#ConlangApril 6. Let's talk orthography. You could discuss either: - a script used by the speakers themselves. How do they record knowledge and messages for posterity, if at all? Clay, stone or wooden tablets? Parchment, papyrus or paper? Digitally? - a transcription you use in your conlanging notes or in the story that doesn't exist in world. In either case, does it use an alphabet, syllabary or logograms? If you've developed it, what are the specific characters used? For phonemic writing systems, what phonemes do these characters correspond to? Is it one-to-one? hosted by @miwwdu-sitsom.bsky.social

#ConlangApril 6: Let's talk orthography. This can be either a script used by the speakers, or a transcription you use that doesn't exist in world. If it's phonemic (alphabet, syllabary, etc.), tell us how the characters match with sounds!

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#ConlangApril 5. Let's start delving into the nitty gritty, with phonemics. What are the basic building blocks that make up words, whether sounds, gestures, pheromones or telepathic brainwaves, that are distinguished by speakers of your language? If you have an IPA table or the equivalent, now is the time to share it! hosted by @miwwdu-sitsom.bsky.social

#ConlangApril 5: Let's start delving into the nitty gritty, with phonemics. What are the basic building blocks that make up words, whether sounds, gestures, pheromones or telepathic brainwaves, that are distinguished by speakers of your language?

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grammar, but without its grammatical gender (and with addition of non-binary pronouns as Istemorians recognize non-binary people). I also dipped a bit into Irish and Icelandic a bit for flavour. (2/2)
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#ConlangApril 4:

Some of both. One of the themes of my WIP is how *contingent* history is, how much of it winds up being frozen accidents. So there are familiar elements mixed up with the unexpected all over - including the language. And the familiar stuff is usually real.

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#ConlangApril 4. What sources of inspiration did you use to create this conlang? Is it a priori (with vocabulary and other features not directly based on existing languages), like Dothraki, or a posteriori (taking vocabulary and other elements from existing languages), like Atlantean from Atlantis: The Lost Empire? hosted by @miwwdu-sitsom.bsky.social

#ConlangApril 4: What sources of inspiration did you use to create this conlang? Is it a priori, like Dothraki, or a posteriori, like Atlantean from Atlantis: The Lost Empire?

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#ConlangApril 3. Are there various dialects of your language, and where are each of them spoken? Is your language an isolate, or does it belong to a broader family? If the latter, what other languages belong to this family? hosted by @miwwdu-sitsom.bsky.social

#ConlangApril 3: Are there various dialects of your language, and where are each of them spoken? Is your language an isolate, or does it belong to a broader family? If the latter, what other languages belong to this family?

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#ConlangApril 2. Purpose. Everyday? Lingua franca? Ceremonial? Magical?

Both everyday (for the majority), and a lingua franca. Large empires have been around *much* longer in the new timeline. There are even government standards for the language. Especially written material.

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#ConlangApril 2. What purpose does this language serve? Is it the everyday language used by the people? A lingua franca allowing peoples who speak different languages to communicate? Is it ceremonial, like Latin nowadays? Or the language of magical incantations? hosted by @miwwdu-sitsom.bsky.social

#ConlangApril 2: What purpose does this language serve? Is it the everyday language used by the people? A lingua franca allowing peoples who speak different languages to communicate? Is it ceremonial? Or the language of magical incantations?

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#ConlangApril 1. Let's start by introducing your conlang! Is it intended for real-world use, like Esperanto, or part of a fictional setting, like Klingon? If the latter, what setting? Where is it spoken, and who speaks it? hosted by @miwwdu-sitsom.bsky.social

#ConlangApril 1: Let's start by introducing your conlang! Is it intended for real-world use, like Esperanto, or part of a fictional setting, like Klingon? If the latter, what setting? Where is it spoken, and who speaks it?

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Fellow #writers and #conlangers! A reminder that #ConlangApril is coming right up! The first prompt card should now be scheduled to go out at midnight Eastern!

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Sneak peak.

"I love you."

"Noc ģaiçä."

IPA: ˈnɵts ˈɢaitʃaː

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Nominative/Accusative or Ergative/Absolutive?

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I haven't worked on a language since December.

Kind of feeling the urge.

Or maybe that "urge" is because I feel like I should...

But also, I feel like I'm terrible at it, so i shouldn't either.

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#ConlangApril hosted by @miwwdu-sitsom.bsky.social 1. Introduce your conlang. Who speaks it? 2. Purpose. Everyday? Lingua franca? Ceremonial? Magical? 3. Dialects and language family 4. Sources of inspiration? A priori or a posteriori? 5. Phonemic inventory. The sounds or gestures of your conlang. 6. Orthography. Script or transcription. 7. Weekly prompt: fog 8. Phonotactics 9. Allophonic variation and sandhi 10. Morphology. Analytic or synthetic? 11. Alignment. Nominative-accusative? Ergative-absolutive? 12. Tenses and aspects. How does your language conceive of time? 13. Word order 14. Weekly prompt: horn 15. Prosody 16. Questions, negations, orders 17. Dependent clauses 18. Formality and registers 19. Language evolution. Sound/gesture changes and semantic drift. 20. Common expressions 21. Weekly prompt: play 22. Borrowings from other languages 23. Words formed by mimicry (e.g. onomatopoeias) 24. Cultural influence/references 25. Taboos 26. Important texts or oral traditions 27. Individual speakers' idiolects 28. Weekly prompt: cut 29. Challenge: The North Wind and the Sun (translate as much as you can) – or free day! 30. Reflection

Hey fellow #writers and #conlangers! I hosted #ConlangNovember last year, and it's coming back, but as #ConlangApril! The prompt list, below, is mostly the same, but I made a few edits and changed the weekly prompts.

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For a world building project lol

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Tinkering around on Vulgarlang like you do on an early Sunday arvo in the Down Under #worldbuilding #conlangs #WIP #WriteSky

And share that, as well as writing a little guide on useful plugins for updating tags, properties, etc. as well as tips to avoid future headaches down the road, does this sound like something anyone wld be interested in? let me know! (10/10) #conlangs #conlanger #Proto-Abyssal

About Classic Bittic Chapter 3: Syntax

Classic Bittic is distinct for its heavily prefixing grammar. It classifies all words as operators or operands. When forming phrases, operators precede their operands, and heads precede their dependents. Some words can be operators or operands depending on the phrase. For example, the basic word order is verb-subject-object. The verb is an operator that takes two nouns as operands. Subjects are more salient than objects. (colored for the reader) make 3sg machine “They make a machine.” "make" is labeled "operator" and "3sg" and "machine" are labeled "operands.

Noun phrases follow the same pattern. Operators like nouns, case particles, and determiners are at the front with the operands following them. More “salient” operands preceding less salient ones. GEN animal person “The person’s animal.” "GEN" is labeled "operator" and "animal" and "person" are labeled "operands". GEN and animal plant person “The person’s plant and animal.” "GEN" is labeled "1st operator" and "and animal plant" and "person" are labeled "1st operands". "and" is labeled "2nd operator" and "animal" and "plant" are labeled "2nd operands".

About Classic Bittic - Chapter 3. Covering the basics of Classic Bittic's syntax. I was inspired by Polish Notation which pairs really well with Bittic's 12 nouns and 13 verbs. #conlangs #conlang

About Classic Bittic Chapter 2: History

A fleet exploring unvisited systems within human space visited UMT-1679, a red dwarf, and discovered radio transmissions from the star’s solitary, dead, rocky planet. The image depicts a blurry picture of UMT-1679 with its sole planet, UMT-1679 a. To the side is a zoomed-in higher-quality image of UMT-1679 a with its moon and a crosshair showing the rough location of the discovered radio signal.

The source was on the planet’s surface. A cylindrical device with a shell made from an iridium alloy. Afterwards, many other similar cylindrical objects were found in other remote star systems. The image depicts a cylinder standing in a flat area with mountains and a perpetual sunset in the background.

Researchers were quick to identify the transmissions as binary messages, and a simple rearrangement of the strings revealed hundreds of glyphs from a language that has been long forgotten. Researchers named this mysterious language Bittic after the binary strings it was based on. The image shows a stylized presentation of Bittic. How the text works will be explained in later chapters.

(1/2) About Classic Bittic - Chapter 2. This is a rough summary of the in-universe history of Bittic explaining how a digital language about one of humanity's interstellar colonization efforts before FTL travel was discovered. #conlangs #conlang

Exploring Invented Languages Virgilius Maro- The Grammatical Prankster of the Seventh Century

open.substack.com/pub/drandrew... #conlangs #tolkien #medieval

About Classic Bittic Chapter 1: What Is Bittic

Bittic was a lingua franca used by a spacefaring civilization that inhabited the space around a planet called Iris approximately 1,000 years after humanity’s exodos from Earth. Classic Bittic is the most prominent form that spanned most of humanity’s habitation of Iris and her moons. The scene depicts a ringed yellow planet in space with stars behind it. The planet has a storm system on it which resembles a red eye.

It was not a spoken language. Instead, it used alternating high and low frequency pulses to represent pixels in an ideographic message. Usually, the high frequency pulses (represented by white pixels or “1”) carried meaning while the low frequency pulses (represented by black pixels or “0”) did not. Every 4-by-4 ideograph or “glyph” must have one “1” in every row or column In other words, rows or columns containing all “0” were not allowed. Examples of what is and isn't a valid glyph are shown. The first one on the left is valid. All the others are not.

Glyphs were composed into “messages” whose total number of pulses had to be a semiprime with a border to aid in deciphering. Shown are a string of 121 white and black pixels representing an encoded message in Bittic. Below that is an 11-by-11 black-and-white image of the previous message "decoded".

Hello all! I'm starting a new presentation series covering my conlang, Bittic, what it is, and how it works. My hope is to describe the whole language by the end of the series. The first chapter covers what makes Bittic Bittic. #conlangs #conlang

Posting in English because this might be a collaborative project, or perhaps not. But I’d like to develop this in English mainly, to let everyone know about it.

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Another five-star review!
"As with book 1, I particularly appreciated the folktales as examples of deep worldbuilding."
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Decided to add new glyphs to the Astrologist’s language, as well as the rules for writing the language.

Note: My mechanical pencil ran out of lead and I had to use a pen. Ignore the scratch outs.

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I should work on my Gnomish language sometime...

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#WordWeavers 1.9 — Have you invented any words,sayings, or swears for your story? For my world, I invented an entire language.Enjoy #conlangs so it fun.It does slow me down when I create sentences,realize I don't have the words,gotta design the words, and then start #writing again. #writingcommunity

Is Modern Hebrew a conlang? So I keep seeing references to posts on Reddit…and I always ignore them. But then I said to myself, “Why not give Reddit a chance? What’s there to lose?” That led me to sign up for a few subr…

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Explorer - ålsunmottad
IPA - elˈsunmoθɑd

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#Lexember 20 (catch up)

Rain - peipo
IPA - pəːˈpo

Thunderstorm - peipåjalad (Lit. Flashing Rain)
IPA - pəːˈpejɑlad

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I've made a post or two about my conlang Kairete, but have never explained it. Here is a short explainer image.

Kairete is an a priori, polysynthetic philosophical artlang. It avoids tone in favor of conveying information through the makeup of a word itself.

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