Where are the African conlangs?

Birdlang · Post by **Birdlang** » Sat Dec 27, 2014 3:40 pm

Once I made a conlang that used the entire African Reference Alphabet. It is spoken in a future Togo. It is called Etyecha Afrika.

Hallow XIII · Post by **Hallow XIII** » Mon Jan 05, 2015 11:27 am

Nortaneous wrote:
Nortaneous wrote:haven't seen anyone use labial flaps
wait, *i've* used labial flaps

edit: bantu + japhug / weird polysynthetic sino-tibetan languages could be interesting, but doesn't H13 already have one of those

Kangshi, kinda. It's got noun classes, word tone, and prefixing morphology. It's not really polysynthetic tho, nor does it have the silly syntatic things Bantu langs do. I really mostly made it for the phonological hilarity.

Birdlang · Post by **Birdlang** » Mon Jan 05, 2015 3:01 pm

Yeah. I made a Japhug weird polysynthetic Sino Tibetan language. It has every sound in the IPA and every modification. It even has the ExtIPA!!!

Arzena · Post by **Arzena** » Mon Jan 05, 2015 5:49 pm

Birdlang wrote: It has every sound in the IPA and every modification. It even has the ExtIPA!!!

Whyyy

Hallow XIII · Post by **Hallow XIII** » Mon Jan 05, 2015 6:24 pm

That... doesn't really have anything to do with weird Qiangojaphug, it's just being silly.

(nb when I said phonological hilarity, I did not mean it had a lot of sounds; Kangshi has 14 consonants)

Trebor · Post by **Trebor** » Mon Jan 05, 2015 7:13 pm

Birdlang wrote:Once I made a conlang that used the entire African Reference Alphabet. It is spoken in a future Togo. It is called Etyecha Afrika.

I'd be interested in taking a look at a grammar sketch you may have worked out. Could you post such info here or give us a link?

I'm actually working on a West African conlang now--the one I've mentioned here before.

Edits: Minor typos fixed.

Birdlang · Post by **Birdlang** » Tue Jan 06, 2015 3:28 pm

Well, I also included midievalist characters. Like all the scribal abbreviations.

Birdlang · Post by **Birdlang** » Tue Jan 06, 2015 3:29 pm

Arzena wrote:
Birdlang wrote: It has every sound in the IPA and every modification. It even has the ExtIPA!!!
Whyyy

Because I wanted to use my favorite characters. Latin Extended D. I am thankful it was both uppercase and lowercase. It is a kitchen sink though.

Birdlang · Post by **Birdlang** » Wed Jan 07, 2015 6:31 am

Arzena wrote:
Birdlang wrote: It has every sound in the IPA and every modification. It even has the ExtIPA!!!
Whyyy

Because the aliens can pronounce any sound. It has to be written in extended Latin script with uncommon letters.

Dē Graut Bʉr · Post by **Dē Graut Bʉr** » Thu Jan 08, 2015 1:30 pm

Birdlang wrote:
Arzena wrote:
Birdlang wrote: It has every sound in the IPA and every modification. It even has the ExtIPA!!!
Whyyy
Because the aliens can pronounce any sound. It has to be written in extended Latin script with uncommon letters.

Humans can also pronounce every sound in the IPA, yet no human language uses all of those sounds. Seriously, why are you so proud of making KSLs?

Birdlang · Post by **Birdlang** » Fri Jan 09, 2015 7:07 am

Dē Graut Bʉr wrote:
Birdlang wrote:
Arzena wrote:
Birdlang wrote: It has every sound in the IPA and every modification. It even has the ExtIPA!!!
Whyyy
Because the aliens can pronounce any sound. It has to be written in extended Latin script with uncommon letters.
Humans can also pronounce every sound in the IPA, yet no human language uses all of those sounds. Seriously, why are you so proud of making KSLs?

I cannot pronounce every sound, but I am proud because they are easy to use but have every thing in the book.

Dē Graut Bʉr · Post by **Dē Graut Bʉr** » Fri Jan 09, 2015 11:26 am

No, they're not at all easy to use, in fact their complexity makes them impossible to use.

shanoxilt · Post by **shanoxilt** » Mon May 30, 2016 11:32 pm

SomeUserToo? wrote:I do remember reading of Afrihili, a pan-African auxlang:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afrihili

The problem with it is that the learning resources are so scarce and the author does not provide any etymologies.

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