#cactuslang

[impishdullahan]

What can you tell us about Naŧoš and Tongue of the Cactus?

Naŧoš was a conlang I put together based on the dynasties in my favourite CK2 runs and was intended to be a bit of a love letter to a few different natlangs, namely Irish, West Flemish, Northern Sami, Gujarati, and Phoenecian. In so doing it became a bit of a kitchen sink and I lost interest in it. I do still like the phonaesthetic, though, it just needs to go way less hard on the morphophonology. I had also ascribed it to a conculture across the sea on another continent from the rest of my conlangs, and I've scrapped a lot of the world beyond the main continent, so I'm even less inclined to work on it now. That being said it's still very usable so maybe far in the future I'll resurrect it.

TotC, though, that's a story! My first crack at what I could actually call a conlang and not a cipher or relex was in high school, but I didn't actually make anything at all usable till my first year of post-secondary with TotC. It started as an inside joke with my classmates about this pantheon of characters based on all of us, and we needed a divine language for them, so I took to making TotC. Part of the lore was that the Hera or Frig figure was someone whose profile picture was a cactus, and they gave the language to rest of the pantheon, hence Tongue of the Cactus. At least I think that was the case; this was like 7 years ago. I don't remember much about the conlang itself, but it stole some stuff from Quechua, and I developed this neat "writing" system for it based on Quipu with different knot types, cactus spines, and colours encoding segmental information.

[impishdullahan]

So... how many conlangs have you made and/or partook in making?

How do I quantify this? Em...

I have a family of 3, Tokétok, one of which is my primary and most developed conlang, and the other 2 are quite young. Then there's Varamm and Agyharo, both a couple years in the making now, and more than usable. Then I have ATxK0PT, which is a usable speedlang from a year ago I still add words to. At present I have another speedlang in the foreground, but it remains to be seen if I'll continue working on it. Then, of course, Ŋ!odzäsä, the speedlang I co-created a few years ago but haven't touched since. I've also got a couple defunct projects like Naŧoš and Tongue of the Cactus, and then a bunch of sketches, I think 2-4 of which I still have plans to flesh out.

So I guess that's 10-14+ depending how you wanna count? Is that a lot? That feels like too many.