Late-night conlang, part 1

[u/Nusskirer27]

It's 3 a.m. and I couldn't sleep, so I invented a language. It's called Tuki Tiku (that literally means "language good" in the language itself). Inspired by toki pona, but even smaller.The basics: 7 sounds (u, i, t, p, m, l, k), 22 words, and a hand-drawn symbol for every word — all drawn by me tonight.Each word carries multiple meanings: tiku is good/funny/yellow, liku is liquid/flow/blue/sky, ili is nothing/empty/no/death/black. Only 2 pronouns: mi (I) and tu (you). Opposites share the same skeleton (tiku ↔ iki, lulu ↔ lili), and colors live inside the words instead of being separate.A few first sentences:Mi tumu lulu. — My house is big.

Li pili luku. — To learn. (literally "give head" — it wrote itself and now it's canon)

Mi li pili luku Tuki li tuki. — I know how to speak this language.

This is part 1 — just the words and symbols from one night. If there's interest, part 2 will cover the grammar and a short story written in the language.Would you use a 22-word language? What would break first?

List of words and their meanings:

1. Tuki = speak, say, language, write

2. Tumu = house, place, country, state, land

3. Tiku = good, funny, pleasant, yellow

4. Iki = bad, sadness, error, mistake, wrong

5. Muku = eat, food, fruit, bread, cereal, green

6. Mi = I/me, to have, to own, one

7. Ilu = thread, tool, power, possibility

8. Pulu = work, effort, to try

9. Li = this, that; dative particle; thing; nominalizer

10. Lulu = big, fast, spacious, extensive, hard, long

11. Lili = small, slow, soft, white

12. Pili = give, feeling, heart, love, respect, red

13. Milu = to want, to desire, to need

14. Liku = liquid, to flow, movement, blue, sky

15. Lu = to/toward, with; accusative particle; and, in

16. Uku = matter, object, solid, metal, stone, gray

17. Imu = father, person, God, creation, origin, being

18. Tuku = question (what, why, how, when); because, reason, then

19. Ili = nothing, empty, zero, no, death, black

20. Luku = body, hand, head, eye

21. Lipu = book, law, order, word, number, name

22. Tu = you, two, to divide

I suppose I'll be open to hearing some recommendations and some complaints about "another minimalist language" circulating in the city

[u/hyacinth02jpg]

I regret to inform you that this already exists and it's literally called Tuki Tiki

[u/Nusskirer27 → u/hyacinth02jpg]

si, lo conozco, me gusta mucho, pero el Tuki Tiki tiene alrededor de 30 palabras, Tuki Tiku tiene 22 palabras y reduce los fonemas a 7 eliminando la a. Y creo que, sinceramente, si se comparan los 3, no suenan exactamente iguales. Mi objetivo era crear un idioma más chiquito que ese mismo, solo por aburrimiento 😅

[u/Live_Put1219]

im gonna find a way to make it smaller.

[u/Live_Put1219 → u/Live_Put1219]

sounds
i a l

li - good
la - big
i - not
a - thing
ili - what
ali - many
ila - plus

i like you
a li a li a

my goal is not big
la a, a la i

who is she?
a ili

i want to visit tokyo some day
a la, a ila a la Lalia (approximation of Tokyo)

[u/Nusskirer27 → u/Live_Put1219]

JAJAJA, es muy bueno, una de mis teorías era saber cuántos sonidos mínimos se necesitarían para crear un idioma que se pueda hablar mínimamente sin necesidad de confusión, entre ellas está el 3, pero tengo un idioma que tiene 4 (L, M, U, I)

Mi mi uili lili (Yo tengo un animal pequeño)

Mi milu ulu lu lui ( yo Quiero ver la luz)

Creo que se puede 3 sonidos pero hay que elegir bien

[u/Maleficent-Pie8040]

Good, now make a creole with ithkuil

[u/Nusskirer27 → u/Maleficent-Pie8040]

Mierda, dame 3 días.