and pieces with you all about Movelang, I hope to show you how I've been able to adhere to these goals as its development has moved forward, slowly but surely, and I can't want to show you all what I've made very soon!

=-=-=-=

This is my first big post to the blog, and my thoughts can sometimes be all over the place, especially if I'm super excited, so do let me know if you'd like me to clarify anything mentioned here. Feel free to drop me an ask and I'll answer it whenever I find the time if it adds to the post! Who knows, maybe I'll even give a sneak peak of what I have to come later, if it's particularly relevant... Until then, hope you all are as excited as I am! :D

[mymo-in-bb]

Intro Post / pana open

(toki pona li lon anpa)

Okay so. I thought maybe making an intro post might be a good idea, but I have no idea what I'm doing, so I analysed the intro posts of some of the blogs I follow and I'll try to do something similar.

Hi! My name is Rosalind, (she/her, though they is fine too i guess)

Between struggling with uni, I sometimes make music. I'll try to post most of it here. I play the saxophone, clarinet and piano. If you hear any other instruments in my music, I used a sampler. Right now I'm mainly focusing on Jazz, though a lot of my music really isn't that. I don't know what genre I'd label it as.

I also worldbuild quite a bit, which includes conlanging. I really love linguistics, but I'm very much an amateur. I might post some worldbuilding or conlanging related stuff here and there.

I don't expect to post any programming related stuff here, but hey, it might happen.

This blog is supposed to be a more of an "artist-like" sideblog, about the things I create, but I also have a personal blog where I mostly just reblog things I like: @bbmymo

So, you can expect music, worldbuilding, conlanging and very amateur linguistics from this blog. I will post very infrequently.

Last things to say: feel free to ask about anything, if you think something here is wrong or poorly done please let me know.

I will try to post in English and toki pona, but I'll see how that goes for me, I am still very much new to the language. If my toki pona translations are bad or could be improved, please rub it in my face

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a, mi pilin e ni: ken la, pali pi pana open li pona. taso, mi sona ala e pali mi. ni la, mi lukin e pana open pi lipu toki ante, li alasa pali e ijo sama.

toki a! mi jan Losalin (nimi meli).

mi utala ala tan tomo sona la, mi pali e kalama musi. mi alasa pana e ona ala tawa lipu ni. mi musi e ilo kalama Sakasa, e ilo kalama Lalinete, e ilo kalama Pijano. sina kute e ilo kalama ante lon kalama musi mi la, mi kepeken ilo kalama nanpa. tenpo ni la, mi lukin suli e kalama musi Jasi. taso, kalama musi mi mute li kalama musi Jasi ala. mi sona ala e nasin ona.

kin la, mi pali e ma pali: mi pali kin e toki pali. mi olin a e sona toki. taso, mi jan sona ala. ken la, mi pana e ma pali mi e toki pali mi lon ni.

mi pilin e ni: mi pana ala e ijo pi toki nanpa lon ni. taso, mi sona ala.

lipu ni li sama lipu pi jan mama musi. kin la, mi jo e lipu jan mi: @bbmymo. lipu ni la, mi pana lipu e ijo pona: jan ante li pali e ona.

kin la, sina ken alasa e kalama musi mi, e ma pali mi, e toki pali mi, e sona toki pi jan sona ala, lon lipu ni. mi pana sin lon tenpo mute ala.

pini la mi wile toki e ni: sina ken toki alasa e ale. sina pilin e ni: ijo li ike la: o toki e ni tawa mi.

mi alasa pana e pana kepeken toki Inli kepeken toki pona. taso, mi sin lon toki pona. mi kama lukin e ni pini tawa mi. toki pona mi li ike la, o toki e ni tawa mi a!

[elsterchapman]

Hai

Haiiiiii! My name's Elster, but you can call me Ellie or Els!

I'm a 20 year old (as of 2024) Canadian transfem t4t lesbian (she/her), polyamorous. I'm an aspiring writer, avid fanfic writer, political science major, linguist, trilingual, conlanger, conworlder, and aspiring 3D modeller and animator, with dead dreams of game development and film production!

I'm the proud author of the (currently) WIP Signalis fanfic, Unsere Zeit ist zu Ende.

Proudly developing Blender skills

Currently developing at least 4 conlangs, likely more in the future.

I'll be posting shit related to all this shtuff, if i end up posting anything at all, we'll see >w<.

Check me out on AO3:

Das all, enjoy my shit if I end up showing any of it :3

[antique-symbolism]

A BRIEF FAMILY HISTORY OF THE MAGICAL MUNDANE || a contemporary fantasy 

Jacket Asanbosam has eagerly awaited their father's Sanguine Quarter celebration ever since they were a little kid. A vampire's 250th anniversary is already the biggest blowout a magical family could throw, and with the Asanbosams, every event is a boisterous family reunion. There's just one problem -- obviously, Jacket's sister Tala is invited, too.

What better way for Jacket to distract from the impending anxiety of confronting their estrangement than to invite their best friends Holly and Bash as their +1 and +2? Turning the roadtrip into a sightseeing tour of magical America will be more than enough to get their mind off their troubles with Tala, but the three friends will soon find that the Asanbosams aren't the only family with secret tensions bubbling below the surface.

[penguicorns-are-cool]

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[sombraglaze]

"内は……女の子ですから"

Hi! feel free to message me if u wanna be friends! ( ´ ▽ ` )/

I'm Sombra! she/her (they/them is fine) I'm 25 years old and I speak both Spanish and English. I'm a transbian and I'm also taken! 💛

I'm a conlanger! (i.e. I create languages) and I have a sideblog for my conlang stuff called Sombra-conlangs!

I also have a wiki-style site called tekseni.bearblog.dev for more detailed information on my conlangs!

I draw occasionally, and I have a sideblog for my art stuff too! it's called Sombra-art! (creative names for my sideblogs I know)

If you want to find me in case of tumblr going down I'm on mastodon at lingo.lol/@SombraGlaze and reddit at u/SombraGlaze, you can also just look at my website's "contact" page to see any updates on my socials, I don't have a bluesky yet but I might make one, we'll see

I mostly just reblog on here, I try to tag stuff but sometimes I forget, I also try to tag potential triggers, you can let me know if there's something I'm not tagging that I should be.

Here's the fandom tags I tend to use:

#Scott Pilgrim Scott Pilgrim stuff

#dip and pip Dan and Phil stuff

#brisket stuff with Bridget from Guilty Gear

#Guilty Gear Guilty Gear stuff

#bocchi the rock Bocchi the rock stuff

#Artemis of the blue stuff about the gay vtuber shark

I mostly use tumblr for escapism so I don't tend to engage with stuff that is too heavy or serious

I'm also kinda broke, so I won't be able to help with fundraisers and whatnot, I'm sorry, I wish I could help

And I guess that's that, I'm very shy, distracted and anxious so I'm sorry if I don't reply fast (≧◡≦) feel free to message me or send me an ask if you want though, I don't bite (please make sure to tell me what the message is about tho, if you only say "hi" without explaining your intentions I probably won't reply because I don't know if you're a bot or something, let me know if you have a question or you want to chat with me or something)

[j-esbian]

frustrating how so many craft books have a section about "how to sell what you've made"

like on one hand i get it because the person writing the book has obviously made their craft a full-time job. and they might have some tips and tricks that might be useful, and there are people out there who might be trying to start a small business out of it

but on the other hand it's just exhausting and feels like another voice saying "what's the point of having a hobby if you're not going to monetize it"

[feargha]

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• A guide on the Nuahȳkȳlȳt Anfadicāna (dialect)

• A guide on the Anfadica script

This blog is a place for me to post Anfadica (my conglang’s) vocab and their definitions along with some grammar. I will probably post some of my practice sentences/paragraphs in Anfadica here as well.

They will be tagged as #anfadica vocab #anfadica grammar, and #Anfadica writing respectively

Currently there are two dialects (“Anfadicāna”) that I will include: Nuahȳkȳlȳt [n̪u.ä.hʊ.kʰʊ.ɭʊt̪ʰ] and Iheghkayɔt [i.ˈhɛx.kʰä.jɔt̪ʰ].

In each post, I will write the Nuahȳkȳlȳt version of the word first, followed by the Iheghkayɔt version, then followed by their definition(s).

Transcription of the IPA Sounds

[b] b

[β] bh

[d̪] d

[f] f

[ɡ]/[ɣ] g

[h] h

[x]/[χ] gh

[kʰ] k

[ɭ] l

[m] m

[n̪]/[ɳ] n

[pʰ] p

[q] q

[ɾ] r

[s] s

[t̪ʰ] t

[ʋ] v

[ɕ]/[ʂ]/[ʃ] š

[θ] th

[ɬ] ɬ

[t͡ɬ] tɬ

[j]/[ʎ] y

[w] w

[t͡s] ts

[tʃ] ch

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[ä]/[ɑ] a

[ɛ] e

[i]/[ɪ] i

[u] u

[ɔ] ɔ

[oʊ] o

[ʊ]/[ɤ] ȳ

[ʔ] ‘

[wander-wren]

some early conlang thoughts bc i’ve decided you all might as well just see this live bc i want to talk about this story on this blog anyway

(the story is Other Lost Things and i’m working on reworking it from novel to web serial rn, it’s about six runaway criminals with magic reluctantly working together to outrun various governments and pasts on the open ocean.)

so the language i want to create is Skalian, which is spoken in Skalmere, a very harsh, battle-oriented country. the only named Skalian characters i have right now are Inari and Dyah Deoreas and Vana Skirasto.

that actually gives me a fair amount to start with. i might ignore deoreas (which i’ve wanted to change for a while, it was just a smushed-together bunch of words i no longer remember). but anyway.

inari is a japanese name, which i did not know when i plucked it off a fantasy names list four years ago so she is not japanese (technically she’s not any real-world ethnicity….but i did see her as a flavor of southeast asian even before she was named, so). BUT. i can take some inspo from japanese for sure.

skalmere (skahl-meer) is arbitrary and mightve come from a name generator, but it informed me choosing vana’s name, so i’m thinking keeping possible consonant/vowel combinations small and using a lot of harsher sounds. i can also use russian or german or other languages like that for inspo. i’m tempted to make it so that two vowels cant be next to each other but im not sure how much that will limit me. but also limits are probably good.

in which case….what to do about dyah? does y count as a vowel? does skalian even have a y….hm. much to think about. this is what i get for making arbitrary decisions at 15 and getting too attached to change them.

the only other decision i’ve come to so far is that i want to use the latin alphabet with no diacritics, and i also want to cut some letters out of it. so far, q, and possibly x, and if dyah didn’t have a y it would also be gone so hmmm. maybe i need to attempt to rename her. basically i want to make this as simple as possible bc i am the silly goose who wants to make an Entire Language and i don’t need that to be unnecessarily hard.

(now, if i get around to making a language for ach rhean, THAT would get to be complicated, bc ofc it would. but that’s a project for later me, or more likely never. i think ach rhean is what theyre all speaking all the time anyway so it’s not really going to come up in-story)

at any rate, i’m excited, bc skalian is the best conlang for me to create bc a) it’s simple and skalmere/skalian is good mouthfeel to me so it follows that the rest can easily be, and b) story-wise, most of the time is spent on the ocean, but the land time is mostly skalmere so far. and inari as a main is extremely attached to her home country in a way the others are not, so if anyone is going to be speaking another language it should be her.

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