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Ideally, this would be a place where conlangs are discussed, reviewed, given a ranking, and awarded . How could that go wrong! Ok, the ranking part is a bit much. I like how board games are ranked for different categories over at bgg and thought it might be interesting to see something like that ta...

A site like boardgamegeek.com for conlanguages. Ideally, this would be a place where conlangs are discussed, reviewed, given a ranking, and awarded.

I want to be like Philip Newton, to learn all the major Almean languages, including Obenzayet... Sometimes when I am caught with an Almean grammar I'm asked why I don't create one of my own. At one time I would respond by saying "You don't understand, this is ART. It took 30 years for this language...

Ok, I admit I'm in over my head~ but... try and guess this one:

Khet ʔarkhel wal
syal hinnar tser
tsyan fi heʔen.
sru ħwen nye nur,
lai a, ħu the
phaur mwai ħwet rul.

Feedback? I like the theme. It's similar to what Nathanial Hawthorne explored in his short stories-( look at Rappaccini's Daughter and The Birthmark ). This notion that perfection is not so much an achievement as it is the consequence of a profound loss is interesting and instructive. Those charact...

I love the grammar and the lexicon. The language is so different and to me so unusual that I have to almost completely climb outside my native English in order to do it right. And the words! -attempting "siw", "sraus", "nwai", etc. is like relearning to speak~ again both fun and challenging. But you...

I'm working through the Uyseʔ grammar and don't quite know how to pronounce the "ph", "kh", and "th". I also don't know what to make of the "y" sound. Is it always a consonant sound as in "yellow" or can it take on the vowel sound in "they" as well? I would appreciate any help in this regard. Thanks...