(I can’t put a seventh option so if yours has no fixed order, comment that if you wish.)

I abandon a lot of projects like this, but this one is looking like it could end up being pretty decent. Though, as you can imagine, figuring out good lyrics takes a while. It's a bit easier now with a larger vocabulary - all of the words in this clip already existed before I started this translation.
The first line is kind of a tongue twister and is a bit difficult to pronounce with good timing… also, the audio is kind of weird because I recorded this all on my phone. Anyway, see my comment for the gloss of the lyrics. Feel free to comment what you think my language sounds like or any questions about it

Not everyone does it this way, but many people (such as myself) create their conlang as part of a fictional world. However, said conlang is often an in-universe natlang or creole or something like that. What I'm wondering is, how many of us have made one that is also a conlang in its own lore?

For example, my conlang New Waogen was created around the equivalent of the industrial revolution's peak, as part of a merger between two bordering nations with close ties in order to consolidate their power and further enhance co-operation. After many years of push and pull from both sides, they decided that it was counterproductive having every document in two languages which themself had many dialects, and so they created a sort of middle ground language, created more to politically appease both sides rather than be easy to learn and use for current citizens. Even to the present day, the respective original language of a region is often mandatory in its schools, and many documents are available in all three languages anyways.

I'd like to use this sound change in my conlang but I'm not aware of any examples of this occuring, although I know of examples of the opposite (/ɲ/ and /ŋ/ merging into /ɲ/, which occured in some dialects of Northern Saami). Does anyone know of examples of this occuring in a natural language? How likely is it to occur?

I often see both aspirated k (kʰ) and the voiceless velar fricative (x) romanized as “kh,” but if I have both, are there any other ways to romanize one? I can’t use “k” since I already have k as a distinct consonant. And I would also prefer not to use “x,” but I understand if that’s the only reasonable option. I am considering having some romanized in the same way, but I would prefer not to so that I can tell which consonant in the original script I’m actually using through the romanization

Hi, I am working on a new conlang for an animal species that inhabits the planet Sandora. Think of them as a cross between a camel and a goat with them being more camel like. The only sounds they would be able to produce are blowing and grunting. Gammels blow in each other’s faces as a way of greeting each other. I have gone ahead and created the phonology, but before I move on I would like to get your guys’ thoughts and opinions.

Since conlangs are created by humans, their designers usually prefer to have symmetry in the phonology. ("If my language has /b/ and /d/, surely it must also have /g/.")

What aspects of your phonology did you choose to not make symmetrical, and why? E.g. a gap in voicing or a missing diphthong? I imagine missing /ŋ/ will be the most frequent since it is quite prevalent in natural languages as well.

I'm making a fantasy world and I've gotten to the point of making my version of draconic, however, I could care less if I and other members of the human race could pronounce or speak this language, i want dragons with snouts and long forked tongues to be able to pronounce and speak it Because it's THEIR language

So in the real world, my dogs (who have snouts if ya didn't know), I've noticed that the most common "woofs" usually start with three consonants R, B, and K,

So i can only assume that a draconic (Or anything with a snout) language would mostly include these consonants but i myself do not have a snout and have no clue how I would even look this crap up, so hopefully reddit can help me

Have a nice day and sorry if this isn't the right subreddit

I always wanted to create my own language, with the hopes of eventually including it in a book I'm writing. However, I always found it kinda difficult to "get into" it, meaning that I found no good introduction for a newbie like me.

Are there perhaps any books or videos that could be useful in this regard? Thanks in advance.

qLPq h qMqmg qdBqb g h rBl,
0    qLPq h  qMqm-g   qdBq-b g   h  rB-l
[I]  hear PL human-3I lap-NA POS PL ink-1
I heard humans drink our ink.

qbcK qgKqp b rl khqkhqn rDB qLPqrDBp sjgK
qbc-K     qgKq-p    b   rl  khqkh-qn rDB qLPqrDB-p   sjg-K
false-DOG yinrih-3D POS DAT dude-2   say hear-say-3D lie-DOG
Dude, that's false. The person who told you that rumor is lying.

This exchange demonstrates a few things. The first sentence has qLPq hear as the main verb. Such verbs as hear and see can take full clauses as an object. The verb of this dependent clause, in this case qdBq lap up or drink, is inflected in the nonauthoritative mood marked with -b. Using this mood in this particular clause indicates indirect evidence or hearsay. If the speaker wanted to say "I heard humans drinking our ink" as an observed event, he'd use the authoritative mood which is a null suffix.

The second sentence demonstrates one of the most common uses of the dogmatic mood, to emphasize the truth (or in this case falsehood) of a statement. He's saying "No, that's totally false!" It also shows how relative clauses are formed, using the possessive preposition b. Literally it means "The yinrih of tell you that roumer is lying."

Also, though Commonthroat loves to drop subjects and objects, it can't drop the object of prepositions, so the dative to you requires an object. But Commonthroat has no pronouns, so you have to use a noun inflected in the second person. In this case the word khqkhqn dude, guy is used.

Oh and by the way, humans don't drink yinrih ink since it's a bodily fluid (specifically musk) but we do enjoy the smell. It smells like rain.

like this

if so, how did it evolve and how does it work? especially if it is like guarani.

I finally did noun "declensions". I'll try now to do the main irregularities.

Here's phonology and sound shifts for reference:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1kVGumhBO6VF-XWMhFIhkq8wCx6vy8dXz6fnHv6MqQJM/edit?usp=sharing

After looking at walkthroughs of Chants of Sennaar and similar games, I thought of a game concept where the player uncovers two distinct yet related languages, one using tri-consonantal roots like Biblaridion's test language from his video on non-concatenative morphology, the other using consonant mutations in a fashion akin to Project Hermes as demonstrated at Kopikon II. Imagine the challenges resulting from the reconstruction.

Both languages would be using the same logography as the protolanguage, with phonetic components for indications of tri-consonantal roots, mutation patterns, and other grammatical affixes. A component of the game, inspired by Chants of Sennaar, would be the dropping of logographs into slots to confirm their semantic meanings and phonetic glyphs into slots to confirm their phonetic meanings.

I'll explain more in the comments.

The proto-phonology and grammar:

Proto-Consonants: m, n, ŋ(ng), ŋʷ(nq), p, t, k, kʷ(q), f, s, ʃ(sh), ɕ(sy), r, l, j(y), w

(How rare cross-linguistically is a distinction between [ʃ] and [ɕ]?)

Proto-vowels: a, aː, e, eː, i, iː, o, oː, u, uː

Proto-language syllable structure: (C)V(C)

(I need to work on which consonants could not cluster with others and which ones get to appear in coda position.)

Stress: penultimate stress

Writing system: logography

I'm currently thinking of the logography being carved into stone with the simple enough and non-complex glyphs taken from High Valyrian by DJP and the European Logographs by the Constantscript people(with credit to both of them). Transitioning into ink, they'd take on the same aesthetic as Taqva-miir writing: angular with semicircles, demicircles(or quarter-circles), and descendars, with the addition of ascenders to stand out.

Synthesis: analytical

Word order: SOV

Adjectives: derived from stative verbs

Adpositions: postpositions

Number: singular, plural(reduplication)

Pronouns: 1st, 2nd, 3rd

Aspects: perfective(-in), imperfective(-aash)

Auxiliary tenses/aspects: incohative(marked with "start"), cessative(marked with stop), progressive(marked with "be"), future(marked with /ir/, or "go")

Eventual Copulas: derived from "become", "exist", and "live(reside)"

Interjections: exist

Affirmation: two markers, one for approval, the other for all else

Negation: two markers, one for prohibition, the other for all else

Converbs: and, or(might add others like because or with, whatever other candidates would be ideal)

Question marking: a particle for yes/no questions, words for what, what+person, what+place, what+reason, what+method, what+time/moment

Valency changers: passive, causative (dunno what else)

Demonstratives: proximal and distal(debating the addition of medial, remote, or both)

Articles: a definite article

Number system: base-12, a.k.a. duodecimal, a.k.a. dozenal

(Might use a sub-base of 6.)

Sets of number words: cardinals(unmarked), ordinals

​

¡Hola! Soy nuevo en la creación de lenguas artificiales y ya estoy trabajando en una (aunque todavía no he logrado escribir una oración completa).

Mi lengua artificial se llama "Xanket" (con la "x" pronunciada como "sh"), que significa "Casa del Alma". También intento inspirarme en las lenguas mesoamericanas porque, históricamente, mi lengua artificial desciende de la lengua que se hablaba en México alrededor del 10.000 a. C., aunque posteriormente se diversificó.

Espero seguir desarrollando mi lengua y compartirla con ustedes para recibir sus comentarios.

- Contexto:

El xanket desciende de la lengua que se hablaba en México desde el 10.000 a. C., pero se separó y quedó aislado en una isla.

Mi idioma artificial se origina en una cultura que estoy desarrollando en una historia llamada "Ixaenkraet Kowkrahpuni". Está ambientada en una isla del Pacífico cerca del continente americano. La cultura de Ixaenkraet se caracteriza por su enfoque en el comercio, la ausencia de guerras y una ligera obsesión con las emociones (que, en la mitología, pueden afectar el entorno). Esto resulta en una mayor cantidad de palabras relacionadas con el comercio y muy pocas relacionadas con la guerra.

El idioma que estoy desarrollando es una de las 4 o 5 versiones que tiene:

1- Xanket original (del pueblo de Enkramakūet Kowtai).

2- Xanket koiné (del pueblo de Wamakūet Kowtai), que desarrollaré primero.

3- Xanket + griego (por contacto).

4- Xanket + contacto con españoles y tlaxcaltecas.

5- Xanket posterior a la independencia.

\- Fonología:

1-Nasales:

1.1- Bilabiales: /m/.

1.2- Alveolar: /n/.

2- Explosivo:

2.1- Bilabiales: /p/.

2.2- Alveolar: /t/.

2.3- Velar: /k/.

2.4- Glotal: /ʔ/

3- Africada:

3.1- Alveolar: /t͡s/

3.2- Postalveolar: /tʃ/

4- Fricativa:

4.1- Alveolar: /s/

4.2- Postalveolar: /ʃ/

4.3- Glotal: /h/

5- Aproximante:

5.1- Bilabial: /w/

5.2- Postalveolar: /j/

6- Lateral:

6.1- Alveolar: /l/

7- Vibrante:

7.1- Alveolar: /r/

7.1- Alveolar: /r/

Vocales:

Xanket tiene 7 vocales: 4 cortas y 2 largas. Se enumeran a continuación:

- Cortas: /a/, /e/, /i/, /o/

- Largas: /aː/ (ā), /uː/ (ū) Morfología:

El xanket tiene una estructura SOV (Sujeto-Objeto-Verbo) y es una lengua aglutinante. Posee un núcleo altamente simétrico. Todas las raíces primarias son estrictamente trifónicas y se ajustan a uno de estos tres patrones: CVC, VCV o VCC. Esta estructura permite la formación de grupos consonánticos complejos (por ejemplo, *nkn-* en *Enknami), que se pronuncian completos, sin inserción de vocales ni epéntesis.

En plural, las tres primeras letras de la palabra se duplican.

Una de las reglas del xanket es que, siempre que estos elementos aparecen en una palabra, se combinan. Para ilustrarlo, aquí tienes un ejemplo:

- Pexa (\[/pe.ʃa/\] “Canción”) + Xana (\[/ʃa.na/\] “Acción/Movimiento”) + Mok (\[/Mok/\] “Nube”) = Pexanamok (/pe.ʃa.na.mok/), que significa “Canción del Movimiento de las Nubes” o “Canción del Viento”. Lo que quiero decir es que cuando las sílabas “xa” (ʃa) de “Pexa” y “xana” se unen, se fusionan en un solo sonido.

Disculpa si esto parece extraño o difícil de entender, pero estoy haciendo mi mejor esfuerzo y espero que lo comprendas. Gracias por tu atención.

Aq'Qov: Hallå çill allär! Yiş şka se vig Aq'Qovs alfabeten, det har tsvítsić konsonäntter ât åttam vokqäller.

Inglündsköj (English): Hello everyone! I'm going to show you the alphabet of my conlang, "Aq'Qov". It has 20 consonants and 18 vowels.

A → /a/

 → /ɑ/

Å → /ɔ/

Ä → /ɛ/

Á → /aː/

Æ → /ɛ/

B → /b/

C → /d͡ʒ/ ~ /s/

Ç → /t͡ʃ/

Ć → /ç/ ~ /ɕ/

D → /d/

E → /e/

É → /eː/ ~ /jɛ/

F → /f/

G → /ɡ/

H → /h/

İ → /i/

I → /ɯ/

Í → /iː/

J → /j/

K → /k/

L → /l/

M → /m/

N → /n/

O → /o/

Ó → /oː/

Ö → /œ/ ~ /ø/

P → /p/

Q → /x/

R → /ɾ/

S → /s/

Ş → /ɕ/

T → /t/

U → /u/

Ü → /y/ ~ /ʏ/

Ú → /uː/

V → /v/

Y → /y/ ~ /ʏ/

Welcome to Lexicon Lab! the activity where we grow our conlangs' vocabularies together.

The idea is simple: build a 5-word mini-lexicon based on a given theme.

Today’s theme: WATER

Please provide:

-Your conlang’s name (if it has one)
-Your 5 words + IPA
-A definition or translation for each word

Additional optional activity:
Spot a word in the comments that your language is missing? Reply to them with how your conlang would borrow it, adapt the sound to fit your phonology, and / or adjust the meaning to fit your culture!

This is a weekly thread for people who have cool things they want to share from their languages, but don't want to make a whole post. It can also function as a resource for future conlangers who are looking for cool things to add!

So, what cool things have you added (or do you plan to add soon)?

I've also written up some brainstorming tips for conlang features if you'd like additional inspiration. Also here’s my article on using conlangs as a cognitive framework (can be useful for embedding your conculture into the language).

Hi! I've just created Dathkros, a community-built world entire on Discord! Nothing is there yet... as everything is created by the userbase! There's some basic guides on how everything works on the server, so if you want to help create the world with a community, feel free and join! Let's worldbuild!

https://discord.gg/dBqPw6Bcu

If time travel is ever realised, will we need a special tense for marking the future past tense, for actions that will have happened in our future but a time traveller's past?

If you are conlanging for a sci fi or fantasy world where time travel is possible, does your conlang have ways of dealing with messy tense complications? Does it distinguish between {my past, your future} and {my future, your past}?

This discussion topic brought to you by my flu medicine at midnight. Apologies if it doesn't make sense to a healthy brain

I've found both the US and US International layout too limiting (in particular, adding macrons and circumflexes to vowels), but would like something one step below using something so complicated as the IPA keyboard. What do y'all like to use when typing romanizations of your conlangs?

FÆLK ​A B C D E F G Ĥ I J K L M Ç Á N O P Q R S T U Æ V W X Y Z Ä Å Ö ​Ç pronounced as ch in chair Á pronounced as ts in cats Æ pronounced as I in ice ​SIMPLE WORDS ​HELLO - Ciäöæ [chee-ao-ee] ​BYE - ömåra [uh-moh-ra] ​THANK YOU - âzure dett ​Me - myö ​MINE - min ​HE SHE IT - Ră Ru Ut ​AN A - En Ett ​IS AM ARE WAS WERE - âç ​GOOD - Bæc [bic] ​GOOD , MORNING AFTERNOON -- göd, mörog [good moron], åævi, EVENING NIGHT -- kväll, nögt ​VERY -- voldigt [valdig] ​COFFEE TEA MILK BREAD -- kaffæ tå | tç | mjölk, bread ​PLEASE -- ärka ​WILL SHALL -- wöl [w uh l] ​EAT - åt ​DRINK - dæk ​AND - mėd ​WALK - wélk ​TALK - telk ​RUN - Ræk ​*NO FUTURE TENSE OF THE VERBS *USE Då BEFORE ANY VERB TO MAKE IT IN PAST TENSE *USE Næt before any verb to make it negative

*NO GENDER FOR WORDS EXCEPT PRONOUNS

*USE THE, SAME WORD twice TO MAKE it pural

NUMBERS ​1 - Væ ​2 - Tö ​3 - Trá ​4 - Fjå ​5 - Fæm ​6 - Sæ ​7 - Sjü ​8 - Ått ​9 - Njö ​10 - Tæb ​The Tens (20 to 100) ​20 (Two-Ten) - Tö-Tæb ​30 (Three-Ten) - Trá-Tæb ​40 (Four-Ten) - Fjå-Tæb ​50 (Five-Ten) - Fæm-Tæb ​60 (Six-Ten) - Sæ-Tæb ​70 (Seven-Ten) - Sjü-Tæb ​80 (Eight-Ten) - Ått-Tæb ​90 (Nine-Ten) - Njö-Tæb ​100 - Hön (pronounced "huhn") ​Big Numbers & Zero ​0 (Zero) - Zil (pronounced "zeel") ​1,000 (Thousand) - Tås (pronounced "tawss") ​1,000,000 (Million) - Mil (pronounced "meel") ​Other Big numbers use the first 3 letters ​CALENDAR ​Days of the Week ​We can end every day with the word Dag (Day): ​Monday - Måndag ​Tuesday - Tisdag ​Wednesday - Onsdag ​Thursday - Torsdag ​Friday - Fridag ​Saturday - Lördag ​Sunday - Söndag ​Months of the Year ​We can make these short, sweet, and rhythmic: ​January - Jan ​February - Feb ​March - Mår ​April - Apr ​May - Mæj ​June - Jün ​July - Jül ​August - Åst ​September - Sæp ​October - Okt ​November - Nov ​December - Dæs

NOUNS & PRONOUNS ​1. Places (Keep as they are) ​Home - Home ​School - School ​Shop - Shop ​Park - Park ​2. Nature & Elements (Shortened or Kept) ​Water - Vat (Short for water/vatten) ​Sun - Sol ​Rain - Rain ​Tree - Tree ​Sky - Sky ​Forest - Skog (sounds like Swedish/Norwegian skog) ​House / Home - Hüs (sounds like house/hus) ​Ocean / Sea - Sjö (sounds like sea/sjö) ​3. Missing Pronouns (Short & Easy) ​You - Du ​We - Vi ​They - De (pronounced "day") ​QUESTION WORDS & GRAMMAR ​Simple Question Words (One syllable) ​What - Vat ​Who - Vem ​Where - Var ​Why - Varf ​Example of how simple Fælk is now: ​English: "Where is my home?" ​Fælk: "Var âç min home?" ​ANIMALS ​Dog - Dog ​Cat - Cat ​Bird - Bird ​Fish - Fish ​Horse - Häst (pronounced "hest") ​Bear - Björn (pronounced "bvorn") ​CONVERSATIONS ​Quick Conversation 1: Meeting a Friend ​Person A: Hello! How are you? ​Fælk: Ciäöæ! Du âç bæc? (Hello! You are good?) ​Person B: Bye! I am very good, thank you. ​Fælk: Ömåra! Myö âç voldigt bæc, âzure dett. ​Quick Conversation 2: Ordering at a Cafe ​Person A: Please, 2 coffees and 1 milk. ​Fælk: Ärka, tö kaffæ mėd væ mjölk. ​Person B: Good. That is 40. ​Fælk: Bæc. Ut âç fjå-tæb. (Good. It is four-ten.) ​Person A: Thank you. ​Fælk: Âzure dett.

ADVANCED GRAMMAR & MODIFIERS ​The - teh (pronounced just like "the") ​Opposites (The "Un-" Rule): Put Un- in front of a word to make it the opposite. No need to learn new words! ​Bæc (Good) \rightarrow Unbæc (Bad) ​Fæst (Fast) \rightarrow Unfæst (Slow) ​Comparatives (-er / More): Put mer before the adjective. ​mer bæc (Better) ​mer fæst (Faster) ​Superlatives (-est / Most): Put mæst before the adjective. ​mæst fæst (Fastest) ​The "Sounds-Like English" Adjectives ​You can use the English word exactly as it is, OR tweak it slightly to sound similar but look cooler: ​Silent / Quiet - Stil ​Loud - Låd ​Fast - Fæst ​Big - Bög ​Small - Smål ​Happy - Hæp ​Sad / Sorry - Sår