#personal conlang

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Practise makes perfect? Trying to get good enough to make a medieval manuscript with my conlang!

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The Passive Voice in Iþún

In Iþún, the passive arose from a grammatical case, -aihjen, used when using magic to affect someone. Kind of like an accusative case, but only used when the verb has to do with magic. This grammatical case is still used in the active voice for verbs like kill, electrocute, shoot, basically verbs that are drastic and tied to death or an extreme change of state, but ultimately the case ended up being used with a conjugation of verbs (originally a form of the verb that was used to reverse spells or used in counter-curses) to form the passive. That grammatical case isn't necessary with those verbs in the active voice, you can use the partitive case, -ksa, as well, but the meaning would be more along the lines of "you tried to kill."

Example for the active voice:

Leð aþaihjen vallisa. - I killed him/her (I him/her-aihjen killed. Haven't got a proper name for this case other than what I've been calling the "morphative" case, open to better suggestions on what to call it)

Leð aþaiksa vallisa. - I tried/attempted to kill him/her (I him/her-partative killed)

There are two ways that make it obvious whether the voice is passive or active: if the verb has nothing to do with death or an extreme change of state, it's likely the voice is passive, but the biggest indicator will be the form of the verb. The way the verb works, is that it was used in the past in reversal spells, counter curses etc. so it simply reverses which noun in the sentence is the intended subject and patient.

Active:

Leð aþaihjen vallisa. - I killed him/her

Passive:

Leð aþaihjen vallisönnä - I was killed by him/her

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Playing around with some concepts! :D

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Creating fonts for my conscript! It’s kinda gothic inspired :) Made a mistake though at the end and used the possessive pronoun instead of the dative but I wanted to share anyway. It should read: Osteanne’iþig an savaiþjón siðe! - welcome and good morning to you! More info about my conscript either later or tomorrow

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First time using Artline Calligraphy Pens! Bit messy but for the cheap price they cost, they’re pretty good! Good for a beginner on a budget :)

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Another Overhaul

Converted my current lexicon to PDF then deleted it all so I can re-work it. I feel a lot more optimistic this time around, I’m going to try harder to stick to using roots so I don’t have the same issue I had the last two times. Trying not to fall into the pattern of just coining a completely new word every time I need one and having a whole lot of unrelated and inconsistent words that all vaguely sound the same.

Started out not caring about being naturalistic (mostly due to lack of knowledge about linguistics) but the more I learn about linguistics, the more I wanna go back and make things more natural in Iþún. It’s a setback but I think it’ll be worth it and this time, just take things slowly. In the past, I’ve been in a rush to just expand the lexicon, which lead to me not thinking much about how I was creating new words.

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A more refined version of the Iþún script + the romanisation above

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Update on my Conlangs

I haven’t updated my progress in a while so here is what’s happening:  I now have four conlangs: Ihwil, Calisian, Azdinian and my personal conlang that I for now am calling Iþún /iθwin/ but I’m not happy with how it sounds so I’ll be changing it when I think of something that’s more “me”  I also started world building and would like to someday try writing a novel based in my conworld. I’ve tried my hand at creative writing a few times throughout my life and it’d be fun to get back to doing it, this time with a whole world to actually inspire ideas