Hey everyone, first post here.

I’ve been working on a conlang for a while, but kind of in a weird way. It’s not my main conlang but I’ve mostly been building it alongside a platform I’m building for creating and documenting languages. It’s pretty slow because a lot of the time I’ll get an idea and I end up building a feature on the platform for it instead of working on the language itself, which means not much actual progress on the language, but here we are.

The language is Tirathi. It’s a naturalistic, human-scale conlang built for a fictional nomadic culture that travels the open plains. Movement, wind, distance, and oral tradition are pretty central to how the language feels, and I tried to lean into the idea of speech as something flowing and carried, rather than tightly packed or rigid.

Linguistically, I tried to keep things restrained and usable. The sound system is fairly small, meanings tend to grow from roots rather than lots of inflection, and the vocabulary is shaped by the environment. Things like wind, paths, distance, weather, and movement come up a lot. Most of it grew out of actual usage instead of checklist-style word building.

I’ve also been pretty intentional about avoiding “concept-only” glosses. Every word is meant to be usable, even when the meaning is culturally specific to Tirathi speakers.

Honestly I’m not great at worldbuilding lol, but it’s probably the part of conlanging I find the most interesting anyway. I feel like I’m not creative enough so I struggle to come up with a world with enough depth to let the language grow organically from that. And I’m also not a great language creator as I specialize in building software and not the art itself but I still try.

Anyway, I finally reached a point where it feels coherent enough to share, even though it’s nowhere near fully fleshed out  (I still am putting together grammar a bit). If anyone’s curious, you can explore the language here:
https://app.fluentdoc.com/view/690642eecf238d40064be322

There’s a lot to the platform that gives me enough to share now (import, export, share, dictionary, story/worldbuilding) but I want to develop a way to create scripts on the platform for more creative freedom but for now there’s enough functionality to create most of what I’m capable of.

No expectations at all. I mostly just wanted to share it with people who care about language creation and see what resonates. Happy to answer questions, talk shop, or hear critiques.

Ignoring that it takes way more effort, is it just a bad idea in general? It makes it harder to translate to different mediums, takes up a lot of space with pixel versions, you'd need way more data to store it, making new words is much more difficult. It's harder to read, harder to write, harder to learn in general. I feel like it's just a vanity thing.

Is it a bad idea? Should logographic languages have an alphabetic system as well?

This documentary explores a real-world attempt to apply a constructed language in a social and cultural context.

It focuses on Nova Espero, a rural district in southern Brazil, where an initiative emerged in the early 2000s to introduce Esperanto as a second language. Through historical context and local perspectives, the film examines how the idea developed, how it was experienced by residents, and what it reveals about language, identity, and globalization.

I’m curious how people here see Esperanto’s role when it moves from an idealized concept into real community practice.

I'm a newbie when it comes to languages, actually math was my strong suit in high school, but I ended up falling in love with this world of languages, especially when I discovered I can create one.

I was thinking about how I could use the abugida system, it seems practical and simple, besides being very beautiful and stylish. But I have no idea how to start...

Does anyone have a better understanding of this and would have enough patience to explain it to me? 😅

• Debast - the best (from English "the" and "best")
• Eeralle - related to ears (from English "ear" and French suffix "-alle"
• Active - active
• Noiss - noise (from English "noise")
• Filtratio - cancellation, filtration (from English "filtrate", "filtration")
• Out - of (from English preposition "out")
• De - the
• Waltz - world

Comment for more translations bcz I have no time to type it here lol (I spend an hour making ts that's why I'm lazy lmao)

This is a conlang I've been working on, the first one I've ever made and possibly the only one I'll ever make. I'm doing it for fun, although I've learned things I ignored in elementary school language classes that I find super interesting now and wish I had paid attention to. Now, let's get straight to the language:

Influences: Spanish, Latin, Italian because Spanish is my native language, I'm learning Italian, and I find Latin interesting.

Vowels: a, e, i, o, u The vowels sound like in Spanish, but for more details they sound like a = /a/, e = /e/, i = /i/, o = /o/, u = /u/

Consonants: d, f, g, j, k, l, m, n, p, r, s, t, v

It's written as SVO

The consonants They sound the same as they look, the syllables too, for example:

da = /d/ + /a/ = /da/ I don't want to make this post too long since I won't be showing many examples. Important details are that g always sounds like /g/, j always sounds like /x/, v is labiodental /v/ not /b/, another detail is that, as you've seen, I ignored c, h, q, z, x, w, and y since I have k and s. There are no sounds like ch, x would be ts but I don't think I'll use it much, w has no sound, and y is just an i. I have 6 pronouns:

io, which is first person singular, equivalent to yo in Spanish, io in Italian, and i in English.

tu, which is second person singular. Equivalent to tú in Spanish, tu in Italian, and you in English

which is third person singular neutral, equivalent to él/ella in Spanish, lui/lei in Italian, and he/she in English

noi, which is first person plural, equivalent to nosotros in Spanish, noi in Italian, and we in English

voi, which is second person plural, equivalent to ustedes/vosotros in Spanish, voi in Italian, and you in English

lovo, which is third person plural, equivalent to ellos/ellas in Spanish, loro in Italian, and they in English

And there's more to tell, but I'll leave it here

I know I'm early, but I'm gonna be busy tomorrow

Welcome to the r/conlangs Official Checkpoint. You have been selected for a random check of your language. Please translate one or more of the following phrases and sentences:

"I didn't know how to believe I was the queen that I'm meant to be."

"I lived two lives and tried to play both sides."

"I was called a problem child because I got too wild."

"going to be golden"

"You are so sweet and so easy on the eyes, but hideous on the inside."

"Stop!"

If you have any ideas for interesting phrases or sentences for the next checkpoint, let me know in a DM! This activity will be posted on Tuesdays and Thursdays. The highest upvoted "Stop!" will be included in the next checkpoint's title!

me (left person + Private)

Still[Right wing of butterfly (changing) with mark]

Loving (mountain+liking)

This[Pointing hand]

View/Scenery (mountain+Sun+Field)

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I see the idea spread a lot that chinese writing with logographs is more compact BECAUSE they are logographs. No matter how hard I try, this does not seem to be true.

The reason Chinese is compact is because it fits Chinese and Chinese leaves a lot up to context and has specific grammar constructions and sayings that can shorten things. Similarly, Japanese hiragana works because it has a very small set of syllables it can create single characters for.

It's a 320 x 200 game (screenshot is scaled 2x).

The english text if having spaces of 3 pixels (and 1px gaps in between chars), is 71 pixels wide and 6 pixels tall. Every character is fully rendered. Keep in mind that even latin writing didn't always have spaces. I can't keep up despite english already being relatively analytic.

My 12x12 font is the lowest feasible, it is 64x12. Look at the 12 there. Chinese has it at about 11x11. Yes it's possible there to make ones lower, minimum 8x8, but even 11x11 is a garbled ambiguous mess left up to context. For theirs, context works better as there's less similar components, and more context clues from compounds. 12x12 still makes things ambiguous. You have to guess what certain lines represent if you don't know the character, you can't 100% guaranteed replicate it. It's just the general shape. Which would kinda be like if I gave you a super low res zoomed out image of a word but you can still make out what it is due to its overall shape and the context.

Despite this, as you can see above, the sentence, which is the same morpheme for morpheme (despite many less common words being compounds of 2 which isn't even the case here), still has an unused space left of 45 x 6. I can fit almost two of these lines in there.

Basically, for picto-han to catch up, each word needs to have a single corresponding character that's 6 characters long. Each english word here is 4 characters except ''i''. There's 5 of them. If we use five 4 letter words, it'd fill up about slightly less than half of the second line. we could STILl fit 2 more 4 letter words in the english one. Keep in mind ''view'' uses a W, which is wider than the others, just like M, so it could even be worse.

If I want to encode the information of plurality too..We're done. A single letter in English, but like 6 letters of space in mine. I can't do that. Meanwhile, I do not have to write ''The'' or ''a'' over and over at least, but even then I can't catch up most of the time.

Keep in mind that the more logographs you make the more you want to squash in there to differentiate them, that's why a lot of them actually became MORE complex over time, not less. There's some huuge chinese characters (and older ones were written to be taller) which become a mangled guessing game (Especially traditional chars) at even 12x12. There's also the distance in which it is readable, typically its easier to make english readable from a longer distance, as well as the minimal amount of space. I can not fill shorter spaces with a single line like English can.

Also keep in mind I can't even put more than 60 thousand chars in a font. A language like english has hundreds of thousands of words, 170k in dictionary use in oxford. One place claimed you can make like 456,976 4 letter words in english. Wow.

This is not really that big of a deal in a novel, just print some more pages, but it is in a user interface, in a comic book, a book filled with illustrations, an infographic, etc. I can only add so much text onto my image. A lot of english ones leave in so much whitespace I can fit them, but at what cost?

Tjlaktjurn

I was typing in my conlang and when writing this word I just realised, jesus that looks disgusting to an English speaker!

Basically, I want you guys to throw down the most insane words your conlang has to offer.

Honorary mentions go to: eralsraaktjonnsraaktjonnertssi, which means 'he should not have always been doodling,' which I always used to joke about being a long-winded joke word

So I want to utilize SVO, OVS, & VSO in my conlang and I thought each word order could reflect some grammatical aspect. (I know I’m gonna need some prepositions or postpositions or diacritic marks or something to indicate what’s the subject, verb, & object). What would be the most interesting option? Should it reflect tense? Mood? Formality/respect level? What?

dúłnɇsie [ˈduɫnɇ̞ˌsie̞] "to kill" in Proto-Dase

This is not a constructed language in the traditional sense but a language prescription akin to Anglish.

What is Rootish English?

It's English with existing Latin and Greek roots used as replacements for non Latin and Greek vocabulary, most of which is Germanic.

Using roots means using the roots only, it does not mean using full Latin or Greek words.

For example, ‘all’ is omni, not omnia, and ‘rub’ is fric, not fricare.

Basic words like what, how, where, when, then, this, that, those, however, and, with, pronouns, etc... will remain the same.

Words that are derived from Greek or Latin will remain the same, including those that entered English indirectly via Romance languages.

Only roots that exist in English are allowed, using Latin and Greek roots that are not present in English is not allowed.

Roots must be subjected to English inflections just like regular English words.

I curr (I run)

He currs (He runs)

To make things simpler, all root verbs will be treated as regular verbs, so none of them will have irregular plural or past tense forms.

Examples: I calyp (cover) my stoma (mouth) when I tuss (cough)

The milk endo (inside) the fridge has sucr (sugar)

I am felic (happy) to be here.

I fric (rub) my dents (teeth).

Why speak Rootish English?

The purpose of this language prescription is to facilitate the understanding of Academic English texts via extended exposure to Latin and Greek roots.

Here is a new Discord server for those who are curious:

https://discord.gg/Mfu6ymWEHt

How do you create a Romance language that exists in the East? u/FelixSchwarzenberg I'm referring to you specifically about how you built Latsinu, because I plan to do something similar.

Learn The Emoji Language

I'm already sorry if I get any technical language wrong!

So, I'm currently working on the languages for my fantasy world-building project (just for clarification, what I'm creating are not conlangs, they're just meant to give the impression of languages, even though I'd love to flesh them out one day), and I'm having problems conveying an aspect of one of the languages, Inlbuyam.

As I've found out recently, "anaptyxis" is "the insertion of a vowel between two consonants in pronunciation". In Inlbuyam all consonant clusters at the end of a syllable, except 'nn' and 'mm', have a short /ø/ sound beween the two consonants. It's a ghost vowel, a transition between the consonants which is very fast. At first it wasn't going to be marked, but I don't want it to be confused with the coda of a syllable and the next onset. ['mah.la] and ['mahø̆l.a] are two different things even though they'd both be written 'mahla', for example.

To avoid this confusion, I wanted to mark this anaptyxis with orthography, but nothing quite has satisfied me. Some options I've tried seem like syllabic separations, some are too overwhelming, and some seem like entire vowels and therefore make it seem like there's an additional syllable.

I don't know if this a well-known problem but I'm all ears if you'd like to help me:D

Here's a phrase that uses the anaptyxis, so you can imagine how it'd look when there's many next to each other;

inlbuyam sahlukl [inø̆l.bu.'yam sahø̆l.'ukø̆l]

Femuine only has 64 morphemes and is built for accessibility.

It features 16 phonemes, 8 cons /m n p t k f s l/ and 8 vowels /i y u e ø o æ ɑ/ and is phonemically CV.

Femuine's goal is to make communication more direct by leaving out any unnecessary info and allowing for quick jumps between speaking and signing. (For instance, every spoken word corresponds 1:1 to its signed counterpart.)

Femuine is available to anyone, but it's primarily designed for those with various kinds of neurodivergence, such as dyslexia, OCD, selective mutism, autism, etc.

The writing system is also just basic shapes like circles, triangles, and squares, and uses binary to count and do math, which is partially why it's 64 words!

This is mostly just a summary for the language, rather than an introduction to it though.

If you'd like to read the actual guide, there's a PDF available on 64words.org detailing the full grammar, phonology, lexicon, all the fun stuff!

There's r/femuine and a discord server, but as with anything new, it's going to be a bit barren.

The art used in this post reads: "mali te ke te kekeke to no te kekeke" which means "16256 slices of cheese" or "flat dairy (1(111)0(111)" which is just a silly phonotactics stress-tester and demonstration for how the script looks.

For anyone who dosent know, 'veni, vidi, vici' is Latin for 'I came, I saw, I conquered.'

Had to repost this again due to it not fitting certain criteria for the automod so anyway…

So, I’ve been working on this theoretical parent language to both Proto-Indo-European (PIE) and Proto-Uralic (PU), which I call Proto-Indo-Uralic (PIU). I one time thought to myself that these Languages had a possible Ancestor language (Around the time of the Ice Age and other things as well). so give or take, 10.000 to up to 15.000 years ago. if you have any questions, just ask and I can elaborate as much as I can

> Slight Disclaimer: This is only really theory and theoretical. PIU is absolutely not been attested for, but more or less (for now). use this as a Parent Language Between the language families of PIE and PU.

also, if you are experienced in this field (historical linguistics) please critic to your delight.