#conlangcrab conlangs

[conlangcrab]

Čèrpi ìvən fənìvan lə̀waas bolf ȍnon kythupà, čèrpi čorkwȍšn velèn valf ȍnon khös čèrpi čorkwȍlk nom vàltaf kòghäf [ˈt͡ɕʰerpʰi ˈɪvən fəˈnɪvan ˈləwos ˈpolf ˈønɔn kʰɨθuˈpʰa | ˈt͡ɕʰerpʰi t͡ɕʰɔrˈkʰwøɕn vɛˈlen ˈvalf ønɔn ˈxøs ˈt͡ɕʰerpʰi t͡ɕʰɔrˈkʰwølkʰ ˈnom ˈvaltʰaf ˈkʰoɣɑf] “I saw seven fish in a river yesterday, twelve today, and I want to see 14 tomorrow.”

[conlangcrab]

By the way, due to the Swadesh list being surprisingly short I've repurposed a list of words a person should learn first when learning a language and made a 700 words long list for conlanging dictionary checks.

Hope it helps too >:D

I just discovered Swadesh Lists, lists of 100 or 200 basic words that tend not to change over time as the rest of the language evolves. I got really into conlangs in high school and college, and this is a resouce I wish I'd known about back then. This link includes lists from 200 languages, modern and historical, including reconstructions of proto-languages and the more well known conlangs. This is the perfect way to compare cognates around the world and see how different consonants shift from predecessor to successor and across relatives in the same families. I'm an amateur so I can't appreciate them all in the same ways a linguistic scholar could, but this scratches an itch in my brain I didn't realize I've had for years.

I think I'm gonna try my hand at conlanging again. My first attempt, something like 10 or 12 years ago, was essentially just English replaced with vaguely Latin sounding gibberish. This was probably like five laptops ago, I doubt I still even have a copy anywhere, but if I can find it I'll post some of it here.

[thecrazyworldbuilder]

Mandatory self-promotion post.

@444names & @444namesplus - Are you dumbstruck after writing yourself into a corner, unable to come up with a plausible and unique name for a character in your work? These two blogs got you covered. 444names and it's sidekick both post 444 names per every single post - And the former has accumulated over half a million names. 444names generates countless names via Markov chains (website used, Wikipedia article), and every single name and name stash are free to be used in any work of fiction - With credit unnecessary! 444namesplus is dedicated to more niche and various ways of procedural name generation, such as Awkwords or cryptolangs.

@thecrazyneographist - A blog where I go ape over neography: The art of inventing new writing systems. While the blog is simply a gallery of scripts created by me (numbering 1668 writing systems documented at the moment of me writing this post!), it does provide a lot of inspiration, and (!) you can commission me to create a neographic endeavor for you! Alternatively, you can buy the rights to any of the already existing scripts if you were to wish and use them in commercial projects, and if the project is not commercial, you can simply notify (and best credit) me as being the scripts author.

@conlangcrab - A place for wider variety of linguistic, conlanging and neographci rambles for me. -snip snap-

@overstimcore - Another gallery blog for a genre of collage which I coined a word for.

@cryptolangsguy - This one is a rabbithole all on itself, so strap up and see for yourselves.

[thecrazyneographist]

Pinned post

Hi! My name is Arcee and I am a worldbuilder with a BIG interest in neography.

This blog is nothing more than a stash of ALL of my neographies that I have documented since I began doing neography by the beginning of 2022. You can view the scripts faster by using the archive.

Mainer blog is @thecrazyworldbuilder, visit it and also my other blogs, @444names, @cryptolangsguy, @schooloftieflings and @verical.

I will begin listing my neographies from the very beginning of the documented list, tagging each with the blog's tag, as well as couple more.

I have open commissions for artistic designs using my neographies, or I can create a neographic script for you!

If the project takes less than an hour to finish, you get the end result free of charge (accepting tips, you pay what you think the script is worth), longer than that depends on the amount of symbols and time spent designing the script; the standard English alphabet cipher with 26 symbols costs 30$.

On my pfp is Ahimiko, the mascot of this blog. She is an anthro canine of mixed heritage, and is a powerful symbolomancer (mage specializing in casting via projecting symbols of different kinds: the stronger the symbolism, the deeper the mysticism, and the more complex the symbol the more precise and specific is the spell she casts). Say hi! :D

Most of my scripts are purely ciphers for English. I do not care to make conlangs for every single one of them, for I enjoy the act of creation.

On creation: Some anon asked for the methods I use to create cohesive and constant-style scripts. A good post on my other blog might help, listing the methods.

NOTE THAT ALL OF MY CREATIONS ARE FREE TO USE, BUT YOU MUST CREDIT ME AS THE CREATOR/NOTIFY ME BEFORE USING THEM IN YOUR COMIC, ART, BOOK OR ANYTHING

As well - feel free to ask for assistance and guidance in usage of my scripts in DMs; Some of them lack explanation, and might be bit confusing.

And finally, please, if you like my work, spare a bit of money for my Ko-Fi.

ASK BOX RULES:

Refrain from using anonymous asks, since it cuts off the possibility of me responding more directly into your DMs if I deem them impossible to answer via post and won't be able to notify you about it, making me look rude.

You can send positive feedback - it will be stored in the bottom of this post (see below).

You can send requests for scripts, like "Futhark but more like Ogham", or "a Katakana chart inspired by Klingon". Those are free, unlike the commissions, hence I am not required to do adjustments, follow the idea 1:1, nor I am required to make them in the first place.

Don't ask for tips, guidance, or tutorials: This blog is purely an archive of my works. If you need help, go to @conlangcrab where I will answer your asks directly, just remember to address them to "Arcee", since the blog is run by two people there.

Updates on this post below:

I make neographic scripts for already existing writing systems (like Latin or Katakana) because I can't create a conlang for every single aesthetic I can come up with for a writing system.

By Ides of March, 2023, this blog has 350 distinct scripts documented, all created by me.

A pinterest user has been repeatedly stealing my works I've posted on Reddit without notifying or crediting me.

By 4/4/2023, there are over 400 scripts documented.

By 3rd of May, there are over 500 scripts documented.

By 27 of June, there are exactly 600 scripts documented.

By 7th of July, there are exactly 700 scripts documented.

By 25th of August, there are exactly 800 scripts documented.

Another pinterest user has been stealing my works from Reddit.

By 17th of October, there are exactly 900 scripts documented.

By 12th of November, there are exactly 1000 scripts documented.

By 23rd of December, there are exactly 1100 scripts documented.

By 2/10/2024, there are exactly 1200 scripts documented.

By 3/29/2024, there are exactly 1300 scripts documented.

By 6/13/2024, there are exactly 1400 scripts documented.

By 8/12/2024, there are exactly 1500 scripts documented.

By 10/29/2024, there are exactly 1600 scripts documented.

By 12/25/2024, there are exactly 1700 scripts documented.

Positive anon asks under the cut (you are encouraged to send more!)

<3

Sure thing! Thank you UwUb

Thanki ;w;b Well, I do have some WIP or UFO (never meant to be finished WIPs) conlangs, but I don't have scripts for them really. I do ciphers because they are A) Simple to make, B) Are a good display of just enough symbol styles for a demonstration of an idea, thus, a good "advertisement" for my product, which are neographies.

QoQb I will never stop indeed, as long as I can move my hands xD

In fact I answered this one, but didn't say thanks for the warm words Q~Qb

:)

Sure thing liege, all free-to-use :D

[conlangcrab]

Conlang Shenanigans

EPISODE #3: Oh shit oh god WHY

guys ive been assaulted, they stole my reflexives, chewed them up and spit adjectival suffixes back in my face :pensive:

[conlangcrab]

Some languages have relatively free word order, given there's infliction that links words together.

Like in gendered noun languages with adjective gender infliction, paired with some distinction in noun case.

She saw him.

She him saw.

Saw she him.

Saw him she.

Him she saw.

Him saw she.

Each sentence might have the same meaning but with accent on first two parts, as in specification to a question.

Russian is one such example I can get from the top o'my head, Slavic languages in general and most syntax ones really.

Why is every conlanging video about syntax limited to "Are you SOV, SVO, or VSO?"

I need help getting more indepth! I already know I'm doing SOV, but I have no idea how complex adjectival or dependent phrases work outside of english (or even within english). It's to the point where I'm not even sure what part of speech "of" is in the phrase "I was a child of three". Would I mark "child" as accusative and "three" as dative? Or is "three" just an adjective without case marking? Would phrasing it "child three" mean "3-year-old child" or "three children"?

Am I just stupid because I grew up with English as my only point of reference? Or is it the failure of what little education I got on linguistics?

[conlangcrab]

Ansendir is online

Here you have the link to the open-edit Google doc, go crazy with it. The current dictionary has 888 words.

Go ham :D

[conlangcrab]

Thoughts and observations on universal calligraphy applied on neography.

[conlangcrab]

Conlang challenge: translate Caramelldansen into ur conlags

[conlangcrab]

Here's a long list of words to fill a dictionary.

My advice is to use this site here to generate words of the fashion needed for you, insert Wikipedia articles in the languages you want to have the vibe of, stripped of punctuation, here and simply adjust settings to your liking.

Also Awkword

...and WordGen

Vulgarlang got both Italian and Spanish (as well as Portuguese) in the presets, just go Phonology > enable Word Structure and just choose the needed presets below. WARNING: alters spelling, so open two Vulgarlang tabs, copy-paste the presets for both languages from one tab to another and there hit Generate.

Run through the pages for both Spanish and Italian languages on Wikipedia, especially the grammar/phonology parts (those might be their own articles).

does anyone have advice for conlanging? I’m trying to make a fictional language that sounds/functions a bit like Italian or Spanish and any help whatsoever would be INCREDIBLE, i have no experience with this but I’m hoping to create at least one functioning language for my fantasy world! Thank you so so so much to anyone who replies!!

[conlangcrab]

#75

Conlang which only has one verb: "do", and all actions are represented via gerunds (meaning that in order to say "I love Fridays" one must say "I do loving of Fridays").

[conlangcrab]

Desperate due to Awkwords being abandonware so I delved into some alternatives.

Scriboly Fake Language Generator Closer to a cryptolang than an actual conlang-generator. Through some testing determined that the site uses some internalized rules to decide how to translate words into encoded versions of themselves. The number of syllables (which are AWFULLY miscalled "phonemes" here) alters the results of the translation, and the translation is stable regardless of what the text is or tab session. Neat, keeping it for sure.

LanguaGen Might be the perfect fit actually. Though sadly, it is still in development, and aims to cover all the functionality of Awkwords (as said in the About), which is superb. Saving.

sca2 A Zompist sound change applier. Very fancy, will use for cryptolanging most probably.

[conlangcrab]

#76

The orthography of this language, in romanization, prohibits vowels without diacritics.

Hæjūllì, yēyãü cïdês cīdëll mõnî Mínèrs, år jēkāst Êm. Ù ìw thœjï cīdërātèkàd âf thûjøh plòmîcé.

[conlangcrab]

🤘😎🦀

Dhàzan'a Orthography

This post by @thecrazyneographist inspired the Dhàzan'a writing system. I'm not very creative when it comes to designing unique letter forms, so it uses combinations of markings to get full coverage of the phonology. I suppose that makes it a featural writing system.

[conlangcrab]

Everyone who's participating in the Aba'abe project I'm kissing you on the mouth you are doing so good.

Me sitting with a stupid grin smiling from the thought of what this will end up as:

[conlangcrab]

I love doing this stupid thing, so-

I generated a list of 2390 three-letter "words" for a theoretical engineered conlang.

This doc is in free access. You can come and give a dictionary definition to any word you want. The words are spelled following IPA pronunciation, thus <j> = /j/ for example.

Let project

Aba'abe

begin.