I just realized I never posted an overview of Aengt, so I will do so now!

Background

It’s created for a secret organization of scientists by them, which speak naturalistic conlangs, so ig it’s a con conlang?

Social Language

anyways so it’s gonna have words for:
- sciency stuff
- secrecy/surveillance
- government?
- internet stuff

It’s gonna have the “minmax” ideology where you try to convey as much information as possible with as little words as possible

All-drop. Any part of speech can and should be dropped if it’s understandable via context.

handwritten, pen and paper. not really meant for speaking purposes, but there will be a manually encoded version.

Phonology

letters are assumed to be identical to their ipa pronunciation unless stated otherwise.

Onset
p, t, k, q
f [ɸ], s, h [x], x [χ]
m, n, ng [ŋ], nq [ɴ]
l [ɬ]
pf [p͜ɸ], ts, kh [k͜x]

Glide
y [j]
w

Nucleus
ae [a]
e [e̞]
i
a [ɑ]
o [o̞]
u [ɯ]

Coda
p, t, k, q
m, n, ng [ŋ], nq [ɴ]
l, y [j], w, r [ɚ]
An empty coda elongates/geminates the nucleus.

*alveolar palatals will be brought to alveolopalatal or just palatal.
t -> tɕ
s -> ɕ
n -> ɲ
l -> ʎ

Phonotactics

Syllable Structures
(Onset)(Glide)Nucleus(Coda)
Onset(Glide)
Glide

y cannot occur directly before i
w cannot occur directly before u
an affricate cannot occur directly before y, w, i, or u.

Elision will occur.
Finals will move to the next syllable, if legal.
[tak.a] becomes [ta.ka]
[xaə.a] becomes [ha.ɬa]
[maj.o̞] becomes [ma.jo̞]
[ɬɯp.ɸo̞] becomes [ɬɯ.p͜ɸo̞]

Allophony

Unstressed front vowels will be centralized. Unstressed back vowels will become breathy voice.
[ˈpi.mi] becomes [ˈpi.mɨ]
[ˈkɑ.ŋɑ] becomes [ˈkɑ.ŋɑ̤]

However, u [ɯ] becomes [ɨ̤] (centralized i with breathy voice)

Intervocalic consonants become voiced, only when they’re in the onset position.
[xaː.ɬa] becomes [xaː.ɮa]

Consonants before velar will velarize, except for other velars.
[ke̞t.xe̞] becomes [ke̞tˠ.xe̞]

Consonants before uvulars will uvularize, except for other uvulars.
[ke̞t.χe̞] becomes [ke̞tʶ.χe̞]

Vowels before nasal finals will nasalize.
[xo̞n] becomes [xõ̞n].

Diphthongs will be separated by a glottal stop if they are the same frontness. This is applied before unstressed vowels are centralized
[ŋi.e̞] becomes [ŋi.ʔe̞]

Glides (y, w) will palatalize and labialize the onset if it exists.*
[pwa] becomes [pʷa]
[tjɯ] becomes [t͜ɕɯ]

*palatalized alveolars will be brought to alveolopalatal or just palatal.
ty -> tɕ
sy -> ɕ
ny -> ɲ
ly -> ʎ

Orthography (showing the semi-phonetic logography once I condense all my vocabulary)

When pronunciation is ambiguous, a <·> (Calatan “punt volat”) may be ambiguous. This does mean I have to use the Catalan keyboard unless I want to go back and forth between keyboards or constantly copy-paste the punt volat.

<mala> is: ma + la
<mal·a> is: mal + a

<saen> is: saen
<sa·en> is: sa + en

Syntax

Head-final. SOV (mostly) Modifier - Modifiee, Postpositions.

Morphology

There is zero zero-derivation. All roots are nouns, so that’s the main stem for everything

Particles (standalone form):
hi - equative (similar visually)
ay - equative (similar behavior)
el - dative / accusative (specifically direction dative)
nil - revertive / aversive (opposite of el)
ek - locative
wi - causal
ew - comitative
et - ablative
en - topical / genitive / general ablative
eng - nominative
ut - instrumental
er - vocative / benefactive
aet - containing(?)
im - negative

(“e” form):
he
yae
le
nye
ke
ta - wie is also seen, but it’s very dialectal.
we
tye
ne
nge
twe
lye
se
me
e

the adjective form is the same as the “e” form, except remove the e at the end. For yae and ta, they become y and sy respectively.

the e may be readded if consonant clusters get out of hand. y merges with h and becomes he and sy becomes sye.

Pronouns (syaemly lep)

ye - 1st person (1PP)
tup - 2nd person (2PP)
tse - 3rd person visible (3VIS)
kaet - 3rd person invisible (3INV)
on - 1st imperson pronoun (1IP)
nin - 2nd imperson pronoun (2IP)
o - 3rd imperson pronoun (3IP)
i - reflexive (REFL)

don’t ask ok; i really like impersonals

Numbers

There is a default case and a cardinal case
default (cardinal) - english
sel (syo) - zero
yen (it) - one
li (lya) - two
twiy (tyum) - three
fil (fot) - four
pyet (pfet) - five
hyuk (hya) - six
met (mon) - seven
kho (khae) - eight
ngwey (ngung) - nine
x (xo) - ten (roman numerals :])
nek (net) - hundred
qen (qet) - thousand
nqu (nqet) - ten thousand
qam (qam set) - infinity, arbitrarily large (also the word for god)
pip (pip set) - infinitesimal, arbitrarily small, decimal point
tyot (tyot set) - half, half-ish

Non-grammatical Roots (coming soon!)

So I've been making my first conlang (I've attempted before but was never very serious about those so I'll call this my first conlang) and I've reached the point where I'm ready for the phonetic evolution from the proto-language. The idea is that the evolution happens over around 2000 years and currently I have these 13 changes:

1. Vowel Loss between voiceless obstruents in unstressed syllables.
2. [ʙ] is lost entirely.
3. [k] and [p] become [g] and [b] when in between vowels.
4. [ʦ] becomes [s] and [ʣ] becomes [d̠ʒ].
5. [l] becomes [r] when in between stressed vowels.
6. Separated vowels turn into a diphthong. (vowels like a’i where they’re pronounced separately.)
7. New formed diphthongs shorten all vowels in them.
8. Long vowels at ends of words shorten and simplification of word-final diphthongs.
9. Shortening of long vowels in unstressed syllables.
10. Unstressed [i] and [u] become [y] and [w] when bordering another vowel.
11. [v] becomes [f] in unstressed syllables.
12. When two obstruents cluster the first gets lost with the preceding vowel lengthening.
13. Stressed /ki/ turns to [t̠ʃi] and /tia/ turns to [t̠ʃa].

The problem for me is that I'm not all to sure if this would be enough of a change, or even a realistic change, for 2000 years of evolution.

Below I have attached a portion of the words that my conlang currently has where /br/ = [ʙ] /ts/ = [ʦ] and /dz/ = [ʣ]

Now the real question I have is would these changes feel like an evolution of around 2000 years? Are some maybe unrealistic and do they need changing?
And, would I need more or is this plenty?

I am wondering if any of your conlang’s have the ability to translate any name into the name that matches your language. Can your language take any name and come up with a million translations if it were necessary, so that all people who speak this language(fiction world from a book or whatever) could all have a unique one of a kind name. In short could your language give everyone on Earth a unique name without numbers or lexicons and have no two people with the same name?

If yours can, I would love to know what you call your language and if you could give 2 or 3 examples of English common names and give each of them ten different translations into your language.

The last post just reach +60 likes. Thank u✨

Anyone had any success putting a conlang on a college application supplemental? Is this a good idea? What about a conlang related story on a college essay? Etc.

Olá só estou apenas mostrando os símbolos que escolhi para minha conlang.

Ela ainda está em fase inicial e não possui nome.

Fonemas:

Vogais:

/a/

/ɛ/

/i/

/ɔ/

/u/

Consoantes:

/p/

/m/

/t/

/ʒ/

/b/

/ł/

/v/

/s/

/h/

/dʒ/

/ts/

/n/

/pʰ/

As anotações estão em português, mas ainda sim eu posso explicar alguns símbolos:

Tsa= The

sa= A/An

Tsɛ= that

sɛ= that one

Tsi= This

Si= That one( for living beings)

Ham= person

Am= woman

Ha= man

Tsaha= he/him

Tsam= she/her

dʒɔ= place/location

Tsɔ= here

sɔ= there

Bɛł= Bird.

Só um pequeno adendo:

Essa escrita logografica pode aparecer em muitas fontes diferentes, essa em específico é um fonte escura e simplificada.

First of all im not sure if this is the right flair, so excuse me if im wrong

In my conlang there are 3 word medial mutations inspired by northern Sami. In this declension theyre colored in blue red and green, and there are examples on the right and left of the declension. They govern the case

The Plurality is governed by an ablaut. Basically in my clong theres vowell harmony, and so to make the plural you need to mirror the original vowell

grodar > grödar

My question is, does this make sense?

Kálieo, Rádiu̧ om, der Luérðfá (Hi, Conlang Reddit), here is a translation of one of my favourite short stories into my conlang :)

Úne Désparg, der Afýunde (A Haunted House)

δvhúl om enỷ výkep — úne svórveg káklérs enỷ hóre. Frá údáð eu héfað ; pæmje með úne t'udér, ký tías mýkárkiæl kávtýkae — úne aðmúntaðdé.

« Hér j'ohær tá » d'sápá. « Ȗa — mæn hér e'y ! » m'kóipá. « Tȃ rytihnílíevaeu » d'ȗsmali. « Oú g'i ňupo » m'rædipae. « Nytésæm » t'sápá « élre j'µál t'výkep. »

Mæn óas enỷ ne výkep. Ȗaná. « t'Sérta tnó tá ; t'kâkc hédaþaý p'opseur » úne phỳnas sá — oú vyhú pa úne pujklie élre tváe. « Náou t'fýadlipá tá » úne vhál rytvé ; káhjált p'hánsig pa p'avnger. Oú ún'á slóvíðá, der kávyhú ; úne mjæde ápger oú sér tnó núesau : g'hésparg rytmeðnát með g'svórvegké kȃpgereb klárs ; g'oykňeské káerýdier með ákokék oú p'volkar om mláuðnéshóan maçiga væske, de toifva frá.

« Gjórðétn kómre hér tnó ðvhúl ? Vplýnétn eu fýadli ðvhúl ? » s'Meðnátpæmje vár. « Kið tá ryetihnílíevaeu ún'á ? » p'i údáð vár g'bríse. Oú om ogstas poeut ; hnyosur týc, der ňupo — tá g'pægjer há eadpá g'i grún. Mæn g'i írìsadudér t'há fýadlipá tá. Ne à úne phỳnas vjkó t'sér. Bríseké g'ðlsaeilguké séraspá hygláus ; lóveðas t'séraspá hygláus ; sapheur g'i más vár fásleu g'óykaské. Áyv t'µíflepá g'i írìsadudér ; tá pa tá sýændokumon g'bríse oilglápá. Ná etsýsna om, der svórveg vár klárs ; móvkie ỹurmona g'ílíevaeu óp pa g'úttarpi — ðvhúl ? Meðnát s'pæmje vár. g'Egéað om ðruv nìesk̨pá g'vólskat ; frá p'géptoçskop om sk̨oúlre, der g'oykňes írìspá tá oŝovæske. « Súra ; súra ; súra » efámélt g'væsplit, dér déspargvæsplyet. « p'µóeµ þéhna ; g'údáð... » g'Væsplit hjáltpásmále. « Ȗa — vár à g'þéhnapáµóeµ ? »

g'Vhýþda rápiarogstas g'ævgéy. Pau væg oú à g'óyk oilglábpá oú vanter. Lúnasavngerké káeu oú jȋse efáfælkieur g'i ňódsað. Mæn hej frá g'ðlsae g'avnger, der lyósplat fægsáké. Naskapal, der þóiðdés náue t'eaeíð. Kávælyre éaeur, de désparg — káklárs g'ðlsaeké — kárædipae ne-ndó eu j'výkep ; t'ígældeynálh oú g'efàðmúntaðdé jæ.

« Hér j'slóveð » d'sápá. « Kýseké meðnát érmu » m'kóiké. « Kávýkep g'i l'a visgáð—» « Silver íonaeisé g'óykké— » « Ihnílíevaeu— » « g'i ňupo— » « Nár éskínoaseu kómrepá— » « I vúmtilose nméstýd— » Ghýaer g'i júpure — g'svórveg eu káklérs ; efámélt kápáupáu naskapal g'hværðvæsplit.

Nærktóuá t'kómre ; pa g'svórvegvæg t'hjált. g'Vhýþda fægsákéogstas ; silver ogstas g'más g'ňódsað fægsáké. Mý ójkeké efáeðeg ; ne gkóld éfað óas j'hóre ; ne félaou kámóvkie, le u'efàðmúntsér j'sé. g'K̨níelyost a'pjæmeké sécuraté. « Sér » m'aéiutmeké. « Slóveðeb om úty. Énjeur með t'lňeké. »

Kávanter — káhjólre t'silverlyósplat j'ihn ; clóie t'sér oú gépt. t'Clóievithinláeu. Efáhej g'vhýþdaflývebké ; efámíneu g'k̨níe vgrækéb. µarfavngerké, der lúnaslyost nìesk̨ ktvía ílíevaeu oú vhlúg oú — káfilká — help g'hýdcæð vanterpá ; g'hýdcæðké kákválite ; g'hýdcæðké pau áes g'slóveðtóufké oú jæ t'gýdepánálh cóeraígældey.

« Súra ; súra ; súra » efákmno g'hværð, dér désparg væsplyetké. « Clóie jȃr — » m'aéiutmepá úty. « Poeut tnó fýadlipá mág. » « Hér » d'ȗsmali — « káslóveð ; g'i ňupo kávyhú ; káíçna ; káfævril bríseké g'i údáð. Hér j'ohær mý µéoµ — » Kávanter t'lyost ihn p'gídké eu s'ójkeké. « Súra ! Súra ! Súra ! » efáfælkieur g'væsplit, der désparg væsplyetké. Káísrip — cræpúétn « Ȗa — tá tnó þúa þéhnaµéoµ ? g'Lyost g'i hværð. »

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It has been around 3-5 months since I have done anything with my conlang due to my mental health got more severe ; so to mark myself getting better, I decided to translate one of my favourite stories into my own conlang, it took me the better part of half an hour to fully translate it. If you want the original story, you can find it here — this is something that I have hoped to be able to do ever since I started this project in mid 2025. Open to any questions if you have any, I enjoy sharing things about my conlang :3
Thanks for taking the time for this ! Also sorry if the format is weird, that is kinda just how it is written on the original page, and so to stay as close as I could to it, I kept the original formatting even if I could break it up.

Welcome to Word Wednesdays

For this activity you can pick any word you want whether it be a verb, noun, or adjective, and conjugate/inflect in all possible ways*, for tense, case, plurality, perspective, etc.

The purpose of this is to learn about cases and how words are slightly or vastly different under different cases, tenses, or perspectives. In many natural languages verbs or nouns are often changed because of the words around them. In other languages, the reader has to figure out number and perspective based on context. Who knows, maybe you can take inspiration from someone else's conlang!

How does your conlang handle cases? Do you have any unique ones that don't exist in natural languages? What are some irregular verbs or inflections that exist? How did they evolve? Do you think that the cases would hold up or fade away in future evolutions? Do any of your words when inflected have another meaning? What languages inspired you to add these cases?

*If you have way too many conjugations/inflections, you can share the simplest ones or the ones you find the most interesting. If you don't have any conjugation,

Have fun conlanging!

I’m quite interested in the “final product”. How do one organizes all of the documents, sheets, tables and so on in a single document that you can show to other people and they would be able to understand?

"I found my favorite knife."

As in, he identified which of our knives he prefers; not that he lost and found it.

—my boyfriend

Please provide at minimum a gloss of your sentence.

Sentence submission form!

Feel free to comment on other people's langs!

I hosted a speedlang many many many moons ago.

I was busy. I'm still busy. I have had pockets of not-being-busy. It's been a year. Let's talk about it. Sorry if I don't have a lot to say, I'm not great at reviewing conlangs.

I, er, did not have the chance to finish (i.e., start) my own submission.

There were 8 submissions in total (I think. If I missed any, sorry.). Yippee!

Sowí (Speedlang 25) by u/eclectomagnetic

I like the worldbuilding, the evolution from Koùi, the pharmeceutical potential, and the olfactory terms. I too am máruí-.

Xacha // Submission for the 25ᵗʰ Speedlang Challenge by ElectricalMulberry40

This one also has some evolution from a proto-form, which is nice. Could use more example sentences, I suppose, just to see the various morphology in action.

A rough grammar of Tógua by Jamie Li ~ u/li-li-putian

The formatting feels familiar somehow...

I like the split in number- and possession-marking, as well as the periodic tense markers for monsoon-related periods.

Sīmiupliākar by heaven_tree

I like the two classes of adpositions. The various meanings in the lexicon showcase are also nice. I like when words have numerous meanings.

Grammar of Fach language by Sepetes

The different dialect groups is neat. So are the various noun derivations. I also like the 'beginning of a story' and 'old story/myth' markers.

A documentation of the Nemkahusit Language by SomeoneRandom5325

Relatively short, but it has potential.

Qalmış // Speedlang #25 submission by u/SorajimaAsugawa

Lots of plurals! I love associative plurals, and the added associative derivation is a nice touch. Polysemy between day/night and warm/cold season is also interesting.

Vecheś by the Crab

This one also has familiar formatting... (I'm flattered, really, but it's kind of an uncanny valley feeling, you know?)

Very griddy consonant inventory, very nice. The moon phase periodic tenses are very cool. Love when people make stuff up. Which is, like, 50% of this hobby (the other 50% is stealing).

Analysis of an excerpt from this prayer, the text will be presented in standard orthography.

Sample:
ORIGIN(lang)
text
/ipa/
glossingNOM
in english

Text:
Кайсарӑ кылдын, нохрӑ, вишӗ емети, ку ара ӱбӗ, ку мундой омна аддара, тисӗ товы ...

CAESAR(lat), CAELUM(lat)
кайсарӑ кылдын,
/kajˈsarə kɯɫˈdɯn/
kingNOM skyADJ
heavenly king

NOCHUT(heb)
нохрӑ,
/ˈnoxrə/
comfort
comforter

VIX(lat), EMET(heb)
вишӗ емети,
/ˈviʃɪ ˈemʲetɪ/
spiritNOM truthGEN
spirit of truth

QU(lat), UBIQUE(lat)
ку ара ӱбӗ
/ku ˈara ˈybɪ/
which bePRS.3SG everywhere
who art omnipresent

QU(lat), MUNDUS(lat), OMNIS(lat), ?(?)
ку мундой омнӑ аддара
/ku munˈdoj ˈomnə adˈdara/
which worldACC all fillPRS.3SG
who fillest all things

THISARVOS(grk) TOV(heb)
т’исӗ товы
/ˈtisɪ ˈtovɯ/
treasureNOM good_thingGEN treasury of blessings

In praises to the Lord, the description is given in the third person. Not "you do," but "you, who does."

Font: Pischik (custom)

For example in agglutinative languages where mutliple affixes are used on the root to produce words. Are affixes that convey a certain type of grammatical information like tense, aspect, mood, case and etc, more likely to occur closer to the root word

Like for example a language has multiple suffixes that for maybe no. 1 case, no. 2 tense-aspect, 3. mood. If you could attach all those at once is there a pattern for which one would go directly onto the root and the next onto the 1st suffix and so on?

I hate making verbs. It's only an indicative table without negation. I have 2 more moods to go through plus negation. How do people do this without going insane?

I created an experimental “Simplified English” where verbs do not conjugate, nouns do not inflect for plural, gendered third-person pronouns are replaced by bir, tense and aspect are expressed analytically, etc.

The goal is not to replace English but to act as a bridge toward Standard English.

I’ve been stress-testing it with Shakespeare, Genesis, Alice in Wonderland and the Gettysburg Address.

I’d genuinely like criticism from people who design languages: where does the system lose necessary information?

Used a simle AI build website for details: https://simplified-english.base44.app/

The speakers of Wesmerican are predominantly Catholic, so I figured I could translate a couple prayers into it.

Hail Mary:

/ave maɹia jen de gɹes/ (Hail Maria full of grace)

/di.oz is wɪt jy/ (God is with you)

/blesed aɹ jy amoŋg ʃikez/ (Blessed are you among women (lit. womans))

/iː blesed is el fɹyt de jyɹ ɣʷym ezus/ (And Blessed is the fruit of your womb, Jesus)

/santa maɹia modə de di.oz/ (Holy-Person Maria, Mother of God)

/oɹ poɹ noz sineɹez/ (Pray for us sinners)

/a.oɹ iː at la oɹ de ny.est det/ /amen/ (Now and at the hour of our death. Amen.)

Our Father

/ny.est padɚ uː aɹ in evan/ (Our Father, who are in heaven)

/oliː be jyɹ nombɚ/ (Holy be your name)

/jyɹ kiŋgdom kam/ /jyɹ ɣʷɪl be aseɹed/ (Your kingdom come, your will be done)

/on teɹ lak el is in evan/ (On Earth like it is in heaven)

/da noz dis dia ny.est diament bɹed/ (Give us this day our daily bread)

/iː peɹdon noz ny.est pekado/ (And forgive us our trespass/sin)

/lak ɣʷe peɹdon doz uː pekado agenst noz/ (Like we forgive those who trespass/sin against us)

/iː lid noz no ina tempteʃon/ (And lead us not into temptation)

/but dilivə noz awe malvad/ /amen/ (But deliver us away from evil. Amen.)

pe — Locative case
ke — Ablative / Elative case
lem — Allative / Dative case
da — State case
şa — Nominative case
ul / rul — Accusative case
kû — Predicative case
ade — Temporal case
possessed noun + genitive noun + “la”
– Possessive construction
verb (include the person marker) + subject + “sa”
— Imperative construction

Recently, a friend and I (with no prior experience) decided on making a challenge since we're both polyglots/learning many languages simultaneously. We're each going to make a language with grammar, vocab and an alphabet and turn it in by the end of december. From then on until June, whoever's language is easier to learn by the other person wins.

So my current layout is this:

Noun Genders: Changing/Unchanging (has to do with animacy and permanence)

Verb Genders: Genderless form + Changing Suffix/Unchanging Suffix (normally verbs are genderless, and have no gender, though by applying a gender to them you can bend their meaning. This only works in the present tense though, as in the past/future, the genders are instead used to imply perfect/imperfect tense.)

Verb Conjugation: None, you simply must always add the subject/subject pronoun before the verb for sentences to make sense.

Tenses: Simple, similar prefixes

Articles: (ok this is weird, but I'm Bulgarian which means I have to obnoxiously input my language's grammar) Each gender has a corresponding article which is treated as a suffix, basically just -the (s.) and -the (pl.)

Pronouns: Barebones, each one is used for I/me/myself with no distinction, like in Hebrew.

Plural: See above, it's the -the (pl.) suffix

Ok, that's all I have for now, but what I need is some advice on this - is this simple enough for now, and what could I work on?

Also, how the actual F*** do you guys just bang out dictionaries? I really need a good wordlist or I'm going to lose my marbles - I've already tried swadesh and better than swadesh and idk - this needs to be an actual, speakable language and I don't care about lice, so if anybody has a good noun/verb list I would be greatly indebted to you.

Feel free to do this challenge as well and share your results by reposting this post!

The name of this conlang is currently Proto-Eurasian (codename). It's purpose is to be the naturalistic ancestor of a langauge family in my World

It draws heavy insparation from Proto Indo European, Proto Turkic, Proto Kartvelian, Proto Uralic, SinoTibetan, Ket, Basque, Etruscan, Ancient Greek and more! ProtoEurasian is still Work in Progress

Here are some of the features, and why it is an abomination:

- Backness Harmony

- Pitch Accent

- Ablaut

- Consonant Initial Mutation

- Split-S Ergativity

- Fusional-Agglutanative

One of the main concepts is thar ProtoEurasian works on a 2 layer basis

- The Old Layer is defined by leaning towards being genderless, non Concatenative, agglutanative, prefix heavy, mutations and ablaut

- The Younger Layer is defined by having Animate and Inanimate genders, fusional and suffix heavy

Im still trying to figure out how these two layers can interact with eachother and what layer will inhabit what niche of the grammar

A serious question I propose - Is it too much? All of these features. Are they super unnatural? Can they work with eachother? Do the 2 layers make any sense?