saintcvts

Beginner artist who loves Rain World and conlangs. I try to be kind, excuse my bluntness. First language is Spanglish! Trans MtF she/her with sea/sear/shy/hyr neopronouns. :3 You are loved.

[saintcvts]

DISCORD SERVER

YOU, yes YOU, should join the Yoŋasabi Discord server! If you don't know, Yoŋasabi is a conlang created by oPashoo here on Tumblr for her Rain World AU (I forgot what is was called, oopsies). I have done some things with her conlang in my posts, but haven't much since then. But still! Please join!

https://discord.gg/JdFKmq9wt

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doodle

Very random but I just wanna share it

[saintcvts]

Helloooooo!

Howdy, everyone! Today marks the day that I return to Tumblr! I'm sorry for my absence, but from now on, I will be (tentatively) posting regularly again!

For some updates about what I'm doing with my conlang that the seven of you follow, I completely re-hauled it and removed it from the context of Rain World. I'm very sorry if this disappoints you, since my account here does revolve around Rain World. However, to make up for this, I plan to make a comic. I won't reveal much yet other than the fact that I absolutely am garbage at drawing humans, since I'm a completely beginner xP, so patience might be needed for my project to pick up major speed... so I might need help with drawing anthro and human characters!

Other plans of the comic I can share is that it takes place in a post-apocalyptic Earth around ten years from today after a series of wars and a mutating-virus pandemic ran rampant throughout every continent. There will be two POVs (which will be explored via technically two different comics), one will be in America, and the other will be in Sweden, which I will explain the reasoning of that second location.

I'm still working on the themes and messages of the overall story, but the main ones are family, finding identity, finding connections, and the question of, "how far can you stretch your morals/ethics and still consider yourself a good person?" i.e morally gray areas, and whether if you can justify ends by any means necessary.

What does the comic have to do with my conlang I've been working on? Well, now I have decided to insert my conlang into my comic's world! Furthermore, I've changed so much about the language:

Firstly, the name and the people who speak it have changed. The name of the language is now called Jäptska, and the people who speak it are called the Jäptari. Secondly, the reason why the second the second POV will be in Sweden is because the language originates from there. Jäptska, or Yeftish in English, originates in the Dalarna province in Sweden and branches off the Dalecarlian languages ("dialects") that originate there, like Elfdalian (Älvdalska sdn, Övdalską edn), the Ovansiljanmål varieties, the Nedansiljanmål varieties, and the Västerdalmål varieties. Unfortunately, the only language that has enough media coverage and resources is Elfdalian, which this language is largely based on. Furthermore, it's heavily inspired by Icelandic—and Faroese by extension—which will show a lot more. Elfdalian is a seriously interesting and unique language of the Norse branch of Proto-Germanic, which needs to be studied more thoroughly!

Now, what about Rain World? Don't worry, it's still my favorite game of all time. I still plan to draw doodles of Rain World for the rest of time. Also, I'll replace my old Scavlang with an entirely new Scavlang inspired the the slavic languages later! I haven't forgotten the world I created!

Finally, I also want to make a conlang for the Ori video game franchise. Which branch I want it to resemble has been very hard to decide... I've been considering Celtic and Finnic, and also an entirely different path: what I did for the sounds was that literally listened to voice lines in-game to determine the sounds, which I think I'll redo.

Both of the slavic Slavlang and the Orilang will come much later, but for now, I'll see y'all later! :3

[saintcvts]

Life Update.

Politely puts your door back on its hinges...

Hi.

I have been in... a very rough spot in my life right now. I'm failing all of my classes, and I have to—yet again—fix it all right before the school year ends. If this doesn't happen, then I will be kicked out from my home and then be sent to the opposite side of the country to live with my father and step-mother. Along with this, I am struggling with several mental issues right now.

High-school has been the darkest time of my life right now, and I am so close to finishing it, but I am so close to losing everything.

I'll be taking a break until the school year ends.

I am sorry. Geblessenn ok er säll - goodbye and be happy.

[saintcvts]

so i finally saw the update post about your conlang and au !!

If I may ask, Who/what will be the main focus of the story? How much of a role will the iterators play in the story?

( also, if you ever needed help with the art that goes alongside the written story, I'd be happy to help! whether its just advice or helping with a sketch or something. ((I wouldn't want to take away the opportunity for you to practise art, just support you if you need it)

Breaks your door down. I've pulled an all-nighter!

Anyway! My AU (which is currently going under a name change) is pretty political in nature. It's mostly themed around the reaction of individual people (and also society) to politics and leaders that are fascist in nature. My AU is a Slugcat anthro AU, and it will be very different to what most of the community paints these guys, which might be controversial. In the AU, the leader of the country, who is a Slugcat, marginalizes and oppresses Scavengers. The story's POVs are my Slugcat-sona The Archetype, and The Saint and his bandmates who are all Scavengers.

Furthermore, the story is about people's mindset about politics: fear, apathy, and anger.

Also, thank you for your proposal, smiley face! I'll think about it!

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Conlang Update.

Hey, hello, hi! Waves my paw at you. I'm currently moving everything from the Livingtongues Dictionary website to the Liydersprak dictionary Google Doc. Furthermore, I am updating the documents (and any other documents) of Liydersprak! So keep yer eyes open for everything that is about to come!

On a slightly-related note, should I begin to write my Rain World AU? For the followers of my conlang, you all know that I am creating a language, but you do not know why. Well, like I said, I am writing my Rain World AU, which is why I am creating a conlang in the first place.

I was going to draw comics, but I firstly suck absolute doodoo fart at art (rhymes), and I don't exactly have the tools for that nor the time. So I apologize profusely for boring you with future words, but it's going to be a written story. However, I'll include drawn visuals in order to help me describe scenes in order to train myself to draw landscapes, scenes, and backgrounds. Furthermore, once the entire story is finished and released, I will then begin to write everything again, but in Liydersprak!

Lastly, I am making some sound/spelling changes. I am getting rid of all instances of /t͡s/ <tj> and replacing them with /t͡ʃ/ <c>, and I am replacing all instances of /d͡z/ <dj> and replacing them with a new sound, /d͡ʒ/ <dc>. The reason why I did this was because /k/ palatalized into two different sounds, which I simply kind of slapped them wherever I wanted, so I decided to remove one option and replaced them all with the other. The other sound was simply just to match this decision.

Thank you! Let me know your thoughts about my AU and PLEASE ask questions about it! I'll see y'all later!

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[saintcvts]

Sorry.

It's getting really hard to keep working on my conlang day by day. I'm reaching a stalemate with it; losing motivation and not knowing what to do next. I'm really sorry if I have disappointed you (there's at most ten semi-active viewers of my conlang). I'm trying to figure things out with my project and keep on moving—sorry if things are slow.

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What it’s like when you and the gang are in different fandoms

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Merry (belated) Christmas and Happy New Year!

Hopefully everyone has been enjoying themselves this winter break! I just want to say that I'm sorry for my absence. I've been doing many things this winter break, and I'm pretty sick right now. For my conlang for Rain World and Ori enthusiasts, I am here to say that they will now resume starting.. *checks watch*.. right now! Here is a sneak-peek for the conlang I am making for the Ori franchise (don't worry, Liydersprak is still in development):

Sanqa aoni, hakayunada wahiwe ga mao lali'e'ya wikane hakayuna anaiwe kapuŋja'ya poka kapwi'opo ha da'ahtui'opo

Alo'a weli ao'ya i qwele aoni ha alo'a aswelle nuhu'ya i oo

Ga ohara ha ao

To da i ye' e ao'me

Ha role to olela i ye' lai!

[saintcvts]

i love lps so much that is littlest pet shop yes give me all of ur lps

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what branch is your germanic conlang apart of?

is it west germanic (english, dutch, frisian, german, my conlangs, etc) or north germanic (swedish, icelandic, norwegian, faroese, danish, and old norse)? or is it some unique germanic branch that you made, of which doesnt belong to west nor north?

just asking because it seems weird :-)

It's a mix of North and West Germanic. The biggest inspiration for my conlang is Ölvdalian (Elfdalian; Älvdalska). I can say that without this minority language in Sweden, Liydersprak would have been very different.

It's the reason why H is silent and has been lost in multiple words like aus (house), allo (hello).

It's the reason why there has been a loss of N at the end of words (except double N) and simply why there has been a loss of N in general.

And ESPECIALLY it's the reason behind the retention of nasal vowels.

There is so much more influences this language has on my conlang—I urge y'all to check it out!

Other big influences are definitely Icelandic, Swedish, Old English, English, Old Norse, and German. German does work in the grammatical department, haha!

Other inspos are Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Dutch, and Faroese.

Should I take a look at Frisian?

[overdosed-on-uranium]

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Explaining the R sound and how it interacts with other letters in Liydersprak

Warning! This may be a long read, hehe.. :saintshy:

I can definitely say that one of the most challenging aspects about Liydersprak is the pronounciation. Overall there are just a lot of sounds in the language and how different letters change depending where they are or how they interact with other letters.

One letter that changes its pronounciation a lot is R. In the main dialect of Liydersprak, R is mainly trilled, like in ręij [ˈrẽ͡ɪ̃] (rain) or rwouxta [ˈrɞ͡ʊˌxt̪a] (to censor), or in ivarða [ˈiːβarðə] (household) before a consonant. However, it can be a flapped R, as in words like puro [pʰuːɾo] (pure) between vowels, and in drouggur [ˈdɾɞ͡ʊɣɞr̥ʲ] (zombie; undead) after a consonant.

Furthermore, both the flapped and trilled R can be voiceless in certain situations. The first example is ⟨hr⟩, which makes an R voiceless. This only happens in the begging of a word, like hrock [ˈr̥ɔːk] (jacket; sweater; hoodie) and hrucker [ˈr̥ʊːkʰer̥ʲ] (rain coat).

A way that an R can become voiceless without an H is dependent on the consonant it is either before or after, like in skurta [ˈskʊːr̥t̪ə] (short) and þrötníng [ˈθɾ̥œːʔnĩŋ] (swelling; inflammation).

Finally, in the voiceless department, an R can become voiceless AND palatalized when it is at the final position of a word. There have already been two examples in this case, which are in the words drouggur and hrucker.

Secondly, there are the retroflexive sounds that are uniquely only ⟨rl⟩ and ⟨rn⟩ (the retroflex L and N). These are very rare sounds within the language because both combinations of letters do not appear naturally—so to speak—within the language, and the sounds appear in very specific scenarios like attaching a suffix that starts with an N or L to a word that ends in an R. The retroflex sounds being allophones drives this fact further. Examples are geaðurníng [ˈjæːðɞ̃ɳĩŋ] (gathering) and órrtrurlikalig [ˈor̥tɾ̥ɞˌɭiːkʰɑli] (most likely; highly).

Finally, there is one final scenario in which R changes sound, which is ⟨rs⟩. Normally, ⟨rs⟩ is simply /rs/ as you would expect, like in the word wers [ˈwɛːr̥s] (worse; worst). However, /rs/ can turn into /ʃ/ before a consonant, like in the word earsta [ˈɪ͡æʃtə] (late).

That's all! Any questions are welcome! Stay safe from the Rain!

[saintcvts]

School Doodle.

hwæt göstu? (lit: what do-you?)

[ˈxæːʔ ˈjœːstɞ]

What are you doing?

[saintcvts]

okay so about your conlang :3c

what's the word order in a sentence? subject-verb-object like in english, or sov, osv etc? or is it flexible? from what i can tell its sov but im not sure

how are verbs changed in different tenses? like eat/ate/will eat

and, whats the name of the scavenger king in the story? :3

Liydersprak is a V2 language, meaning that there is a verb ALWAYS at the "second position" of a sentence. Here are some examples:

Ic kommer till em að gonga- I am going to go home

Rixt nau kommer ic till em að gonga - Right now I'm going to go home

Fuursök ic að gonga till em kommer - Because I'm going home

The only place that this is not true is when the "verb-comma-verb" rule is activated (technically two):

Ic kommer till em að gonga, fuursök emsukheet avar - I am going home because I am homesick

Fuursök emsukheet avar, kommer ic till em að gonga - Because I am homesick, I'm going to go home

Because of grammatical cases, the word order can be flexible, but the base word order is SVO.

The only tenses that makes the verb inflect are the present and past tenses, with the "perfect" tenses too, and technically the subjunctive mood.

að jata - to eat

jatar - I/they eat

jatade - I/they ate

munur að jata - I/they will eat

kommer að jata - I/they am/are going to eat

avar að gejata - I/they have eaten

gejetett bröð - eaten bread

Kanbe jötur - Maybe I/they eat

The Scavenger King's name in my AU is "Eilig Ąkkeandöl", which means "Holy Angle-face". This is the name that is comparable to calling the president of the U.S "President _". That is his name, just with "holy". His full title is "Gret eð Ąkkeandöl, ans Fųf Stuðar". This means "The great Angle-face, his Five Pillars".

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do you plan to keep working on the rain world conlang? i would love to learn it ^^

Of course I do! It is one of my main hobbies! I am really glad that you are interested enough to want to learn it; I have never even thought of anyone being interested in my conlang. Thank you! I'll do my best to update documents and whatnot