I would also exclude Turkic, Chinese and Japanese tbh. Added the phonology tag because I’m most motivated by trying to create consistent phonotactics/“feels” and conform languages to existing phonotactics/phonetic sprachbunds aesthetically.

Here are five ideas I really like:

1. Steppe Qiangic: the Tanguts cross Mongolia and establish a lasting “Khanate” somewhere in OTL Russia. The phonotactics of the language become slightly more “Turcomongol”

2. Central Mexican Totonac: A third branch of Totonacan with simple Oto-Pamean tone and maybe even voiced consonants. Maybe <tl> becomes a dental fricative like Otomi’s

3. Headwater Austroasiatic: A basal (or maybe in-universe the only) branch of Austroasiatic spoken in Sichuan/Yunnan/Tibet, with the sesquisyllables developing into an Old Tibetan/Qiangic style cluster system. This is the proposed homeland of Proto-AA for some researchers.

4. Macro-Laal: A language related to Laal (a language isolate of Chad) with typical Congolese phonotactics (Central Sudanic or Ubangian)

5. Macro-Ge Trills: Taking a Macro-Ge language with consonant clusters and turning them into bilabial and

maybe

1. retroflex trills

Honorable mention, I have like four different Yeniseian conlangs I have to choose between (like East Asian, South Asian, ‘Neo-Hunnic’ in Europe, replacing Turkic in Central/SW Asia)

Edit: ignore the weird formatting on Item 5, I cannot fix it no matter what I do.

I'll assume English is the native of most here.

My native is French but I have learned English, Spanish, Turkish, and currently German,

I was able to get my point accross most of the time but I know that certain untranslatable words make a whole aesthetic pleasant in a certain moment,

for example the phrase "putain de merrrde !" shouted in French makes rage more manageable, "kolay gelsin" in Turkish is a very cute greeting on the workplace that translates roughly to "may your day come easy", and German has a couple of oddities I ended up finding amusing.

I still didn't manage to build my own conlang, so I am wondering what itch you're aiming to solve with yours and how it is going, especially if it is a conlang meant to be used for communication or self-reflection.

cheers!

The number will correspond to a word in my Atasabo word list. If you want me or others to do the same for you, let me/us know!

>Example

Entry #67 aisi /ajsi/ - to smell

Stem: ais-

This word comes from Finnish haistaa, as well as the Atasabo word for "nose", aiso. It also comes from an old Atasabo word for flower, aise, because flowers is something you often smell.

• Itako majjaisuit. /itako maj:ajsujt/ "The cow smelled the flowers."

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itako  maj-jais-ui-t
cow    flower-smell-PRET.POS-PL

Related words: aisibo "smell"

I feel my lexicon cannot be a good one until I avoid repeating words.

a simple way to accidentally repeat a word is to give it a meaning, and then realising the same word can be made from another root + declension or derivation.

I feel a good way to avoid that would be to write down declensions and derivations as I go,

but I simply don't find a good system for it.

with excel it's too rigid because I need to write every single root and phonological process manually, and if I need to change something, then I need to manually change and edit every occurence,

with dedicated tools like CWS it's just undoable because I don't understand the tutorials at all,

and I also cannot use databses or any programming language.

Of course I could invest to actually learn CWS or databases (though with CWS it's hard to find anything outside of the in-site and quite frankly, poor, tutorials), but so far my conlang development is so poor that I don't see a benefit.

just to explain my reasoning, I think a good description or table would look like:

- word root + translation to English

- derived word root + gloss

- declension word root + gloss

- all possible declension and derivation combination + gloss

and I could easily edit the whole result if I needed to change a word root or a derivation or declension morphene

at the moment, I prefer to ask what has really helped you move forward in how you describe your lexicon,

thanks in advance!

hi guys,

I never was big on world building, so naturally my conlang attempts at anything "in-world" all resulted in massive failure, as I simply don't have the patience,

then I decided, I love IPA and writing alphabets (in latin letter) so I have a huge backlog of mini projects with just phonology-orthography + some odd words and endings I find aesthetically pleasing.

And recently I found on instagram that "vocal stimming" is a thing, neuroatypical persons will utter words or noises that don't make sense from a communication point of view, but are just generally "pleasing" to utter, you know?

I do have a backlog of words I utter for fun, but I haven't been diligent thus far in writing them, nor in trying to define the feeling they evocate.

My stim words often have mostly slavic sounds as I loved to teach myself cyrillic, also other influences, but they don't really translate to any existing language.

Anyway just wanted to let out that I still don't have a conlang that I have put together, not even a personal one, but I still like linguistics and uttering words and singing in a lot of different languages.

I wonder, am I alone in uttering nonsense words? Was any of you able to transform this habit in creative writing with words that make sense?

as a bonus, please accept this sample of stimwords, I write them directly in IPA:

/berbiot͡snik, pɾutovski, tabɛɾnipopɛt, papɾut͡ski, maxava, fydyɾlɛ̃lɛ̃/

Моҥғол Пэлэн:

Phonology: m n ɲ ŋ p t tʃ k b d dʒ g s x ɣ l r j; i y u ø o e a

Case Endings (Acc Dat Gen Ins Abl Com): -и, -дэ/-ду, -и, -эр/-ар, -эчэ/-ача, -лүр/-лур

Genitive pluralizes to -инүт/-инут rather than the expected ending of -ис; that ending is instead used with the accusative case.

Pluralization: -н/-нь/-л/-р Endings -> -т Other Consonantal Endings -> C-үт/C-ут Vowel Endings -> V-с

Verb Endings (Voice Aspect Mood)

Voice (Passive Causative Pluritative): -гд/-гт, -ти-, -чэгэ/-чага

Aspect (Narrative Deductive Terminative Confirmative): -мэл/-мал, -(ү)ю/-(у)ю, -де/-дя, -лэ/-ла

Imperative Mood Suffix: -түғэй/-туғай

Good luck with beasts like Идэтиде, Парагдую, Алатуғай and Байикучагамал!

I'm not entirely sure which tag to use here, but let's try it like this?

Hello, fellow conlangers. If any of you have conlangs with Sino-Xenic readings, or are Sinitic languages themselves—I have a great >!(maybe)!< proposal for you.

Share your sound changes with me, and I >!(despite my inexperience)!< will try to convert all the terms reconstructed by Baxter and Sagart. Alternatively, I can create a Google Doc so that the conversion doesn’t go through an intermediary.

I'm not forcing anyone—this is purely a voluntary offer—and I apologize if it sounds like a bot wrote this post; I'm writing through a translator. My "writing English" is bad.

I'm making a conlang that is like esperanto, but has loanwords from more than just basically Europe + is simpler to learn. I want vocabulary from all over the world to make it simple for everyone!

I'll update you guys after a while and give a slideshow on it, then if it does (hopefully) get popular, I'll make a subreddit that I'll update every so often to give you guys more vocab and resources to learn it!

I want world peace, hope, and connection, and I know that is a REALLY TALL order, but I believe it could happen just very slowly. I always say "The odds might be low, but never zero.". I just want a lingua franca or so to help with trade or countries like Papua new guinea that have lots of languages.

I appreciate every word you contribute, thank you dearly.

Edit: I'll probably regret saying this but I'm 12 btw. So please don't get mad at me for fantasies that'll never exist, idk what's possible and what's not.

I’m curious what you guys like to focus on. Especially grammatically; I’m more into lexicon and phonology unfortunately but trying to get a stronger understanding of grammar.

Being into South American languages is rare enough as-is, so anyone can reply but I’m especially curious about people that want to make projects (including projects beyond conlangs) based on indigenous cultures where they are.

For context I am a white American. Some items on my lexicon/phonology bucket list are:

1. Making the bilabial trill more common in hypothetical future/past Wari’ (or Chapacuran generally). Maybe Piraha or another language with sounds that could coalesce realistically into a bilabial trill (consonant clusters of some kind)
2. Giving Pilaga more Caucasian **or** Afroasiatic phonotactics to go with its pharyngeal fricative
3. Giving some Moxos language native vocabulary for complex administration and modern technology, probably Movima because of its implosives
4. Making some Macro-Ge language with initial consonant clusters look slightly more Austroasiatic or Slavic phonotactically (also Daw from Nadahup because it has a lot of glottalization)

Also, for an example of South American grammatical feature that inspired me to add something to an a priori conlang checklist: the mythological past-tense in Kawesqar. I want to create a language where a similar tense gets semantically bleached in typical speech register to just be an uncertainty marker for past tense.

Podemos hablar en español tambien, si quieres. Necesito practicar.

Basically, I was thinking that we should create an Esperantido but instead of it being an IAL it should be like a naturalistic language. In other terms: "what if Esperanto evolved naturally from Latin?" What would the language be like? What would their culture be like? These are all questions I'm keen on answering. So I'll set up a Discord server and for those who are interested in joining I will then DM you the link to it. I'm also making my own Romlang on the side so it'll be interesting to compare and contrast with that. Ok byeeeee

I’ve not been able to get þe will and focus to continue my conlang, so I þought þat making a fun activity could help me continue.

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