#conlang help

[ahleidreams]

not happy with my *proto roots

like, are there languages where basically all roots have a long vowel?

[emmabeforenone]

Why is every conlanging video about syntax limited to "Are you SOV, SVO, or VSO?"

I need help getting more indepth! I already know I'm doing SOV, but I have no idea how complex adjectival or dependent phrases work outside of english (or even within english). It's to the point where I'm not even sure what part of speech "of" is in the phrase "I was a child of three". Would I mark "child" as accusative and "three" as dative? Or is "three" just an adjective without case marking? Would phrasing it "child three" mean "3-year-old child" or "three children"?

Am I just stupid because I grew up with English as my only point of reference? Or is it the failure of what little education I got on linguistics?

[i-am-a-green-rock]

I noticed some conlang help you had! I was wondering about the sound chart and what sounds they make? Can’t find anything about it since I’m making my first language :(

by sound chart I’m going to assume you mean the IPA chart

the IPA chart I use the most is ipachart.com! it has audio for every sound on the chart! the only problem with ipachart.com is that it doesn’t have anything for diacritics in IPA that’s why it took me so much longer to learn the diacritics oof

there’s another website that organizes the IPA chart slightly differently and it seems like a different person recorded the audio for this website so the pronunciations are slightly different.

if you want to learn more about extensions to IPA, you can go to the official website of the International Phonetic Association for the download of their full IPA chart or you can go to the Wikipedia page on the topic. just remember that these sites won’t have audio for things like pronouncing the diacritics

in the end, IPA is just an alphabet, so you can make it as precise or as approximate as you want! happy conlanging!

[i-am-a-green-rock]

just made a Tumblr group chat for conlangs, conlangblrs, and anyone interested in conlangs!

[i-am-a-green-rock]

the easiest way to make untranslatable words is making words that describe feelings because apparently English is limited with emotion words but also you feel a lot of things other people don't feel so then you can put words to that

[i-am-a-green-rock]

for the record

if you’ve never made a conlang before, the easiest way to start making a conlang is either to make a creole (blending or mixing two languages together) or make one based off an existing language (posteriori). you won’t have to worry about phonology, lexicon, or grammar too much because you can just steal it off of the existing languages with a few tweaks of your own.

[murdochbyrnes]

Conlang Outline: BOSOLIH

Name: Bosolih Native Name: Bosolih Native Short Name: Bosolih A Priori or Posteriori?: Posteriori  Isolate or in a Family?: Austronesian? Inherited Language Features: Half of the words derive from Tagalog roots How Many Numbers?: 10 Which Numbers?: 0-9 Native Script: Yes (Pasoolah) Romanised?: Yes (???pasoolah) Script "Depth": n/a

Predominant Affix Type: Prefix Variable or Absolute Suffixes?: Minor Morphosyntactic Alignment: The Morphosyntactic Alignment Primary Word Order: OSV Alternate Word Order: n/a Head Position: Initial, added as a prefix (ex. 'musangyi' is 'cat', 'rizamusangyi' is 'heroic cat') Secondary Type: n/a Different Registers?: n/a Amount of Registers: n/a Types of Registers: n/a How Are They Formed: n/a Declined?: No Conjugated? n/a Amount of Phonemes: 40 How Many in Each Class?: 17 vowels, 23 consonants Basic Syllable Structure: (V)CV(V(z)) Significant Sound Changes?: No Which (if any)?:n/a Minor Sound Changes: No Which (if any)?: n/a Tonality?: n/a Amount of Tones: n/a Phonemic Stress?: n/a Amounts of Stress: n/a Stress Position: n/a Affixes or (P)articles?: Affixes? Where?: Verbs, nouns w/ adjective, etc.  Cases?: n/a Amount of Cases: n/a What Are They? n/a Verb Categories: Past, present, future Amount for Each Category: n/a How Are They Formed?: present is the simple 'gu-' prefix (gumatu means sleeping). Past adds on 'na-' (nagumatu means was sleeping, namatu means slept) and future adds on 'hi-' (higumatu means will be sleeping, himatu means will sleep) Pronouns?: Yes How many Persons?: Singular and plural Genders?: Yes How many Numbers: 1, 2+ Clusitivity?: n/a What Levels?: n/a Proximate/Obivate Distinction?: n/a Main vs. Secondary Case difference?: n/a Base Case for Most Pronoun Forms: n/a Adjectives Agree with Nouns?: Yes Where, if at all? All Honorifics?: Yes Dependant on: Familiarity and superiority/inferiority Included How?: Titles Compounds and Derivations Frequency: n/a Methods of Compounding: n/a Methods of Derivation: n/a Purpose of Conlang: Artlang, experimenting with conlanging Theme: You could say this is my guinea pig conlang. I'm test driving this and learning from experience.

Interesting Features?: I do like the fact that everything is added via prefix Problems?: Numbering system. Saying long numbers in Bosolih (like 12,586) involves putting the number in expanded form (ki lawa saka lik qelwa saka joh likwa saka zay wa saka wuyi). That's a doozy to say, so saying 100,256,356,267 in Bosolih is a nightmare.

  (I need help with some of the terms on this page, hence the many n/as. Thoughts and help?)

[aranti]