#hence conlang time

[overflowing-glass]

The daydreaming about a funny scenario with aliens to drafting the grammatical rules for a conlang pipeline

[intuitive-revelations]

Headcanon: one of the reasons why Gallifreyan is a) so complex, and b) so inconsistent, is because it's less one language and more a complex mishmash of thousands of languages and dialects.

Think about how one of the reasons English can be complex to learn is because of the mix of Germanic and romance language roots, and now take it up to 11.

While one might expect Gallifrey to be monolingual, given its age and class structure, this probably isn't technically the case. After all, why limit your culture to one language when the average citizen is effectively panlingual (to the point that TARDIS translation circuits are actually dependent on their pilots' knowledge, rather than the other way round)?

Thus, if there once were distinct languages on Gallifrey, they probably have all been merged at this point into modern Gallifrey's super-Esperanto. Add in loan words from notable civilisations across all of spacetime (but likely primarily from Gallifreyan colonies and allies like Dronid, Minyos, Cartego etc.), and it quickly becomes quite unwieldy.

It's also likely that there's a lot of overlap between these sub-languages, which can make distinguishing meaning hard to an outsider. Gallifreyans likely get around this courtesy of their telepathic connections.

TBH, given Time Lord sensibilities, it's likely that every single word variation has its own delicate meanings, derived not just from their societal uses but also from the etymology and history of each one. Canonically (though I don't have a source) we know that there are 30 different words meaning "culture shock", for example, which likely have very minor distinctions in meaning. We also know, unsurprisingly, that there's at least 208 tenses to help in describing time travel.

As an example - imagine being a Sunari ambassador at an embassy gathering and accidentally offending every Time Lord in the room because you accidentally used a definite article derived from the memeovored Old High Tersuran colony dialect, now considered low-brow by association with modern Tersuran, when you intended to use a nearly identical form of the word originating from the Founding Conflict, a triumphant post-Rassilonian intervention, distinguished by a near-imperceptible glottal stop.

It's likely that some of these Gallifreyan sub-languages/dialects may still be spoken with increased frequency under certain conditions, such as in one's own House or when visiting other city complexes. We know, for example, that Arcadia seems to be associated with a "Northern English" accent (which Nine picked up subconsciously post-regeneration, with the Fall of Arcadia being one of the last things the War Doctor remembered before DOTD's multi-Doctor event - hence "lots of planets have a north") when translated, which may indicate some dialect differences in the original language. I suspect there is a societal expectation for Gallifreyans to code-switch depending on the situation, with Citadel business generally expecting the Gallifreyan equivalent of RP, though it's relatively common for Time Lords less concerned with respectability and politicking to not comply.

One nice benefit of all this complexity, and the reason I made this post, is that there's a good argument to be made that every fan attempt to construct a Gallifreyan language can be 'canon', contradictions and all.

Greencook Gallifreyan? A formal evolution of Pythian prophecy scripture into the post-Intuitive Revelation era (based on its similarities with the Visionary's scrawling in The End of Time).

Sherman Gallifreyan? A modern katakana-like phonetic alphabet for the rapid-onslaught of new loan words following President Romana's open academy policies. Recently adopted by the Fifteenth Doctor for writing human proverbs.

Teegarden Gallifreyan? An archaic but recognisable near-Capitolian dialect from the Prydonian mountains, once spoken by Oldblood houses like Lungbarrow and Blyledge.

Or, in a nutshell, the state of Gallifreyan conlangs (and maybe in-universe Gallifreyan dialects):

I guess the dream project would be to accept the complexity and create some sort of grand modular "meta-Gallifreyan" conlang, merging as many fan interpretations as possible with their own distinctions and overlaps, that can continue to be updated as new ideas come up and new stories are released...

[blog-sekai]

Unit Introduction: m4jor*REVERSAL

A group of four friends who take on a persona while they preform. Their music is often dark, tells a story or both...

*real quick: I can't draw for shit, so this is all going to be text and a bit long. Sorry :(

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About m4jor*REVERSAL:

The asterisk in their unit name represents a pentacle!

Each member is aligned with a tarot card (including the vocaloids) and as characters they tend to play off that card in interesting ways. Their card is also their stage name/alias and sometimes an alternate persona they put on for their music; that alternate persona is often called their "reversed", hence the unit name.

They all preform in costume and while wearing masks - originally as a safety/anonymity thing, now it helps them get into the headspace to preform.

Although they do street performances or take gigs for local venues, most of their work is online. Their MVs take a long time to make, because of all the recording and editing involved.

I don't have a clear genre/style for their music yet🤧in my head its very atmospheric/psychedelic? But I can't think of a clear example atm.

They're my oldest fan unit! I dusted 'em off a few weeks ago when I got back into pjsk and they're much more fleshed out now ^^

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"Even if it's only this once...please, let me be seen!"

Solomon Lucius - The Magician

Birthday: Nov 2

Height: 5'7" / 170cm

Hobbies: Tarot, People-Watching

Specialty: Rhythm Games

Favorite Food: Rose Shortbread Cookies

Least Favorite Food: Omurice

Dislikes: Hide & Seek

Despite his best efforts, Sol struggles with having presence most of the time. When preforming under his stage name, though, drawing attention to himself is effortless. He got into (western) esoterica/mythos/witchcraft in middle school, although it's more a casual hobby than a sincere belief. Secretly likes to be called nicknames, because he sees it as a sign people care.

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"One day, I swear, we'll make a happy ending!"

Arthur Charon - The Hanged Man

Birthday: August 1

Height: 5'9" / 175cm

Hobbies: Parkour, Conlangs

Specialty: Brewing Tea

Favorite Food: Soba Noodles

Least Favorite Food: Citrus

Dislikes: Roller Coasters

Arthur likes to tell stories, but all of them seem to accidentally end in tragedy or horror. He and Solomon became friends in elementary school and are quite close, but since he has a one-track mind, Art often focuses more on his other friends without meaning to. His parents are a bit traditional, but they do encourage him in his hobbies & interests. He's arguably the best dancer of the group, likely because of how much he enjoys parkour.

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"It's important to stay connected to those around you, you know?"

Rowan Delphi - The Hermit

Birthday: March 20

Height: 6' / 183cm

Hobbies: Hockey, Crafts

Specialty: Identifying Plants

Favorite Food: Flan

Least Favorite Food: Coconut

Dislikes: Thunderstorms

Rowan's involved in a lot of school activities and has a very active social life, however, he's hopeless at doing things on the fly and has to keep a planner on him most of the time. He'd never say it aloud, but Rowan tends to find a lot of people overbearing. He hates being alone because that's when the gay thoughts Horrors catch up to him, but that's also when he makes some of his best work. He's a single child, and finds sibling dynamics really interesting.

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"Eh? ...What was that, again? Sorry, I wasn't paying attention..."

Merlin Polaris - The Moon

Birthday: February 4

Height: 5'8" / 173cm

Hobbies: Reading, Stargazing

Specialty: Cold-Reading People

Favorite Food: Dumplings

Least Favorite Food: Tiramisu

Dislikes: Being Put On The Spot

Merlin has had the most prior musical experience, as he was in band for a few years in middle school & junior high. He's very popular with the girls at his school, since if you don't know him very well his aloof, spaced-out nature can be mistaken for mystique. Merlin is incredibly sharp, but he prefers to act otherwise as it takes less energy and effort, and it frees him from others' expectations. No matter the weather, he always wears long sleeves.

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Unit SEKAI: Maze

Unit Virtual Singers:

Miku - The World

In Maze Sekai, Miku is dressed like a princess. She carries herself with a noble mien that is replaced with bubbly enthusiasm when it comes to telling stories or solving riddles. She's surprisingly very grounded.

Luka - The High Priestess

Luka carries her self as a high-ranking advisor. She likes to playfully tease Miku with nonsensical riddles, and plays soft melodies to help her friends sleep. Luka seems to instinctively know where any possible book can be found in Sekai.

[kitkinnie]

One of your posts mentions that you construct languages. If so, how many languages have you constructed and what are they like in terms of phonology, grammar, potential writing systems, and degrees of construction?

Thank you for your time and have a nice day.

there's not a way for me to know how many languages i've constructed since i've loved making up words since i was a kid, (and ciphers and fonts are one of my special interests!) but i suppose "officially" i've made two! the first one is a bit old and unorganized but it's called Startale and is the language of the gods and magic in my fantasy novel/world (the world is called Aevolin)

it's very rudimentary and grammar and writing systems follow english pretty closely because i just. made it up as i went along basically and i didn't know what i was doing

this is pretty much the only thing that is in any kind of organized manner on Startale but it's just the alphabet + magic wheel

i do have lore on some of the other languages in Aevolin but they aren't real conlangs, just like. background information.

now onto the much better one ! this language is called Ukliir and is the universally spoken language of my alien race, the ukli.

i still don't think i make languages/conlang the way most people do (i don't even know the international phonetic alphabet) but... whatever , i'm having fun! i have a lot more information on Ukliir and it's a lot more structured and organized than Startale was.

Ukliir is written downwards and is very sharp and flat since originally it was written in the sand of the beaches on Niko (the planet) and then onto a long-leafed plant which served as rudimentary paper.

There are a few more misc. rules to the language you might be interested in - verbs always end with -i, so the word for teeth is rach and the word for bite is rachi (and the word rach makes you bare your teeth/is similar to a snarl)

the ukli have four fingers on each hand, so they use a base 8 counting system (that i'm still struggling to wrap my head around - math is my worst subject) and every number ends in -o.

ukli are genderless, so every pronoun like he/she/they/him/hers is replaced by the simple and versatile "uut" :] (aat is you, eet is 'i' or 'me', and eetaa is 'us')

Niko and the ukli are a big passion project of mine. After creating Aevolin (which was very generically just fantasy world but i tweaked the races. i'm still proud of some of the concepts, like elves being based on bugs and dwarves being based on moles) i knew i could be more creative and more unique and do my own completely original thing, hence creating a more complex and in depth world and race. i'd totally love more Niko questions!

[imsoveryveryconfusedatlife]

Rare post where this isn’t a tag game (not that I don’t have a lot of tag games to do). I just remembered that I can do whatever the fuck I want and don’t need to be tagged to make a post. That being said, this is a excerpt from my WIP

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This takes place 3/4 of the way through chapter 4 I think? -

“You didn’t. It’s fine.” They turned towards Mel’s voice before stopping. Their eyes widened and they looked deathly pale, their breathing suddenly picked up and they gasped. 

Mel laughed nervously, “I take it I wasn’t supposed to touch this?”

“Put. That. Down. Now.” they spat. There was a harshness to Dee’s voice that Mel had never heard before, the few times she had heard them speak. Mel did as she was told, a new unease settled over her as she gently dropped the flower back on the table. 

“What possessed you to—” Dee snapped, then took a deep breath, their voice returning their typical quiet monotone, though it was still slightly tinged with fear, “Never mind that, do you feel pain in your hands?”

“No?”

“And you don’t have any open cuts?”

“Not on my hands?”

“Numbness?”

“No.”

“What colour are your hands?”

“Something of a pale peach? Perhaps more pinkish. That is to say, the same colour as normal. Are they supposed to be a different colour?”

“I don’t believe it. Come here and give me your hand.” they put on their gloves, still muttering in disbelief. They grabbed Mel’s hand, two fingers pressing on her wrist, searching. “Typically I would use sterile gloves for this, but I don’t have any with me and it seems that you that melith thazi is more of a danger to me than you,”

“What exactly are you doing?”

“Checking for a pulse.”

“I’ve never had much of a pulse. Or so I’ve been told. Saini always commented on it.”

“Well, it’s faint, but it’s there. I don’t believe it, it’s not elevated nor slowed down. I trust that you feel fine?”

“Completely,” Mel hopped from foot to foot, “I’m sorry.  I didn’t mean to ruin your experiment.”

Dee blinked, “Ruin?” they let out a short, tense laugh, “I would have appreciated if you had asked first, before you nearly killed,” they squeezed Mel’s hand again for good measure, “well, I suppose you’re fine, Xir only knows how, but no, you didn’t ‘ruin’ anything . That was melith thazi, it’s a very dangerous poison, the name quite literally translates to ‘skin leech’. It’s so dark, that is it’s so lacking in ti, that if I were to leave it in a regular container, it would’ve been reduced to a fine powder before I was out the door. Dark materials tend to leech the ti of things around them, hence ‘skin leech’. I didn’t expect anyone to come in before the twins came back with a proper container. But if you’re alright, then I suppose that is the end of that.”

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my conlang needs work and will likely also be revamped entirely sometime in the near future but oh well

Definitions:

ti- a vague catch-all term that refers to magic. Sometimes it refers to something like mana i.e. how much magic you can do before you’re exhausted/ die/ whatever and sometimes it’s the actual magic itself. And sometimes it refers to how magical you are which is what it’s being used as in this context

melith thazi- as stated, it’s a pretty dangerous poison. It literally translates to leech (which in itself when translated literally is blood animal) + human body

I think that’s all the terms I used here but let me know

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Shamelessly tagging my mutuals because I crave validation and also want feedback.

@tildeathiwillwrite, @rumeysawrites, @illarian-rambling, @kaylinalexanderbooks, @rivenantiqnerd,

@agirlandherquill and anyone who sees this ig

[aeniith]

This has been a pretty big year for me already.

In terms of conlanging, I started two big new personal language projects, started learning a new method of digital font making, took on more pro projects with new clients, and started a silversmithing-conlanging crossover project.

It’s only just March too.

I’ve never been a person who starts more than I can finish. So I’m confident I’ll see these projects through to their natural conclusions. When will those conclusions be? That’s the question. I don’t even think I know.

In other news, I’ve been traveling a load. I went to Germany last fall and Arizona and Hawaii this year. I’m planning more international trips for the rest of the year, but I’m also working on a load of music stuff, which variously either keeps me in place *or* sends me thousands of miles away. Hence the recent Hawaii trip, in which my husband toured with five separate groups and he and I performed more conlang songs (as well as video game covers and other originals) once again in the islands we used to live in.

Ana Lemma, the band we started, has grown over the last year. We somehow convinced an absolutely stellar drummer to join us, as well as our dear friend who is a rockstar-level violinist. We are looking to add a guitarist, but things have been on hold until we find the exactly right person. This summer, like most summers in Alaska, will probably be an explosion of activity, growth, change, and progress, broadly. We are looking forward to playing gigs around the state and possibly beyond.

It’s been only about 15 months since I finished my PhD. I thought my life would slow down after that, but it really only sped up in all the other ways that I didn’t have time to devote to while I was dissertating. I’m happy to be able to take other pursuits and passions off the back burner and give them the attention I want to.

[polutrope]

Daeron + "the clinging mists"

Thank you! From this prompt list. Some Daeron headcanons in the form of a melancholy parting between Daeron and Olwë. 740 words.

There is no canonical ‘Great Journey’ Eldarin-Telerin and I’m not about to do conlang for a ficlet, so enjoy a blend of Quenya and Sindarin names.

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A dense mist gathered about the edges of Nan Elmoth and clung to the tree roots. The open glade before the forest was filled with many clusters of elves, busy with final preparations for the journey.

Daeron would not be joining them. And, to avoid yet another plea to change his mind, he had retreated to the sparser woodland across the glade, where he sat upon his favourite rock by the stream. He chiselled a hollowed-out bit of wood. A few more cuts and it would be a whistle; but mostly, it was something to occupy his mind. Keep out the doubt that even now pressed at the fringes of his thought.

Absently, he glanced up from his work, and he spotted Olwë moving among the host. The chieftain paused to visit each group, his manner friendly and unassuming, as ever; yet he stood out like a beam of starlight against the indigo sky, his hair and raiment gleaming white amid the dull grey-green of the others. Small wonder there were so many prepared to follow him onwards to the Sea. 

Most, like Daeron’s closest kin, had been born on the march. Some had begun their journey at Cuiviénen—a place as distant and mythical as the realm of the Valar to Daeron, who had known no other land but here; no other life but uncertainty and endless seeking. 

Very few like Daeron were staying. Those born here felt no loyalty to a king they had never known, and they loved Olwë. As did Daeron.

Olwë passed close by now, and his gaze pierced the tree shadows where Daeron hid himself. Daeron kept his eyes on his work, pretending not to notice Olwë walking towards him.

“There you are,” he said when he was near enough to be heard. He took a seat on another nearby rock. “You are still decided then?” 

“Yes,” said Daeron.

“We will miss your songs.”

“You will make others.”

Olwë breathed a little laugh. “No doubt we will. And yours will be sung still, across the Sea.”

Having cut the last notch in his whistle, Daeron brought it to his lips to test its sound. It had a mournful tone, but Olwë was smiling as he watched him set it down.  

Daeron inhaled deeply. There was a cool bite to the air; strands of mist were creeping outward from the dark woods, towards the stream. 

A confession floated up then, one that Daeron had guarded close to his heart for some time. “I do not think we will ever follow after you.”

The words were barely a whisper, and having spoken them Daeron feared to meet Olwë’s eyes. He was not the first to express such doubts, but to say it directly to Elwë’s brother was overbold. 

“No, I do not think we will see each other again,” said Olwë, then, “You are surprised?�� in response to Daeron’s expression. “You do not remember, of course, but it is not the first time that our people have been sundered. We left Enel at Cuiviénen, and Lenwë over the mountains. In truth, I have long been prepared for this parting, though I thought it would be my brother who went on and I who stayed. A great part of me is as loath to depart as you are. But wherever Elwë has gone, I believe he would have wanted us to continue onwards, before it is too late.”

“He will return,” Daeron said. 

Olwë nodded. “Yes, that is my hope.” He reached to take Daeron’s hand in his. “When he does, stay by him. Sing for him as you have sung for us. Guide him with your Song as you have guided me. Preserve the stories of this land in your memory, and perhaps many long ages hence we will meet again on the same shore—then I will look to you to hear the tale of all that we have missed.”

Daeron nodded, but could speak no reassuring words in response. He had seen visions in the Song, and he did not believe that they would ever meet again.

“Here,” he said at last, pressing the whistle into Olwë's hand. “It is not much, but take this. To remember the sound of this place.”

Twirling it between his fingers, Olwë thanked him. Thus they parted. 

The fog was spread over the whole glade now, and so thick that Olwë’s retreating figure was entirely swallowed up in its blanket of white.  

[sadpurpleblood]

Alright! It's late and my head hurts but I'll attempt to put my newest conlanging progress into words now. This'll be about demonstrative/interrogative pronouns, adjectives and copulars. Pretty fun stuff if I say so myself (Lots of text ahead).

First off, the simpler stuff. The demonstrative/interrogative pronouns!

Here's a neat little chart. The language distinguishes 3 levels of proximity in demonstratives, all pretty transparently derived from the proximals. The only really strange thing here: The distal demonstratives set also functions as interrogative pronouns. Interrogativity is already marked on the predicate, so there's really only ambiguity between the two meanings in clauses transparently marked as questions. Most of the time you can assume that the interrogative is meant in these clauses. The pronouns can stand alone or modify a noun if they follow it and agree in case and number.

For example:

horx'v (vo/ve) he/hec. [ˈxor.χəβ̞ (β̞o/β̞e) xe/xet͡ɬ] hor-x-v (vo/ve) he/he-c kill-PST-1SG.SBJ (1SG.ABS/ACC) DEM.PROX-NOM/ERG.S "This killed me"

horx'v (vo/ve) qóci he. [ˈxor.χəβ̞ (β̞o/β̞e) ˈqo.t͡ɬi xe] hor-x-v (vo/ve) qóci he kill-PST-1SG.SBJ (1SG.ABS/ACC) canine-NOM.S DEM.PROX-NOM.S "This wild dog killed me"

horx'v'q (vo/ve) hex/hex'c? [ˈxor.χə.��̞əq (β̞o/β̞e) xeχ/ˈxe.χət͡ɬ] hor-x-v-q (vo/ve) hex/hex-c kill-PST-1SG.SBJ-INT (1SG.ABS/ACC) DEM.DST/INT-NOM/ERG.S "Who/what killed me?"/"Did yon kill me?"

(Sidenote: Normally, if a nominal takes NOM-ACC or ERG-ABS allignment is inherent to itself, though in certain pronouns either can be used, based on social rank for 1st/2nd person pronouns, based on what they refer to/applied freely in most other instances. That's why there's multiple possibilities in the example sentences.)

Now, time for adjectives! Though in reality, adjectives are really just another form of the verb in this language, hence what most English speakers would think of as adjectives have their base form in the predicative. sar qúru. [sar ˈqu.ru] sar qúru be.beautiful songbird "The songbird is beautiful"

When modifying a noun, you just take the verb with whatever TAM-affixes were attached to it and have it agree in case and number with the noun it modifies.

hór qúruc sar'c cécewur'n. [ˈxor ˈqu.rut͡ɬ ˈsa.rət͡ɬ ˈt͡ɬe.t͡ɬe.ˌwu.rən] hor qúru-c sar-c céce-ur-n kill songbird-ERG.SG be.beautiful-ERG.SG tongue-AUG-ACC.SG "The beautiful songbird kills the slug (lit. big/great tongue)"

To form comparative clauses, there are two options. Either you use the verb ro "to defeat" in verbal form and the verb of comparison in the gerund dative singular, or you use the verb of comparison in verbal form, suffixing ro directly onto the verbal root, all other suffixes following it.

ro qúruc cécewur'n sártar. [ro ˈqu.rut͡ɬ ˈt͡ɬe.t͡ɬe.ˌwu.rən ˈsar.tar] ro qúru-c céce-ur-n sar-ta-r defeat songbird-ERG.SG tongue-AUG-ACC.SG be.beautiful-GER-DAT.SG "The songbird is more beautiful than the slug (lit. the songbird defeats the big/great tongue to beautiful-being)"

sárro qúruc cécewur'n. [ˈsar.ro ˈqu.rut͡ɬ ˈt͡ɬe.t͡ɬe.ˌwu.rən] sar-ro qúru-c céce-ur-n be.beautiful-COMP songbird-ERG.SG tongue-AUG-ACC.SG "The songbird is more beautiful than the slug"

When using the comparative simply as a descriptive adjective, use the compound verb from the second comparison strategy and treat it like a regular adjective.

hór qúruc sarroc cécewur'n. [ˈxor ˈqu.rut͡ɬ ˈsa.rət͡ɬ ˈt͡ɬe.t͡ɬe.ˌwu.rən] hor qúru-c sar-ro-c céce-ur-n kill songbird-ERG.SG be.beautiful-COMP-ERG.SG tongue-AUG-ACC.SG "The more beautiful songbird kills the slug"

For superlatives, use the comparative with the indefinite pronoun wug [wuŋ] "everyone/thing".

Onto copulars. Similarly to the comparative, there are two possible strategies. One of them is to take the descibing noun in the nominative/absolutive case and using that as a verb root. macáneyelu (vo) [ma.ˈt͡ɬa.ne.ˌje.lu (β̞o)] macáne-el-u (vo) mother-FUT-1SG.SBJ (1SG.NOM/ABS) "I will be a mother"

For the second strategy, the describing noun takes the absolutive/accusative instead, while the verb slot is either left blank or taken by a null root to which the TAM-suffixes are added to. This is necessary for phrases where the describing noun phrase consists of multiple words, though not restricted to that scenario. yélu (vo) macánen sar'n. [ˈje.lu (β̞o) ma.ˈt͡ɬa.nen ˈsa.rən] el-u (vo) macáne-n sar-n FUT-1SG.SBJ (1SG.NOM/ABS) mother-ACC.SG be.beautiful-ACC.SG "I will be a beautiful mother"

When past tense (')x would become the main verb of the clause, it is realized as xo instead.

And that was that! Took me a while, but it was a good exercise i think. I hope y'all also got something out of this lol.

[junodoes-builtworlding]

Any space lore?

Well ive been thinking about Kess a lot; i think i want it to be a sort of portaling event in the larger Zeros-Wbing Canon;- lemme grab the neocities link rq

(ive also posted this article verbatim on this blog!)

I think i want the "Star People" to be a sort of missing link between timelines that the Wasteland/New Millennium connects. With that in find; Kess is (in the more fantastical "deep lore") the "10th house of the Sun" (Horus) aka "Midnight". Playing on the vibes of Sakaar in the Thor Ragnarok movie, basically; but tying this to the stuff ive written about Egyptian Gods into my lores :3

For sci fi flavor; [Re] is the "Meta-Chorus" Element (it can be used to create Strand-to-Chorus interfaces; for Destiny Headcanoners (Alkahest!)) {Conlangers Note: [Re] is Sol-Rel-Sol reference} -[GRIMOIRE]

Building on this; Kess is a "Gateway"; thus, he can be Seth, in my old homestuck lore Seth is a "Seer of Doom". The Land of Black and White; and thus, a counterpart to Janus! -Maggie the Archivist

The Spurned are the Spirits left behind by those caught in Horus' fevor; this is the wisdom of the Throne; and thus is as useful as it is dangerous. -M0therV0X

Traders beware when sailing the Mother River; for in the thousand years hence the New Millennium began, it has shifted course greatly. Cairo is buried and forgotten; born anew time again. Perhaps i will have a map to show soon... -Guin

[thecrazyneographist]

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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

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

[aardappel-van-mijn-oog]

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[topoillogical]

I want to combine all the this/that splits in languages and make a conlang with the most

For example, in English, we have... the "this/that" split, as mentioned. "This" is used for objects close to the speaker, "that" for objects far away.

In Spanish, we have three: "esto", "eso", and "aquello". "Esto" is the same as "this", but "eso" means "that (not too far though)" while "aquello" means "that (all the way over there)". You get me? Esto is close, eso is far, and aquello is the furthest. This works for time too: if something happened a long time ago, you would say "That was horrible" in English, or "Aquello fue horrible" in Spanish.

Anyway, in Japanese, theres also three: "これ", "それ", "あれ". In roman, "kore", "sore", "are". KOre means "this" (I.e. near to the speaker), SOre means "that" (but near to the *listener*), and Are means "that" (far from both listener and speaker).

You could combine these pronouns in a few ways, one being somewhat "additive": you get "this, sore, are, aquello", which would respectively mean "this, that (near listener), that (far from both speaker and listener), that (really far from both speaker and listener)".

You could, however, also combine these sets of pronouns more multaplicatively: take "this, soso (sore + eso), sollo (sore + aquello), aso (are + eso), allo (are + aquello), oso (are but for aquello + eso), ollo (are but for aquello + aquello)". This is extremely confusing and bad, and hence, I adore it.

"This" means "this".

"Soso" means "that (somewhat far from speaker, close to listener)"

"Sollo" means "that (very far from speaker, close to listener)"

"Aso" means "that (somewhat far from both speaker and listener)"

"Allo" means "that (very far from speaker, somewhat far from listener)"

"Oso" means "that (somewhat far from speaker, very far from listener)

"Ollo" means "that (very far from both speaker and listener)

Having 7 different pronouns for "that" seems extremely delectably silly, and if anyone knows any languages that make a different split between words meaning "that", let me know so I can get these pronouns even more confusing!

[askelectrochromic]

what is the Krikani language like? i like the description of Cheloan glyphs as analogous to Hanzi or Kanji (being able to identify the ``spicy'' character) but id love to know about the Krikani writing system

(im not expecting you to write a whole conlang of course but was curious if you had a general shape or feeling to it in mind) ^^;

SableGear0: You know, I haven't actually given it much thought yet. I probably should, though. My first impulse was to say "they don't have a written language" (for reasons I will discuss in a moment) but that seems impossible; they're a sapient species capable of space-travel and manage huge military systems, they probably have writing since not all communication can be person-to-person. So, organic rambling solution-finding and some links and images under the cut.

Generally I conceptualize Kriken as a (semi-)eusocial hive organism that are passively psionic, to keep in touch with the greater hive. How much direct communication happens psionically I'm still not sure; whether it can be used "conversationally," or if it's merely a "vibe" they share with local Kriken that's strong enough to pick up on the "vibe" from the core colony sometimes. The fact that they have a spoken language probably means its closer to the latter.

If the psionic communication is powerful enough, then maybe they wouldn't need to write? But then how would you do something like label the controls on a starship or make maps? You might have to devote someone to memorizing what all the labels would be and then telepathically ask them what you're looking at. Which isn't totally unreasonable, if we consider them highly specialized hive organisms. Maybe they do have "librarians" that keep this stuff in their minds and can be asked/accessed on a whim. This would be an extremely alien way of keeping track of information. While I kind of like it, it seems maybe a bit too weird for the Metroid series as we know it. Arguably, Metroid has kept its aliens fairly (socially) tame, giving us a lot of written logs throughout the Prime series. Though the ones we've gotten the most lore on are Pirates and Chozo, which aren't great benchmarks since they were respectively "the bad guys" and "the good guys (mostly)."

Being insectoid, Kriken might also communicate via pheromones? But pheromones and what/how Kriken eat have been stumping me because... well, their heads aren't really attached.

Trace has no neck. And while in some renders it looks like that tiny teardrop of a head is resting on the body, the in-game model and wireframe show pretty clearly they do not touch. Hence why I go with psionic; their heads float for spooky psionic reasons. This also means that while their heads may be a sensory center (headshots still work in Hunters), I doubt it's where they stick food when (if?) they eat, so it being a chemosensor feels a little unlikely, but I digress.

Anyway back to written language. I suppose I have to ask myself, what would a written language look like if it was invented by ants? Or bees? Ants is a tough one mainly because I don't actually know much about ant organization. My impression is that they build and tunnel fairly organically, just wherever is easiest to go and/or smells like it has the most food. When I think about bees, though, I think about bee dances, and how that might be adapted into a written language; a system abstracting the orientation and movement of the body into markings that can be re-read at any time so that worker doesn't have to bust down and dance it out every time she wants to relay some information to someone new.

And thinking about that, I think about Phyrexian. This conlang shows up in the Magic the Gathering universe, and knowing what I know about Phyrexians (an all-consuming hivemind-like culture that take creatures and turn them into half-mechanical abominations to serve their own purposes), it seems like a decent fit.

The shape of these is really what I was going for but the cultural implications match up too. I was thinking of the cross-strokes being similar to the directional facing if you were to write down a bee dance, the extra marks indicating other movements like stops or the frequency of a waggle.

It also looks like something a bug might make if you dipped it in ink and let it walk around on a paper, so that's neat. Scratching marks like these out would be fairly quick and easy for a Kriken, since they only appear to have a crab-like manipulator and a single combat claw, and I've stuck with that design choice in describing them because it's more interesting than "oh and they have normal hands too".

So there's your answer, I guess. Written Krikani probably looks kind of like Phyrexian; branching strokes off a central line that stem from an ancestral system of gestural communication (and I like the verticality so I'll probably keep that too). Simple, efficient, and easy to replicate.

Thanks for the ask! This was a bit of a brain-teaser.

[strixcattus]

You know what? Babel Text.

I've been working on the conlang Yvelse for... a couple years now, I think? I wouldn't call it a stellar piece of work or a beast or anything, but it's decent-sized and I feel like talking about it, so. No proper gloss as I am tired (this text is straight from the Google Doc, which also does not have a proper gloss, merely a retranslation where I leave the grammar as-is), but I'll annotate. A lot.

SEN. Sa yɾe soɾalnol sen ocremyln meɾen.

Nothing of interest here unless you're really into (completely regular) plural forms. Sentence structure is a firm SOV. Worth noting before we get in any deeper, I am deeply inconsistent with the IPA. "C" is /k/. Vowels are completely regular, except "Y" is /ji/ at the start of a word and /i/ otherwise. All other consonants are as they'd be in English, or if they don't appear in English, in IPA.

LEVY. Sa srēc honym-hoplen sϕu lotseɾen ryn srēc suntly Shynar shu cereln ny evsɾen mansɾen, sa srēc melum ny cyveɾen.

Bit more to unpack here. "Srēc" is a neutral third-person pronoun—long vowels only appear in compound words and pronouns. "Honym-hoplen" translates as "east," but a more literal rendition would be "northeast-southeast" or, better yet, "airward-fireward." Why would anyone do this???

Let's talk history for a moment. From within my writing and notes, there are two very old languages on Deus, created directly by the gods, named Elder and Ancient. These two languages are Latin and Old English respectively, as there were words from both languages sprinkled through the worldbuilding before I ever dreamed Yvelse would be a proper conlang. Elder was clearly named after it went extinct, as when it was created it would have been the only language in existence and thus not needed a name. Ditto for Ancient, no doubt—maybe their original names have been lost to time?

Elder and Ancient blended together and had a kid, Old Dean. Old Dean was pretty much an evolution of Elder with significant Ancient influence. Old Dean gave way to modern Dean, and there we are today.

At least one, maybe both, of Elder and Ancient had nice little direction words based on how the gods saw the world from above, as a square with four sides. These words survived to modern Dean. Yvelse... didn't get that. Its speakers had to make their own direction words, and at the time, the four sides of their flat world were not the most obvious basis for such a thing. Instead, they turned to the four primordial elemental seas, which cover the corners of the world. Hence, such a strange construct for "east."

CON. Sa srēc, sen soɾal nevy nysoɾal, “Eɾan ocurnaɾan βeppōm, sa otēc lumē ansecom” vysɾen. Sa srēc anseɾa ocurnaɾan meɾen.

Not much new here, but we get to see all three kinds of long vowels! There's the return of srēc and a new pronoun, tēc (third-person inanimate plural), as well as the verb βeppe being conjugated with an affix (future tense, -om) that changes its final vowel and makes it long. Lastly, lumē is the adverb form of lume, "whole." Adverbs are formed by lengthening the final vowel.

Kind of nice to get verbs in a tense that isn't distant past (that's why everything ends in -ɾen or -sɾen).

TANTSUTU. Sa srēc, “Eɾan uββer osoɾaly sa ōntme, tsyce shu aϕen tsen ny βōm, nohumom, sa eɾan oweta nylornom, vem oweɾan cerelnol usse hyshelcaɾo taβōm,” vysɾen.

Me βo translates as "to be." Me taβo would be "not to be." I like how English handles infinitives and I wanted to make use of it. There are no infinitives in this text and this paragraph was supposed to be pointing out the negative prefix.

"Shu," which has popped up a couple times and will pop up a couple more, indicates possessiveness.

VLY. Sa tsenvo yɾe uββer osoɾaly sa yɾe ōntme, ϕe yɾe soɾalec nohuɾen, peɾen.

"Tsenvo" specifically means elder god—"tsyvvo" is a lesser god. The guy being ticked off at this tower is a Big Deal. Also, "pyhec" is a new third-person plural pronoun! This one is used only for children. I love how many ways I can translate a word that's only ever "they" in English.

HEVA. Sa yɾe tsenvo, “Shoper, yɾe soɾalnol sen βo, sa pyhecol sen ocremyln men, sa pyhec ceɾorshy, sa syl operc nypyhec emeɾoɾo sɾor fyn βōm, fen pyhec otem sylve,” vysren.

Worth mention at this point that o- is a prefix for direct objects and ny- a prefix for indirect objects. "Yɾe," which has shown up a lot, is a definite article.

POL. Sa βontrun, “En cereln sɾo lunom, sa pyhec shu ocremyln melum ny neϕerom, vem pyhec nevy soɾalec shu hetseɾa tatsushonom,” vysren.

βontrun is the first singular pronoun we get to see. (The plural is βontec.) This one is of course also third-person, and applies to someone of a higher social status than the speaker. In this case, the one of a higher social status is an elder god. (And it's also "they" when retranslated into English, because we can't tell the god's gender from this text! Dang!)

SHONCU. Vem yɾe tsenvo yɾe osoɾalec cerelnol usse hysheloɾa.

The numerical system is very regular in terms of syllables: the word for one is one syllable, the word for two is two syllables, the word for three is one again, the word for four is three... the ABACABA pattern (ABACABAB?) makes it easy for me to guarantee I don't miss a line. It's also a base-eight system (while we humans form our base from our ten fingers, Velsen take theirs from the eight phases of the moon).

SHONSEN. Vem yɾe ōntme wetaɾo Papel βo, βereshe yɾe tsenvo yɾe soɾalec shu hetseɾa melum ny neϕeɾen, sa osrēc cerelnol usse hysheloɾa.

With no B in Yvelse, Babel had to be changed to Papel, because the next closest option was βaβel, and that is clearly suboptimal. "Shonsen" is "shon(cu)" (8) + "sen" (1), or 9, or 11 as it'd be written. Yvelse has its own numerals (and is probably the world's source of a 0, as the other language in play is Latin, leaving the only other possibility to be that Roman numerals are in modern use on Deus, an idea too horrendous to comprehend) to go with its own writing system, but neither is supported by Tumblr. Yet.

[chimericchaos]

As someone who had a Conlanging hyperfix in the past some friendly tips for you:

As you've noticed creating a "true" International auxiliary language aka auxlang is really hard hence why others attempts (like Esperanto) often stick to one language family, although I have heard from other auxlang creators that they find trying to create something that moves past those barriers is really fun, so I wouldn't worry too much about that unless you decide it's to too many problems. Which also brings me to the point of how if you want to spend the time browsing conglanger areas I personally would recommend looking into those who have tried to create posteriori auxlangs/engineered conlangs (the subtypes I know that are closest to yours) and see what they struggled with and/or how they approach anything you might be having troubles with for ideas and inspiration if you want.

And well you did mention not wanting to actively learn linguistics, which fair enough, it'd feel wrong of me not to recommend that you look at least into the IPA aka International Phonetic Alphabet. It can be a bit complex at first but is one of the main ways conglangers and ligustics represent sounds across language and what individual sounds each letter/syllable/ext makes in a language which can be extremely useful for keeping things both consistent and teaching others (with a bit of extra googling to find their native languages equivalents to the sounds). A lot of Conlanging focused resources on the IPA also will go at least briefly into sounds that are common cross language families so that might be of interest to you, idk lol.

Thanks, no idea what an auxlang was before now, so we added it to our list of stuff to dive into.

And yes, we already knew about the IPA, but that is a good tip and honestly everyone should be familiar with it.

This was definately helpful, been a little busy recently so not much progress made, but a basic model is there. Will update with tags whenever this gets updated!