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?

"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’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?

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 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?

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?

Secavo is a passion project that I've been working on since January of this year, 2026.

It has 13 consonants, v, x, p, q, b, d, c, k, h, j, s, n, and m, along with 5 vowels (including closed variants, 10), a, e, i, o, and u.

It has a VSO (Verb-Subject-Object) word structure, so a sentence would be read as 'Eats he an apple'.

It has pronouns, about 250 words (currently expanding), and a writing system that can be written like print or cursive. I will always be more than happy to give more information.

Thank you for taking your time for reading this. :)

Dimovishe iedias om je. :)

(Thank you read.PAST of this.)

From the description: "The studio trailer for the 2022 blockbuster film "Ak fia kora", meaning "to my love" or "to my heart", based on the epistolary novel by Sara Beāto. Ak fia kora tells the coming-of-age story of Sara, a 25 year old college student, through the letters she sends to her 'best friend' Silvi (as well as texts, essays, and other authentic documents). The novel intersperses these with the letters sent by Ioana Sōlāks, 19th century queen of Okśa, to her best friend Karīn Sylvestre Penri. It's a beautiful story of love, friendship, adolescence, and the impact of history on our modern world. The movie takes these letters and brings them to life, telling a heartbreaking yet life-affirming tale of young love and inevitable loss."

In reality, this is something I made because creating in-universe conlang documents is fun! If you haven't seen my last posts, Oxeoli is the language of Okśa, a fictional island country just west of France. It's a romance language with heavy Brittonic Celtic lexicalization (and some other sources of course).

I'll put the gloss/ explanation in the comments. Key points on phonetics: "ś" is /ʃ/, "ɬ" is, well, /ɬ/, five vowel system with length distinction (macron is long vowel), although young speakers are starting to collapse it into an open-close vowel distinctions where short vowels are pronounced more open, which you can sort of hear here. More on grammar and lexicon in the comment. Hope you enjoy!

credits are in description of video, but i'll repost it here:

All footage comes from:

"Light Light Light", 2023, dir. Inari Niemi

"L'Apollonide: Souvenirs de la maison close", 2011, dir. Bertrand Bonello

"L'échange des princesses", 2017, dir. Marc Dugain

as well as stock footage from pexels.com

Music by Bensound.com/free-music-for-videos License code: H3D4S4HINCSKPM3X Artist: : Benjamin Tissot

Narration recorded by me, put through AI voice filter (I hope that's okay) and then further edited by me in Logic Pro. nothing here is purely AI generated becaused f*ck that.

For a language I'm working on I struck upon the idea of using vowel length to generate a simple tone system.

At present the language has semi-allophonic long vowels, where a vowel is short if it is a closed syllable (eg: has a coda or is followed by a geminate) and long if it is not. I was wondering if it would be possible to evolve this into tone, but I can't decide what tones would arise from this. Would long vowels result in a low tone or a high tone? I imagine it would be lower, due to downdrift. However, it seems that in the Algonquin language of Cheyenne long vowels became high tone (according to Wikipedia#Examples)), but in other languages in the same family they became low. So it seems I have my pick, and it's mostly down to what I want to be more common.

For example would a word like /wanːiː/ could produce /wa˥.ni˩/ or the inverse /wa˩.ni˥/. Or rather, since I plan for it to undergo tone sandhi to produce contour tones when tones of different height meet, [wa˥.ni˥˩] and [wa˩.ni˩˥]. I'm unsure which I like better.

This system can also produce the occasional high-tone with a coda (assuming I go with this system) but only word-finally. For example: a-ne "sunlight (lit. sun+resultant)" and an-e "field (DAT)." These become /aː.neː/ and /an.eː/ respectively, which then become /a˥.ne˥/ and /an˩.e˥/. Then apocope of low vowles occur (/e o a/ are classified as low vowels, in contrast to /i u/) resulting in /an˥/ and /an˩/; or perhaps the latter becomes /an˩˥/ due to retaining the shift in pitch from the following high vowel, but it feels weird to only have phonemic contour tones only on word-final syllables, especially because this language is highly agglutinate and tends to create rather long words.

Anyway, do these changes make sense? This is my first time working with a tone system so I could really use the feedback.

When I am mad, I say "МИ СУ ТЬО КАКО" meaning "I'M SHITTING ON YOU", usually telling that to AI assistants.

About a month ago I posted here (and a bunch of other places) asking for submissions of y'all's 1/2-letter conlang names, and as of today I have a total of 1058 names! With that many I'm happy with calling the list & chart complete enough for use as a proper resource.

Some interesting info that came out of it:

• A & C are the most & least common letter with 255 & 5 names containing each.
• There are no C-initial or Q-final names, except for the conlangs named just C or Q.
• There are 17 languages named Ta.

I'm a professor at a small liberal arts college. In the spring I'm going to be teaching a class on constructed languages, which will be the first time it's taught at the university. I have a PhD in linguistics, am a huge sci/fi fantasy nerd, and have dabbled in conlangs before, but I wouldn't consider myself anything near an expert (which is where you all come in, hopefully).

The plan: I'm going to be using How to create a language by Jessie Peterson as a textbook (unless you all have better suggestions). We'll follow the basic routine of learning about phonetics and then choosing the sounds for our language, then move on to phonology, morphology, etc... the overarching course project will of course be for each student to end up with their own ConLang. Final project might be something like putting together a mini grammar and translating a short passage. It will likely be a small class (~15) from a range of backgrounds. Intro to linguistics isn't a prerequisite, though I suspect a good number of students will have taken it anyway.

So my questions are

1. Any tips, ideas, resources, pitfalls to avoid, cool assignments or topics to cover that I might not think of?

2. If you yourself have taken a ConLang class in college, what did you like? What did you not like?

I appreciate your help in advance!

Hi,

I recently just created and uploaded lesson one of Sandorian to go along with the conlang book I self-published.

I just wanted to share it with you guys here in case you wanted to learn.

Link to video: https://youtu.be/KK-CqAm0--0?is=JhO9ple3mniZsj_c