Where are the African conlangs?
Re: Where are the African conlangs?
Once I made a conlang that used the entire African Reference Alphabet. It is spoken in a future Togo. It is called Etyecha Afrika.
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Re: Where are the African conlangs?
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.Nortaneous wrote:wait, *i've* used labial flapsNortaneous wrote:haven't seen anyone use labial flaps
edit: bantu + japhug / weird polysynthetic sino-tibetan languages could be interesting, but doesn't H13 already have one of those
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Re: Where are the African conlangs?
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!!!
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WhyyyBirdlang wrote: It has every sound in the IPA and every modification. It even has the ExtIPA!!!
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Re: Where are the African conlangs?
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)
(nb when I said phonological hilarity, I did not mean it had a lot of sounds; Kangshi has 14 consonants)
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Re: Where are the African conlangs?
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.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.
Edits: Minor typos fixed.
Re: Where are the African conlangs?
Well, I also included midievalist characters. Like all the scribal abbreviations.
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Re: Where are the African conlangs?
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.Arzena wrote:WhyyyBirdlang wrote: It has every sound in the IPA and every modification. It even has the ExtIPA!!!
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Re: Where are the African conlangs?
Because the aliens can pronounce any sound. It has to be written in extended Latin script with uncommon letters.Arzena wrote:WhyyyBirdlang wrote: It has every sound in the IPA and every modification. It even has the ExtIPA!!!
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Re: Where are the African conlangs?
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 wrote:Because the aliens can pronounce any sound. It has to be written in extended Latin script with uncommon letters.Arzena wrote:WhyyyBirdlang wrote: It has every sound in the IPA and every modification. It even has the ExtIPA!!!
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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 wrote: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 wrote:Because the aliens can pronounce any sound. It has to be written in extended Latin script with uncommon letters.Arzena wrote:WhyyyBirdlang wrote: It has every sound in the IPA and every modification. It even has the ExtIPA!!!
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Re: Where are the African conlangs?
No, they're not at all easy to use, in fact their complexity makes them impossible to use.
Re: Where are the African conlangs?
The problem with it is that the learning resources are so scarce and the author does not provide any etymologies.SomeUserToo? wrote:I do remember reading of Afrihili, a pan-African auxlang:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afrihili