So I heard you like constructed languages, anons. Mind giving me your opinions on my first ever attempt at a conlang? this is the draft of the draft. I didn't even implement the conjunctions yet.https://voca.ro/1dLun4243ydRI'll post the lyrics in the next post, they're very simple right now and I was focusing on how it sounds first before focusing on the structure and grammar.I got reminded that I had an idea for a conlang 4 years ago because of this video.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HQsZm9FxkU (I think the fox is speaking gibberish Eskaleut language if anyone knows)=================Read below what I actually want to achieve:So I just took a bunch of already existing latin and english words and names such as elixir, valerian, valor, xenon, helix, vixen, silver, love, revel, elver, elven, lever, etc. and tried to make a language out of how they sound. I love the letters L n V specifically. In my song the way English people pronounced X it's sh sh and I actually do not want that "H" sound in there. I need a huge list of all the words I like and then see if I can gibberish them to create new words out of them like silver,silvanus,sylvia. Despite the old timey way the song is sung The idea is that I want a modern sounding sci-fi language that sounds the opposite of klingon, arabic and asian languages. I think I either have to put the x at the end or just remove it entirely to get rid of the "ssh" pronunciation since ironically I'd like English speakers to be able to speak this language easier even if 90% of these words are derived from latin. I never got into conlangs beyond LOTR's Sindarin, I never studied them and I don't know what's been done before as example. I'm thinking of making my language purely for aesthetical purposes where I really enjoy how those list of words I gave sound like and I'd like to create an entire language around their phonetics.
[Verse 1]Velaxo, Velonu IlwaneVulane ve LumavinNolwen vo NyaveluVanix ne Ilwane[Chorus]Vaxelu ve LumavinLoxavin wi VulaneNyoxel no ElaxunNaxelu xu Woxane[Verse 2]Vixalo, Elaxun, NaxeluLuxavi ya WoxaneLoxavin vin NyoxelVaxelu lo Vanix[Chorus]Vaxelu ve LumavinLoxavin wi VulaneNyoxel no ElaxunNaxelu xu WoxaneVelaxo... Velonu Ilwane...[Verse 1]Valor, Valian, XelorValerin ve ValuAravel wi RovanuXenon ne Vilaru[Chorus]Luvarel vo ValorRovanu ya XelorVilaru vin ValerinXenon lo Aravel[Verse 2]Xelor, Rovanu, ValianValor ve LuvarelValerin no VilaruAravel xu Xenon[Chorus]Luvarel vo ValorRovanu ya XelorVilaru vin ValerinXenon lo Aravel[Outro]Valor... Xelor... Rovanu...Immediately you can notice how simplistic and samey they are and how there's too much X letters in it that shouldn't start at beginning of the word or would require a unique rule for how its pronounced.
>>98578686Well at least someone seems self aware and knows what he's going for rather than the many attempts at trying to improve German.
>>98578701I hear your clanker pronouncing x as at least /ks/ (the Latin way), aspirated /kʰ/ (the ancient Greek way; also k followed by a vowel in English) and /ʃ/ (a convention in some Romance languages, including modern Portuguese, and some important South American languages initially recorded by Spanish missionaries), all quite independent of position or surrounding vowels. I assume this happens because it's a dumb LLM only using its training data of "all books and internet discussions in every language from the past 200 years, most of them being in English".I would assume that if you input every x as ks, instruct the bot to pronounce it the same way every time, and call it a faggot every time it fucks up by aspirating a k, it'll eventually output consistent results, although I've never willingly interacted with chatbots to know if this method works.No comment on the grammar since you haven't yet got any, but yes, I do see quite a many L's and V's and the orthography is kinda pleasing in a "I want a Latin Sindarin language that's not Quenya" kind of way.I'm glad your aim is to create the exact opposite of the thousands of languages from dozens of unrelated families spoken by 4 billion people in Asia. I dislike modern Tagalog-Kartvelian-Hmong-Chukotkan creoles as much as I do Klingon.
>>98579910Perfection cannot be improved upon.
>>98578686>>98578701Do you play text-based?No? Then it's useless.Like most of world-building autism, btw
>>98579910*Barks in Norwegian*
>>98582073If anons finds it fun, it's exactly as useful as everything else /tg/ related.
>>98582568You made me laugh you son of a bitch.
>>98578686>I wonder what language he's singing it in.Oh hell yeah. Let's make an alien language for melodies.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vl1yKK0UmIE
>>98578686https://a.co/d/06AHIR7V“The Language Construction Kit” by Mark RosenfelderYou might get a lot out of this. It’s one of the best sources you’ll find. Rosenfelder’s other books are similarly useful. Conlanging is fun, but there’s a whole world of different ways humans can speak.
Not very fleshed out, but I had this idea for a language where words for physical objects and maybe proper nouns in general vs thoughts, feelings and such have completely different sounds. Like "harder" sounds for real things, maybe.
