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I love seeing all the conlang work going on and am more than happy to share my love for Lexurgy!!

Day 35 - MyLang, Sound Changes part ??

Today's prompt is about finalizing and ordering the sound changes. I think over the weekend I was able to get that pinned down pretty well.

@quothalinguist did include a cool resource recommendation: Lexurgy!!! I have used the Zompist sound change applier in the past, but Lexurgy seems a bit clearer to me about how to write and understand the rules.

It's definitely closer to coding than I am used to, but I wanna learn something new and add this tool to my tool kit - a major goal of this year.

Also, it's been 35 days!!!! Whaaaat?!?

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A summary of the work I did for the Year of Conlanging by @quothalinguist. Starting with day 40, I will make a Journal-like entry any day I can make it.

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This is amazing art--a big thank you to @arayaz for tagging me on this!

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An overview of the Week 5 prompts is live on my website (quothatlinguist.com)!

#conlang #conlang year #conlangyear

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The Conlang Year Week 4 preview is available on my website!

#conlang #conlang year #conlangyear

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The Conlang Year Week 4 preview is live on my website!

#conlang #conlang year #conlangyear

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I've been so happy to see people sharing their Conlang Year work (and thank you to all who are tagging me in it so I can more easily follow your journey!). I haven't managed to post my updates for my own Conlang Year work on my website quite yet, but I have been doing the prompts for my current language-in-progress, which is a language for Nisse speakers (i.e. gnome-like speakers). I decided to have some fun with how I am sharing the sound system and created this NisseLang drawing to showcase the sound inventory in the proto-language.

Have a conlang day!

#conlang #conlangs #conlang year #conlangyear

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The preview for Week 3 prompts is now up on my website (quothalinguist.com). By the end of this week, you'll have some starting vocabulary for your language!

#conlang #conlang year #conlangyear

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A preview of the second week of Conlang Year prompts is now live on my website (quothalinguist.com)!

This project is to for anyone who wants to create a language (whether they are beginning or more advanced conlangers). If you follow along with the prompts, you will have a new language by the end of the year!

#conlang #conlangyear #conlang year #conlangs

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I've started posting information about the language I'm creating for Conlang Year, right along with anyone else following the prompts!

#conlangyear #conlang #conlang year

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Fiat Lingua (January 1st, 2024)

Today's Fiat Lingua is very, very special. Jessie Peterson (@quothalinguist) created a 795 page choose-your-own-adventure-style document that will allow the reader to create their own conlang (with grammar choices, sound changes, and vocabulary) simply by making choices at key points. The article is linked to above, and the accompanying .pdf is pre-linked, so you can jump between all the choices and see what kind of variety you get. It's a small number of choices, but the varying results are downright shocking! All the work has been done for you, but it's really wild to see just how different a language can end up looking and sounding with a very small number of changes.

This may be the best free conlanging resource a new conlanger can get. Check it out!

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Conlang Year - day 1

Jessie Peterson, or @quothalinguist, has created a new project for us all: Conlang Year! Every day, a new prompt will go up, with some thing for us to do with a new language that we start today (or around now). It’ll all be at https://quothalinguist.com if you want to follow along.

Yesterday’s prompt was “Set an intention for your language.”

Ruykkarraber and the Lua languages fill up basically all of the area where I think I’m gonna set my story, but some more world languages wouldn’t hurt. This is down to the south, spoken concurrently with Jōlua.

Goals:

be naturalistic

to contrast with the fusional Lua languages and with Ruykkarraber, which is tending towards agglutination for now, it will be analytic

large consonant inventory, again to contrast with the Lua languages and Ruykkarraber - Jōlua has 16 consonants, and Ruykkarraber only 11, or 10 depending on the analysis.

perhaps a situation where every root is CV or CVC…

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This year I am running a project I’m calling “Conlang Year.” Conlanging can be overwhelming for even the most experienced conlangers—especially in the beginning stages of a new project when you have so many ideas swirling around in your mind, creating a flurry of possibilities. This project breaks the process down into daily decisions for a yearlong experience of creating a language from scratch. One year, one conlang. 

This post provides an overview of the first week’s prompts, and you can find more information at my website (quothalinguist.com), where each daily prompt is accompanied by a written post.

Join me in making this a conlang year!

#conlang #conlangs #conlang year #conlangyear

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The final word for Lexember is ihlirī, which means “ornament” or “decoration.” It consists of the ice-class marker and the root lirī meaning “flower.” In this sense, decorations are likened to ice-flowers, or breakable bits of beauty!

#conlang #lexember #zhwadi

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Finally, the word erhuri is another compound including the verb era (“to measure”). The other half of the compound comes from the verb hura meaning “to come, to arrive,” which was featured in earlier Lexember entries. The compound treats the concept of a year as an arrival, reflecting the cyclical natures of years. No matter when you start counting a year, the arrival of the same day/time of the next cycle is the marker of a new year. And we hope 2023 has been a good erhuri for you!

#conlang #lexember #dedalvs #language #conlangs #dune #dune movie #chakobsa

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There are multiple words that can be used to refer to a gift in Zhwadi. The most neutral word is chagheza, which can be used to refer to anything that is given. A chabazíl is used to refer to gifts like bundles of flowers, baskets of berries, or things that a gifter has worked to collect for another person. Today’s word, though, is chalī, which is used to refer to gifts that are made or constructed. Indeed, the projects I have featured in this month’s Lexember are handmade chalikū!

#conlang #lexember #zhwadi

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Building on yesterday’s introduction to era (“to measure (spec. time)”), the noun ergevi is a compound of era and gevi (“moon”) and is used to refer to a month—an appropriate word to know as we wind down this month of Lexember!

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