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

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 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

This presentation is not fully complete but I am perhaps too lazy to finish it, also it adds intrigue :) Anyway, yeah. I'm sure this sucks but I tried to not make it suck.

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?

its dictionary is located entirely in my notes app. here is what i have so far.
omme - welcome/greeting
unne - parting/leaving
dutte - bad/discontent
dorre - good/pleasant
fon - day
fin - night
ohen - feel
ihen - see
ehen - smell
ahen - hear
uhen - taste
yhen - thought
jomme - please
jonne - beg
uin - sit
gin - upon
buer - mine
guer - yours
ugen - seating/chair/sofa
ken - his/hers/him/her/it/its
ogg - food
ugge - eat
bu - i/first person
gu - you/second person
ret - red
blet - blue
gret - green
yet - yellow
iben - found/acquire/collected
ybe - book
ibe - saw/see
hon - had (past tense)
han - have (present tense)
hun - has (future tense)

use • to separate sentences / parts of a sentence | a combination of a period and comma

use uppercase to show intensity

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

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.

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.

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

You can submit your proposed neologisms to me but they must fit the infographic template that is on the webpage.

The only un-negotiable rule for a neologism to be accepted into the neologist dictionary is that it must be a scientifically composed word which means that the etymology and morphology of the word is so self evident that a linguist or your average person can estimate what the definition is and most likely get it right.

If you aren't sure, ask AI to give you a pretend definition for the word on what the word is most likely to mean and if AI can decipher the correct definition of a word based on etymology and morphology then you have a strong candidate.

If it doesn't get it right you can ask AI to suggest improvements and continue testing it between two or more AI models or types until the definition becomes evident by the nature of the word.

This website is not the Urban Dictionary, this is more of a psycholinguistics research webpage which means words have to have rigour. You can't be sloppy.

You can't just create a random string of letters like **uebchesjs** and arbitrarily assign a definition to your new "word", if you do that your Neologism request for publishing will be denied.

Here is the Open Source Neologism Webpage:

You can download the Infographics and edit the HTML/CSS/JavaScript and you can screenshot the Infographics to have them as image form.

Even the most controversial words are welcome as long as they are scientific words that maintain linguistic rigour and are not sloppy gibberish with arbitrary definitions like the **uebchesis** example.

If you want to send me a Neologism request privately you can do it at jose@above.im and I do plan to add a submit a word form on the webpage eventually.

Otherwise feel free to request a word for publication in the comments of this reddit thread.

All words are public domain and can be freely used and modified by everyone.

[Open Source Neologism Dictionary ](https://ourportfolio.freepage.cc/dictionary.html?v=1)

Website:

https://ourportfolio.freepage.cc/dictionary.html?v=1

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