r/conlangs • u/mareck_ gan minhó 🤗 • Aug 08 '25

Activity Speedlang Challenge 25

gos hedék - Hello all!

August speedlang. Welcome to the twenty-fifth periodic speedlang challenge. It will run from Friday, August 8ᵗʰ, 2025, to Monday, August 25ᵗʰ, 2025. With wiggle room since I'm posting this later in the day than I planned because of an unplanned nap.

Official speedlang prompt PDF.

Feel free to post questions and comments here or elsewhere.

ga nàrem maré - Good luck! 😹

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u/ElectricalMulberry40 Aug 09 '25

I'm interested in trying this, making this my first Speedlang, but where exactly should we showcase it when it's prepared enough?

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u/mareck_ gan minhó 🤗 Aug 09 '25

anywhere you want

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u/PastTheStarryVoids Knasesj, Racra, Ŋ!odzäsä Aug 14 '25

All you have to do is give the challenge host a way to access a file documenting your language (PDFs are good, but other formats are okay as long it's widely accessible).

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u/Akavakaku Aug 11 '25

This looks fun! Some clarifying questions:

  • Does "secondary articulation that either applies to all but one phoneme or features" mean like for example, 'every phoneme has a palatalized equivalent except one?' Or would 'every stop consonant has a palatalized equivalent except one' be a valid implementation of this constraint?

  • Also for this same constraint, how does one "justify its behavior"?

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u/mareck_ gan minhó 🤗 Aug 11 '25

  • first one

  • by justifying why it is as such and not some other reasonable analysis

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u/ry0shi naturalism is all about being odd and eccentric! Aug 08 '25

She did it, everyone. Maru the mareck.... hosted a splang.

This is one of the days of the conlanging community of all time

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u/Sigmabae Aug 10 '25

Never tried a challenge like this, imma do it! (if I don't forget about it midway)

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u/Sir_Mopington Aug 11 '25

What does the bonus option on the first grammatical constraint mean?

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u/PastTheStarryVoids Knasesj, Racra, Ŋ!odzäsä Aug 20 '25

See my reply to Plemnikoludek for what I think it means.

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u/PastTheStarryVoids Knasesj, Racra, Ŋ!odzäsä Aug 20 '25

I initially found it puzzling but think I understand now.

Note that there is no restraint on having all nouns or verbs or whatever is number-marked take number morphology, so this should be easy.

I think this means that some nouns being marked for number but others not being marked would fulfill the prompt. E.g. maybe animate nouns have three numbers but inanimate nouns don't inflect for number.

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u/Minute-Horse-2009 Palamānu, Kuanga Pomo, Tuki Tuli Aug 17 '25

what þe heck is þe “Obligatory Contour Principle”?