#conlang — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #conlang, aggregated by home.social.
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Do you when Esperanto was introduced to the world? I'll give you a hint: it's when the first book was published.
#esperanto #esperantist #zamenhof #conlang #languagelearning
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How to invent a realistic #language for fictional speakers
Fictional #languages like Avatar’s Na’vi provides insight into real-world communication
Language spoken by native #Navi people, though invented for the #Avatar franchise, is very real. Na’vi is far from the only constructed language, or #conlang, in fiction. Language scholar J.R.R. Tolkien began work on the Elvish tongues that appear in The Lord of the Rings long before writing the books.
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/conlang-fictional-languages-linguistics
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How to invent a realistic #language for fictional speakers
Fictional #languages like Avatar’s Na’vi provides insight into real-world communication
Language spoken by native #Navi people, though invented for the #Avatar franchise, is very real. Na’vi is far from the only constructed language, or #conlang, in fiction. Language scholar J.R.R. Tolkien began work on the Elvish tongues that appear in The Lord of the Rings long before writing the books.
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/conlang-fictional-languages-linguistics
https://archive.ph/Aff5Q -
How to invent a realistic #language for fictional speakers
Fictional #languages like Avatar’s Na’vi provides insight into real-world communication
Language spoken by native #Navi people, though invented for the #Avatar franchise, is very real. Na’vi is far from the only constructed language, or #conlang, in fiction. Language scholar J.R.R. Tolkien began work on the Elvish tongues that appear in The Lord of the Rings long before writing the books.
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/conlang-fictional-languages-linguistics
https://archive.ph/Aff5Q -
How to invent a realistic #language for fictional speakers
Fictional #languages like Avatar’s Na’vi provides insight into real-world communication
Language spoken by native #Navi people, though invented for the #Avatar franchise, is very real. Na’vi is far from the only constructed language, or #conlang, in fiction. Language scholar J.R.R. Tolkien began work on the Elvish tongues that appear in The Lord of the Rings long before writing the books.
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/conlang-fictional-languages-linguistics
https://archive.ph/Aff5Q -
How to invent a realistic #language for fictional speakers
Fictional #languages like Avatar’s Na’vi provides insight into real-world communication
Language spoken by native #Navi people, though invented for the #Avatar franchise, is very real. Na’vi is far from the only constructed language, or #conlang, in fiction. Language scholar J.R.R. Tolkien began work on the Elvish tongues that appear in The Lord of the Rings long before writing the books.
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/conlang-fictional-languages-linguistics
https://archive.ph/Aff5Q -
I've had a neat idea for a new orthography for English. To begin moving away from the hodgepodge mess we use now.
It's based on emoji used as ideographs for English.
A small example, of how it might work. You post something. I react or respond with :goose: 🔪 (I don't know why my whatsis doesn't have a goose emoji, it's weird).
Anyway, so goose-knife means (your) talking annoys (me)
In this case, this means "your speech is annoying me", and could have several meanings, depending on endings and other emoji used in the phrase.
Reversed, as 🔪 :goose:, it means "you annoy"
And so on. Somewhat arbitrary meanings, but that's a fair pattern for ideograph development.
Anyway, I'm just getting us ready for Donald Trump's Golden Age. I have this feeling a language with ideographic orthography might become important, and want us practicing the skills?
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Lecture: Toki Pona for Hackers by jan Toma
https://wiki.dfupdate.se/projekt:updateringarWhen: 2026-05-09, 19:00 CEST
Where: Svartbäcksgatan 65, 75333 Uppsala
Stream: https://bbb.cryptoparty.se/b/upd-0mo-m2u-aq8Toki Pona is a constructed language. According to its author, Amatullah Lang, “It was my attempt to understand the meaning of life in 120 words. There are now thousands of speakers and 137 essential words.” Attendees will get an introduction to Toki Pona focused on words relating to the hacker scene.
See you there!
#toki_pona #conlang #artlang -
they made lojban sound beautiful🤯
("THE vocaloid #yuri #song" as they describe it)
of their #songs most i like #sambahsa ones but this one is actually pretty cool
this #vocaloids master has come a long way, if you compare their first pieces to recent ones you'll be shocked by the progress! and theyve got so few (>510) subscriptions, too few😥 yes i understand the audience for #vocaloid #covers (mostly on #anime songs and other vocaloid songs) in #conlangs is very limited but still im sure there are more #conlanging fans like me out there who might appreciate their workhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lozdHCMR9so
(original https://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm6909505)#tokipona #kotava #interlingue #occidental #esperanto #volapuk #volapük #lidepla #lingwadeplaneta
#conlang #music #cover -
they made lojban sound beautiful🤯
("THE vocaloid #yuri #song" as they describe it)
of their #songs most i like #sambahsa ones but this one is actually pretty cool
this #vocaloids master has come a long way, if you compare their first pieces to recent ones you'll be shocked by the progress! and theyve got so few (>510) subscriptions, too few😥 yes i understand the audience for #vocaloid #covers (mostly on #anime songs and other vocaloid songs) in #conlangs is very limited but still im sure there are more #conlanging fans like me out there who might appreciate their workhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lozdHCMR9so
(original https://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm6909505)#tokipona #kotava #interlingue #occidental #esperanto #volapuk #volapük #lidepla #lingwadeplaneta
#conlang #music #cover -
they made lojban sound beautiful🤯
("THE vocaloid #yuri #song" as they describe it)
of their #songs most i like #sambahsa ones but this one is actually pretty cool
this #vocaloids master has come a long way, if you compare their first pieces to recent ones you'll be shocked by the progress! and theyve got so few (>510) subscriptions, too few😥 yes i understand the audience for #vocaloid #covers (mostly on #anime songs and other vocaloid songs) in #conlangs is very limited but still im sure there are more #conlanging fans like me out there who might appreciate their workhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lozdHCMR9so
(original https://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm6909505)#tokipona #kotava #interlingue #occidental #esperanto #volapuk #volapük #lidepla #lingwadeplaneta
#conlang #music #cover -
they made lojban sound beautiful🤯
("THE vocaloid #yuri #song" as they describe it)
of their #songs most i like #sambahsa ones but this one is actually pretty cool
this #vocaloids master has come a long way, if you compare their first pieces to recent ones you'll be shocked by the progress! and theyve got so few (>510) subscriptions, too few😥 yes i understand the audience for #vocaloid #covers (mostly on #anime songs and other vocaloid songs) in #conlangs is very limited but still im sure there are more #conlanging fans like me out there who might appreciate their workhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lozdHCMR9so
(original https://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm6909505)#tokipona #kotava #interlingue #occidental #esperanto #volapuk #volapük #lidepla #lingwadeplaneta
#conlang #music #cover -
they made lojban sound beautiful🤯
("THE vocaloid #yuri #song" as they describe it)
of their #songs most i like #sambahsa ones but this one is actually pretty cool
this #vocaloids master has come a long way, if you compare their first pieces to recent ones you'll be shocked by the progress! and theyve got so few (>510) subscriptions, too few😥 yes i understand the audience for #vocaloid #covers (mostly on #anime songs and other vocaloid songs) in #conlangs is very limited but still im sure there are more #conlanging fans like me out there who might appreciate their workhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lozdHCMR9so
(original https://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm6909505)#tokipona #kotava #interlingue #occidental #esperanto #volapuk #volapük #lidepla #lingwadeplaneta
#conlang #music #cover -
I will say that I was intrigued by the effort that was put into developing the Belter #ConLang even though, to my ears, it sometimes came off as a mish-mash of Afrikaaner/Jamaican affectation at times.
I definitely appreciate the commitment to its use here.
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toki ni li tan tenpo pini. taso kulupu pi toki pona li awen kama suli li awen sin.
lipu sin pi pona mute li kama lon: https://pona.la. mi pilin e ni: sina wile kama sona e toki pona la, ni o lipu nanpa wan.this is an old post, but the toki pona community keeps growing and making new things. since writing this post, a great new resource was created: https://pona.la. IMO this is the first page a toki pona learner should visit.
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toki ni li tan tenpo pini. taso kulupu pi toki pona li awen kama suli li awen sin.
lipu sin pi pona mute li kama lon: https://pona.la. mi pilin e ni: sina wile kama sona e toki pona la, ni o lipu nanpa wan.this is an old post, but the toki pona community keeps growing and making new things. since writing this post, a great new resource was created: https://pona.la. IMO this is the first page a toki pona learner should visit.
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toki ni li tan tenpo pini. taso kulupu pi toki pona li awen kama suli li awen sin.
lipu sin pi pona mute li kama lon: https://pona.la. mi pilin e ni: sina wile kama sona e toki pona la, ni o lipu nanpa wan.this is an old post, but the toki pona community keeps growing and making new things. since writing this post, a great new resource was created: https://pona.la. IMO this is the first page a toki pona learner should visit.
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toki ni li tan tenpo pini. taso kulupu pi toki pona li awen kama suli li awen sin.
lipu sin pi pona mute li kama lon: https://pona.la. mi pilin e ni: sina wile kama sona e toki pona la, ni o lipu nanpa wan.this is an old post, but the toki pona community keeps growing and making new things. since writing this post, a great new resource was created: https://pona.la. IMO this is the first page a toki pona learner should visit.
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toki ni li tan tenpo pini. taso kulupu pi toki pona li awen kama suli li awen sin.
lipu sin pi pona mute li kama lon: https://pona.la. mi pilin e ni: sina wile kama sona e toki pona la, ni o lipu nanpa wan.this is an old post, but the toki pona community keeps growing and making new things. since writing this post, a great new resource was created: https://pona.la. IMO this is the first page a toki pona learner should visit.
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#TokiPona now has a new website:
https://tokipona.net/(if you want to know why, please read the following statement. as someone who has followed this development, i ask that you take this all in with kindness and understanding. https://tokipona.net/wile-pona)
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I have just learned of this and IMustTryItOutForTheFunness!
Conlang Adventure 2026
https://mailchi.mp/b7ef80439d17/rl6241xjo9Nada #LangBelta....fo da anyiye xiya. 😉
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It’s conlang clean-up day! The day where I forgo my household duties, much to the annoyance of my partner, to go through all my #conlang documents and reconcile all the “work” so that it returns to being coherent. FML.
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Hm, maybe I should give tokipona a try? I mean, I know the concept of it but that's pretty much all I know about it. Unlike lojban though, it seems actually learnable in a sane amount of time 😁 What's it like speaking in it I wonder
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Partially in light of the polysynthesis discussion, I've also decided to write up the test I apply when I encounter discussion of an "exotic" feature in a non-European language: to ask whether it is genuinely stranger than the verb _to rickroll_.
Link: https://kechpaja.conlang.org/blog/2026/04/20-the-rickroll-test.html
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Should've prefaced this with
0. Everything is a verb. The 'nouns' are embedded into verbs, either in their 'core' or in their arguments. You can 'extract' them. This makes for some interesting mental gymnastics sometimes.
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Decided to write about what I like about lojban, for the sake of balance :D
1. 'Focusing' on a particular argument of a verb (and in L, everything is a verb); English does that as well to an extent, via the passive voice; but L has it on steroids. This is also used to turn verbs into nouns.
2. 'Partially applied' verbs; e.g. 'X gives Y to Z' you can pre-fill any of the X, Y and Z. That with the previous point makes a powerful mechanism to express complex relations tersely.
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3. Dialects. There are several (incompatible) varieties of lojban; some seem more adopted than others. This is probably not so bad and sort of expected in a conlang but, I wish there were disclaimers like "we're using version X.Y.Z in this text"; I mean, lojban has words for paragraph breaks ffs, yet no words for such metadata?
3.1. BTW yes, the verbalized paragraph breaks are just silly 😁
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2. Lack of consistency in the gismu places. I've been classifying the gismu places by semantics and they are basically all over the place. One example is in the screenshot. Just, why!? This might seem contrived or fixable but, there are more examples like this. For instance, they couldn't decide on the order SOURCE - DESTINATION vs DESTINATION - SOURCE. This makes it harder to learn the words and is just, well, pas comme il faut for a 'logical' language
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my gripes with lojban are, currently, the following:
1. Lack of noise robustness. This includes both the literal noise when speaking and the digital noise, for example typos. My favourite example: `so'i` means `many` while `so'u` means `few`. They are literally next to each other on the keyboard yet are the exact opposites. This is the result of a very tight morphology coupled with a certain knack for loading the alphabetic order with semantic meaning
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I've recently begun studying Greenlandic, and it has made me wonder just how useful "polysynthetic" actually is as a term: https://kechpaja.conlang.org/blog/2026/04/16-greenlandic-and-polysynthesis.html.
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🤔 so I tried synθesizing ðe Vowel Cuboid^tm for a parallel universe where ðe 3rd formant makes as many distinctions as ðe first 2 😳
#cursed #linguistics #sounddesign #worldbuilding #conlang #surreal
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I need to stop obsessing with lojban so much. I don't even like the actual language that much lol. Def no intention to actually speak it freely. But I keep browsing la sutysisku and scanning CLL for no reason hehe
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Surely I'm not the first to notice a similarity between the Lojban's apostrophe (that makes the H sound) and the Ancient Greek rough breathing mark ◌̔ (that makes the same sound).
I've not found any direct evidence that the latter influenced the former (not that I did much research into it anyway) but I like to think there was some secret Ancient Greek admirer among the lojban creators
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my (probably butchered but synthetically correct) attempt at lojban:
ji'a lo drata noi fanza mi ra'a la lojban ku'o du
lo nu zo'e lacri lo valsi te liste lo smuni be lo sumti -
so I've been dabbling with lojban for a couple of days, the basics are pretty straightforward but then there's a vast sea of details that one drowns in. I'm not sure I like that so many words look basically the same (co'a ca'o co'o). I hate ".i" lol. I'd like a stripped down version of this language. People seem to point in the direction of Toaq but a tonal language? no thanks
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most overrated phoneme your cringe conlaŋ probably has because how cud you not θrow it in ðere 🙄
#conlang #cringe #linguistics #VoicelessTrilledAfftricateGang
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Some thoughts on #conlang writing systems, and how my relationship to them has evolved over time: https://kechpaja.conlang.org/blog/2026/03/26-rambling-thoughts-on-writing-systems.html
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Whew. Alright. The hyperfixation is fading. I got three different scripts done, over 1200+ words in the lexicon and finalized all the rules. Now I can go back to that article I wanted to write in my word that I need two frickin words for. >.> #writingcommunity #conlang #indieauthor #beloveduniverse
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Realized looking at my printed and handwritten language, I needed a traditional that all these descended from. Sooooo.....here I am designing 150 glyphs. The pain of world buildilng? fml lol #writingcommunity #indieauthor #beloveduniverse #conlang #worldbuilding
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I realized that by varying the mapping from character classes (roughly, phoneme groups) to characters, I can generate the same word/name as different language speakers would spell it.
For example, in mock-Arabic a city could be called Frykult, whereas in mock-Spanish it would be called Fgicolt instead.
This has gameplay potential!
This feature comes for free with my #ProcGen approach outlined on https://frozenfractal.com/blog/2024/8/9/around-the-world-19-constructing-languages/
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I realized that by varying the mapping from character classes (roughly, phoneme groups) to characters, I can generate the same word/name as different language speakers would spell it.
For example, in mock-Arabic a city could be called Frykult, whereas in mock-Spanish it would be called Fgicolt instead.
This has gameplay potential!
This feature comes for free with my #ProcGen approach outlined on https://frozenfractal.com/blog/2024/8/9/around-the-world-19-constructing-languages/
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I realized that by varying the mapping from character classes (roughly, phoneme groups) to characters, I can generate the same word/name as different language speakers would spell it.
For example, in mock-Arabic a city could be called Frykult, whereas in mock-Spanish it would be called Fgicolt instead.
This has gameplay potential!
This feature comes for free with my #ProcGen approach outlined on https://frozenfractal.com/blog/2024/8/9/around-the-world-19-constructing-languages/
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I realized that by varying the mapping from character classes (roughly, phoneme groups) to characters, I can generate the same word/name as different language speakers would spell it.
For example, in mock-Arabic a city could be called Frykult, whereas in mock-Spanish it would be called Fgicolt instead.
This has gameplay potential!
This feature comes for free with my #ProcGen approach outlined on https://frozenfractal.com/blog/2024/8/9/around-the-world-19-constructing-languages/
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I realized that by varying the mapping from character classes (roughly, phoneme groups) to characters, I can generate the same word/name as different language speakers would spell it.
For example, in mock-Arabic a city could be called Frykult, whereas in mock-Spanish it would be called Fgicolt instead.
This has gameplay potential!
This feature comes for free with my #ProcGen approach outlined on https://frozenfractal.com/blog/2024/8/9/around-the-world-19-constructing-languages/
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Tice - Spiel mir das Lied von der Wahrheit | baji me gana de veritaa | https://youtu.be/L9SWsZRgSKw
#rap #lidepla #conlang #schnipsel #toripes -
Tice - Spiel mir das Lied von der Wahrheit | baji me gana de veritaa | https://youtu.be/L9SWsZRgSKw
#rap #lidepla #conlang #schnipsel #toripes -
Tice - Spiel mir das Lied von der Wahrheit | baji me gana de veritaa | https://youtu.be/L9SWsZRgSKw
#rap #lidepla #conlang #schnipsel #toripes -
Tice - Spiel mir das Lied von der Wahrheit | baji me gana de veritaa | https://youtu.be/L9SWsZRgSKw
#rap #lidepla #conlang #schnipsel #toripes -
Tice - Spiel mir das Lied von der Wahrheit | baji me gana de veritaa | https://youtu.be/L9SWsZRgSKw
#rap #lidepla #conlang #schnipsel #toripes