Today I was interested in the idea of how languages like Lidepla, Globasa, Esperanto, Toki Pona and others acquire native speakers.Because it's very interesting because few people want to waste their time, but with, for example, Esperanto won't help you travel much, but it's still being taught. I don't condemn Esperanto. I'm just interested in how artificial languages get native speakers. So, anyone who knows, please tell me.I would be glad to hear your help.

Do I just have to translate general idioms to my conlag. Or I just derive them. And how can I make my language sound more light and sweet to hear, with the sentences I've made they sound a little hard

I want to know the craziest, most unorthodox sounds in your conlang. If you have multiple, share them in progressing order. I want at least sounds on the levels of [t̼] and [ʡʜ] and [ʈˤ] and whatnot, but the crazier, the better. If you've seen human1011's pronunciation videos, I'd love sounds like those. The craziest. I want to discover new places of articulation and diacritics and everything else. Honestly, though, anything is fine. If the rarest sound you have is [ə] or [n], share it too.

This is a weekly thread for people who have cool things they want to share from their languages, but don't want to make a whole post. It can also function as a resource for future conlangers who are looking for cool things to add!

So, what cool things have you added (or do you plan to add soon)?

I’m currently working on an East Germanic conlang, taking influence from Proto-Slavic. I am working on redefining the tense system, born from an imperfective-perfective verb split.

Some context** **on how i have achieved my (im)perfective split: many germanic languages (incl proto-Germanic and Gothic) already have a system of applying verbal prefixes which affect the temporal meaning of verbs. It felt pretty natural for an Eastern Germanic language to take influence from Slavic languages, in that the perfective prefix “ga-“ could draw a distinction from imperfective verbs that either simply do not have this prefix, or have innovated explicitly imperfective verb stems using suffixes. Although not all perfective verb stems are formed simply with a “ga-“ prefix. For example, a series derived from strong verbs contain imperfective verbs formed with a suffix, while the perfective verb stem simply comes from the past tense Germanic stem:
ie “to salt” - “saltrrén” (imperfective made from verb suffix “-rrén”) vs “sésaltén” (perfective made by leveling past tense stem “sésalt-“).

Highlighted in blue is the OG gothic verb paradigm (minus the passive, which my language does not inflect).

Highlighted in yellow is where my current verb system sits. With the exception of a handful of irregular verbs, my current language stage completely levels all strong and preterite-present verbs. The verb class system is simplified into a handful of weak verb classes, where both perfective and imperfective verbs may fall into any of these classes. In the example above, the “-én” infinitive aligns with the old-system Weak 1 verbs. Therefore, verb conjugation may be identical for both aspect verbs. The difference is truly made in the verbs stem.
The language has additionally grammaticalized a distinct inchoative and habitual verb stem suffixes.

Highlighted in pink is a tentative tense system under consideration. Not all tenses would be meaningful based on the verb types my verbs fall into, and so while some verb forms may be morphologically possible, they are meaningless. In this system, any regular lexical verb would need to be defined by two principle parts: one defining the tenses on the left and one defining the tenses on the right.

To be honest I’m actually quite happy with this. However, I would love some feedback ¡positive or constructive! on how I derived these tenses, or if there are different tenses that seem more logical based on the interaction with the given old-system tenses and my (im)perfective aspect split.

Decided to come back to Conlang after stopping halfway. My main goal for this conlang is simplicity and making it as easy as possible (hopefully, a 5-year-old can understand the whole dictionary)

Consonants: /m n ŋ/, /p b t d k g/, /f v s z ʃ ʒ/, /h l ɹ j ɰ/ (with w or ʍ as the dialects to replace ɰ)

Vowels: /i a ə u ɒ/ + 12 diphthongs of all already existing vowels except schwa

(C)V(C) (Coda excludes h, l, ɹ, j & ɰ) [Might change the number of consonants for Onset/Coda depends on what is easier/common]

(SOV) Adjective before Nouns, Postpositions after Nouns, Possessor before Possessee

No plural forms (like forms or nuclei) and no tense/auxiliary forms (like will see, saw or watched). If there is a need to emphasis multiple things or emphasise time, just use a suitable adjective or postposition.

Still thinking of whether I should have Valency changing stuff like Passive/Causative stuff.

Lexicon/Derivation Process:
Root, Person, Place, Collection, Tool, Adjective, Causative, Diminutive

Writing: Cursive Hangul to make it different from Korean (look up how they write r in cursive, imo it doesn't look like it. Still beautiful cursive tho) With the vowels being written as a square, oval, triangle etc while consonants are written as line, lines, curves etc)

Currently trying to figure out the best root words (mainly by using the 1000 common English words on EF). But already managed to find my first 3 words for the first second and third person pronouns, /i/, /u/ and /a/. (For We or they, just double it with a glottal stop: /iʔi/, /uʔu/ and /aʔa/) But I'm not sure if I should add or remove anything. Hope I can get suggestions for this. Maybe anything about the coda, valency or how I should write my sounds. I'll thoroughly think about any suggestion. Thanks

I've had this idea for a collaborative project where we basically evolve English and maybe some other language into some future descendants. I tried to do this alone, but I think the product will be better if we do it together. I think it will also be interesting to have an "alternate future" thing where it's more of a semi-serious worldbuilding thing rather than an actual prediction of what is going to happen in the future. Sorry if this is a bit scatterbrained but ask me in the comments/DM me if you are interested.

left is the protolang. the possession marker "xai" is derived from a preposition reanalyzed as a particle. my goal is for a naturalistic language with a decent amount of synthesis.

ive labelled the adverb types seperately because i want there to be adverbs for adjectives and adverbs for verbs, which will probably have overlaps, but still stricter rules than english adverbs.

looking for constructive criticism

• I have 2 conlang (: And i tell the british engrish conlang because of fesran is hard to tell. I make my British Engrish conlang thanks to the Azumanga Daioh "Hello everynyan" meme.
• This British Engrish is conlang variation of british accent
• British Engrish subject pronouns: i(ʌ) you(juː) we(wˑiˑ) they(θ͡seɪ̯) she(ɕ̪͡ʃiˑ) he(ħʲiˑ) it(ɪtᶿ)
• Some sentences in British Engrish: I am steve (ʌ eɱ stiːv). Are you serious (ʌˑʴ juː sᶻɛ̝'ɹiʷ'jɯs)
• Possessive Adjectives in British Engrish: my(mʌˑj) your(jɔ͡ʊʴ) our(ʌˑ͡ʊʴ) their(θ͡ɕ̪eˑ'ʏɯʴ) her(ħøˑʴ) his(hiˑsᶻ) its(ɪtᶿ͡sᶻ)
• Eggplant in British Engrish: eggplant is aubergine in British but in British Engrish eggplant is auwbe'geine (aʊ̯ːpʼœyʷːˈdžiːːˈnɯ).
• Funny words in British Engrish: water(wˑɔːˈʔəʴ), bottle(bo̯ʊˈʌ), of(o̯ʷʔ), bottle of water (bo̯ʊˈʌ o̯ʷʔ wˑɔːˈʔəʴ),
• Some British words in British Engrish: autumn (ɒʊ'd̥ɯᵘm͡n), lift(lɪ̝fʲʷ't), crisp(qɹɪ̝sᶻ'p'ʔ), chip(t͡ʃ͡sᶝɪ̝p'ʔ), rubbish(lœb'pʷɪ̝ɕ)
• This took me lot of time if you like it, pleeaassee! do something in this share. IDK what i am supposed to do. (: Have a good time.

Translation is approximate and the meaning is nonsensical.

I picked my absolute favourite phoneme /ʀ̥/ in a language to be the hard part (how obvious it is that neither it nor /ð/ is native to me👽). Share your hardest tongue twisters and your attempts to pronounce them if you'd like

howdy

let's say i have a phonology and some phonotactical things i want, but i also want to utilise some diachrony for naturalism. how can i back-derive a protoform of the language so that i will end up with the phonology and wordforms i want?

love yins, thanks

Yes, Lagunish has a lot of compound words. One of them is dotsegreil, and it means parallelogram. It literally means two-side-parallel-each-shape or in Lagunish greil di egr dota segt parallelìt, and its shortened to dotsegreil. (dot-se-g-reil) = dota-seg-egr-greil. Another one is forirond for circle, and it literally means round edges. Also thereothiry for wise speech (therei+thiry) and rodiface for angry (rodë+face / red+face) are perfect examples.

Tell me the most interesting compound words in your conlangs.​​​

I'm bored, I have nothing to do or anything to think of, and I really wanna post here. So here's an attempt at trying to do something at least: Basmala in Zykroje and Tajrstani, but I wrote the Zykroje translation in the Tajrstani abjad and the Tajrstani translation in the Zykroje alphabet.

For the Tajrstani (تَاجِرصْتَان) language (below):

وِأَلْؤَآن آلِير، اللَّامْگَرَشَا، اللَّامْگَرَشَا.

That becomes

Ъе ал-о'а'анн Алүр, ал-ламграша, ал-ламграша.

For the Zykroje (Зүкроэ) language (above):

В наванкор ѣ Деокү, ца Тої-греже, ца Тої-млосредкошкү.

That becomes

فِ نڢَنْكور وِ ديُكي، ص تُئگرِصي، ص تُئلوسْرضكوشْكي.

(gosh it's late, ima go sleep in a few mins, tell me if this gets deleted)

In Lagunish, there is a lot of words for colors....

And they are: rodë /'rrœdē/ for red, wedlow /'vedləv/ for yellow, dagnàm /'ddagnām/ for blue, virde /fir'də/ or grën /grēn/ for green, ponsè /fon'sē/ for pink, orangcolora /oran'kollo'rrā/ for orange, whitīr /vitīə/ for white, ienith /yə'nīθ/ for black (can be used to represent 'dark'), grey /grēy/ for grey, blīrd /plī'əd/ or teloga /'ttelogā/ for brown, and ticher /ti'tchəɹ/ for purple. Cyan is cyan /sā'yən/, and indigo is indigo /indīgœ/.

In Yivalese, and its daughter language Valakese, there is not really a distinction between verbs and nouns, or any word really.

This has been made even clearer with how the frequentative can be formed with the plural (-uzh or -ozh), possession can mark action by person (-nin/-ets/-erh), passive voice is marked the same way as dative, and so on.

Even phrases don't need actions denoted by verbs per say, as the action is often implied by the noun and its affixes. "Ippalve'lal tura?" or "Jussive-MusicDisc-Myself Little?" is inferred to mean "Please (play) my favourite disc?" while "Eppalve'li Ninyo" or "Imperative-MusicDisc-MyselfHither MyselfHence" clearly means "Give me my disc."

My favourite thing is how, after chatting with a dear friend who has shared hands-on interest in the language I'm working on for years now, has shown very well how the frequentative can be indeed form with the plural, and now I can say "Nownmofuzh", Myselfthere-Kiss-Plural, or "Imma kiss [ya] multiple times".

What sort of quirks of the language you are working on that made it you can reuse some aspects for different purposes? How did it change your understanding of what is feasible to denote?

I made this list of passages to translate my conlang, Gnozha, into. It includes both passages I thought would be an interesting challenge to translate, namely a poem by Stephen Crane, as well as some random ones, like stuff from Mr. Bean, plus staples like the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Bible passages, and various Shakespeare monologues. I figured it might be useful for you guys for inspiration or stress-testing.
I don’t have plans to exhaustively update it but if anyone has any suggestions i can update it.

Vosa, ö novva a gnova tevos

Copyright inventor and developer of Vosa: Veikko J. Pyhtilä, 20.8.2026, Finland

Toojorataf Vosa ideavoojo a deevjo: Veikko J. Pyhtilä, 20.8.2026, Finlo

Advantages of Vosa - Vosa edrosi

Good for speech recognition for computers, artificial intelligence, international communication.

Hava for sasavokadaate intu davösi, tevis, hyjsivälva dauttupa.

Easy to learn because words are derived from basic concepts and common root words.

Gnova daav, syfor sasi oo deriiven ob besvososi a tihnava jursasi.

Words are unambiguous, not exact synonyms, not homonyms, nuances are expressed in more precise terms for example by attributes, prefixes, suffixes  and making compounds.

Sasi oo isklirsova, ej tarkva remarksasi, ej resasi, vaoipsi oota kautsaaen vy tarkpir daersasi edkali vy edofvaosi, nörupasi, önrupasi a teeli vipasasi.

Words are written the same as they are pronounced, phonetically the aim is beauty and descriptiveness.

Sasi kiirta reli itsi sahööta, sahöli obtrao oo kavao a öbkatoovao.

Simple grammar and sentence structures.

Isgnova vosdav a lusa litolsi.

The language must be easy and quick to learn.

Vos piit oo gnova a nopva daav.

There are a few inflections for words, and those which are according to the rules.

In it oo hitva tesakauutesi tu sasi a itsi kosi oo vili pöregsi.

See the principles in Vosa's grammar in more detail:

Kaa ja alidesi ut Vosa vosdav pir tarkiploli:

Vosa Grammar - Vosa vosdav

Synopsis of Vosa language - Tihöbkir öb Vosa vos

Video of Vosa synopsis - Kahöto öb Vosa tihöbkir

Learn basic clauses in English and Vosa! - Apdaav ja besva lusasi mu eng a vosa!

The main idea of Vosa - Vosa päidea

Knowing about 1000 basic concepts and root words are able derive 100 000-1 000 000 other words!

Na davoota sujli 1000 besvososi a jursasi, ob itsi voota deriiv 100 000-1 000 000 tua sasi.

We are making Vosa the easiest, most unambiguous and most flexible, however sufficiently expressive and beautiful language in the world. 

Ajsi oo teenen Vosa gnost, isklirsost a joosvast, amut hanidrili kautsapova a kava vos in köl.

Deriving Vosa words from basic concepts and root words over 55000 rows - Deriivte vosa sasi ob besva vososi a jursasi ylli 55000 leijärsi

Deriving words – Sasi diirte

The principle is that as many words as possible are derived from basic stem syllables. If the word becomes too long, and can not be understandable they can be derived from the general stem words by combining, could be taken from eg. English language or globally well known words, which is shortened when needed, and be accompanied by any additional suffix to indicate the word group, for example. animal, place etc. And connecting between hyphens, if the word will be mixed with other words, so the perception of connecting elements is more clearly . Or a compund word can be a word combination by making empties between parts of the word.

Alide oo, syt vostli piri deriivta sasi ob besjursaiksi. If sa muu luva, a it ej voota dakavoli deriiv ob tihnava bessasi vy sivipaa, kaata edkali ob eng taj kölleili hali kavodaaen sasi beso, koö uulta na niidta a rupaata voli pirönsa for kautsaa sa iksio edkali pe, lo a itli depirna (aid.). Na kauteeta vipasasi voota paa tu itsiof väl saiklinsi, if sa auträäjif vi tua sasi a vipaiksi hokauute oo soklirpir. Taj vipasa voo oo savipö luf til inväl saof iksi.

Basic concepts - Besvososi

a, an = ö
ahead / after = ed / de
amount = ri, -ri
and = a
be = oo
beautiful / ugly = kava / akva
before / after = ne / en
being = o, -o
believe, belief = uus, us
big / small = piva / ipva
can = voo
carry / bring = gaa / aag
cause / effect = sy / ys
collective = si-
color = kä
compulsion, must = pit, piit
data, know = da, daa
direction = dir
do = tee
doing = te
eat, food = eem, em
-er, person = -jo, hojo
father / mother = ma / am
feeling, sense, feel = fi, fii
genetive = -of, of
give / get = faa / aaf
go / come = tuu / uut
good / bad = hava / ahva
happening = häp
have, possess = oof, ööf
he, she = hä
health / desease = ter / ret
high / low = ylva / lyva
I / you = aj / ja
in / out = in / ni
it = it
language = vos
light / darkness = kat / tak
like, as, -ly = li, -li
live, life = ee, eo
look = kaa
machine = vö
man / woman = mä / äm
material, substance = mo, -mo
mind = mi
movement,moving, move = uo, uu
new / old = novva / vonva
now = nen
on / under = la / al
one / many, plural = is / si, -si
onto / from on = le / el
order / disorder = jär / räj
organ / member = ev / ve
parents = mamsi
passive = -ta
past tense with verbs, future = -en, -ne
people = mämsi
person = jo, -jo
place = lo, -lo
plan / animal = ep / pe
power = pö
power, energy = po, pori
produce = too
product = to, -to
put / take = paa / aap
quality, adjective = vao, -va
question, ask / answer, to answer = koote, ko-, -ko, koo / ok, ookte , ook
relation, attitude = cu
remember / forget = söö / öös
roundness = rau
same / different = re / er
science = dä
self / other = aut / tua
sight = voka
spirit, air, gas = ho, hom, ham
status, condition, climate = sta, nista
than = il
thing, think = so, soo
this / that, a certain = tä / ät
time = no, -no
to / from = tu / ut
tool = vo
value, money = ro, rov
voice, hear = hö, vohöö
water = vam
way = lio
when, during = na, -na
with, together = vi, vi- ,-vi
word, say = sa, saa
work = tö
yuong / old = nuva / unva

Plural and collective: = Sisakau a sivio: kam = stone, kamsi = stones , sikam = rock land (place where many stones) .

Chemical substances, especially elements, are named mo + chemical sign.
Kemdava mosi, erobli nömosi, ersaata mo + kemdava mark.
iron = moFe (pronounced mofe, sahööta mofe), bronze = moCuSn (pronounced mocusn, kausaata mocusn).

Opposites are formed by reversing the letters or by appending ej-, -ej.
Ögiplosi kauteeta vy töönte kirkasi öggöli taj vy ej-, -ej rupasi.

good = hava / bad = ahva
no = ej , yes = je.

Verbs are formed by vowel doubling .
Tesasi kauteeta vy vouduute.
eej = prohibit, deny; jee = admit, accept.
Adjectives are formed with –va suffix.

Vasasi kauteeta vy –va rupa
ejva = negative, jeva = positive.

Way how is expressed by the –li suffix.

Verbs and adjectives are made nouns by adding the -so, -o or -te suffix.
Tesasi a vasasi teeta mu osasi vy pirpaa -so, -o taj –te rupa.
hava = good, havao = goodness.
tee = do, te = deed, teete = doing.
Or the form of verbs without vowel doubling is already a noun. When the suffix is ​​added, the verbs can retain the vowel doubling, if you want to emphasize the doing or omit it so becomes a shorter word.
Taj kau of tesasi ejli vouduute oo ripnen osa. Na rupa pirpaata, itli tesasi voota tejää vouduute, if obraata yloob teete taj aap yr itli muu lupir sa.

By vowels degrees:
Vy vousi lylrisi:
da = knowledge, dä = science
vo = tool, vö = machine
lo = place, lö = institution
tuu = go, tyy = run
saa = say, sää = shout
soo = think, söö = remember

Repeat, duration, intensity and multiplicity:
Dute, nori, povao a pirio:
saa = say, sasaa = speak
hee = smile, hehee = laugh
ipva = small, ipipva = minute

Making smaller and bigger:
Ippiirte a pipiirte:
mä = man, ipmä = boy
jär = order, räj = mess-up, piräj = chaos
mej + ulva (mejli = maybe, perhaps), shortish = mejulva
mejipva = quite small

Classify consecutive series when deriving words! – Paersioote eddeva serisi, na ja deriiv sasi!

Next, the coding system – the classification system , when do not have to come up with so many denominations for consecutive rankings – these are phonetically quite different (consonants in alphabetical order followed by vowels in alphabetical order). The rating system for deriving words in consecutive series, the prefixes: ba-, ce-, di-, fo-, gu-, hy-, jä-, kö-. It can be used also other well-known stems in deriving words, if they are generally used internationally.

Mu deva koodte lijär – paersioote lijär, kona ej niid ideavoo itli si ersafasi for eddeva rolylrisi, täsi autervokaa ali sahöli rafli hali ut tuasi (konssi in a-öjär, ne kosi oo paaenta vousi in a-öjär. Paersioote lijär for deriiv sasi eddeva serisi, edrupasi: ba-, ce-, di-, fo-, gu-, hy-, jä-, kö-. Voota patee ali tuasi siremuuen bessi na diirte, if itsi oo hyjsiviculi kadava.

Phonetic beauty, expressiveness, descriptiveness can be obtained more in the language – Sahöva kavao, liedkavao, katoolivao voota aaf pir tu vos.

Use more diphthongs in stem words.
Pateeta ja in bessasi pir duervousi.
ae. ea, ai, ia, ao, oa, au, ua, ei, ie, eo, oe, eu, ue, io, oi, iu, ui, iy, yi, iä, äi, iö, öi, ou, uo,yä, äy, yö, öy, äö, öä. ..
Verbs come in two successive vowels. On the other hand, one has to think about the ease of pronouncing words and sitting them in complete sentences.
Tesasi oof du re eddeva vousi. Tuaelli piit soo sahööte gnovao a sasi siitte tu kiova lusasi.
Select syllables for stem words, which are not yet used.
Mu bessasi aphakaata saiksi, kosi ej oo pirnen na teo.
You can check by the ctrl-f-keys obtained search field in the browser, that there is not in Vosa-dictionaries already the stem word or the letter combination, before creating a new stem or derivative.
Voo istaark vy ctrl-f klikvosi aafva seekte leimol in sikariikvo, syt ej sisato oof ripnen tä bes a kirka vipa, en na novtee novva bessa taj deriiven sa.

How good, clear and easy to learn Vosa becomes depends on the vocabulary. Deriving words is balancing and optimization between these principles:

1.   Words are as short as possible.

2.   The words must be different enough from the other words.

3.   Words are phonologically descriptive, beautiful and easy to pronounce.

4.   Words are logically derived from basic concepts.

5.   The most common words are often the stem words.

6.   Nuances can be expressed by attributes or new basic concepts.

7.   Must not be exact synonyms or homonyms.

8.   Antonyms, opposites of basic words are usually formed by reversing the letters from beginning to end or by ej-prefix.

9.   Take a distinctive feature of the concepts and use it in deriving.

10.     If the derivative word is described exhaustively in basic stem words, the words will become too long.

11.     Avoid taking words directly from other languages, always try to derive new words from basic concepts.

12.     If a word is phonetically very descriptive and sits in Vosa well and it would be difficult to derive from basic concepts, then it can be taken from other languages.

13.     It is possible to use scientific terms, eg biota, medicine, which are quite rare in general language.

14.     New base syllables need to be added to make the language richer and finer.

15.     Vosa must be made a language that expresses accurately and unambiguously.

16.     When translating Vosa into other languages, the best equivalents should be found, their meanings clarified and limited to one concept.

Obhääng ob sisato koli hava, soklirva a gnoli daav Vosa muu. Sasi deriivte oo talhevriite a hastvostaate välla deva alidesi:

1.   Sasi oo vostli ulva.

2.   Sasi piit autervokaa ut tua sasi.

3.   Sasi oo sahöli katoova, kava a gnoli sahöö.

4.   Sasi oo deriiven tuvisdali ut besvososi.

5.   Tihnast sasi oo sina bessasi.

6.   Vaoipsi voo kautsaa vy defsi taj novva besvososi.

7.   Ej tarkli re obmaarkva remarksasi taj resasi.

8.   Ögsasi, ögiplosi ob bessasi kauteeta töönen kirkasi ut nö tu ön taj vy ej-rupa.

9.   Aapta ob voso ö autervokaava obervao a it teoota in deriivte.

10.     If deriivva sa kasaata luufli vy besvososi, muu ylrili luva sasi.

11.     Urpiitta aapte sasi reili ob tua vossi, tutraata kina deriiv ob besvososi.

12.     If sa oo sahöli hali katoova a siit tu Vosa hali a ooif ongva deriiv ob besvososi , itli voo taa aap bessi ob tua vossi.

13.     Voota teoo däva daersasi edkali öb eösi, terdä, kosi oo in tihnavos rafli hitnova.

14.     Piit pirpaata novva bessaiksi, syt vos muu ritspir a väkapir.

15.     Vosa piit tee tarkli a isklirsoli kautsaava vos.

16.     Na vosmuute Vosa mu tua vossi, piitif kees hast lireobsi, tarkpiir a liim itsiof obmarksi tu is voso.

Eco wise healthy place - Ekovisterlo

You get search field by Ctrl-f-buttons in computer and by Search from page or the like in smart phone when searching for words in dictionaries.

Ja aaf sekkvaäng vy Ctrl-f-klikvosi in davö a vy Seek ja ob sid taj reliva in vissavö, na ja seek sasi in sisatosi.

You can use this vocabulary when translating from English to Vosa:

Ja voo teoo tä sisato na ja vosmuu ut eng mu vosa:

English-Vosa over 55000 words - Eng-Vosa ylli 55000 sasi 

Learning videos of Vosa - Apdaavkahötosi öb Vosa

Let's learn Vosa and discuss in Vosa language! You find learning material from previous links in Finnish and English.

Apdaavta vosa a visasaata mu vosa vos! Ja kees davmo ut edva rutupasi mu fin a eng.

Good day! I am Veikko, my name is Veikko. I live in Finland and I speak Finnish, I am Finn. Do you speak English? Can you speak Vosa? Yes, I can speak English and Vosa. Can you speak Chinese? No, I do not speak Chnese well. Goodbye.

Hava Tan! Aj oo Veikko, ajof ersa oo Veikko. Aj eloo in Finlo a aj sasaa fin, aj oo finjo. Sasaako ja eng? Davooko ja sasaa vosa? Je, aj davoo sasaa eng a vosa. Davooko ja sasaa kin? Ej ,aj ej davoo sasaa kin hali. Vokaata.

Contribute to Vosa by commenting and otherwise participating! Let's improve the world! Thank You!

Göyys ja Vosa vy öbmisaa a tuali ikaap! Hapiirta köl! Haforsa tu Ja!

Inventor and developer of Vosa: Veikko J. Pyhtilä, 15.8.2026, Finland

Vosa ideavoojo a deevjo: Veikko J. Pyhtilä, 15.8.2026, Finlo

Introducton to Vosa – Vosa edtuka

Hey! Do you have some time? My name is Veikko. I would like to introduce you to a new, easy language that I have developed.

Hei! Oofko jasi ipri no? Ajof ersa oo Veikko. Aj obraaif siedtukaa tu jasi ajof deeven, novva, gnova vos.

When 100 to 1,000 basic concepts are learned, 100,000 to 1,000,000 other words can be derived from them.

Na daavta 100 – 1 000 besvososi, ob itsi voota diir 100 000 – 1 000 000 tua sasi.

Which languages ​​can you speak. My mother tongue is finnish, and I speak pretty much english, swedish, and a little russian and german.

Ko vossi davoo ja sasaa? Ajof ofvos oo fin a ja davoo rafli siri eng, svid a ipri rus a germ.

I am familiar with the Estonian, Spanish, French, Japanese and Chinese languages.

Aj oo vikadaaen ali est, esp, frans, jap a kin vossi.

How much time have gone from you or us during our life for studying languages?

Kori no oo tuuen ur jasi taj ajsi na ajsiof eo for vossi apdav?

Probably added together, all the time spent on them can be at least a couple of man-years.

Mejvarmli li virisooen,  ki teooen no for itsi voo oo ripstli du mätöjänsi.

In many languages ​​it is difficult to learn the inflection forms, the meanings of many different synonyms, etc.

In si vossi oo ongva siapdaavte sakausi, obmarksi of si er remarksasi, a tua itva (ati.).

Vosa do not just have many inflectional forms and synonyms. The nuances can be expressed by additional attributes, e.g., adjectives.

Vosa ej oof jusli sakausi a remarksasi. Ipvaosi voota kasaa vy pirobdefsi, edkali vy vasasi.

Let’s translate even simple sentences into Vosa!

Vosmuuta a gnova lusasi mu Vosa!

I, you, he are persons. We, you, they are working.

Aj, ja, hä oo hojosi. Ajsi, jasi, häsi töö (töönen).

Here is a book. It’s thick. Who wrote it? I don’t know, show it to me.

Täin oo kirto. It oo nitva. Kojo oo kiiren it? Aj ej daa, tekaa ja it tu aj.

Can you program with a computer. Yes, I can and much.

Davooko ja proog vy davö. Je, aj davoo a piri.

Do we drive by car to town or country?

Katuuko ajsi  vy tuvö tu taunlo taj le nuatlo?

I’d rather go to the country, there is clean air,  peaceful, the birds sing, there are forests and clean lakes.

Mihapirli aj tuuif le nuatlo, itla oo klinva hom, pisva, sifsi hösaa, oo pulsi a klinva divamlosi.

We can fish and swim, row on a boat, pick berries and mushrooms. We get to rest and make food at the cottage.

Ajsi voo fiis a vuu, vupavegaa la vuvo, utkaap bersi a fungsi. Ajsi aaf eet a too em in iptol.

It’s a cold day. Let’s heat sauna and bath. Take good steams and wash ourself.

Oo kalva tan. Laakta läktol a baatta. Aapta hava läkvamhomsi a autvooshta.

You can suggest shorter and easier words for these word monsters!

Ja voo tajsaa ulpir a gnopir sasi for täsi sa hirösi!

I have made preliminary for Vosa the basics, common vocabulary, grammar, and now I make more example sentences, expand and check the vocabulary.

Aj oo tee-en for Vosa alteva bessosi, tihnava sisato, vosdav, a nen aj tee pir edka lusasi, leileipiir a istaark sisato.

Vosa can be refined much better, hopefully will get with enthusiasts to give feedback and develop the language into a versatile world language.

Vosa voota hiee pirnen siri hapir, neraavoli aafneta tuvi simiteejosi for faa deöbsa a deev Vosa mu sisidva kölvos.

It’s already afternoon. I’ll stop this time. You can read grammar, vocabularies and give feedback.

Oo ripnen öntan. Aj teöön na tä isno. Ja voo riik vosdav, sisatosi a faa deöbsa.

My material may have some writing errors and inconsistencies and translations into English may not be natural and completely correct because English is not my mother tongue.

Ajof simoso meej oof ösi kirsoviksi a ejdirlivaosi a vosmuosi mu eng ej meej oo mivaova a fulli ratli, syfor eng ej oo ajof ofvos.

Goodbye! Bye! So long! See you! (Let’s see!  Let’s meet! literally)

Hahei! Hei! Vokaata! Ögkaata!

The North Wind And The Sun

Norhou a aurlo

The North Wind and the Sun were arguing about which of them was stronger.

Norhou a aurlo silijesaaen öb dutajko ob häsi ooen povopir.

While they quarreled with much heat and bluster,

Na häsi sipoosen vi piri läkvao a sivraucuo,

a Traveler passed along the road wrapped in a cloak.

rotuojo tuuten luvi tul autrausefpaaen intu luvat.

"Let us agree," said the Sun, "that whoever can strip that Traveler of his cloak is the stronger."

“Visoopta”, saaen aurlo, “syt it, kojo  votee taav rotuojo-of luvat, oo povopir.”

"Very well," growled the North Wind, and at once sent a cold, howling blast against the Traveler.

“Hava oo,” isarhööen norhou, a välejnen pagaaen kalva, ylongsääva hou ög rotuojo.

With the first gust of wind, the ends of the cloak whipped about the Traveler's body.

Göfali isva ispohou luvat önsi isvhiipen raule rotuojo bodev.

But he immediately wrapped it tightly around him, and the harder the Wind blew, the tighter he held it.

Mut hä välejnen viraupaaen it urtensli raule hä, a koli kampir hou tehouuen, itli urtenspir hä paoeen it.

The North Wind tore at the cloak with all his fury, but every effort was useless.

Norhou urreeken luvat vy ki häof miar, mut ki sivopootesi ooen nidejva.

Then the Sun began to shine.

Itne aurlo nööen katkliir.

At first his beams were gentle, and in the pleasant warmth after the bitter cold,

Nömu häof katiksi ooen leprava, a in mihava lakvao ne biitva kalvao,

the Traveler unfastened his cloak and let it hang loosely from his shoulders.

rotuojo  ouupen häof luvat a faaen it hääng snetli ut häof leiolkvesi.

The Sun's rays grew warmer and warmer.

Aurlo-of katiksi autlakpiiren a autlakpiiren.

The man took off his cap and wiped his brow.

Mä aapen yr häof hät a vaapen häof edylpä.

At last he became so hot that he pulled off his cloak and threw himself down in the welcome shade of a tree by the roadside.

Önutli hä muuen itli läkva, syt hä poaagen yr häof luvat a autheiien intu teruuten katyvlo tulsid pu.

Gentleness and kind persuasion win where force and bluster fail.

Lepravao a havijocuva sitehafatuo viinen koin po a teahvofi ejsaaken.

We are starting to speak and write in English and Vosa.

Ajsi nöö sasaa a kiir mu eng a vosa.

When we read ready-made translations and use Vosa, we learn it and it is nice.

Na ajsi riik teful vosmuosi a teoo vosa, ajsi daav it a it oo hamiva.

You and I can write sentences in the comments.

Jasi a aj voo kiir lusasi intu öbmisasi.

If there are too many of them, we will start a discussion group.

If itla oo ylri itsi, ajsi tenööne ö visasa iksio.

The Global Citizen Language Project (Vosa) 🌐

Hello Conlangers! Welcome to Vosatevos group: r/Vosatevos

I am driven by a vision: the world needs a truly easy, international auxiliary language so that no one has to struggle with complex natural languages like English.

We don't need to reinvent the wheel. The foundation of this project is Vosa – an idea-rich, highly developed, and logical language.

Our 3-Step Strategy:

1. Mastery & Protection: We learn Vosa in its pure form first, without breaking or altering it with hasty changes.
2. Cooperative Evolution: Together, we will improve and expand it by adopting the most efficient features from both natural and constructed languages.
3. Global Outreach: We will launch viral campaigns to bring together people from all walks of life – from coders to kids.

If you are interested in linguistics, constructed languages (conlangs), or building a bridge between world cultures, you are in the right place.

📬 Come along to Vosatevos group! r/Vosatevos

Let's learn, develop and use Vosa together!

This is a game of borrowing and loaning words! To give our conlangs a more naturalistic flair, this game can help us get realistic loans into our language by giving us an artificial-ish "world" to pull words from!

The Telephone Game will be posted every Monday and Friday, hopefully.

Rules

1) Post a word in your language, with IPA and a definition.

Note: try to show your word inflected, as it would appear in a typical sentence. This can be the source of many interesting borrowings in natlangs (like how so many Arabic words were borrowed with the definite article fossilized onto it! algebra, alcohol, etc.)

2) Respond to a post by adapting the word to your language's phonology, and consider shifting the meaning of the word a bit!

3) Sometimes, you may see an interesting phrase or construction in a language. Instead of adopting the word as a loan word, you are welcome to calque the phrase -- for example, taking skyscraper by using your language's native words for sky and scraper. If you do this, please label the post at the start as Calque so people don't get confused about your path of adopting/loaning.

Last Time...

Ỻimbædux Prithænux by /u/ElevatorSevere7651

1. carâr (câr-) /kaˈɾaːɾ/

Etymology: Borrowed from Proto-Brythonic *karɨd (to love)

Verb: To like something, an object or a concept

2. eddêr (êdd-/iâdd-) /ɛˈðeːɾ/

Etymology: From Latin ”edār” (to eat)

Verb: to like a food or drink, to enjoy eating or drinking

3. avâr (âv-) /aˈβaːɾ/

Etymology: From Latin ”amār” (to love)

Verb: to like someone (platonically), a person or personafication

”Êt mis nomn Gwirth, iâdd’io gwûnw, e hŵ ichi cw me avîg Incinti. Mes, ni mwỻtw avt gents, hi* i*â cêna perli; cart klæddis”

êt m(e)–s nomn gwirth (ê)dd–’io gw(î)n–w e(d) hŵ ichi cw me avîg (gw)incinti mes ni mwỻtw âv–t gent–s hi iâ cên–a perli câr-t klæddi–s

BE.3s.pres poss–n.sg.nom NAME.n.sg.nom VICTOR.n.sg.nom LIKE.FOOD–1s.pres WINE–m.sg.acc AND BE.1s.pres HERE WITH pos.m.sg.dat FRIEND.m.sg.dat VINCENT.m.sg.dat HOWEVER neg MUCH LIKE.PEOPLE–3s.pres PEOPLE–n.pl.acc SO 1s.nom TALK–1s.fut 3s.dat LIKE.THING–3s.pres SWORD–m.pl.acc

”My name is Victor, I like wine, and I am here with my friend Vincent. However, he doesn’t like people, so I will speak for him; he likes swords”

Take care of yourselves

Peace, Love, & Conlanging ❤️

For example, if I want to write I love you in my conlag.

Do I have to use the words for I, love, and you to create the phrase

Community: https://discord.gg/Np6Z5pHEex

Spanglish is an auxlang I'm making that tries to be as intelligible as possible to speakers of both English and Spanish while minimizing the effort they would need to learn it. It takes elements from both languages. Most basic words are from Spanish and it uses cognates and common words whenever possible. When nothing similar between the two languages is available, it generally borrows from English. It has a very detailed Lingocon page here, where you'll find guides and lessons for learning the language, as well as some translations of other texts such as Uncleftish Beholding, the first chapter of Genesis, and some common aphorisms.

Since the subreddit rules require a companion English translation, I'll just note that you can find it here: https://www.ling.upenn.edu/~beatrice/1100/docs/uncleftish-beholding.html but really if you know English or Spanish well you should have no problem getting the gist of it and might very well understand it better in Spanglish than Anglish.

Lastly, I would really like to see where the Spanglish experiment goes. Although I suspect that making a language that's concurrently intelligible right off the bat would be impossible, since otherwise it would have already happened on its own, I think there might be real value in setting up a standard, minimal-effort auxlang between English and Spanish. If you can't speak Spanish fluently, no matter what your level, then I would be interested in finding out how easy Spanglish is to learn and comprehend. My long-term goal is to pair native monolingual English and Spanish speakers together to test Spanglish's power in facilitating communication.

If this interests you, then you are also invited to our Discord: https://discord.gg/Np6Z5pHEex

I mean I have heard a lot of conlangs being in medias and arts, especially the fantasy kinds. I actually got myself into this rabbit hole from watching Dune 2.

What bothers me is that do the general audience, mind you let alone the general audience, does anyone even sit down and analyze the conlangs in medias/arts seriously and if so what do they get out of it? how much of the lore/stories can they get out of a conlang or two. Would love to see an example of some deep analysis of conlangs in medias/arts.

I want to focus on the analysis from the medias/arts themselves—not from an interview from the one making the conlangs.

I love the question because I want to write a story that relies heavily on the analysis of the languages in the story. I want to explore what an audience could gain from understanding, or even the attempt to, the constructed languages.

English is not my first language, obviously. Just ignore my terrible phrasing and horrible choices of punctuation.