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The laborious art of #conlang creation?

I have several Excel tabs for my conlang's dictionary and derivations, but building an entire grammar in it is wild lol

Dzidzilalich was the name of a Lushootseed speaking settlement in what is now Seattle. Likely a borrowing that retained similarity to the Ld pronunciation?

#ConlangFriday

»ʔu gʷəsał łəb sáw̓θʷ hən ʔu x̌ʷluλaʔx̌əb yukʷ«

wə= n-(kʷ→)xʷəsał łəm sawətʷ hən= [ wə= x̌ʷə-lu-(n→)laxəm yukʷ ]

PFV= TR-burning 1pl candle LOC= [ PFV= 3.POS-NOM-die light ]

“We lit some candles when the lights went out.”

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The preceedings of the International Conference on Salish & Neighboring Languages is now up. Check it out. Especially for the historical linguists, there is a neat paper by Hank Nater on the origin of the so-called pharyngeal fricatives of Interior Salish.
lingpapers.sites.olt.ubc.ca

Take care of your pooch 🐶 during a #ConlangFriday heatwave:

»ʔu x̌ʷəcθat čəb č xʷiθ ʔi ʕ'ax̌ lum'ux̌ʷ«

wə= x̌ʷə-c-(t→)θat čəm č-(kʷ→)xʷəyət yə= (ʕ→)ʕ̓ax̌ [ lu-(m→)m̓ux̌ʷ ]

PFV= CAUS-M-be.eaten 1sg 1sg.POS-dog OBL ice [ NOM-hot ]

“I fed my dog ice because it’s hot.”

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An í seo an chéad abairt dhá-theangach Lushootseed / Gaeilge a cumadh riamh?!

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»łčəm̓akʷ. bax̌ x̌luλałłás tʷuqʷ ʔi líʔšx̌iw«

łč-(m→)m̓akʷ || max̌ [ x̌-lu-n-(ł→)la<ł>łəʕ-as tʷuqʷ yə= (n→)lixəx-əyəw ]

1pl.POS-cat || NEG [ 3.POS-NOM-TR-<IRR>-be.afraid-REL PL OBL fireworks ]

"Our cats are not afraid of fireworks.”

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»ʔu hədi caʔłáł y̓əl«
wə= (s→)hənəy całəʕ-ʕəƛ (y→)y̓ən
PFV= busy week this
“It’s been a busy week.”

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Lol classic conlanging. I use a doc and there are more comments of "update this" than I could ever get around to fixing if I'm to spend any time actually using the language!

Checking conlang notes for typos is so therapeutic! Low stakes way to work on it which i do often :)

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»ʔu stíʔłxʷas čəb čluǧʷəqʷəqəp čuqʷ hə saʔłáł ʔil«
wə= stə-(x→)Øiłəxʷ-as čəm [ č-lu-n-(qʷ→)x̌ʷə<qʷə>qəw čuqʷ ] x̌ʷəm= (c→)sałəʕ-ʕəƛ (x→)Øin
PFV= TR.NC-forget-REL 1sg [ 1sg.POS-NOM-TR-<IRR>-be.written message ] LOC= week previous
“I forgot to write a message last week.”

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#ConlangFriday date night:

»ʔu stəhuʕ čəb ʕát's čəgʷádᶻas«

wə= stə-(s→)huʕ čəm ʕatəs [ č-n-kʷanəc-as Ø ]
PFV= TR.NC-be.found 1sg man [ 1sg-TR-feel.love-REL Ø ]
“I managed to find a man who loves me.”

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I'd frozen the conlang for 8 months, during which I couldn't make any changes. This forced me to write in the language, use it, find what worked and what was awkward. I'm now in a period where I can make changes. Not too many, but it's an opportunity to clean up some morpho-phonology and vocab.

A slightly different #ConlangFriday - numbers from 1-10:

łʷub clác bułʷ sac kʷəč ʕúǧʷ ʕəƛ̓ tʷədʷ dəkʷ cub
(roots: łum cənac mułʷ sac kʷəč ʕuməqʷ ʕəƛ tʷəmət nəkʷ cum)

Still working on their interface with lexical suffixes as counters, like some Salish langs

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Just thought of another one - "taste" in middle voice as in "it tastes tart". This construction may have been inadvertently borrowed and applied to "eat" as in "it eats tart". It makes sense if trying to zhuzh up one's vocab but still getting across the same meaning

Cooking show language is so interesting, sociolinguistically. People are clearly trying to balance using highly technical terms, avoiding cliche, appearing current/relevant, and being down to earth. The resultant language is often beautifully convoluted

Janko Gorenc is an accidental pillar of the online conlang community going back 20+ years. Dude's a legend

Weirdly was just thinking this today. They use it all the time on cooking shows like "the cake eats a little dry". I was looking for examples other than needing and adverbs and your polarity focus is interesting.

On showcase here is the "transitive of non-control" prevalent in Salish languages. It's used in opposition to the other transitive marker. It has meanings like "managed to..", "finally did..", "ended up..". The idea being that the event was not entirely within the control of the agent.

#ConlangFriday snakebite edition:

stəʕ̓əqʷucqab təƛ̓ łi łʷəx̌ʷ
stə-(ʕ→)ʕ̓əqʷuc-qam Ø təƛ [ łəy= (ƛʷ→)łʷəx ]
TR.NC-be.removed-LEX:mouth 3sg poison [ FROM= wound ]
“He managed to suck the poison from the wound.”

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I've interfered in generated roots a bunch too. On my list is developing ideophones / onomatopoeia further too. Just need to settle on a pattern I like that doesn't look too much like the Japanese "pera-pera" type ones

Speaking of the excellent resources on your website, have you made a conscious effort to align the phoneme frequencies of Kílta with the Gusein-Zade distributions here? lingweenie.org/conlang/guse...

I've compared small sample texts of Laqaqab to the expected curve, and it happens to mostly fit

Sanomi - Wikipedia

Eurovision / #conlang crossover reminder that Belgium narrowly missed out winning the competition in 2003 with Sanomi sung in a conlang. Possibly one of the largest audiences for conlanging at the time other than Tolkien en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanomi

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Great approach. I agree there's no competition between conlangs, my comment was more about how different lojban and toki pond are in structure :)

Thank you, really enjoy seeing others' process. I too started with the basics but admit that abstract concepts can be quite tricky. I'm trying to stay somewhat faithful to the Salish lexical suffix approach too, which has been very fun to incorporate into the conlang. Best of luck with the revision!

Love it. I'll have to take a gander through your dictionary again

Toki pona and Lojban seem the most unlikely of conlang friends!

Would the same affix be used for other occupation derivations or is it limited to those with a pastoral role?

Any particular approach you're taking with the lexicon rework? I've just come out of an 8 month freeze on my conlang and can finally tweak things again