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1.4yr
The Weekly c/conlangs Post #1
pe'el! ... read full post
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1.5yr
CONLANGING RESOURCES MEGATHREAD
CONLANGING RESOURCES ... read full post
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3day
Sample Text: Yuet-nyin Script with Canto-Malay Mixlang (incl. Harakat Marks)
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4day
New idea for a conlang? Euphony maxxing
Most conlangs give some thought to euphony, but what if that was the only thing you cared about?? That's the core thought of this post. ... read full post
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7day
Sometimes two elements don't go together
I just dodged a bullet – ... read full post
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1mon
Rotiwah : A First Glance
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1mon
Yuet-nyin script sample, including a divergent Cantonese variant at the bottom (influenced greatly by Malay)
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3mon
"Faux-Austro-Semitic" -- An Artlang for Worldbuilding + Guidelines for Deriving Words with Appropriated Sound Change Rules
(Everything is subject to change!) ... read full post
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4mon
Looking for anarchist conlangers to join a new avantgarde group
So, I've been toying with this idea of applying the anarchist concept of means ends unity to art (to be honest, mainly as a theoretical justification for doing what I wanted to do anyway). So, if you want to do art, and especially anarchist art, shouldn't your tools also be artistic and preferably anarchist? ... read full post
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4mon
Suffix/prefix influence on language and culture
Þere's a bit of Sapir-Whorf assumption here, but: is anyone aware of papers which explore suffix vs prefix use in natural or constructed languages, and what effects þese have? Effects on culture for natural languages would be þe S-W part. ... read full post
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4mon
Just made some massive updates to my conlang and thought I'd share them
https://conworkshop.com/view_language.php?l=DOIKA8
5mon
Move the A of IKEA on the canvas to the right, so it says IKE A
Someone did an IKEA logo on the canvas. In a nod to toki pona, I´d like to move the A to the right, so it says IKE A instead. That would mean "How ugly!" in toki pona. I hope this doesn´t go against community rules. If so, please remove the post.
Anyway, the logo is here: https://canvas.fediverse.events/#x=218&y=457&zoom=25
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5mon
Fnuy little conversation in Svobenian
Translation: ... read full post
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6mon
Word for a specific way we noun our verbs?
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/47864397 ... read full post
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6mon
How to Not Verb
https://fiatlingua.org/2020/04/Abstract: ... read full post
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6mon
The Lexical Semantics of a Machine Translation Interlingua
http://www.rickmor.x10.mx/lexical_semantics.html8
6mon
The phonology of Cjermizást (aka Proto-Sitama)
The main idea behind this language is to become evolutionary food for other languages of my conworld. As such I'll probably never flesh it out completely, only the necessary to make its descendants feel a bit more natural. ... read full post
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6mon
At what point would a language's phonology be so complicated that a logography is simpler than an alphabet?
One big advantage of phonemic scripts (alphabet, abjad, syllabary, abugida) over semantic ones (logography, idiography) is that they're simpler, smaller, and easier to learn. Languages have fewer sounds than concepts they can express with those sounds. But at what point would a language have so many different sounds that having a semantic script would be simpler than a phonemic one? Is this at all realistic? ... read full post
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7mon
My conlang: Koiwak
https://conworkshop.com/view_language.php?l=KOIWAI'm not fluent in linguistics jargon, so I'm copying and pasting my explanation from an article on Conworkshop. Also, the formatting isn't always exactly right because I'm not tech-minded enough to use all the features properly, but I gave it my best effort. Here's the explanation from the article: ... read full post
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8mon
Has conlanging ever helped you understand and learn real languages better?
For me, yes, an example I could use is transforming a generic language using an alphabet, formed using Turkish as the base, and evolving it based on Chinese influences and attempting to adopt logographic styles
This made me theorise on how Chinese works and the absolute role of context, where I could apply it and what not
But what about you?
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8mon
Lingua Franca Update #1: Orthography, Phonology, and Phonotactics
Yesterday, I submitted a post asking for your help in creating a global auxiliary conlang. With not much interest being shown in the first day of posting, I decided to go ahead and embark on this project alone. ... read full post
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8mon
Anyone want to make an lingua franca?
Never made an international auxlang, nor have I ever collaborated on a conlang project as none of my friends are into linguistics. Thought I’d kill three birds with one stone. Who’s in? I’ll probably use Google Docs, LibreOffice, or one of the many collaborative Markdown editors out there.
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9mon
To the brain, Esperanto and Klingon appear the same as English or Mandarin
https://news.mit.edu/2025/esperanto-klingon-appear-same-english-mandarin-in-brain-0318MIT research finds the brain’s language-processing network also responds to artificial languages such as Esperanto and languages made for TV, such as Klingon on “Star Trek” and High Valyrian and Dothraki on “Game of Thrones.”
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9mon
Reverse abjad
https://i.imgur.com/HtUugxy.jpeg
Just wandering around Lemmy looking for conlanging communities. Saw this one linked in the sidebar of !worldbuilding@lemmy.world . ... read full post
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10mon
glossary of words in my toki pona based language
name of language: uá ... read full post