#invented language

[dedalvs]

This month for Fiat Lingua I did a re-read and reflect on my wife's new book How to Create a Language: The Conlang Guide. I go through chapter by chapter and give you my thoughts along the way and some behind the scenes info on how it was produced. Think of it as a short intro to The Conlang Guide!

[aeniith]

Alright so. I kinda miss Lexember. Every year I always enjoy how it pushes me to add conlanging into my daily routine rather than going all at once at it.

So I am going to do a short translation every few days. For now, it’s in Rílin, but I may branch out to some of my more developing languages.

[ˈʃydap̚ ʌˈtʌse ˈbaʃo ko ˈlɔnu ˈfɛtla]

Rílin is a VSO language. So you see the verb there first, that being “was”. Literally, “He was successful only at the third occasion.”

[danbensen]

On Holy Mountain, Foreign Feet

Bessian translations

This week we have a prophetic verse in my reconstruction of Thracian. When you read it, give each long vowel and diphthong two beats. Accented vowels are higher pitched than normal.

Kōgaió io

pódes xénai. Dymó

Dóubous tous me

Iérous phlēsté.

Porostrebýn ápaes

Iaes se rhódaes

Tous strátous pephlón

Se iēn sḗlkont.

Tēpsáte pós se iá

Stas zýn tēpsánia.

Gríssma tón

An xenón

Ke abdésyme zeltón.

On Holy Mountain, foreign feet.

You make Sacred Depths with smoke replete.

Rivers ruddy stream around

the armies tugging at her gown.

With Master at hand

The Mistress will stand.

If foreign debt

With welcome’s met.

More explanation here

[wtf-fun-factss]

Humans have invented over 200 languages just for entertainment. Click to read the full fact.

[genesissaturna]

What is the tag for people inventing new languages because I have a work in progress for one and need to find inspiration help Tumblr please figure thus out for me

[the-banana-0verlord]

my handwriting in lowercase, uppercase, cursive and a language i've invented in that order

And a clearer alphabet of my invented language

[markwateneymemorialcrater]

I was bored at work and came up with a coded language/ writing system.I think it looks pretty neat.

I imagine this as a language almost embroidered into a course weave or threaded on a grid of pins; thus the importance of linking the letters to the top and bottom. Each letter takes up 1 column of 4 squares high, and is formed by threading diagonal or horizontal lines through the grid, their position and steepness determining their letter.

Horizontal lines are vowels, diagonal are consonants, vertical lines connect them together but serve no linguistic purpose.

If there is a consonant followed by a vowel, they can both be written in the same column.

[grupaok]

Etel Adnan, Lilith’s Return, 2004

RIP - what a life she lived!

Our love to all who knew her.

Download a PDF of The Ninth Page: Etel Adnan’s Journalism, 1972–74.