Do you like conlangs, IQfy? Can you speak or understand one? Have you ever tried making one?
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Do you like conlangs, IQfy? Can you speak or understand one? Have you ever tried making one?
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Practical uses of making my own?
Not me, but my brother is balls deep in languages and made up his own with like thirty grammatical cases and its own script
It's a thing of beauty, he spent like two years on it
>muh everything in life has to have a practical use
Be quiet
Thirty cases holy shit
Does he know Finnish or Hungarian?
He has the best memory I’ve seen in anyone and certainly uses it to his advantage in that he’s reasonably conversational in about twenty different languages, one of which happens to be Hungarian. Only problem is he’s somewhat lazy and doesn’t read very much, so his only “fluent” languages are English and Spanish
Who were you even quoting? It was a simple question
No it wasn't.
You're a c**t.
Quiet.
Artistic expression?
Weak Sapir-Whorf hypothesis.
Make sentences obligatory use evidentiality affix, and you get the speakers heavily resistant to christian mindvirus, as literally every claim would be marked as "hearsay".
My gf and I wanted to make one awhile ago so we could speak privately in public or in the presence of other people
>so we could speak privately in public
Just learn Sumerian or Irish Gaelic.
Write a Silmarillion-like scripture, so that the nerds would keep obsessing themselves with minor details, brood over your shit and fill in the gaps should you make any.
There is already a Quenya translation of the New Testament, for example.
http://www.uib.no/people/hnohf/nqnt.htm
Unironically a big motivator for me was so I could write fanfiction while in class without the worry of someone peeking over my shoulder and seeing me write about two characters being mushy.
the long act of creating a language forces u to learn linguistics. so thats a plus.
also >practical use
its like building a gundam or something, admired for its beauty and joy of having making it
toki pona to me personally is very unaesthetic with the sounds, i understand the simplicity that its going for, but thats exactly why the sounds are too 'primitive' and unappealing
When I was young I made one up.
Not really a conlang. More like a random incomplete set of words and symbols I kept on forgetting about except for, like two letters and one word that stayed pretty consistent. And the grammar was English of course. lol.
I want to see an experiment where a child is solely taught a really simple coolang like toki pona and see how messed up they end up, but on the other hand it seems slightly immoral so I can't ever really pursue it
Used to speak nadsat as a nadsat
I would like to create a conlang for poetry (i.e. it would have pitch accent, vowel length that changes meaning, highly malleable word order, as many aspects and moods as possible, etc) but it would be impossible to make something that works and to become fluent in it enough to make poetry and Homeric Greek literally does the exact same thing anyway
I want to invent a language and write a manuscript (yes, specifically a manuscript) in it to leave for future generations of scholars to try to decipher
I wanted to, and kinda still want to somewhat. The only problem is the only time I get motivated enough is when I'm hypomanic so it never gets done lmao. My original plan was a language for a D&D homebrew race of anthropomorphic rabbits I made back in high school. I don't really care about the race anymore but I thought the language such creatures speak could be fun.
I'm trying to make my first conlang. It's damn overwhelming. I wrote down a few steps because I'm autistic and enjoy having a method for everything I do, but even then it still feels extremely complicated.
1) Determine the phonetic inventory using the IPA.
2) How are syllables formed? Are there any sounds that can't be in a particular place in the word, or that can only be in a particular place? Can certain sounds or letters only be followed by certain others? Is the amount of syllables that can be formed limited, like in Japanese for example?
3) Basic grammar and syntax. Gender, number, cases, etc. Verb tenses and moods. Word order.
4) Build a basic lexicon with very simple and elemental terms, like those in the Swadesh list or similar. [this is where I currently am]
5) Develop through translation exercises. Invent systems as the need for them arises and make up new words etymologically related to the base ones. Write progressively more complex texts in the language until satisfied.
Doesn't help that I'm only fluent in English and Spanish, and the only language I understand on a technical level is Latin (albeit it's a very basic understanding, I never got too far in the language and haven't practiced in months). I'm trying to make my conlang as simple and barebones as possible, as a bit of practice. I also aim to become a bit more proficient in at least one or two more languages, preferrably at least one non-IE so it's as grammatically different from what I know as possible.
blessed is the quran