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October 11th, 2008
mizenki
 | 06:25 am - Romaşa Numerals
1-20, and then 30-100 in tens. These are rough, and I plan to make some changes. Enjoy. (Circumflexes note long vowels, 'ç' is [k], 'ş' is [ʃ], 'dş' is [dʒ], vowels before nasals and another consonant are nasalized)
( 1 2 3 4 Tell me that you love me more... )
Current Location: Home
Current Mood: Awake
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October 10th, 2008
putti_plush
 | 07:00 pm - The Conlang Singer
Hey folks! I'm a long time conlanger with the bad habit of regularly translating song lyrics instead of prose. I have a library of songs I sing in my conlangs, two examples of which are on my Youtube account and would love to spread the joy. (Please excuse the quality of these videos; I hope my singing's not too bad.)
I want to sing the conlangs of others.
If you'd like a song sung in any conlang, either comment this post, comment on my main LJ, or e-mail putti_plush@yahoo.com with the following:
1. A romanization (latin alphabet) of the lyrics, and directions on how to pronounce the romanization.
2. A link to a video or an mp3 of the song, just in case I don't know the tune.
3. OPTIONAL a midi version of the song to sing over and have in the background.
4. OPTIONAL any picture you'd like me to use in the video.
*I can pronounce almost the entire IPA. Bring it (any sounds) awwwn.
*If you have a special writing system, I can use it in the video, gladly.
*I can do special vocal inflections (ala voice acting).
Looking forward to it! I'll post updates of progress on any videos at my LJ. I might post finished video links here, MODs permitting.
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October 8th, 2008
mizenki
| 07:41 pm - Romaşa Vocab
So here's a nice chunk of vocab that I have run through the sound change applier. Capital vowels are long vowels, since apparently case DOESN'T matter when you try to replace characters in Notepad/Word (it turned every a into ā, instead of just capitals, so just deal with it)
Ş is [ ʃ ], tş is [ tʃ ], dş is [ dʒ ], ç is [ k ] ģ is [ g ], c is [s] before front vowels (and [ k ] otherwise), g is [ ʒ ] before front vowels (and [ g ] otherwise). Acute accents mark stress, circumflexes mark long vowels (formerly two of the same vowel in a row; â [ aa ], now [ a: ]). Vowels followed by a nasal and another consonant or a final nasal are nasalized. (cantar [ kãn'tar ])
( Latin --> Romaşa )
Current Location: Dorm
Current Mood: ![[mood icon]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/ibrad/biggrin.gif) Accomplished
Current Music: Lay All Your Love on Me (ABBA)
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October 7th, 2008
mizenki
| 11:54 pm - Romance Conlang
So after much tinkering with a sound change applying program, I've finally produced the begins of a viable Romance conlang. If any of you remember, I posted some songs (Disney ones!) in this language. At that point the sounds changes weren't too systematic. I think I have it nice and regularized.
So below are some words that I took through 5 stages: Latin, Vulgar Latin, Old Romaşa, Middle Romaşa, and finally modern Romaşa. These are a few basic words, and only the beginning of my fully-regularized lexicon.
ego -------------- ɛgo -------- éjo ------- éiu -------- eu (I)
fīlum ------------- filo --------- fílo ------- fílu -------- filu (thread)
sitis ------------- sete ------- şéte ----- şéite ----- şeite (thirst)
mēnsis ------- mese ----- méşe ---- méişe --- meişe (month)
fīnīre ------------ finirɛ ------- fiér -------- fiér -------- fier (to finish)
amīcus ------- amico ------ aíco ------ aícu ------- ecu (male friend)
frīgorōsum - frigɔroso - frijoróso - früróusu - frurousu (cold, frigid)
dormīre ------ dɔrmirɛ --- dormér -- durmér -- durmer (to sleep)
oculus --------- ɔcolo ------ óçio ------ óuçiu ----- ouçiu (eye)
(ş represents [ ʃ ], ç is [k] before front vowels (I HATE the letter 'q') and acute accents mark stress. (I needed them to make dipthongs happen))
Anyway, I'm just throwing this up here for the sake of your opinions. WHATCHA THINK?
Current Location: Dorm
Current Mood: ![[mood icon]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/ibrad/talking.gif) Busy
Current Music: Calabria (Enur)
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October 6th, 2008
moonwindstarsky
 | 05:11 pm - What sound do these consonants make?
ź
ś
ć
ż
ş
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October 2nd, 2008
aberwak
 | 02:58 pm - Language in a week challenge
I heard about the idea of NaNoWriMo a few years ago, and loved the idea. I've never actually participated in it, but the concept still interests me: writing a novel. Having a set time period helps motivate, and going in with little expectations about quality help too. It's just about getting something done.
I'd like to try soemthing like that for conlangs: creating a language in a week. I'm just starting to think about how this could be done, so ideas are scattered at the moment. The main audience of this would not necessarily be those who already have created languages, but more of a general audience to expose others to conlanging and language exploration and/or linguistics in general. I thought a week would be a good starting point, since it's not "too much" time, but a short enough period that someone might be willing to give it a try. Plus, each day of the week could be an emphasis on a different aspect of conlanging. The first day might focus on phonology and just picking out sounds, another day focused on morphology, etc. It will help organize and focus each criteria involved.
Since I'm just brainstorming this right now, I'd love input- if you think this is a good idea (or not), how likely you think people might participate (or ways to increase participation), names for this (at the moment, I was thinking of just calling it the LIAW Challenge), what different aspects might be focused on for a day, what the goals of the week should be (in NaNoWriMo, for example, the goal is to write a novel- the novel is the finished product- how would a "finished product" look for this? I'm thinking I'd create some kind of form so languages could be compared easily- and have space for phonology, how to say common phrases, and whatever else), if a week is the right amount of time for this kind of project for someone, and anything else you can think of.
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longlongwaytogo
 | 01:50 pm - Interesting?
I thought that some of you might be interested in this little article. :) Just something someone I know wrote. Using Paolini as an example of what not to do.
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September 29th, 2008
alphistia
 | 06:24 pm - Alphistian-English dictionary update
Recently the English-Alphistian dictionary was extensively revised. Now an Alphistian-English draft version is available here:
http://alphistia.com/aedictionary1.html
Info about the Alphistian language is here:
http://alphistia.com/lingua1.html
Vanderse hoiven (friendly greetings)
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September 27th, 2008
omrtickleso
| 08:09 pm - Dai Sulee!
Hello everyone! I just made a Live Journal account. Anyone, i've been conlanging since i was 11 and i've come up with quite a few unfinished languages: I have; Soake, Altaris and Eloi (yeah i know its off the book the Time Machine by H.G. Wells but i only realized after i named the language and i'd already made a backup photocopy and everything so now i'm too lazy to change it (20cents per page photocopy at my school, craziness!)) I'm working on a website which i shall post up [The Link] here when i'm done containing an online dictionary of Eloi and its grammatical structures so forth.
Happy conlanging!
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September 19th, 2008
alphistia
| 02:05 am - New Alphistian video
Kris se Kumrea erskanse hanse hematlanda na alvesteane.
Chris from Wales describes his homeland in Alphistian.
video at http://www.youtube.com/user/alphistia and more on the Alphistian conlang at http://www.alphistia.com/lingua1.html.
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September 11th, 2008
ubykhlives
 | 11:04 am - More on Ertazh Kønen
A short outline of morphological marking of the semantic subject in Ertazh Kønen. Comments and criticisms are very welcome.
( The Subject in Ertazh Kønen )
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September 9th, 2008
fayanora
 | 05:41 am - The Cthulhu language?
The language of which the phrase "Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn" is a part of fascinates me. But not knowing what it's called makes it hard to Google. Anyone know some good sites about this conlang?
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September 7th, 2008
hemicomputer
 | 03:01 pm - Hello!!
Hey there, I'm Hemicomputer. I've been conlanging for about a year and I've got 3 conlangs: Holxûs, Cohikæohoxi, and Kai. None of these are finished yet (can a language ever be "finished?), and I'm working on them simultaneously (yeah, it's a lot of work).
The oldest and most developed is Holxûs, and I'll have some information posted on it very soon. I can tell you now that I first created it as part of a story, which was then abandoned to work just on the language. It has no specific base, but some of the grammar was influenced by the Vulcan language.
Anyways, hello, evir, tînyki, and raċmåŀ na̽t to everyone!
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August 30th, 2008
varpho
 | 12:48 am - Sufisanto
in Esperanto it is possible to make new words, where suffixes serve as the stem, e.g. suffix -et- is used for diminutives and adjective eta means 'slight', 'little', but it is not the main word for 'little', which is malgranda. so this eta type words are kind of by-product.
i tried to write something in Esperanto, but without using "normal" stems, like nominal or verbal stems, but basing just on afixes, numerals, prepositions, conjunctions and pronouns.
it's just a sketch.
Praulicxo nia, kiu as en la suprejo,
egela u Cia ulo-ecero,
cxitienu estregeco Cia,
u auxebleco Cia,
kiel en la suprejo, tiel ankaux sur la cxitiejo.
ozigeron nian cxiamera alu al ni tiamere
kaj poralu al ni acxecojn niajn
kiel ni ankaux poralas de niaj acxecantoj;
ne tienu nin en cxuecon
sed disu nin de la malela
cxar Cia as la estregeco, la igebleco kaj la elelo cxiegam.
u!
( explanation )
[x-posted to my LJ]
Current Music: Kibice Legii Warszawa śpiewają Sen o Warszawie Czesława Niemena
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August 27th, 2008
zaintoum
 | 04:38 am
Sorry in advance if this is spamming or if people already know, however I wanted to mention that there's a conlang IRC channel on freenode if anyone was interested.
( Some details on my language, though not too much.. )
I focus heavily on theory or structure more than forms, so I don't have enough of my language to post proper examples of it yet, I was initiallly going to post here when I had and still intend to once I have it sorted out, but wanted to mention this.
Current Mood: ![[mood icon]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/ibrad/bigwink.gif) contemplative
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August 26th, 2008
ubykhlives
 | 12:14 pm - Noun case in the Kønen family
I’ve spent some time now revising the grammar of my language Ertazh Kønen and the family it belongs to, and partly to make sure everything’s clear in my own mind, I wrote this as an overview of the case systems in the family. Comments and criticisms are welcome.
( A brief introduction to case systems in the Kønen languages )
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August 25th, 2008
alphistia
| 01:17 am - Alphistian Lesson 2 Available
The second lesson in an anticipated 10 lesson mini-course in Alphistian is now available on youtube. It's at:
http://www.youtube.com/user/alphistia
Ulantas nem an lokse. Vanderse hoiven.
http://alphistia.com/lingua1.html
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August 22nd, 2008
ysabetwordsmith
 | 11:07 am - Grammar Genres
![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) ozarque has listed a set of "grammar genres," different ways that a foreign-language grammar book can be framed. If you enjoy constructed languages, and especially if you design your own, take a look. It gives a great peek at the options for creating a language textbook.
Current Mood: busy
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August 21st, 2008
moonwindstarsky
| 03:44 pm - Sérromano
I lost about year's worth of work 2 days ago by unplugging a hard drive while in use. If you have advice or want more translations please let me know. Here's some info that I can remember and decided to change just now:
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secret_vice
| 05:41 pm - FREE online dictionary
Hi. I've finally found out how to host your dictionary online. So since I'm happy with the result I thought that I might share the information here so that others may also do the same. The site that I used to create my dictionaries (English -Kalirian, and Kalirian -English) is FrathWiki which I believe is one of the most useful sites for conlanging on the Internet. The process to create an online dictionary is as follows:
1. Create a category section eg. [[#A|A]] - [[#B|B]] - [[#C|C]]
2. After you have done that you will need to create a seperate section for each letter.
eg.
== [[#A|A]] ==
== [[#B|B]] ==
== [[#C|C]] ==
3. Then all that you need to do is add in your words and their meanings and your done.
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August 20th, 2008
secret_vice
| 02:38 pm - Kâlirian
Hi. I thought I would just let you know that the grammar for Kâlirian is well under the way. To have a look at what I've been working on visit FrathWiki here: http://wiki.frath.net/K%C8%83lirian#Number to see my page on Kâlirian. I hope that you find the page interesting. At the moment I've completed the pronunciation guide (with the exception of the graphs which need to be changed), as well as various sections such as the punctuation, grammatical gender, and most of the five noun cases. If you would like to comment on my conlang simply click on 'my talk' and you may post you comments there.
In addition to the grammar the lexicon is also slowly expanding. The lexicon may be viewed at the end of the page. I've really enjoyed creating the lixicon for Kâlirian. In a way the lixicon is similar to Klingon as there are plenty of swear words and even more insults. In fact the longest word in Kalirian is actually a insult which literally translates as "dirty stupid human." Anyway as well as some fead back I was also hoping that someone here might point me to a site that provides free online dictionaries that can be modified specifically for conlangs.
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August 16th, 2008
secret_vice
| 09:47 pm - Why do you conlang?
It's not surprising that many people who are into creating conlangs are also either fantasy or sci-fi fans. As for me I'm a huge fantasy fan. Some of my favourite fantasy books/ series that I've enjoyed are Harry Potter, the first two installments of the Inheritance Circle, Deltora's Quest, Rowin of Rin, Artimis Fowl, and His Dark Materials. I've read others of course but these are the series that I've particularly enjoyed. If you've read that then your probably wondering why Lord of the Ring's hasn't been listed. Well don't get me wrong, I loved the movie(s), but since I already know the basic plot I don't really feel compelled to read the books -just in case you were wondering I watched the first movie in Religion with my class a few years ago as everyone was bored ^_^. Anyway, I've since been reading though various articles on the Internet about conlangs -as in why people do it ect, and as usual it talked about some of the conlangs that have been used in fiction. Well this got me thinking, what do you intend to do with your conlang once you're satisfied with it? Are you planning to use it in a work of fiction? or is it intended for someting else?
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August 15th, 2008
secret_vice
| 10:11 pm - Inspiration
Two questions. What languages, either real or imaginary, first got you into the art of conlanging? and, more specifically, what conlangs do you believe have played a major role in inspiring fantasy and sci-fi fans to create their own conlangs?
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August 10th, 2008
i81pizza
 | 03:56 pm - Halloween deadline
I've just begun to write an outline for teaching Tapissary by way of a story. By Oct 31, I'm hoping to have the outline completely filled in, so that I may assemble the book in November and December of this year. As the story evolves chapter by chapter, Tapissary's grammar will be examined. I also plan to accompany each chapter with a short film if my software holds up.
Click on image to enlarge it.
The story will most likely entail 12 chapters. In each chapter, there will be several lessons, addressing grammar. Exercises will be included for practice. The story will present a form of my language that is called Simplified Tapissary. It is a 'base coat', though stands fully functional as a language on its own. If there is an interest in the 12 simple chapters, then I plan to add onto it with another story where I examine Tapissary's cyclic grammar which spins into the 'base coat'. That is more involved both grammatically and conceptually, so the project would take longer to create with more detailed lessons.
The awkward phrases in the examples shown below (please note that these are exercises and not the text of chapter one) are due to the limits I set for chapter one. At this early stage, I am only using one verb, TO BE, and it is in its 3rd person singular form 'IS'. The article 'THE' is absent at this point, as it is a multi-formed entity in Tapissary, which will be offered in chapters 3 and 5. Lesson One's focus is on nouns, the plural, and adjectives. But I still wanted to start telling the story from the very first page regardless of such limitations.
Click on image to enlarge it.
After 30 years of working with Tapissary, and having made rushed or disjointed lesson plans for it on my website, it feels good to finally have a full plan in the works. The chapters are already plotted and paired with their grammatical subjects, so now I just need to fill it in, and be flexible with the occasional reorganization of the vocabulary and material. Therefore, the images you see here are drafts, and may or may not show up in the final version.
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August 7th, 2008
asher63
 | 11:27 am - Langmaker down?
Is the Conlangs/Langmaker page gone? Just visited and I got this -
Error in fetchObject(): Table 'msfp.lm_page' doesn't exist
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August 6th, 2008
akselav
 | 04:17 pm - A Posteriori, or A Priori?
While working on conlanging, just had a curiosity question come to mind:
Do you, personally, prefer to make a posteriori languages (those based on another language, whether real or fictional), or a priori languages (those based on nothing else at all)? Why?
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akselav
| 12:23 pm - A (Very) Brief Introduction to Old Haldrian
This is by no means authorative; I'm still in the "getting things together" stage, but I thought I'd share a preview. Thus "Old' Haldrian -- after I refine it and expand it, I suspect it will be changed enough to qualify as 'New' or 'Modern'
The language is derived fairly regularly from Old English. Major phonological changes, and some very unusual (for a Germanic language) syntactical changes. Some changes:
( Read Further )
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August 4th, 2008
moonwindstarsky
| 11:28 pm - What conlang would this show have?
In the show, Avatar: The Last Airbender, draws upon different ethnic and geographic origins from the real world for its backdrop. A major influence comes from Asia and the Americas. There are four elements for the four geographic areas: Earth, Water, Air, Fire.
Brainstorm question:
What conlangs would they speak and would they be able to understand each other? Edit: links to wikipedia entries
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_Tribe
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_Kingdom
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire_Nation
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Nomads
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spirit_World_%28Avatar:_The_Last_Airbender%29
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bending_in_Avatar:_The_Last_Airbender
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August 5th, 2008
secret_vice
| 12:02 pm - FrathWiki
Hi again. Another FrathWiki question: how do you categorize your conlang alphabetically? see I've been able to place my conlang (Kâlirian) in the correct category but I can't seem to work out how to re-organize the conlangs that are already listed so that Kâlirian is at the top of the list where it should be. At the moment the first conlang listed is Karkl which should technically come after mine yet mine has been put at the bottom of the list. Here is a current screenshot of the various categories:
http://wiki.frath.net/Category:Conlangs
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August 4th, 2008
alphistia
| 09:46 am - English-Alphistian dictionary update
The updated dictionary is here--
http://alphistia.com/eadict1.html
I've added about 1000 new words to the English-Alphistian dictionary. It's up to about 3600 entries, although I'm sure I'm missing loads of everyday words. Anyone who see any omissions is welcome to let me know in the comments or at alphistia@yahoo.com. I'll be glad to invent a word for you :-) Also any recommendation for basic wordlists would be welcome...I'd like to get the vocabulary up to 5000-6000 words.
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