#sasuur

[absurdtamsin]

Some friends wanted wanted to see how I would write " pear-shaped question" in some of my constructed scripts, so here's two!

First in Sasuur:

And in my grass script:

Fun for everyone!

I've also started designing different 'styles' or 'fonts' for grass script that I'll eventually post here as well!

Each font/style also has plant-based names, and we'll see if they match up to each style as well as I thought!

[absurdtamsin]

Lol, I did something ridiculous and circular in one of my conlangs.

I already created words for 'night' and 'stars' and 'dark' in my conlangs, and did so early on.

Then I created a metaphor for the night by calling it 'the dark and diamond sky'.

Not weird in and of itself, but then I remembered that I my word for 'diamond' is a compound word meaning 'hard star'...

LOL

[luwianskies]

Sasu̅r, a personal conlang: phonology

Aaaannnd it turns out this crazy blogger has more than one weird hobby! One of which is conlanging. My conlangs usually start off in the context of my stories and so have quite a bit of culture attached to them. Maybe someday I’ll post stuff about them here, but not yet.

Sasuur however, exist purely to express me and my quirks. I made it for no better reason than for the lols.

So! Here’s the first part I established for Sasuur : how it sounds.

The sounds available to Sasu̅r and how I will write them

Vowels: 

a (father),

e (bet), 

i (eel),

o (mow),

u (pool), 

é (exactly as it would be said in french)(because I’m the conlanger and I say so)

All of these also exist in long forms, and I will spell them with a macron to obviate their presence.

Consonants:

S (save)

Z (zoo)

J (measure)(this sound is often written as zh, but I hate wasting existing letters,)

X (ship)(I. will. not. waste. letters!!!)(forgive my Shatnerism...)

H (hot)(always sounded out, never silent)*

L (lake)*

M (most)*

N (never)*

W (water)*

Y (yahoo)*

Ŕ (like the spanish rr)(r with an acute accent)*

R (french or german r) (growl with me people! RRRrrraaaaaahhhhh!)*

R̀ (made this up! basically, same as above, but unvoiced)(r with grave accent)*

V (vote)

T (top)

K (cat)

All consonants marked with an * can occur doubled, sort of like the long vowels.

T and K only occur as such when they sit at the beginning of words, when they are found within words they become affricates like ts, ks, tz, kx... they never occur at the ends of words in any form.

In theory all sounds can occur together anywhere save for T and K. I like versatility that way. (Let’s see if it pans out into something functional!)

I can already hear some people asking : why so many r sounds? Why so many sibilants? Why so few stops?

And the answers are : Because I want them, because I like sibilants, because I dislike stops. 

Seriously stops cramp my style, they sound like baby-talk blabbering. If I’m gonna make a conlang just for me it’s going to have the sounds I WANT. And I don’t want no more frickin’ stops. (goo-goo blag daaahhrrr boo-bam. No.)

That’s it for tonight. Toodles!

[absurdistocchiolism]

So, I was thinking about posting stuff about my personal conlang on here, but I’m not sure if I should do it on my main blog or on a side-blog.

Anybody have suggestions?