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I'm making a conworld, and I really like the PCK's advice about drawing on a ball, and I've decided I want to do my conworld that way. Thing is, though, I like to do things by computer, and so I'd really like to be able to do so on the computer, if it's at all possible. Unfortunately, the only prog...

If you want a hermaphroditic gender, then just call it that.

*Premade and custom checklists for things to add to your conlang *A word generator that has more control and is better than Zompist's (in particular, one that easily allows digraphs and uses one formula for syllable structure, and has a better save function) *An app to create native alphabet fonts T...

For one, you should learn the IPA. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Phonetic_Alphabet , http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPA_vowel_chart_with_audio , http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPA_pulmonic_consonant_chart_with_audio , and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Phonetic_Alphabet_chart_fo...

Pole wrote:The [Proud] Nation of Dix Ðíkks [Sóhård] Ojeá, commonly referred to as Dixia Ðikksjeá

ha dicks

So it's essentially an alien language that's essentially a human language except for a few weird features that would mark a human conlang as noobish.

Hm.

JPEGs are also only supposed to be used with photographs, not computer graphics.

It's pretty funny to see people taking this seriously. And I can't believe that asemic writer is still updating the THAT blog.

cromulant wrote:Only Sir Gwalchafad gets it.

I am pedantic about this because of three reasons: first off, the practice of half-assedly removing marking for something and then going "I have made an X-less language" is as widespread as it is horrible. Second, it IS possible to have a personless language, and it is one of these features of perv...

Jesus Christ people why is this so hard? I know that all languages talk about things that are either yourself, something you're talking to, or something else. Person is defined in such a way that, yes, it's impossible to have a real personless language, because person is omnipresent — that's why it...

The point of what I was saying is that regardless of how ambiguous or intransparent it is there is always a way to mark person as long as you can pinpoint the agency. Therefore, there are two types of languages: 1. Languages that in any form whatsoever communicate who participated or was affected b...

Theta wrote:Hey can you redo that as a .png? Our countries are all fuzzy now :s

JPEGistan will inevitably conquer all eventually.

Maybe i'm missing something, but couldn't you just refer to everything by its name? My name is Kris, so i would say 'Kris wants a cookie'; your name is Steve, so i would say 'Steve wants a cookie'; etc. A language like this (that never developed (conventional?) pronouns) would have some interesting ...

Bland is so bland it doesn't get a proper name nor description.

baradsonoron wrote:

Matrix wrote:

baradsonoron wrote:Yes. One of my conlangs uses single-consonant affixes, so ččččini means "He gave him to him". That's pronounced "ch-ch-ch-chini".

ččččia

what?

http://youtu.be/tzY7qQFij_M

What do you use to make all these pretty graphics?

baradsonoron wrote:p-tñêchôngmsh "and full of iron ore"

Non-ugliness in languages is overrated.

Drydic Guy wrote:At least Anglicize it entirely? Morningmuffle?

That lessens it.

Unfortunately since we already have muffle it is unlikely to work out well...

'Muffle''s not a very common word, and English's no stranger to homonyms — and this one is even part a compound.

Just yesterday, I found another great German word to add to my collection of amusing "untranslatables": Morgenmuffel "person who is grumpy in the mornings". (Best translation IMD would probably be "not a morning person".) It turns out that -muffel is semiproductive for "person who is grumpy at the ...

And I propose that since the maps are all fucked and nobody's following the guidelines anywho, we transfer over boundaries and colors to an image with less artifacts later and save everyone the trouble. You could just make everyone use a graphics editor like GIMP or Photoshop and put the different ...

I think this is going to be the orthography (and hopefully the phonology) i'm going to settle on, largely because i really like how the language's name looks. Ŀmau!unrelḃ: /i ɨ u e ə o æ a/ <i ï u e y o a ä> /m n ɲ ŋ ɴ/ <m n ñ ŋ/ng ṅ> /p t c k q ʔ/ <p t c k q '> /ɸ θ s ʃ x χ ħ h/ <f d s ṡ x ẋ ħ h> /...

I violated my own rule and decided to create a digraphy latinization. I'm not sure how much i like it, but at least it's pretty easy to type. /i ɨ u e ə o æ a/ <i ï u e y o a ä> /m n ɲ ŋ ɴ/ <m n ñ/nc ŋ/nk nq> /p t c k q ʔ/ <p t c k q '> /ɸ θ s ʃ x χ ħ h/ <f ð/d s š g x ħ h> /ʋ ɹ j w/ <v z j w> /ʙ r ...

/i ɨ u e̞ ə o̞ æ ä/ /m n ɲ ŋ ɴ/ /p t c k q ʔ/ /ɸ θ s ʃ x χ ħ h/ /ʋ ɹ j w/ /ʙ r ʀ/ /ⱱ/ /ɬ ɭ ʟ ɺ/ /ɓ ɗ/ /pʼ tʼ ʈʼ cʼ kʼ qʼ/ /ʘ ǀ ǃ ǂ ǁ/ /ᵑʘ ᵑǀ ᵑǃ ᵑǂ ᵑǁ/ /ʘˀ ǀˀ ǃˀ ǂˀ ǁˀ/ /ʘq ǀq ǃq ǂq ǁq/ /ʘqʼ ǀqʼ ǃqʼ ǂqʼ ǁqʼ/ For extra challenge, use digraphs as minimally as possible. I don't have any example sentence...

Chagen wrote:Eh, I prefer human-only conworlds myself. Different strokes for different folks.

I'm tired of human-only conworlds. I'd enjoy much more alien-only conworlds, where the aliens aren't just humans with a different name a second pair of arms.