My invented language
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My invented language
Here's a sample of it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1t8vVHmayQ
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Interesting. Can we see some info on it? A phonology and Romanisation would be a good start, then maybe some grammar?
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Re: My invented language
BTW, what does it sound like to you?
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Phonology-wise, what you see is what you get, but as for anything unusual about the phonology, it would be the use of uh to represent schwas and dh to represent soft th's. Also, y in my invented language is a Finnish y, not an English y. http://www.forumbiodiversity.com/showth ... d-languageOTʜᴇB wrote:Interesting. Can we see some info on it? A phonology and Romanisation would be a good start, then maybe some grammar?
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It sounds very English. I can hear a lot of English words in it. Does it use English as a proto-language or ancestor?
EDIT: Here's an example of a phonology from one of my conlangs:
/ p b t d k ɡ / 〈 p b t d k g 〉
/ m w n ɾ l~ɫ ŋ j / 〈 m w n r l ŋ j 〉
/ i ɯ e o æ / 〈 i u e o a 〉
IPA allows everyone to know exactly how a language is pronounced regardless of interpretations due to accent or dialect. For example, if someone says a word is pronounced "or-tum", then you could get all sorts of different pronunciations like /ɔ˞tʌm/, /ɔʔəm/, or /ɔtum/, but as soon as you tell everyone it's pronounced /ˈɔ.təm/, everybody can say it the same.
Interesting. Can we see it properly laid out in IPA? It's very helpful as "English y" could mean anything from /j/ to /i/ for me, and probably something different to say a Geordie.teengirlsquad wrote:Phonology-wise, what you see is what you get, but as for anything unusual about the phonology, it would be the use of uh to represent schwas and dh to represent soft th's. Also, y in my invented language is a Finnish y, not an English y. http://www.forumbiodiversity.com/showth ... d-languageOTʜᴇB wrote:Interesting. Can we see some info on it? A phonology and Romanisation would be a good start, then maybe some grammar?
EDIT: Here's an example of a phonology from one of my conlangs:
/ p b t d k ɡ / 〈 p b t d k g 〉
/ m w n ɾ l~ɫ ŋ j / 〈 m w n r l ŋ j 〉
/ i ɯ e o æ / 〈 i u e o a 〉
IPA allows everyone to know exactly how a language is pronounced regardless of interpretations due to accent or dialect. For example, if someone says a word is pronounced "or-tum", then you could get all sorts of different pronunciations like /ɔ˞tʌm/, /ɔʔəm/, or /ɔtum/, but as soon as you tell everyone it's pronounced /ˈɔ.təm/, everybody can say it the same.
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Welcome to the CBB!
It basically sounds based off English with mostly English sounds and English words rearranged with some foreign or unique words thrown in there.
I listened and took a stab at the phonology and got the following on a one time pass:
m n ŋ
b t d k g ʔ
f v ð s z
l ɹ j w
i ɪ u
ɛ ʌ o
ä
ai aʊ ɔɪ ua
I don't know for sure you've made a cipher or not but that is quite different from an entire language. A cipher is like a code used to obscure a message like a system like pig latin does. What O to the B says about the usefulness of the IPA is spot on the nose. It is almost essential for this hobby :)
Can you describe some things about your language like the grammar and sound system yourself?
It basically sounds based off English with mostly English sounds and English words rearranged with some foreign or unique words thrown in there.
I listened and took a stab at the phonology and got the following on a one time pass:
m n ŋ
b t d k g ʔ
f v ð s z
l ɹ j w
i ɪ u
ɛ ʌ o
ä
ai aʊ ɔɪ ua
I don't know for sure you've made a cipher or not but that is quite different from an entire language. A cipher is like a code used to obscure a message like a system like pig latin does. What O to the B says about the usefulness of the IPA is spot on the nose. It is almost essential for this hobby :)
Can you describe some things about your language like the grammar and sound system yourself?
Last edited by Nachtuil on 25 Mar 2017 18:49, edited 1 time in total.
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Haven't listened to the youtube link, but I would presume that Finnishy means agglutinating. Can't tell though, as I haven't seen the link.
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Taglish ba. Especially the "mizmo fasyon" bit. The accent to me sound Tagalog.teengirlsquad wrote:BTW, what does it sound like to you?
Is this your first foray into the wonderful world of glossopoesy (the fashioning of tongues)?
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lM_HYl_pMmAteengirlsquad wrote:Phonology-wise, what you see is what you get, but as for anything unusual about the phonology, it would be the use of uh to represent schwas and dh to represent soft th's. Also, y in my invented language is a Finnish y, not an English y. http://www.forumbiodiversity.com/showth ... d-languageOTʜᴇB wrote:Interesting. Can we see some info on it? A phonology and Romanisation would be a good start, then maybe some grammar?
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That's not phonology (how the language sounds), that's orthography (how the language is written down).teengirlsquad wrote:Phonology-wise, what you see is what you get, but as for anything unusual about the phonology, it would be the use of uh to represent schwas and dh to represent soft th's. Also, y in my invented language is a Finnish y, not an English y.OTʜᴇB wrote:Interesting. Can we see some info on it? A phonology and Romanisation would be a good start, then maybe some grammar?
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So. . .were any of the answers close? As expected? Totally off the chart?teengirlsquad wrote:BTW, what does it sound like to you?
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Did you also spot the Finnish loanwords?elemtilas wrote:So. . .were any of the answers close? As expected? Totally off the chart?teengirlsquad wrote:BTW, what does it sound like to you?
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Alas no, that wasn't me! But I wouldn't know Finnish from Karelian or Hungarian!teengirlsquad wrote:Did you also spot the Finnish loanwords?elemtilas wrote:So. . .were any of the answers close? As expected? Totally off the chart?teengirlsquad wrote:BTW, what does it sound like to you?
So, Tagalog was nowhere close!?
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There is Tagalog there too, yes, but you only guessed because of my accent and not because of any loanwords, because in the clips, there aren't many of them.elemtilas wrote:Alas no, that wasn't me! But I wouldn't know Finnish from Karelian or Hungarian!teengirlsquad wrote:Did you also spot the Finnish loanwords?elemtilas wrote:So. . .were any of the answers close? As expected? Totally off the chart?teengirlsquad wrote:BTW, what does it sound like to you?
So, Tagalog was nowhere close!?
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Your original video and the others sound like English with a completely altered grammar with some East-Asian-sounding words thrown in, to my ears.
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Well, I mean, I'm pretty sure that can be used to describe any language.Frislander wrote:Your original video and the others sound like English with a completely altered grammar with some East-Asian-sounding words thrown in, to my ears.
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But in this case it was almost like a text written in English with the words rearranged and some then replaced with forms from other languages/a priori.qwed117 wrote:Well, I mean, I'm pretty sure that can be used to describe any language.Frislander wrote:Your original video and the others sound like English with a completely altered grammar with some East-Asian-sounding words thrown in, to my ears.
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I only speak two languages, that's why.Frislander wrote:But in this case it was almost like a text written in English with the words rearranged and some then replaced with forms from other languages/a priori.qwed117 wrote:Well, I mean, I'm pretty sure that can be used to describe any language.Frislander wrote:Your original video and the others sound like English with a completely altered grammar with some East-Asian-sounding words thrown in, to my ears.
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I can speak 1.01 languages (the 0.01 is French that I learned to GCSE and haven't used in well over a year) and even my first language had pretty much nothing in common with English.teengirlsquad wrote:I only speak two languages, that's why.Frislander wrote:But in this case it was almost like a text written in English with the words rearranged and some then replaced with forms from other languages/a priori.qwed117 wrote:Well, I mean, I'm pretty sure that can be used to describe any language.Frislander wrote:Your original video and the others sound like English with a completely altered grammar with some East-Asian-sounding words thrown in, to my ears.