skiscratcher Posted April 23, 2022 Share Posted April 23, 2022 IMO, toki pona li pona. 5 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
TormentDubz Posted April 23, 2022 Share Posted April 23, 2022 This thread was moved to Alternate Language Forum. TormentDubz M&R Moderator 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
BigBassFox Posted April 23, 2022 Share Posted April 23, 2022 I have a very distinct idea that involves wax cylinders and this. Y'all will just have to wait and see in 15 years when what I'm talking about happens. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
The Sword Posted April 23, 2022 Share Posted April 23, 2022 tlhIngan Hol vIjatlhbe'. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Mackenzie Holiday Posted April 23, 2022 Share Posted April 23, 2022 Yes! 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
daveb Posted April 23, 2022 Share Posted April 23, 2022 A Secret Vice Conlangs can be fun. Not that I'm any good at them. 3 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Rhyn Corinn Posted April 23, 2022 Share Posted April 23, 2022 I really want to try making one again someday. I sort of barely started to make one years ago but I didn't get that far and most of it was a mess lol But I really enjoy the concept, so maybe I'll give it another try sometime. 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
verily-forsooth-egads Posted April 23, 2022 Share Posted April 23, 2022 I'm intimidated by the scale of either learning or inventing a whole vocabulary, but I love studying grammars and phonologies, constructed and otherwise. 4 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
weird elf Posted April 23, 2022 Share Posted April 23, 2022 I started learning Quenya ages ago, but gave up after a couple lessons as I had no one to practise with. I know enough about Sindarin to recognize some elements and that's about it ... I do still want to continue though. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
everywhere and nowhere Posted April 23, 2022 Share Posted April 23, 2022 What does "conlang" mean??? 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Captain_Tass Posted April 23, 2022 Share Posted April 23, 2022 Yes, though I can barely speak broken esperanto 😂 I hope that one day I can get my brain together enough to learn toki pona. This shows just how much energy I have these days 😂 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
The Sword Posted April 23, 2022 Share Posted April 23, 2022 1 hour ago, everywhere and nowhere said: What does "conlang" mean??? Constructed language, usually (but not always) invented for a work of fiction... like Star Trek's Klingon (tlhIngan Hol) or Romulan (Rihannsu), or Tolkien's Elvish (Quenya). A main criterion is that it can't just be random babble nonsense words, but must have a well-thought out functional grammar and substantial vocabulary, so you can translate to and from the conlang into natural, real-world languages. 3 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
gwennol Posted April 23, 2022 Share Posted April 23, 2022 i've only completed two, quite a while ago now, and the first was awful. functional, but completely lacking in creativity. the second i have some gripes with--hindsight is 20/20 but it's also overly critical--but it's pretty okay. i've started many more, but i haven't found the energy or dedication to finish another since, though 😕 3 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
daveb Posted April 23, 2022 Share Posted April 23, 2022 The closest I have come is to make up a few bits for use in place and/or people names for RPGs/worldbuilding. And probably not very well done anyway. I just don't have the drive or patience to do it well, even though I find the idea very intriguing (same could be said for many things ). 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Boondocks Paradox Posted April 24, 2022 Share Posted April 24, 2022 I understand some Simlish 😆 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
coolshades Posted April 24, 2022 Share Posted April 24, 2022 I find conlangs fascinating. I completed the Esperanto tree on Duolingo a long time ago but the only thing I can remember is "Mi fartas bone," just because I found it funny. 😕 I think I like conlangs because I have always come up with my own words for things ever since I was young. It would be fun to make up an entire language, but what an undertaking! I'd never have time for it. 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
WizardGrayFire Posted August 12, 2022 Share Posted August 12, 2022 toki! mi pilin sama, toki pona li pona mute. sina sitelen e toki pona la mi pilin pona. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Anomaly Q3Xr Posted August 12, 2022 Share Posted August 12, 2022 When I was younger I dabbled in constructed languages for my worldbuilding universe, but these days I just don't bother, as I focus on other things within my universe. I find them interesting and intriguing, but not where my focus is. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted August 16, 2022 Share Posted August 16, 2022 I have my own sci-fi/fantasy world where I got a little ambitious and wanted to construct a whole bunch of languages inspired by cultural/linguistic analogues in the real world, but I think I'm just too tired and care too much about other things to worry about it at this point. I guess I'll just sit back and watch linguistics Youtubers figure it out. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
HakunaKatana Posted August 16, 2022 Share Posted August 16, 2022 I've developed an interest in conlangs from fiction recently, in that I'm curious about how many of them are structured like a natural language (phonological inventory, syntactic structure, verb conjugation, etc). I remember that Klingon and Elvish were designed by linguists to resemble a natural language, like how Esperanto was, but others like Simlish and Inkling are just gibberish, though I think Simlish as a conceptual "language" was invented by fans, not by the creators. Then there are others that mainly appear in written form like Hylian and Khura'inese that are fancified code ciphers that directly correspond to a preexisting natural language instead of having its own unique structure, and often times the language's script is based off a preexisting one (and may or may not produce a comprehensible translation). I'm not as interested in those on the surface, though it's fun to think about historical and sociocultural aspects of them as they're provided. Why yes I did study linguistics in college, why do you ask? 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
chrząszcz Posted February 11, 2023 Share Posted February 11, 2023 toki pi mama jan la mi sona e toki pona taso. mi toki e ni: jan mute li toki pona li wile ala unpa. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
WizardGrayFire Posted February 11, 2023 Share Posted February 11, 2023 4 hours ago, chrząszcz said: toki pi mama jan la mi sona e toki pona taso. mi toki e ni: jan mute li toki pona li wile ala unpa. toki pona li toki mama sina anu seme?! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
chrząszcz Posted February 13, 2023 Share Posted February 13, 2023 ken la mi toki ike. mi kepeken e nimi "toki pi mama jan". ni li toki pniona li toki Epelanto. ni li ala toki Inli li ala toki Tansi sina sona ala sona? sina kepeken e nimi "toki mama sina". mi jan lili la mi toki ala a toki pona. nimi "toki mama sina" li ni ala ni? mi lanpan utala pini e ma Tansi la toki lawa pi ma pi unpa ala li ken e toki pona. mi toki ike ike ike la mi ante tawa toki Inli. If that was totally not comprehensible, I'll switch to English. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
WizardGrayFire Posted February 14, 2023 Share Posted February 14, 2023 aaaaa mi sona. nasin mi la toki pona en toki Epelanto li toki pali. Spoiler there were a few mistakes, but i understood :) utala Tansi la mi pilin sama a a a Quote Link to post Share on other sites
WizardGrayFire Posted February 14, 2023 Share Posted February 14, 2023 sina lon ma pona pi toki pona anu seme? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
chillbro258 Posted February 17, 2023 Share Posted February 17, 2023 conlangs are cool i started making one but havent had time to continue working on ti maybe i should start working on it again 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
chrząszcz Posted February 22, 2023 Share Posted February 22, 2023 On 2/14/2023 at 2:18 AM, WizardGrayFire said: sina lon ma pona pi toki pona anu seme? ala ilo Discord li ike mute tawa mi. sin la ilo sona li ike lili tawa mi. taso mi kepeken e ilo Mastodon lon toki.social. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
WizardGrayFire Posted February 22, 2023 Share Posted February 22, 2023 ike pi ilo Discord la ni li ken a a a Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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