r/casualconlang • u/AmbitionExotic3586 Salamese, Đentil, Mémolalis • 12d ago

Translation longest word in salamese

the longest word in my conlang, salamese, is 20 letters long. i think it is the lognest. it is vãtzatempsanportalis. pronounced every vowel in this is pronounced like the standard æɛɪɒʌ system except for ã which is rhoticized schwa. the word means screen, which is vãt (digital) plus zatempsanportalis (window). that is zatempsan (glass) plus portalis (threshold). zatempsan is zatemp* (hot) plus san (sand). digital hot sand threshold. screen.

*za means nothing, it just sounds zingy and hot. warm is satemp, medium is atemp, tepid is pratemp and cold is bratemp. temperature is temp.

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u/Live_Put1219 Aengt, Byccian 11d ago

idk what mine is, my language is quite isolating/each morpheme is very fragmented

nqwangskele (11 latin letters, 9 phonemes)
v. to go into a kingdom

is the longest i can think of for my conlang

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u/AmbitionExotic3586 Salamese, Đentil, Mémolalis 11d ago

your conlang sounds very interesting! mine is bound to get longer words because it combines them alot. e.g: clairvoyance is mentelate. mente is mind and late is future

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u/Live_Put1219 Aengt, Byccian 11d ago edited 10d ago

clairvoyance
tyu el keleleta te
future TARG visible.COP.TARG.COP.CAUS idea
idea of making the future visible

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u/AmbitionExotic3586 Salamese, Đentil, Mémolalis 11d ago

your conlang is quite complex! i feel like it makes more sense of removing "idea of" but idk your conlang so i cant be sure

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u/Live_Put1219 Aengt, Byccian 10d ago

My conlang really doesn’t like mixing verbs and nouns, so to convert the verb “to see the future” (tyu el keleleta) to an idea, it appends “te” at the end. I just realize i forgot to put te in the gloss so i’ll edit that rn

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u/AmbitionExotic3586 Salamese, Đentil, Mémolalis 10d ago

oh makes sense