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May 22nd, 2013
sodyera
 | 03:43 pm - D’al Thyann, AjrFen Oko (57) by Ariel Cinii
APPENDIX NHeart Stone The Author Documents: Even when a project like The Touching Lands’ Dance is done, new information comes in on no given schedule to explain what’s been happening in the stories that I write. Below is an expansion on some old research that has since matched up with new data searches and confirm some basic aspects that I’d always held true about life on the Sartine Homeworld:
( This is what happens when you ask yourself a little question, then press: InternetCollapse )
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March 11th, 2013
asher63
 | 03:51 pm - ANGLO: A System for Transliterating English to Hebrew Script
This is not strictly speaking a CONLANG, but it is a constructed script. It's an attempt to systematically render modern English into Hebrew letters. I have tried to keep it logical and precise without being pedantic or overly geeky. The intent is to make it easy for people who know some amount of Hebrew and English to learn.
Details at the links:
http://anglohebrew.blogspot.com/
http://asher813.typepad.com/anglo_word_list/
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December 23rd, 2012
near_anonymous
| 10:26 pm - Introduction and Discussion
Hi. I was on this community many years ago with a different name. I forget what it might have been. I've decided to start up a new project and I'm looking for what resources there might be out there for connecting with other conlangers. I remember there used to be this site indexing countless conlang projects and such, for instance. Is there a message board or a chat room still going strong?
Anyway, I thought I'd introduce myself. I'm primarily a visual artist and sometimes writer. For many years I've been working on a kind of art language. It's mainly based on the idea of having a complete, closed set of root words sufficient for categorizing all phenomena through compound-based derivation: each root is represented by a single syllable and a single ideographic character. Each root is chosen by weighing personal aesthetic considerations against the principal of giving the entire set a maximum of semantic coverage with a minimum of redundancy and keeping the set relatively small (between 700 or 1200 total roots). It's a mix of art and logic.
The grammar is extremely simple, depending almost entirely on syntax and the semantic power of the carefully chosen roots. It's best compared to something like Old Chinese. What grammar it does have is mostly concerned with conjunctions, dependent clauses and signalling changes in lexical category. That kind of thing.
Anyway, recently I got it my head to start a branch project. Mostly it consists of taking the system of semantic categories and ideo-syllabic graphemes I've devised and trying to cram an existing language into it: I'm going to lexify it with Germanic roots and give it a Germanic grammar (With some twists). Multisyllablic roots will use the graphemes more phonetically but alphabetic characters (in syllabic blocks like Hangul) will by used to handle stem inflections and function words. Foolish or not I'm going to give this a shot.
So far my biggest problem is figuring out a feasible syllabary.
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December 1st, 2012
annodomini
 | 11:42 am - Creating a new writing system on modern computers
On Stack Overflow, a programming forum, someone asked about how to create a new language using Unicode. It turns out that they were asking about Tigrinya, which is written using Ethiopic characters, and is already reasonably well supported (though input support is a little hit or miss and requires add-on software). But I took the opportunity to describe everything you need to support a new writing system on modern computers, along with references to how each of those components has already been implemented for the Ethiopic script and Tigrinya language.
I thought the conglangs group might be interest in this, as a reference for what you would need to do if you wanted to implement a new conscript. It's mostly a quick overview of all of the pieces, with lots of references to further information. It covers Unicode, UTF-8, creating fonts, briefly touches on advanced font and rendering support for cursive languages, embedding fonts in PDFs and web pages, entering Unicode codepoints in HTML, creating keyboards or input methods to type in a script directly, locales, and localization of software.
Hope this helps out anyone who wanted to try implementing a conscript on their computer, but didn't know where to start!
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October 24th, 2012
sodyera
 | 12:27 am - The Yal Dawo alphabet
In my book, The Family Forge I included a rudimentary guide for the language of the culture I've been writing about. This is the first time in years that I've gotten around to remaking the translated alphabet. This is an early JPEG of what will appear as an appendix in book 2: The Organized Seer. The characters are written right to left, and for the most part sentences or titles begin with capital letters, much like German. Only the A, E and G characters have separate capital letters while other characters are capitalized by writing them twice as large as the rest. Exceptions are the letters o, i and u, which are never capitalized, and which for the most part do not carry syllabic accents.
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October 14th, 2012
bhohnsis
| 10:23 am - My New conlang " Bhohnsis"
Just i create it two years , example{ æbèk: sell , ærnc: snow}
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September 7th, 2012
ysabetwordsmith
 | 10:02 pm - Torn Tongue: Verbs Beginning with "H"
Previously we talked about verbs in Torn Tongue. Here are some vocabulary verbs (that do not have counterparts as nouns) beginning with "H."
English ................... Torn Tongue
to have ...................... is
to hide ...................... asher
to hover ..................... oseffen
Current Mood:  busy
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August 31st, 2012
ysabetwordsmith
| 11:51 pm - Torn Tongue: Verbs Beginning with "G"
Previously we talked about verbs in Torn Tongue. Here are some vocabulary verbs (that do not have counterparts as nouns) beginning with "G."
English ........................ Torn Tongue
to get, to obtain ............... elk
to get, be subjected to ..... irgi
to go (move) .................... ort
to go (leave, depart) ......... isli
to grab ............................ eqel
Current Mood: busy
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August 24th, 2012
ysabetwordsmith
| 11:31 pm - Torn Tongue: Verbs Beginning with "F"
Previously we talked about verbs in Torn Tongue. Here are some vocabulary verbs (that do not have counterparts as nouns) beginning with "F."
English ...................... Torn Tongue
to fade ......................... oki
to fall (downward) .......... afu
to fall (trip, faceplant) ..... oqe
to follow ....................... uve
Current Mood: busy
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August 20th, 2012
qiihoskeh
 | 07:57 pm - C2 grammar
I have a short grammar of my latest sketch (not naturalistic) at
http://qiihoskeh.conlang.org/cl/o/C2/C2Gramm.htm
I really want to get feedback as to whether the explanations are understandable or not, especially the tense and aspect information, which is sort of scattered.
There's no phonology; suggestions are welcome.
Also, the section on Pronouns in Reported Speech may be of interest.
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August 13th, 2012
brucevbracken
 | 09:36 am - Digraphic mutations of consonants in Üqoi, part 1
b+ba =ba
b+mba = ba
b+ da = vda
b+ dha = vdha
b+ddha = ddha
b+fa = fa
b+ga = ga
b + gha = gha
b + ggha = ggha
b + ha = ha
b + ja = ja
b + j'a = j'a
b + ka = ka
b + kha = kha
b + kkha = kkha
b + la = bla
b + lha = plha
b + ma = ma
b + na = vna
b + pa = pa
b + mpa = mpa
b + qa = qa
b + q'a = q'a
b + sa = psa
b + s'a = ps'a
b + sha = psha
b + ta = fta
b + tha = ftha
b + ttha = ttha
b + va = va
b + za = bza
b + z'a = bz'a
b + zha = bzha
mb+ba =ba
mb+mba = ba
mb+ da = vda
mb+ dha = vdha
mb+ddha = ddha
mb+fa = fa
mb+ga = ga
mb + gha = gha
mb + ggha = ggha
mb + ha = ha
mb + ja = ja
mb + j'a = j'a
mb + ka = ka
mb + kha = kha
mb + kkha = kkha
mb + la = bla
mb + lha = plha
mb + ma = ma
mb + na = vna
mb + pa = pa
mb + mpa = mpa
mb + qa = qa
mb + q'a = q'a
mb + sa = psa
mb + s'a = ps'a
mb + sha = psha
mb + ta = fta
mb + tha = ftha
mb + ttha = ttha
mb + va = va
mb + za = bza
mb + z'a = bz'a
mb + zha = bzha
d + ba = dhba
d + mba = mba
d + da = dhda
d + dha = dha
d + ddha = ddha
d + fa = tfa
d + ga = dhga
d + gha = dhgha
d + ggha = ggha
d + ha = ha
d + ja = dhja
d + j'a = dhj'a
d + ka = thka
d + kha = thkha
d + kkha = kkha
d + la = dla
d + lha = tlha
d + ma = dhma
d + na = dhna
d + pa = thpa
d + qa = thqa
d + q'a = thq'a
d + sa = tsa
d + s'a = ts'a
d + sha = tsha
d + ta = thta
d + tha = tha
d + ttha = ttha
d + va = dva
d + za = dza
d + z'a = dz'a
d + zha = dzha
dh + ba = dhba
dh + da = dhda
dh + fa = thfa
dh + ga = dhga
dh + ggha = ggha
dh + ha = ha
dh + ja = dhja
dh+ j’a = dhj’a
dh + ka = thka
dh = kha = thkha
dh + kkha = kkha
dh = la = dhla
dh + lha = thlha
dh + ma = dhma
dh + mba = mba
dh + na = dhna
dh + pa = thpa
dh + qa = thqa
dh + q’a = thq”a
dh + sa = thsa
dh + s’a = ths’a
dh + ta = thta
dh + tha = tha
dh + ttha = ttha
dh + va = dhva
dh + za +dhza
ddh + ba = dhba
ddh + da = dhda
ddh + fa = thfa
ddh + ga = dhga
ddh + ggha = ggha
ddh + ha = ha
ddh + ja = dhja
ddh+ j’a = dhj’a
ddh + ka = thka
ddh = kha = thkha
ddh + kkha = kkha
ddh = la = dhla
ddh + lha = thlha
ddh + ma = dhma
ddh + mba = mba
ddh + na = dhna
ddh + pa = thpa
ddh + qa = thqa
ddh + q’a = thq”a
ddh + sa = thsa
ddh + s’a = ths’a
ddh + sha = sha
ddh + ta = thta
ddh + tha = tha
ddh + ttha = ttha
ddh + va = dhva
ddh + za = dhza
f + ba = ba
f + da = vda
f + dha = vdha
f + ddha = ddha
f + fa = fa
f + ga = ga
f + gha = gha
f + ggha = ggha
f + ha = ha
f + ja = ja
f + j’a = j’a
f + ka = ka
f + kha = kha
f + kkha = kkha
f + la = vla
f + lha = flha
f = ma = ma
f + mba = mba
f + na = vna
f + pa = pa
f + qa = qa
f + q’a = q’a
f + sa = sa
f + s’a = s’a
f + sha = sha
f + ta = fta
f + tha =ftha
f + ttha = ttha
f + va = va
f + za = za
g + ba = ghba
g + da = ghda
g + dha = ghdha
g + ddha = ddha
g + fa = kfa
g + ga = ghga
g + ha = ha
g + ja = ghja
g + j’a = ghj’a
g + ka = khka
g + kha = khka
g + kkha = kkha
g + la = gla
g + lha = klha
g + ma = ghma
g + mba = mba
g + mpa = mpa
g + na = ghna
g + pa = khpa
g + qa = khqa
g + q’a = khq’a
g + sa = ksa
g + s’a = ks’a
g + sha = ksha
g + ta = khta
g + tha = ktha
g + ttha = ttha
g + va = gva
g + za = gza
g + z’a = gz’a
g + zha = gzha
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August 11th, 2012
ysabetwordsmith
| 07:21 pm - Torn Tongue: Verbs Beginning with "E"
Previously we talked about verbs in Torn Tongue. Here are some vocabulary verbs (that do not have counterparts as nouns) beginning with "E."
English ................... Torn Tongue
to earn ...................... eram
to eat ........................ ime
to ensure ................... onle
Current Mood: busy
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August 1st, 2012
linguavore
| 04:20 pm - Fortunatian: A Nominative-Absolutive Romance Language
Fortunatian (for which my FIU alt-hist was named) was my first foray into Romlangs, and has been revised more than once, but it was only recently that I realized that my difficulties with the deletion of the accusative singular endings in Latin was not a problem: I had chosen the one corner of the world near Europe where nominative-absolutive languages do exist, albeit a bit like particles in a quantum vacuum, and the con-history already involved Berber-speaking peoples. So, forthwith, here is the nominals paradigms for the first nominative-absolutive Romance language:
Masculine
Nom. Sg. -yx
Abs. Sg -#
Nom. Pl. -i
Abs.Pl -aux
Feminine
Nom.Sg, -a
Abs.Sg -#
Nom.Pl. -e
Abs.Pl. -ax
Neuter
Nom.Sg. -#
Abs.Sg. -#
Nom.Pl -a
Abs.Pl. -a
Third
Nom.Sg -x
Abs.Sg. -#
Nom.Pl -ex
Abs.Pl. -ex
In the dialect of Fortunatian which becomes standard, Third collapses into a subcategory of Masculine, while Neuter is absorbed into Feminine:
Masculine
Nom.Sg -x
Abs.Sg. -#
Nom.Pl -i
Abs.Pl. -aux
Masculine 2
Nom.Sg. -x
Abs.Sg. -#
Nom.Pl. -ex
Abs.Pl -ex
Feminine
Nom.Sg -a
Abs.Sg -#
Nom.Pl -i
Abs.Pl -ax
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July 20th, 2012
ysabetwordsmith
| 01:19 pm - Torn Tongue: Verbs Beginning with "D"
Previously we talked about verbs in Torn Tongue. Here are some vocabulary verbs (that do not have counterparts as nouns) beginning with "D."
English ............................... Torn Tongue
to deserve ............................... ugan
to dislike, to find unpleasant ..... narmi
to dislike, to prefer less ............ namuuj
to do ....................................... or
to double ................................. romenei
to drop .................................... ord
Current Mood: busy
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July 14th, 2012
fayanora
 | 07:04 pm - Canonical conlangs?
In my Traipah storyverse, I have an interesting thing going on: the Ah'Koi Bahnis, who by human standards would all be considered to have Asperger's Syndrome, have a bunch of languages in their culture that are constructed languages in that culture. Even Trai'Pahg'Nan'Nog, my main conlang for that storyverse, is a constructed language in canon. They constructed TPNN as a trade language, and it had the kind of success that Esperanto can only dream of. Other conlangs had great success there as well.
1. The language called Krai'Ahd is a constructed pidgin-ish tongue used to help AKB and Duenicallo1 communicate with the Shaokennah, because Shaokennah language contains sounds that the other two species can't even hear, let alone say. So Krai'Ahd is an extremely simplified version of the Shaokennah language.
2. The Yahgahn culture's sacred language, Yahgahnii, was constructed back during that culture's early days. It is a musical language, and was in fact designed to be sung.
3. A third language exists, the name of which I have forgotten. That one was constructed as an extremely precise scientific language, using operational language. It lacks any form of the words "be" or "is," and any translation into English would sound like hyper-Spock, because the idea was inspired by Operationalism, E-Prime, the Copenhagen Interpretation, and related things.
Though the only one of these languages I have any words for is my conlang Trai'Pahg'Nan'Nog.
So I was wondering if anyone else has works of fiction - theirs or otherwise - in which conlangs feature.
1 = There are three sophont species that evolved on Traipah: The humanoid Ah'Koi Bahnis, the saurian Shaokennah, and the four-legged predatory Duenicallo. (Duenicallo can stand upright, and walk upright, but can only run on all fours.)
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fayanora
 | 06:01 pm - Two new words
Two new words for English that I'm proposing:
Auntle [ont-ull] - Genderless term for aunt/uncle.
Niephew [nee-few] - Genderless term for niece/nephew.
I have a bunch of other new words on my LJ, as well.
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July 13th, 2012
ysabetwordsmith
| 11:59 pm - Torn Tongue: Verbs Beginning with "C"
Previously we talked about verbs in Torn Tongue. Here are some vocabulary verbs (that do not have counterparts as nouns) beginning with "C."
English ............ Torn Tongue
to clean ............. oloin
to come ............. in
to count ............. alb
Current Mood: busy
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June 29th, 2012
fayanora
| 08:01 pm - Letter A and numbers
There's a picture going around Tumblr saying "Random fact #427: If you spell out all the numbers individually, you'll have to get to a thousand before you find a letter A."
This is true enough in English, but as everyone reblogging it points out, it is not true of all languages. Some have an A by the second number.
I've got them all beat. In my constructed language Trai'Pahg'Nan'Nog, the first five of ten numbers (they use a base 6 system) all have an A in them:
Ahl, tahl, zahl, kahl, mahl, ors, ahl'ors, tahl'ors, zahl'ors, kahl'ors...
(One, two, three, four, five, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen...)
Though if you use the characters designed for the language, you'll never find the Latin letter A no matter how far you go.
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ysabetwordsmith
| 02:47 pm - Torn Tongue: Verbs Beginning with "B"
Previously we talked about verbs in Torn Tongue. Here are some vocabulary verbs (that do not have counterparts as nouns) beginning with "B."
English ............ Torn Tongue
to be .................. ith
to blow ............... efe
to boil ................. ilo
to bring ............... utes
to burst ............... ebroi
Current Mood: busy
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June 22nd, 2012
ysabetwordsmith
| 11:50 pm - Torn Tongue: Verbs Beginning with "A"
Previously we talked about verbs in Torn Tongue. Here are some vocabulary verbs (that do not have counterparts as nouns) beginning with "A."
English ............ Torn Tongue
to afford .............. avessa
to ask ................. ethi
Current Mood: busy
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June 8th, 2012
ysabetwordsmith
| 11:33 pm - Torn Tongue: Nouns Beginning with "Y"
Vocabulary words have appeared in various other posts. Here are some more nouns beginning with "Y" in each of the three noun classes.
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Current Mood: busy
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June 4th, 2012
linguavore
| 01:59 pm - Glad to be here - An Introduction
Hi folks! I just set up an LJ account for my current conlang Siye under the name  linguavore - I want to have it ironed out by Labor Day and ChiCon7. Sorry about the IPA-less posts - I deliberately chose an orthography that was easy to type. I'll be posting as the days pass, but the summary of Siye is this: an SOV, mixed ergative language, agglutinative with mild polysynthesis, aspectual and animacy distinctions, a vowel dominance hierarchy, directionals, applicatives, and enough suppletive verb forms to drive a learner insane. The next post will be on nouns and the six grammatical numbers (null, singular, dual, paucal, plural, and pantic).
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June 3rd, 2012
e_magdalena
 | 04:20 pm - My Site
I recently created a website to share my conlang: http://alumnia.webs.com/.
Feedback?
Current Mood:  accomplished
Current Music: Breath of Life by Florence and the Machine
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June 2nd, 2012
e_magdalena
| 08:27 am - Hello!
Hi! I've been following this community for awhile now, and just recently decided to join. I've been conlanging for years, but didn't have a word for it until a few months ago. So far, I have five that are large enough to warrent their own Word document, but I have half a dozen others that only have a few basic phrases in them. ("Hello" "Goodbye" "How are you?" etc.) My biggest one that I have is called Alumnian. To start off I'd like to share some basic greetings and such.
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Current Mood:  optimistic
Current Music: none
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June 1st, 2012
ysabetwordsmith
| 01:48 am - Torn Tongue: Nouns Beginning with "W"
Vocabulary words have appeared in various other posts. Here are some more nouns beginning with "W" in each of the three noun classes.
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Current Mood: busy
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May 25th, 2012
ysabetwordsmith
| 05:29 pm - Torn Tongue: Verbs Beginning with "W"
Previously we talked about verbs in Torn Tongue. Here are some vocabulary verbs (that have counterparts as nouns) beginning with "W."
English .......... Torn Tongue
to wait .............. eto
to walk ............. ene
to waste ........... urde
to wave ............. orsho
to weigh ............ ifeme
to whip ............. igil
to whistle .......... irii
to work ............. eni
to write ............. are
Current Mood: busy
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May 21st, 2012
fairylang
 | 07:05 am - Three Little Pigs Translation
I just posted a translation of The Three Little Pigs into FairyLang if anyone is interested in checking it out. http://fairylang.livejournal.com/35816.html
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April 27th, 2012
ysabetwordsmith
| 11:34 pm - Torn Tongue: Nouns Beginning with "V"
Vocabulary words have appeared in various other posts. Here are some more nouns beginning with "V" in each of the three noun classes.
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Current Mood: busy
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April 20th, 2012
ysabetwordsmith
| 11:50 pm - Torn Tongue: Verbs Beginning with "V"
Previously we talked about verbs in Torn Tongue. Here are some vocabulary verbs (that have counterparts as nouns) beginning with "V."
English .......... Torn Tongue
to value ............ eroi
to view ............. av
to visit .............. ilei
Current Mood: busy
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April 16th, 2012
james0289
 | 11:00 pm
Announcing my latest conlang's new, revamped web page! Now in glorious technicolor (well, the headings, anyway...) and with shortened, simplified text. I've also put it into Arial, which makes it a lot easier to read. Plus that little bit of prettiness at the top.
(The thing about the Basque monks is an in-joke aimed at members of the Zompist Bulletin Boards...)
Comments, suggestions, critiques welcome!
PS. I don't know what tags to put with this post, so I've just left them blank...
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