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Been a while since I logged in here because I've been a combination of busy and exhausted which is less than conducive to fucking around on tumblr, but popping in to say that my wiki is a year old today. :3 In this last year I wrote over 100 dictionary entries and approximately 24 articles, and made 54 categories and 58 templates.

I learned a lot in this process, and there's a noticeable room for improvement. Many of these are in a partially incomplete state, and for this reason I am going to be shaking things up in this coming year. The goal is to finish what already exists, and then continue with less detail to begin with, expanding as needed.

The completionist in me really wants lots of translations with interlinear glossing and future me finds them super useful when returning to languages after some time, however I will concede that doing glosses properly slows me down considerably, as does coming up with example sentences to demonstrate the nuance in the way each word is used. I may consider a happy medium of having the most common usage exampled and glossed, but it really depends.

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I’ve been taking a break* from chasing etymological origins this week in order to map the supernalese glyphs I want to remake by hand to the unicode private area use multilingual planes, and honestly? There’s something so satisfying about writing your own unicode chart document and giving each character their own little Official Name and everything.

You may think it’s a little premature for me to be doing this now but it’s good for motivation, and also will help with tracking info and progress in the actual font creation process.

I might end up doing this for all of my scripts in the future, depending on how streamlined I can get my production routine, and also I guess how much I want to avoid social media.

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Finished updating the phonotactics of all the pre-existing root words in Infernal last night, meaning I still need to get to all the compound words. I have yet to assign meaning to most of the supernal words, but because I am ill again I'm forcing myself to go slowly and probably won't get to that part until next month.

To give an idea of the process I was using; Step 1: OG Infernal /xalʣ/ halz “to screw, to twist” Present Tense 1st person, sg. halzā, pl. halzār 2nd person, sg. halzē, pl. halzēl 3rd person, sg. halzī, pl. halzīh (Chosen entirely by aesthetics and mouthfeel before I decided I wanted a whole entire language family and needed to adjust things in order to have everything kinda make sense internally.) ↓ Step 2: Supernal /xa₁lɟu₁/ ĝalġu (Added the u because ʣ only occurs from ɟ in specific environments, the numbers next to vowels is to notate which vowels remains short and which ones become long in Infernal and Abyssal.) ↓ Step 3: Words of Totality /ˈxalʣu/ ĝalďu

(The reason ʣ is written with a ď instead of z as it is in Infernal is because Infernal has no true z any more, but Words of Totality still has that consonant. All bonkers orthographical choices I made for the earlier entries in this language family follows similar justifications.) ↓ Step 4: Updated Infernal /ˈxelʣi/ helzi “to screw, to twist”

Present Tense 1st person, sg. halzyā, pl. halzyār 2nd person, sg. halzyē, pl. halzyēl 3rd person, sg. halzyī, pl. halzyīh

(which incidentally also gives us; Abyssal: /ˈkelazɑ/ kelaza Words of Creation: /ˈχalχu/ ḫalḫu Celestial: /ˈχalχu/ chalchu and unless I change my mind about certain sound changes, Planar: /ˈχˤaʔaˌliχu/ chaʾalichu)

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may we see ur wiki,,,,,

The wiki is currently set as private and I'm still learning how to fucking manage a wiki in general so as of this exact moment I am unsure how someone gets to request and receive permission with these settings, but it's definitely my goal to figure out how to do this at some point this year.

I've been super busy this dec/jan so it's not something I've had the time for just yet, but the second shit starts to calm down I want to look into it.

Right now the wiki is full of dictionary entries like this.

And some articles like this one.

But it's not growing super fast so you're really not missing much. At the moment the area with most action is me setting up templates for when I'm ready to start adding Supernalese language dictionary entries.

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Post Lexember Musings

Now that I've gotten the remains of Lexember 2024 out of the way, I should really sit down and come up with some achievable conlang goals for this year.

WIKI

I want to keep working on my wiki, keep chipping away at those Faerûnian Elven dictionary entries, and maybe branch out into the Supernalese language family. At the end of this I want each language to have;

articles on the people who speak the language,

articles about the language,

the writing systems they use,

the historical forms of the language and how it evolved,

and dictionary entries for swadesh words.

There's some other stuff I want to get to if I can be bothered, such as common (a trade pigeon used in Faerûn. I personally think it's really cute, a lot of animal words are the sound they make in a reduplicated pair, so cat is essentially miaow-miaow, dog woof-woof, songbird tweet-tweet, corvid bird caw-caw etc), the main languages the common derives from, and some maps and other images to tie everything together. But! These aren't super important, if I put them off to return to a different project, that's fine, it's just the completionist in me thinking up great ideas at a rate no human could possibly fit in within their lifetime.

SCRIPTS

Additionally I want to put more time into refining my writing systems. After a year or more using the current ones, I'm noticing some little features that could be better, forms that could be captured better by hand etc, that cannot be resolved in another other way than me drawing them out by hand, digitising them, vectorising them, and then converting them into functional typefaces.

Unfortunately I do not not know if there's an easy way to "tell" a typeface to type boustrophedonically, so to capture the scripts properly I will need to either grit my teeth and just live with the roman directionality, or figure out a cheap and easy work around.

THIS BLOG

It occurs to me I should probably do more to share what I'm working on here in greater detail, mostly my issue is that I'm not really sure what the best format even is for tumblr these days. At the very least I should share the information I currently have on my wiki filed under "metalog" which is to say, a quick series of tables details basic information about each language from my perspective and not in-universe.

Information such as;

the date of birth of each language,

my primary and secondary purpose,

the name of the language by its own terms as well as my own,

the setting,

language family, dialects, morphology, phonology, syntax, number system,

how magical the language is (a mechanic of my own invention that doesn't necessarily conform to wotc canon but it's not like I actually care what they're doing in this regard),

genders,

number (different than the number system),

tense,

mood,

aspect,

transitivity,

passivity,

cases,

the reputation of the language by non-speakers within Faerûn (wotc has some pre-existing worldbuilding on this by I personally find them nonsensical and not exactly demonstrative of someone who understands the difference between Language, and Word Language within a language iykwim, so I am trying to make sense of what already exists and throwing out everything that doesn't make sense to me or is something they've hinted they're trying to move away from like the concept of languages being evil in and of themselves. Mostly I am concerned with is how "literary" a language is vs how wildly spoken they are vs how oppressed or suppressed they are as this is something that is going to manifest in loanwords and proper nouns.)

links to articles that go more in depth in various subjects,

and also a quickly example of the language so I can remind myself what it looks like and how it's structured.

Obviously not all of these are going to be easy to share on tumblr but I should at least come up with a little table for you all so you can tell the alphabets from the abjads from the abugidas from the logographs from the

At the very least I should make random posts going over what I'm changing as that is ultimately the purpose of this blog.

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While it does bare resemblance to one of my favourite words, everything I could find regarding all celestials, demons, and devils in Forgotten Realms/wotc canon suggests that they're shapeshifters with no real fixed gender identities who just sort of go along with gender binary when it comes to mortals for simplicity's sake, which is the direction I've decided to go with this supernalese language family.

Though having said that I think there's room for this word to have slur status in dialectal contexts when used by mortals such as warlocks, tieflings (of demonic descent), or whoever happens to speak Abyssal in the material plane.

Lexember Day 22

/ˈseːˌnˤeːwˤʌ/

Sēnēwu

“Not Straight, Wonky”

Language: Abyssal Spoken Commonly by (but not limited to): (Some) Tieflings and Warlocks of Faerûn, Demons, and Fiends Setting: *Forgotten Realms [*Homebrewed for a Character Backstory but built upon the Forgotten Realms Setting.] Etymology: SUPERNAL; /sara/ meaning “upright, erect” COGNATE;  Infernal: /ˈsaːʀaxˌwuː/ sārahwū meaning “horizontal, prone, nonparallel, indirect, not simple” EQUIVALENT OF; Celestial: /ˈʃelaʕait/ shelaʿait meaning “unsturdy, weak”

Word Type:  Negative adjective

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Lexember Day 31

/ˈbeleɡ/

Beleg

“To Drink”

Language: Celestial Spoken Commonly by (but not limited to): Aasimar and Clerics of Faerûn, Deva and Celestials

Setting: *Forgotten Realms [*Homebrewed for a Character Backstory but built upon the Forgotten Realms Setting.]

Etymology: SUPERNAL; /baraɡ/ meaning “to drink, to consume” COGNATE;  Infernal: /ˈbaʀeɡ/ bareg meaning “to take, to accept, to absorb” Abyssal: /ˈbeneɡ/ beneg meaning “to accept, to take in, to include”

Word Type: Verb

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Lexember Day 30

/ˈʔuhɑw/

ʾuhaw

“Stone”

Language: Abyssal Spoken Commonly by (but not limited to): (Some) Tieflings and Warlocks of Faerûn, Demons, and Fiends Setting: *Forgotten Realms [*Homebrewed for a Character Backstory but built upon the Forgotten Realms Setting.]

Etymology: SUPERNAL; /qihuw/ meaning “stone” COGNATE;  Infernal: /ˈquxiw/ quhiw meaning “stone” Celestial: /ˈχihuv/ chihuv meaning “grey”

Word Type: Historically inanimate noun

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Lexember Day 29

/ˈoðaʦ/

Othatz

“To Give”

Language: Celestial Spoken Commonly by (but not limited to): Aasimar and Clerics of Faerûn, Deva and Celestials Setting: *Forgotten Realms [*Homebrewed for a Character Backstory but built upon the Forgotten Realms Setting.]

Etymology: SUPERNAL; /awac/ meaning “to let, to allow” COGNATE;  Infernal: /ˈawak/ awak meaning “to forgive, to excuse” Abyssal: /ˈewez/ ewez meaning “to grant, to concede”

Word Type: Verb

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Lexember Day 28

/heːr/

Hēr

“Red”

Language: Abyssal Spoken Commonly by (but not limited to): (Some) Tieflings and Warlocks of Faerûn, Demons, and Fiends Setting: *Forgotten Realms [*Homebrewed for a Character Backstory but built upon the Forgotten Realms Setting.]

Etymology: SUPERNAL; /ħaʀ/ meaning “red” COGNATE;  Infernal: /xaːʀ/ hār meaning “red” Celestial: /ʕeʁ/ ʿer meaning “red

Word Type: Colour (noun form)

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Lexember Day 27

/ˈθejeɡ/

Theyeg

“Cardinal Left”

Language: Abyssal Spoken Commonly by (but not limited to): (Some) Tieflings and Warlocks of Faerûn, Demons, and Fiends Setting: *Forgotten Realms [*Homebrewed for a Character Backstory but built upon the Forgotten Realms Setting.]

Etymology: SUPERNAL; /taɟaɣ/ meaning “left wing” COGNATE;  Infernal: /ˈteʣaj/ tezay meaning “cardinal left” Celestial: /ˈtezeʕ/ tezeḥ meaning “cardinal left”

Word Type: Direction

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Lexember Day 26

/ˈhuːsˤa/

Hūsa

“Warm”

Language: Abyssal Spoken Commonly by (but not limited to): (Some) Tieflings and Warlocks of Faerûn, Demons, and Fiends Setting: *Forgotten Realms [*Homebrewed for a Character Backstory but built upon the Forgotten Realms Setting.]

Etymology: SUPERNAL; /ħisu/ meaning “warm” COGNATE;  Infernal: /ˈxuːsi/ hūsi meaning “warm” Celestial: /ˈʕisu/ ʿisu meaning “warm”

Word Type: Adjective

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Lexember Day 25

/ˈʃeleɡ/

Sheleg

“To Sing”

Language: Celestial Spoken Commonly by (but not limited to): Aasimar and Clerics of Faerûn, Deva and Celestials Setting: *Forgotten Realms [*Homebrewed for a Character Backstory but built upon the Forgotten Realms Setting.]

Etymology: SUPERNAL; /saraɟ/ meaning “to sing” COGNATE;  Infernal: /ˈseʀaʃ/ seraš meaning “to sing” Abyssal: /ˈsenez/ senez meaning “to sing”

Word Type: Verb

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Lexember Day 24

/zɑʕ/

Zaḥ

“Animal, beast”

Language: Abyssal Spoken Commonly by (but not limited to): (Some) Tieflings and Warlocks of Faerûn, Demons, and Fiends Setting: *Forgotten Realms [*Homebrewed for a Character Backstory but built upon the Forgotten Realms Setting.]

Etymology: SUPERNAL; /ɟuɣ/ meaning “wild, untamed, unrestrained” COGNATE;  Infernal: /ʣiː/ zī meaning “animal, beast” Celestial: /duɡ/ dug meaning “free, irresponsible, careless”

Word Type: Historically animate noun

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Lexember Day 23

/ful/

Ful

“New”

Language: Celestial Spoken Commonly by (but not limited to): Aasimar and Clerics of Faerûn, Deva and Celestials Setting: *Forgotten Realms [*Homebrewed for a Character Backstory but built upon the Forgotten Realms Setting.]

Etymology: SUPERNAL; /ful/ meaning “young, new” COGNATE;  Infernal: /fil/ fil meaning “fresh, newly minted, freshly baked” Abyssal: /pɑl/ pal meaning “raw, fresh, unadulterated”

Word Type: Adjective

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Lexember Day 22

/ˈseːˌnˤeːwˤʌ/

Sēnēwu

“Not Straight, Wonky”

Language: Abyssal Spoken Commonly by (but not limited to): (Some) Tieflings and Warlocks of Faerûn, Demons, and Fiends Setting: *Forgotten Realms [*Homebrewed for a Character Backstory but built upon the Forgotten Realms Setting.] Etymology: SUPERNAL; /sara/ meaning “upright, erect” COGNATE;  Infernal: /ˈsaːʀaxˌwuː/ sārahwū meaning “horizontal, prone, nonparallel, indirect, not simple” EQUIVALENT OF; Celestial: /ˈʃelaʕait/ shelaʿait meaning “unsturdy, weak”

Word Type:  Negative adjective

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Lexember Day 21

/ˈʕaku/

ʿaku

“Wing”

Language: Celestial Spoken Commonly by (but not limited to): Aasimar and Clerics of Faerûn, Deva and Celestials Setting: *Forgotten Realms [*Homebrewed for a Character Backstory but built upon the Forgotten Realms Setting.]

Etymology: SUPERNAL; /ʕaku/ meaning “animal wing” COGNATE;  Infernal: /ˈxaki/ haki meaning “wing, membrane” Abyssal: /ˈʕekɑ/ ḥeka meaning “wing, skin, covering”

Word Type: Historically inanimate noun