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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 work

https://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 work

https://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 work

https://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 work

https://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 work

https://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

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.

#TokiPona #toki_pona #conlang #conlangs #conlanging

Hola, soy naomi.
Tengo casi 20 años y me gusta la #botánica la #literatura los #videojuegos lo #gotico y en menor medida las #conlangs
Normalmente no suelo ponerme etiquetas, pero me identifico como anti-sexual (orientación sexual).
Tampoco me gusta hablar de política, pero por si a alguien le interesa tengo ideales progresistas y un poco anarquistas.
Cosas que odio: todo tipo de discriminacion, el contenido sexual y las visitas.
Y eso seria todo, espero poder encontrar amistades en mastodon.

#Introducción #Presentación #Juntas

Here's the opening sentence of #WhiteNights by #Dostoevsky, translated to Ru̇u̇ťalis as I promised!

...

Ze ne Nahť ďeehlis, ne Nahť szvaalik vo, vėn vir hunlis, maaglis eenťlis, o Loker lu̇u̇flis.

DUMP ART.M.INDEF night-ABS delightful-ABS , ART.M.INDEF night-ABS such REL , when 1P young-ABS , possible only , VOC reader lovely .

It was a wonderful night, such a night as is only possible when we are young, dear reader.

#conlang #conlangs #conlanging #lang_ruut #ruutalis

I wanted to begin working on a new translation project for the Ru̇u̇ťalis language, so after much deliberation, I chose to translate one of my favourite stories: White Nights by Fyodor #Dostoevsky.

I'll post excerpts regularly (check #lang_ruut and #ruutalis), and the whole thing when I'm done!

#ruutalis #WhiteNights #Literature #conlang #conlanging #conlangs

Does anyone know any other active or budding #conlang communities out there, except on Discord?

I don't want to deepen my dependency on Discord even more.

#conlanging #conlangs

Perfect tense is the default tense to recall past events in Ru̇u̇ťalis, unlike English, where simple past is typically used for this purpose.

To put a phrase into perfect tense, the verb is replaced by hefa (to have) + the perfect participle infinitive form of the original verb.

Compare this present-tense sentence...

Di Maavie na Zup bru̇u̇fet.
ART.F.DEF maid-ERG ART.F.INDEF soup-ABS brew-3S
The maid cooks a soup.

... to this perfect-tense sentence:

Di Maavie na Zup heft gebru̇u̇fa.
ART.F.DEF maid-ERG ART.F.INDEF have-3S PPART-brew-PPART
The maid cooked a soup.

#lang_ruut #ruutalis #linguistics #conlang #conlanging #conlangs

For those of you without much #worldbuilding attached to your #conlangs:

What time period is your dictionary tuned to, approximately?

Like, do you have words for 'computer' or 'internet'? Do you have chatting abbreviations like "BRB" or unique ways to text and write smileys? Do you have a complex feudal caste system reflected in your grammar? Magic? Creatures? Cars?

#conlang #conlanging #AskFedi

I wonder if #conlangs could be a way to verify that something isn't made with AI.

At least when it comes to something like Google Translate, it will do Esperanto text but won't even do a robotic Text To Speech. (I did see this website that has not-robotic TTS for Esperanto: https://parol.martinrue.com/).

But Esperanto might be too "main stream". Who would bother training an LLM on #Láadan ? There are so few sources to even use for training.

Then if a conlang gets too popular we jump to a new one 😏

I almost forgot.

The publication Writing Systems of the Otherworld has hit the shop at @boldmonday
https://boldmonday.com/products/posters #Ad

Produced by #Alphabetum, The Hague (Akiem Helmling), printed with Pantone Gold and Black.
Text by Tim Brookes from @Endangeredalphabets
#WritingSystems #Language #ConLangs #EndangeredAlphabets

i wanna learn #lojban, what resources would you recommend to me?

#conlang #conlanging #conlangs

Does anyone else feel like the more you know about languages and linguistics, the less fun conlanging is?

I miss being 15 and creating some Slavic-inspired language with a dictionary full of Sino-derived roots with ten crazy cases and some poetic OSV-S-repeat word order. I translated the whole book of Genesis!

I had no idea about predicative expressions, non-finite or infinite phrases, participals, anything. Everything was a main clause or at most a secondary sentence with a simple conjunction.

Nowadays I can't do any of that anymore because I just know too much about linguistics, degree and all. Every little conlang aspect I create ends up stressing me because I know I'm misrepresenting a syntactic concept, I'm introducing some eurocentric nonsense or I just don't know how a certain concept would work in an edge case.

Even creating a copula for the most basic sentences in a new language is an exhausting task.

I used to do things like "He is a horse", where "is" was simply a verb that happened to have both its arguments in, say, nominative case. Nowadays I have to take into account that "a horse" isn't the argument to a transitive verb at all, but that it's a subject complenent and that "is" is in fact intransitive.

And then I need to research dry syntax for hours until I'm demotivated and scrap the whole language.

It's so tiring.

#conlang #conlangs #conlanging

Am I the only one feeling somewhat conflicted about #ConWorkshop?

(For those not in the know, I'm talking about the online conlang creation toolkit you can find on https://conworkshop.info/ 😊)

I've been using it extensively in the past for my projects, but eventually jumped ship to just my own local text files on my computer. Were I to start a new conlang project today, I would not use Conworkshop anymore.

I think the reason is that while it's an amazing toolkit to manage every aspect of a language in excruciating detail, it also doesn't make any of that detail optional. It's in part more of an engineering software than something supporting me in a creative journey. On the other hand, I love some of the features, like a plethora of word lists and a detailed and functional dictionary.

I find myself enthusiastic about only some parts of the conlanging creation process, not others. I also lack knowledge about some linguistic subdomains. When working on my own languages locally, I therefore handwave some aspects away.

Conworkshop doesn't let me though. It gives me warnings and to-do lists.

I don't want to work on phonotactics, historical linguistics, obscure syntactic constructions or in-depth morphology.

But really, is that an issue?

It feels somewhat like modern audiences of #fantasy fiction focusing overly on the logics, realism and logistics of "magic systems" rather than the characters, narrative and overly pleasantness. And yet, inconsistent and incompletely defined "magic systems" like Harry Potter's or LoTR are incredibly popular.

If conlanging is an art form, I am allowed to make illogical languages. Ones that work on vibes. Or ones that are inconsistent, unrealistic or unnatural. Or ones that I just haven't defined some linguistic aspects for.

And Conworkshop tries to shoehorn me into one single conlang creation style: the ultra-scientific, overexplained, academic one. When really, I maybe want to make the equivalent of Klingon, toki pona, Newspeak or Parsel.

#conlanging #conlangs #conlang #linguistics

So what if you pushed that concept to its extremes? That's what my current project is. :)

My latest language does not have canonical codes.

Instead, it's engineered specifically to be compatible with as many custom, "user-created" symbol systems as possible.

Ideally, one could "write" or "speak" this language via any medium - visual, acoustic, tactile, or more esoteric - as long as all communicating parties know the code in use of course.

The same phrase could be represented by seemingly erratically flashing lights on the side of a factory, the colour patterns on a tapestry graphic on a website's background, or even the sequence of flight height and colour of birds passing a window in a video game.

You could call it the ideal secret language (for hobby purposes, I know it's silly and flawed).

And yeah.
Of course you could do this with any other language. You could decide to write English with flowers instead of letters or representing each English letter with a different kind of animal in a zoo.

The difference is that my language is engineered specifically to enable as many such encoding systems as possible as easily as possible.

For instance, it has only six base "units" that can map to your symbols, which is just enough to not make words overly long but also not too many to exclude simpler pattern systems - you try mapping a unique colour to each of English's dozens of letters or phonemes!

These base units are split into subgroups, so "code creators" could use a kind of phonotactical ruleset to enable sequence-sensitive codes such as vocal speech (avoiding consonant clusters, for example).

My ideal vision of this project is a 'secret language' that people can use hidden in plain sight by utilising all kinds of bonkers, super-obscure codes, such as representing each of the six units with differently-coloured leaves falling from a random tree in an animated artwork.

(2/2)

#conlang #conlangs #conlanging #linguistics

My current conlanging project is somewhat esoteric.

Communicating using any language requires transmitting information via some kind of code via some kind of medium.

The codes and media we use vary: usually we use either a graphical representation (e. g. writing) or an acoustic representation (e. g. vocalisation, morse).

At its core, the sound /i/, the shape <i>, and the morse code ·· are all abstract symbols. They represent the same unit, the same idea; they're just in a different medium.

(1/2)

#conlangs #conlanging #linguistics #conlang

The Láadan conlang was designed so none of the phonemes are "sharp" sounding, they're all soft sounds. So even with a name like mine, Rachel, it would instead be something like Reshal.

There is a tone, "lh", which is kind of a hissing noise that gets used as like a universal "affix to make this thing bad".

#Conlangs #Láadan

Ĉu ekzistas aktivaj esperantistoj ĉi tie? Aŭ tokiponistoj? Mi ankaŭ ŝatas la klingonan kaj Elefenon. Mi ne ofte uzas Mastodon la lastaj jaroj, sed mi povus uzi ĝin, eble. Mi nun uzas Bluĉielon.

#esperanto #tokipona #constructedlanguage #conlang #conlangs #LinguaFrancaNova #elefen #planlingvoj

A who’s who of digits
A full listing of digits continuing from last time. #conlangs #Translingual #Pseudo #conworlds https://isoraqathedh.tumblr.com/post/756767372922306560

Before it gets away from me, here is my simple hashtag #introduction

#mindhacks
#boardgames
#timekeeping
#gamesystems
#chessvariants
#generalism
#conlangs
#esperanto
#tokipona
#opensource
#creativecommons
#writing
#sf
#dogs
#ebooks
#atheism
#comedy
#publicradio
#cosmicencounter
#piecepack
#interactivefiction
#nomic
#4d
#transhumanism
#retrocomputing
#sdr

See here for a few more:

https://members.optusnet.com.au/~charles57/Scripts/obsessions.txt

Before it gets away from me, here is my simple hashtag #introduction

#mindhacks
#boardgames
#timekeeping
#gamesystems
#chessvariants
#generalism
#conlangs
#esperanto
#tokipona
#opensource
#creativecommons
#writing
#sf
#dogs
#ebooks
#atheism
#comedy
#publicradio
#cosmicencounter
#piecepack
#interactivefiction
#nomic
#4d
#transhumanism
#retrocomputing
#sdr

See here for a few more:

https://members.optusnet.com.au/~charles57/Scripts/obsessions.txt

Before it gets away from me, here is my simple hashtag #introduction

#mindhacks
#boardgames
#timekeeping
#gamesystems
#chessvariants
#generalism
#conlangs
#esperanto
#tokipona
#opensource
#creativecommons
#writing
#sf
#dogs
#ebooks
#atheism
#comedy
#publicradio
#cosmicencounter
#piecepack
#interactivefiction
#nomic
#4d
#transhumanism
#retrocomputing
#sdr

See here for a few more:

https://members.optusnet.com.au/~charles57/Scripts/obsessions.txt

Before it gets away from me, here is my simple hashtag #introduction

#mindhacks
#boardgames
#timekeeping
#gamesystems
#chessvariants
#generalism
#conlangs
#esperanto
#tokipona
#opensource
#creativecommons
#writing
#sf
#dogs
#ebooks
#atheism
#comedy
#publicradio
#cosmicencounter
#piecepack
#interactivefiction
#nomic
#4d
#transhumanism
#retrocomputing
#sdr

See here for a few more:

https://members.optusnet.com.au/~charles57/Scripts/obsessions.txt