NationStates Jolt Archive


Conlanging

Vellia
07-04-2006, 20:29
I don't mean to start a huge discussion about this, because there are many other places available to talk about conlangs.

I was just wondering how many people here know what conlangs are, create conlangs, and maybe the very basics of a conlang or two.

For those who don't know what a conlang is, it's a constructed
language.

I have only made one conlang: Velmaratht. I made it for my high school graduation project, but it was horrible. No moods, voices, very little vocabulary or anything else. I only had conjugations, tenses, and declensions in addition to an alphabet.

Since then I have only made a few very basic grammars and phonologies, no true languages.
Safalra
07-04-2006, 20:37
I made the extremely basic language Ek for my NationStates nation - the idea is that it's the ancient language of The Fleeting Daydream Of Safalra, now only known from place names:

http://www.safalra.com/special/nationstates/ek/
http://www.safalra.com/special/nationstates/winterartefact/

It's basically Kernewek (Cornish) with so phonetic modifications.
Vellia
07-04-2006, 20:42
I made the extremely basic language Ek for my NationStates nation - the idea is that it's the ancient language of The Fleeting Daydream Of Safalra, now only known from place names:

http://www.safalra.com/special/nationstates/ek/
http://www.safalra.com/special/nationstates/winterartefact/

It's basically Kernewek (Cornish) with so phonetic modifications.

That's interesting! Especially the phonology. Why voiced stops b and d but unvoiced k?

I'm too much of a technological oaf to put mine on the internet.
[NS]Simonist
07-04-2006, 20:43
My friends in high school created a language they called (I think) Ongish. You pretty much spell out words, but you pronounce the consonants like so:
(consonant) + "ong" = letter pronunciation

Example:
F + "ong" = fong

The vowels are merely stated as the letter they are.

So, we take a word like "Bennett" (the last name of one of the creators) and it becomes:
Bong E Nong Nong E Tong Tong.

We take the word "Democrat" and it becomes:
Dong E Mong O Cong Rong A Tong

It's a taxing process, but it's kinda fun to figure out what they're saying as they say it.
Pergamor
07-04-2006, 20:49
Don't get me started. I'm the only person alive who decided to read Tolkien after they got the hang of the Quenya case system... {-)

Vellia> You might like Mark Rosenfelder's Language Construction Kit (http://www.zompist.com/kit.html).
Safalra
07-04-2006, 20:50
This much more detailed conlang was created by another NSer (I forget who):

http://home.earthlink.net/~booko/OkunoLang/Ksenax/index.html

(It was mentioned when we had a thread on conlangs a couple of months back - I bookmarked the page at the time but haven't actually read it yet.)
Vellia
07-04-2006, 20:50
Simonist']My friends in high school created a language they called (I think) Ongish. You pretty much spell out words, but you pronounce the consonants like so:
(consonant) + "ong" = letter pronunciation

Example:
F + "ong" = fong

The vowels are merely stated as the letter they are.

So, we take a word like "Bennett" (the last name of one of the creators) and it becomes:
Bong E Nong Nong E Tong Tong.

We take the word "Democrat" and it becomes:
Dong E Mong O Cong Rong A Tong

It's a taxing process, but it's kinda fun to figure out what they're saying as they say it.

More of a code than a language, but those are sometimes more interesting: this one is. It would be very taxing since you have a syllable for each letter. I would get tired of using it more than a few times a day. Now if I were an Ent...
Vellia
07-04-2006, 20:53
Don't get me started. I'm the only person alive who decided to read Tolkien after they got the hang of the Quenya case system... {-)

Vellia> You might like Mark Rosenfelder's Language Construction Kit (http://www.zompist.com/kit.html).

I've always wnted to learn Quenya - no time.

And I have seen the Language Construction Kit. I refer to it a lot. But times an issue. Senior year is horrible - I've only had D's in AP Stat so far and we're already in the 4th (and final!) marking period.
Letila
07-04-2006, 20:53
I've started on a language for Letila, though I got bored and quit. However, I am working on another conlang based on socialism that I keep restarting in an attempt to get it to work just right.
Pergamor
07-04-2006, 20:55
I've started on a language for Letila, though I got bored and quit. However, I am working on another conlang based on socialism that I keep restarting in an attempt to get it to work just right.
Don't bother. Newspeak is doubleplusgood as it is. ;)
Vellia
07-04-2006, 20:56
This much more detailed conlang was created by another NSer (I forget who):

http://home.earthlink.net/~booko/OkunoLang/Ksenax/index.html

(It was mentioned when we had a thread on conlangs a couple of months back - I bookmarked the page at the time but haven't actually read it yet.)

Thanks for the link.