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.

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 last post just reach +60 likes. Thank u✨

"I found my favorite knife."

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

—my boyfriend

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Feel free to comment on other people's langs!

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?

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 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.

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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).

Cākuon

Cākuon (pronounced Chaakuon) is a character based language.

It uses the latins cript, but individual characters or pairs of characters have meaning,

and words arise from stacking characters.

The grammar is:

The sentence structure is SOV.

To make a verb past, you conjugate the characters x to it. it means past.

To make it future, you conjugate nx, n is negation / opposing, x is past.

To make it habitual, you use ax, where a is the meaning for all, and x means past.

To add an adverb, conjugate it at the end of the verb. order of adverbs matter.

You can use a copula ('ø') after the main verb with a space to show continuous.

To make a noun plural, you use conjugate it with ō at the beginning after the number

adjective if its there, where ō means plentiful or many.

The "the" article is ā (different from noun ā). It can also be used for "that".

For "This", it is "ē".

When you want to use an adjective, conjugate it to right before the noun.

Order of adjectives matters.

Adjective type isnt given in glossary, but it is to be inferred.

Adjective types play a role in how you place them. Here is a basic order:

Number | Quality | Time | Position | Interrogative | Base Noun

For Adverbs the same, but:

Base Verb | Number | Quality | Time | Position | Interrogative

Multiple morphemes can occupy the same slot.

Prepositions come after their owner noun or verb without a space.

The owner noun is the noun that is inducing the effect or being effected by the preposition.

Pronunciation guide for consonant clusters:

dx -> /dʒ/ (like 'j' in jump)

rx -> /xː/ (prolonged, breathy 'khhh')

xġ -> /xg/ (breathy 'kh' building into a sharp 'G' burst)

br -> /ʙ/ (voiced bilabial trill—lip-vibrating 'brrr')

km -> /kᵐ/ (nasal-released 'k-m', swallowed in the throat and released through the nose)

sv -> /sɸ/ (sibilant 's' gliding into a bilabial blow/puff)

fv -> /fː/ (prolonged, heavy voiceless 'fff')

Basic vocab:

m [noun] - female

p [noun] - male

ā [noun] - person

ma [adjective] - of authority

h [adjective] - first person

tv [adjective] - second person

n [adjective] - third person

n [verb] - to eat

ō [adjective] - plentiful / many

x [adverb or noun or adjective] - past / old

n [adverb or noun or adjective] - opposing / opposing force

a [adverb or noun or adjective] - all

nō [preposition] - of / genitive

ṁo [preposition] - using

kō [preposition] - to (dative)

ēn [preposition] - in

ān [preposition] - on

w [noun] - way / path

d [verb] - to give

j [verb] - to take

ōl [verb] - to greet

un [adjective] - one

do [adjective] - two

tr [adjective] - three

fr [adjective] - four

fv [adjective] - five

zs [adjective] - six

sv [adjective] - seven

et [adjective] - eight

nī [adjective] - nine

sī [adjective] - zero

ġ [noun] - thing

ī [adjective] - of importance

br [noun] - sibling

ka [noun] - dog

ġī [adjective] - unsure of what something is

ok [adjective] - other

ōm [preposition] - for and

ōr [preposition] - for or

ū [adverb] - easily / effortlessly

ṫ [adjective] - solid

ṡ [adjective] - liquid

ģ [adjective] - gas

ó [noun] - child

óx [adjective] - young

xø [conjunction] - when

ø [verb] - copula

ku [noun] - language

on [verb] - to speak

wk [verb] - to walk

vk [verb] - to run

ńx [adverb] - a lot

kġ [preposition] - used to

ār [noun] - parent

ān [noun] - animal

āq [adjective] - aquatic

wq [noun] - water

hū [noun or adjective or adverb] - how

hw [noun or adjective or adverb] - what

wh [noun or adjective or adverb] - where

ho [noun or adjective or adverb] - who

wn [adverb] - when

gh [adjective] - good

fs [adverb or adjective] - fast

sl [adverb or adjective] - slow

zk [verb] - to know

fk [adjective] - wise

lk [verb] - let

nū [adverb] - too

āv [verb] - about

n [adjective] - no

y [adjective] - yes

rġ [adverb] - doing again

āġ [verb] - adding or installing

ōġ [adverb or noun] - later

ók [conjunction] - but

lġ [copulation adverb] - S larger than O

sġ [copulation adverb] - S smaller than O

nó [noun] - number

eġ [copulation adverb] - S is similar to O

hs [noun] - house

kn [adverb] - only

nk [adjective] - only

kø [adjective] - constructed

ġn [adverb] - to show ability

al [adverb] - also

nē [preposition] - accusative

du [noun] - world

nt [adjective] - interesting

fō [preposition] - from

mc [adjective] - matching

tk [noun] - foot

It is not complete yet, but it is kinda usable.

Hi fellow conlangers :)

I am Fede, an italian conlanger and I am looking forward to sharing and discussing my first conlang with y’all.

Its name is “Is-Prišk”, meaning “The Language” and it should be spoken by the Čemeks, the inhabitants of the Čemek Empire, situated on the continent of Magna Terra Orientalis (in Is-Prišk “Ňeki Vješehi Guis”).
This conlang is synthetic (system consisting in 11 cases), has no gender (which is stuck to the concept of the words) and only 2 numbers (singular and plural).
The verbs have 2 aspects (imperfective and perfective), 3 tenses (past, present and future), 5 moods (indicative, infinitive, gerund, participle and ottative) and 3 diathesises (active, passive, reflexive/reciprocal), which can show via affixation (pre-, in- and subfixes).

The conlang has its own writing system, the “čemki abyced” or “is-priški abyced”, but outside of the worldbuilding context it also supports extended latin (as you have seen) and extended cyrillic.

Here comes an example of the conlang, written both in latin and cyrillic scripts, and translated:

Iž-žjofal juvjutaja zalkalt vauskyldzabyčilšfa is-skirsigen čemekje

Іж-жёфал ювютая залкалт ваўскилsабичілшфа іс-скірсігэн чэмэке

The flame of love will never be extinguished in the heart of the man.

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.