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Hey guys. Not sure if you're all aware, but there's a conlang documentary coming out (early(?)) 2016, and there's an open call thing for people to submit snapshots and mentions of their conlangs to be part of it! Conlangery (the podcast) did an episode about this documentary: http://conlangery.com/2...

What do you call it? A sub (but smaller ones like the one in the picture are sometimes just called "sandwiches")
Where are you from? Savannah, Georgia
Where do you live now? Atlanta, Georgia
What else might have influenced your choice? My mother is from Germany.

I've translated "King Arthur's Courage", but that's a copyrighted (children's) book, so I haven't posted it online. :s It's easily my longest translation, though, taking up like five pieces of paper front-to-back. The second longest one (and only available one on the internet, I guess?) is "Ere ta a...

I kind of printed out like.. 30 maps of the entire concontinent where my peoples live, and traced their movements inexactly over the course of about 1,000 years. At the end of doing that, I was able to determine who had history with whom, and who would feel what way about whom, and why. I was also a...

I've got a few short videos in my language on youtube. There are 'lyrics' in the video descriptions. I'm not good with IPA, so I'll let my voice do the explaining. :) ...Someone said it sounds like gaelic/arabic, but I dunno about that. :p Talking about leaves: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZtYorR...

to bubble up; to rush forth

jjesî - to boil violently, to push through something or break something as a result of built-up force.

next word: to be perfectly content, still, quiet, peaceful- like a puppy lying in the sun.

Pi da gitavau yi nyiva teive du gikisöü. Nei mija at aü va ei unja vüji. Asentöü me a dü vüju mentapü. Vü bwi ma mwi yö. Mu ka vüse bwin. Vü ai nwantau. Yapa pe. Dü. Atikaunpi eita yi va at aivaki at yi. Yöü me benyö gike ma dive un. U miti nakivainasi ödeipanjü de ma. Bwi me nibi vü öka. Vünvajü bw...

My language grew out of a need to have a secret language to write things in. I had nosey parents. :p It also helped that right around the time of their good-intentioned nosing about, I was a teenager and taking both French and German in high school. Being that my mother speaks German and at one poin...