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??? Dragon time? What the fuck was I referring to here ???

Dragon time

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...Pretty sure that should have been "Vilob lärnön Volapüki".

Vilob lärnön Volapük

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BAC SIS ZON VYDYT. (I AM CLEAVED.)

-John Marley 🜂☉🜚 2020-10-27

[Reblogs are appreciated]

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Qafwynen canp sep fynp (The Mystery of the Moon and Sun)

In December of 2019, I had a dream involving one of my favourite bands, Klaatu. I was reading a magazine about them, and the issue I was reading was about this mystery connection between Klaatu and the sun and moon.

The magazine had a lot of images of the bandmembers (I’ve never read a magazine centered around a specific band, but I assume that would be typical for it), but throughout it there was a theme of the sun and moon. It was unknown as to why there was such heavy sun and moon imagery, and the author of the magazine formed a conspiracy theory around it. I wanted to figure out the mystery, as well.

Aurunnol Mystere (’I don’t know Mystery’) is at least partially based on this dream. They are also (potentially?) the mascot for the language Cosmoglossic/the Language of the Cosmos and the band The Perytons.

-John Marley 🜂☉🜚 2020-10-13 (sketch/lineart) 🜂☉🜚 2020-10-25 (colour)

[Reblogs are appreciated]

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mi kama sona e toki pona e toki Losupan. mi sona lili e toki pona. taso mi sona ala e toki Losupan lon tenpo ni.

tenpo ni la mi toki lili e toki pona. mi wile kepeken toki pona lon tenpo mute.

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*Makes a post about a topic and my conlang’s words for them, such as colours or pronouns*

*Proceeds to make changes to my conlang that renders the post invalid the next day*

This is why we can’t have nice things

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Cosmogloss colours

There are three terms for colours: lin, ron, and kun.

‘Lin’ simply means ‘colour’ and can be combined with other morphemes to create colour terms that may not be covered by ron and kun, such as my use of ‘lifun’ (colour-plant-noun) for green and ‘lifen’ (colour-animal-noun) for that mix of brown and grey often found on wild animals.

Ron means ‘warm colour’, as defined by the speaker. For me, that would be the red-orange-yellow-brown range.

Kun means ‘cool colour’, as defined by the speaker. 

For me, that would be the cyan-blue-violet-grey range-- no green, even though green is taught as a cool colour, because I personally perceive blue and green as more distinct than red and yellow (probably because of my preference of the RGB system); however, if someone does consider green a cool colour, then ‘kun’ would include green for them (and it would fall under ‘ron’ if they considered it a warm colour)-- Cosmogloss is meant to communicate more how the speaker views things-- we already have enough languages based around group consensus!

So if someone says ‘ban kes fen rot’ (1st_person-noun vision-verb animal-noun warm_colour-adjective), they are saying that they see an animal and that it is a colour that they consider to be a warm colour, rather than saying what the colour itself is.

Magenta is especially difficult to pin down. It’s taught as a warm colour, sure, but I don’t agree with that. RGB says magenta is equally red and blue. Kuron? Rokun? Liwen (colour-divine/magic-noun)?

Black could be liwin (colour-cosmos-noun) or nelin (void-colour-noun). White could be lifvenen (colour-(quality-none)-noun) or perhaps linun (colour-moon-noun) or lizun (colour-star-noun).

Note: Final -n makes these words nouns. Replace with final -t to turn them into adjectives.

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Cosmogloss pronouns

Ban: 1st person (I)

Dan: 2nd person (thou, you)

Gan: 3rd person animate (he/she/singular they/etc.)

Non: 3rd person inanimate, ‘thing’ (it)

Can: 4th person animate (one, generic you, generic they, ‘someone’)

Con: 4th person inanimate, ‘concept’ (often used as a dummy pronoun, ‘something’)

Van: verb pronoun (used when a noun in a sentence is the noun equivalent of the main verb, ex. ‘I like to speak a language’ -> ‘Ban kas tas van’ instead of ‘Ban kas tas tan’)

Nan: Reflexive pronoun (myself, yourself, oneself, etc.)

These can be turned into possessive pronouns by changing final -n to -k (ex. bak, dak, gak). Turning ‘gan’ into the adjective ‘gat’ can be used to say ‘this’.

While, I used singular pronouns for these examples, these can all be singular or plural, specified (if desired) by adding numbered adjectives:

Bot: single

Gyt: dual

Dit: paucal

Sut: plural

Lyt: all

Note that ‘we’ would not translate to ‘ban sut’ if the members within this ‘we’ are both physically and mentally separate; something such as ‘ban hep dan’ (I and you) or ‘ban hep gan’ (I and them) may be more appropriate in this situation. Using ‘ban sut’ to refer to you and someone else is claiming to speak for them and this can be offensive.

Other adjectives can be added to pronouns such as ‘gan fit’ to specify ‘she’ or ‘gan fot’ to specify ‘he’. It is considered weird (and in the case of gendered adjectives, possibly rude) to use these all the time; they are meant to be used when relevant or as a distinguisher.

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hey this is aUI anon can i message you about aUI? it's one of my big interests right now and id love to talk about it with you

Oh, yes!

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can i ask how much do you know about aUI?

Oh, well, I’m by no means an expert. 

Why do you ask? 

(Sorry for lateness! Tungle didn’t notify me of this ask for some reason.)

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Well, I’ve changed the syllable for ‘colour’, so this is now outdated. But, I’d like to keep a copy of how it was at the time, hence this reblog. (The original post has been updated)

Tawin colours

Kun and ron are really the only ‘true’ colour names. 'Ron’ is 'warm colour’ (red, orange, yellow) and 'kun’ is 'cool colour’ (green, cyan, blue). There’s also the word 'kyn’, just meaning 'colour’. If you want more specific colour terms, you have to combine them.

Rosin (warm_colour-left) is red, ronyn (warm_colour-neutral) is orange, and roden (warm_colour-right) is yellow. Kusin, kunyn, and kuden are green, cyan, and blue respectively. Rokun is pink and kuron is purple.

Kywin (colour-space) is black and kylon (colour-light) is white. Kynyn is the typical name for grey, but kywilon could be used to imply a dark grey and kylowin could be used to imply a light grey.

Adding -wi- and -lo- to colours makes it lighter or darker, so rowin is brown.

Those are all of the 'official’ names, but you could combine the word colour with other stuff, for example, 'kyfen’ (colour-animal) to refer to that grey-brown colour that a lot of wild animals have.

*Note: All of these colour words I’ve listed are in noun form. Replace the -n with -t to make it an adjective. 

**Another note, is that these terms cover ranges. Kunyn & kuden, kuden & kuron and kuron & rokun can especially overlap.

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Cosmogloss/Tawin colours

Kun and ron are really the only 'true' colour names. 'Ron' is 'warm colour' (red, orange, yellow) and 'kun' is 'cool colour' (green, cyan, blue). There's also the word 'lin', just meaning 'colour'. If you want more specific colour terms, you have to combine them.

Rosin (warm_colour-left) is red, ronyn (warm_colour-neutral) is orange, and roden (warm_colour-right) is yellow. Kusin, kunyn, and kuden are green, cyan, and blue respectively. Rokun is pink and kuron is purple.

Liwin (colour-space) is black and lilon (colour-light) is white. Linyn is the typical name for grey, but liwilon could be used to imply a dark grey and lilowin could be used to imply a light grey.

Adding -wi- and -lo- to colours makes it lighter or darker, so rowin is brown.

Those are all of the 'official' names, but you could combine the word colour with other stuff, for example, 'lifen' (colour-animal) to refer to that grey-brown colour that a lot of wild animals have.

*Note: All of these colour words I've listed are in noun form. Replace the -n with -t to make it an adjective. 

**Another note, is that these terms cover ranges. Kunyn & kuden, kuden & kuron and kuron & rokun (all blue-spectrum colours!) can especially overlap. 

***Cosmogloss is the English term for this language, while Tawin is this language’s term for itself. I originally made this post before inventing the term ‘Cosmogloss’.

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Ro enters the U.S. Congressional Record, 1914

On this day a mention of Edward Powell Foster’s Ro is entered into the U.S. Congressional Record (H. Res. 432) in 1914.

From 1906 to 1931 from his hometown in Marietta, Edward Powell Foster published several books, a dictionary, and a newsletter using his language which he named Ro meaning “tell, say” in the language itself. Foster designed Ro to convey the meanings of words by their form.

A number of supporters are listed in his books including Melvil Dewey, creator of the Dewey Decimal System.

On March 2, 1914, Rep. George White of Ohio even introduced H. Res. 432 to the Committee on Education of the U.S. House of Representatives providing for an investigation of a new language known as Ro, securing a mention in the Congressional Record for Foster’s language.

Check out more: https://conlang.org/resources/conlangers-calendar/

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...Adding Interlingua to my list

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Introducing: Tawin

I’ve decided to make an aUI-inspired conlang with the idea of morpheme=syllable rather than morpheme=phoneme. This should make it easier to avoid the issue of hard-to-pronounce vowel sequences and definitely consonant clusters (...though I can’t promise that the phonemes themselves not be difficult), as well as give way more morphemes to work with. 

It’s also inspired by Toki Pona, so I named it ‘taUI’, and then converted it into the primarily (С)V structure this language is goïng to have, ‘tawi’, and then further changed it to ‘tawin’, since /n/ in this lang signifies the end of a noun. In the language itself, ‘ta’ means ‘language’ and ‘wi’ means ‘space’, so it’s ‘space language’. 

It also has influence from Esperanto and Volapük (and English), though evidently not enough to be part of the name.

As it is currently, it will have 242 syllables to work with-- more morphemes than Toki Pona has words! It’s definitely goïng to be more complex than Toki Pona, yet the structure of the language might encourage simplicity.

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I’m gonna make a conlang that’s a ripoff of inspired by aUI. I don’t have a name for it yet. It’s got 32 phonemes/morphemes (1 more than aUI’s 31), plus an epethentic vowel and an epethentic consonant to break up any difficult/impossible vowel sequences or consonant clusters that may occur. 

I also might make one or two other aUI-inspired conlangs with morphemes beïng based on syllables rather than phonemes.

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Vilob lärnön Volapük