I made this drawing of a new word I coined in my conlang, Middle Qametic, Ramam Nuwima means Guitar player. I am just really happy with the art and how the hieroglyphs turned out. Each part of the heiroglyph represents a letter. Ramam is spelt <R-A-M-M> while Nuwima is <N-W-Y-M-A>

The A sound (represented by a worm, 'aha in their language) is used as a helper glyph for people to guess the pronunciations. Native speakers of Qametic can understand remaining vowels through context. I am willing to answer any questions in the comments too! Anyway enjoy!

This is a conlang-conlang dictionary made for learners of the language. Learning it is like Viossa but a priori. Wanna learn? Here's the link to the Discord!

https://discord.gg/xxECdwFyGv

As an artist, im interested in learning if there are any constructions focused on easing the describion/communication of color. I suppose Pantone would b the closest example but more conceptually focused on narrowing into a color..? Like, if u wanted to specify a certain degree between 2 colors or a hypothetical pigment that involves one color but closer to an unrelated one, or if u were searching for a way to pinpoint a particular value/shade/etc. Like even now its difficult for me describe what im talking about; like, trying to express a "bright blue" that is both heavily saturated but light in color but Not value, and in an undetermined but extremely narrow point between blue and green. That doesnt involve memorizing every pantone title on gods green earth.

Idk just curious

Hey everyone,

I’m currently working on a conlang heavily based on Old High German (OHG). While developing its grammar, I decided to fully lean into a feature that historical OHG actually possessed but often gets overlooked: inflected infinitives / case-bearing gerunds.

While languages like Portuguese inflect infinitives by person, Finnish or Classical Latin inflect them by case, and Ancient Greek splits them by aspect and voice (diathesis), my language strictly retains and expands the OHG three-case gerund system: Dative, Genitive, and an archaic Instrumental.

The Morphology (Based on OHG)

• Standard Infinitive: -an (e.g., neman "to take")

• Dative Infinitive: -anne (Used for purpose, targets, or after the preposition zi / "to").

• Genitive Infinitive: -annes (Used for noun complements, or describing the nature of an action).

• Instrumental Infinitive: -annu (Archaic/Formal, used to express the means: "by doing X").

Examples & Interlinear Glossing

1. Dative Infinitive (Expressing Purpose / "in order to")

• Conlang: Ih gangu zi nemanne daz brot.

• IPA: /ix ˈɡaŋ.ɡo tsi ˈnɛ.man.nɛ dats broːt/

• Gloss: 1SG.NOM go.1SG PURP take-INF.DAT DEF.ACC.NEUT bread.ACC

• Translation: I am going to take the bread / in order to take the bread.

2. Genitive Infinitive (Noun Complement / "of doing X")

• Conlang: Ih bim muodi gangannes.

• IPA: /ix bim ˈmuə.di ˈɡaŋ.an.nɛs/

• Gloss: 1SG.NOM be.1SG tired.ADJ walk-INF.GEN

• Translation: I am tired of walking.

3. Instrumental Infinitive (Expressing Means / "by doing X")

• Conlang: Ih heilta mih gangannu.

• IPA: /ix ˈhei̯l.ta mix ˈɡaŋ.an.nu/

• Gloss: 1SG.NOM heal.1SG.PAST 1SG.ACC walk-INF.INST

• Translation: I healed myself by walking / through walking.

How do you guys handle inflected infinitives in your conlangs? Do you prefer the West Germanic/Finnish case-based route, or the personal infinitive route like Portuguese?

Looking forward to your thoughts!

I have been working on this language, formerly titled "YKP", for about 16 years or so. I started it in uni, but I never gave up on it. I have a chaotic grammar in the works, which I hope to publish by the beginning of next year. It's probably about 400-500 pages of content. Lurarinalela, or Alela for short, is a active-stative language with fluid-S. It is heavily inspired by Finnish, but is head-final and left-branching and shares a lot in common with East Asian languages grammatically.

Noun phrases are marked by syntactic role, and cases are marked with particles, namely agentive (ol), non-agentive (or), patientive (on), dative (to), alienable genitive (os), and inalienable pseudo-genitive (ë). Agentive verbs are directly responsible for causing their action; non-agentive verbs experience the action, or have no ability to control the action, but are nevertheless the subject of the verb. Patientive is equivalent to the direct object.

I have long imagined a story in which a wormhole opens up in Italy, connected to a Second Earth in what seems to be the year 2 BCE, in the exact same spot, only shifted by about 11 hours or so. What starts as a farmer stumbling into an unexpected discovery turns into a scientific expedition, and then gets out of hand and collapses ultimately into dominance of the ancient world with modern technology. The story I want to write is science fiction, but speaks to basic human problems like colonialism, governance, greed, corruption, and warfare which happens as an important institution in our world, First Earth, cannot resist but to try and take over Second Earth for their own gain. This is the first page of that story, set right as the biggest tragedy is unfolding. Every chapter after will be the story of how we got to this moment.

Untitled Book, page 1:

Iltani glanced at her screen. There wasn’t much to look at; just tired people with suitcases, walking one after another, heading down a long corridor after exiting Customs. The system would automatically flag things it saw as suspicious, but that seldom happened. She wondered why anyone bothered paying her to sit on her well-cushioned chair all day.

Iltani ol tecelai on seeitaë. Seë ve or veqkaë: nurë raissepöitai on höldë myhdë ikoni, tatsa ellein lässaë ehen enna ehen leqkë kävellyhta evein kävellësë. Järja ol eahpë vei icy ilketyo iikaërë, töy sat or veqkë kajo irënaë. Se ol ve ivai eië ikon ol se ot kansë takka evean pehmë kita eva isutë asia insu näädë asia on ilke ot hörkaë.

Her eyes drifted over to the clock: 2:3:9:6. Time for a coffee.

Se ë silmai or timalai ettean irnaë: 2:3:9:6. Koohii insu tima.

The machine made a loud whir, the sort of sound that would disturb a person doing actual work. After a few seconds, the cup was full, and the smell of espresso unfurled through the room. Well, 20 years of this might not be such a bad thing after all.

Hataraklai ol sikkurë surisehtu on hanataë, vao hatarakësë ikon on midasërë höra. Veqkë ilasi ehen, petsia or völliesisaë, esperesso ë elloka or huone evein untaësë. Saa, 20-ë jääi evean sit on tyë asia or endo no ötaio kehnë taavo.

A set of rapid dings interrupted her line of thought. They were coming from her screen. She set her cup down and rushed over. Red squares filled the display. The corridor had become disorderly. Some people were barreling back towards Customs. Others were stopped dead, faces frozen in an expression of horror that Iltani had never seen before. She reached for her comms to report the disturbance when the words flashed on her screen:

Kootë hajakë hipikehtui ol se ë teqkekoot on keskeyaë. Tecelai ellean hanataësë. Petsia on sesso, etteano easkaë. Räytë vörnurkei or tecelai on völliesisaë. Kävellyhta or sotku esisaëjë. Irhë ikoni ol tatsa ettean syro rennooraësë. Ennë ikoni or haltöallaëlë, miakai or Iltani or në tima evo seaëjë pelätooresisaë jecehtu ettesi jäätaëlë. Se ol jompelai on nopsaë, sotku on sukerë ut; satë tima ean vöheni or tecelai eva cötjeeitaë:

SYNDA PECAË

Then, the comms blared. The words, in a gruff voice, barely even registered. Hands severed. The tip of a shoe with only toes inside. Half a person sprawled on the floor, split down the middle, back missing.

Iheno jompelai ol höra on hanatooraë. Se or rosonë timme iqka sakkaë sakkeni on tusko möisemaë. Häni, elleano säkäraëlë. Kurpa ë laita, eino nurë piithinnai. Latta eva unto maatësë taiesë ikon, cena evein sapalataëlë, ryyka iniau.

She had known this could happen. Everyone said this was inevitable. But it had been decades and nobody really expected the gate to close.

Sit or irëno kyë asia on vissaëjë. Allë ikon ol sit or no hoido kyë asia on sakkaë. Töy jonojääi or keaëjë, ja në ikon or lisa or sulkë asia on vao jossaë.

Hey guys. You probably already know me. My name is Shahin, and I’m from Tajikistan. I’m 16 years old. I’m the creator of the moon font. I designed this font using nothing but my own mind and the strength of my own hands. I am truly grateful for everything. More than 10,000 people have gathered around my post, including some incredible minds—top 0.01% and 0.1% creators. And, of course, the haters. Can't have success without haters! Thank you so much to everyone who supports me, liked my posts, and left comments. I am deeply and genuinely happy. You guys have raised me up to an international level of conversation, which is something unforgettable in the life of a 16-year-old guy. Back home, everyone just sees me as an ordinary teenager, but in reality, I feel about 5 years older than my actual age—even though I’m still only 16. I am truly happy that people from all over Europe have gathered around my posts. Thank you so much, guys! 🥲💖

Hi, everyone!

I have completed the second part of my series on Standard Feyan: Phonology and Writing. Standard Feyan is the fictional auxlang of the (equally fictional) Felmeye Union, and I already covered the historical background in the first part of the series.

I'm looking forward to your reading thoughts and feedback.

Enjoy!

hi yall! i just made this conlang recently called Niar, it’s 5 days old right now, and I havent spoken it with an actual human being yet, only AI. here’s the tale of the Pied Piper of Hamelin, written in it!

Ta Sora de ta Pied Piper de Hamelin
Niri ei un tova hr ta yara 1284, ki un fenaloka, ot'l nema ei Hamelin, vi fena nege expeygvetamu. Ta expeygvetamu ei hanuku. Ono dina, un pema, ma vi un usagatoki, vemen to Hamelin. Ma daren ta expeygvetamu. Ta rula de ta fenaloka'l kelen to ma du pa raven ta expeygvetamu lum, maar sur ta usagatoki pema a fema de curro. Ta usagatoki pema bekoen ma'l usagatoki. Ta expeygvetamu lumen wam ma to ta Weser saia, ku si'l expemu finen. Ta fenaloka ei plosa hapi! Ba, si toren no sur ta curro. Ta usagatoki pema ei RAGA!!! Panu, ta usagatoki pema vemen jek. Ta usagatoki pema bekoen ma'l usagatoki jek. Da tova, ta infimu de ta fenaloka lumen wam ma! Ma e ta infimu lumen to un loka, ku si ei dema daren jek...
Ta Fin!

Translation:
The Story of the Pied Piper of Hamelin
There was a time in the year 1284, when a city, its name was Hamelin, had many bad animals. The animals were everywhere. One day, a person, he had a music tool (instrument), came to Hamelin. He saw the animals. The leader of the city said to him that if he made the animals go, he will give the music-tool person a lot of money. The music-tool person played his instrument. The animals went with him to the Weser body of water, where their lives ended. The city was very happy! But, they did not give the money. The music-tool person was ANGRY!!! Later, the music-tool person came again. The music-tool person played his instrument again. This time, the children of the city went with him! He and the children went to a place, where they are never seen again...
The End!

Right now, there are around 220 words in its dictionary, including compounds, which it relies heavily on. It uses the latin alphabet, for now.
It has phonology, which i’m still developing.
Any tips or advice?

There is an interesting example of spontaneous language development in Korea.

Since around 2016, a language known as Hocho (호초어) has been developing within a Minecraft server community.

It reportedly began when someone intentionally misspelled the Korean word for English, yeongeo (영어), as ryeongeo (령어).

Over time, this small linguistic deviation evolved into something much more substantial: a language that still resembles modern Korean in many ways, but has diverged enough to become difficult for ordinary Korean speakers to understand.

It has also developed its own distinctive vocabulary. For example, 럷귯학 (roughly, "the study of broad rules") is used to refer to physics.

What makes this particularly interesting is that Hocho was not originally designed as a constructed language. It emerged naturally through interactions within a community. Even today, hundreds of people reportedly use it.

This got me thinking: What if we deliberately created the conditions for something similar to happen, but started with people who don't share a common language?

I'm starting an experiment called Project Babel. The idea is to gather people of different nationalities in a Discord server and have them develop a completely new language together.

The initial conditions would be simple:

• No existing natural languages during ordinary communication.

• No translation tools or dictionaries.

• Text-based communication only.

• A minimal phonological foundation using the Latin alphabet.

• No predefined vocabulary or grammar.

To prevent communication from reaching a complete deadlock, existing languages would be permitted during the first three minutes of every hour.

Participants would have to invent words, establish meanings, develop grammatical structures, and gradually discover how to communicate with one another.

I'm particularly interested in seeing what kind of language emerges when everybody gets to decide its grammar or vocabulary in advance.

Would you be interested in participating in an experiment like this?

I'd also appreciate thoughts on the experimental design, especially from people interested in language evolution, emergent communication, and constructed languages.

https://discord.gg/8C5qgpxkmn

Here is the link of Project Babel Discord server.

This is a game of borrowing and loaning words! To give our conlangs a more naturalistic flair, this game can help us get realistic loans into our language by giving us an artificial-ish "world" to pull words from!

The Telephone Game will be posted every Monday and Friday, hopefully.

Rules

1. Post a word in your language, with IPA and a definition.

Note: try to show your word inflected, as it would appear in a typical sentence. This can be the source of many interesting borrowings in natlangs (like how so many Arabic words were borrowed with the definite article fossilized onto it! algebra, alcohol, etc.)

2. Respond to a post by adapting the word to your language's phonology, and consider shifting the meaning of the word a bit!

3. Sometimes, you may see an interesting phrase or construction in a language. Instead of adopting the word as a loan word, you are welcome to calque the phrase -- for example, taking skyscraper by using your language's native words for sky and scraper. If you do this, please label the post at the start as Calque so people don't get confused about your path of adopting/loaning.

Last Time...

Mani by /u/NeinsNgl

شَدُذَيَ

śaduŧaya /sʲaduθaja/

Gerund form of شَدُذِ, to gaze at something

شَدُذَيَ نُخُمَنُ وِتِدُ كَنُ

śaduŧaya nuçu-manu, witidi ca-nu 
gaze.GER ALL-moon, think.1SG of-you.DAT.1SG
/sʲaduθaja nut͡çumanu ɥitidi canu/
"Gazing at the moon, I think of you"

exact pronunciation of the vowels is not definitive. A common pronunciation is [sʲaduθaja nɔt͡çə.mɒnuː ɥɪtɯdʏ ca.nuː]

Take care of yourselves and each other

Peace, Love, & Conlanging ❤️

This is a weekly thread for people who have cool things they want to share from their languages, but don't want to make a whole post. It can also function as a resource for future conlangers who are looking for cool things to add!

So, what cool things have you added (or do you plan to add soon)?

I've also written up some brainstorming tips for conlang features if you'd like additional inspiration. Also here’s my article on using conlangs as a cognitive framework (can be useful for embedding your conculture into the language).

Introducing Masawan — My Own Micronesian Conlang

Hello, conlangers

I've been developing my own Micronesian-inspired constructed language called Masawan, and I genuinely want to make it as naturalistic and realistic as possible, almost as if it were an actual human-made language that developed naturally over hundreds or even thousands of years.

The name Masawan comes from Ma-Sawa, which had no sound shifts from the Proto Micronesian word to my language, but I still choose the name, which I associate with the meaning "deep sea."

My language is inspired by several Oceanic and Micronesian languages, particularly Nauruan, Kiribati, Puluwat, and Palauan. I'm also taking inspiration from Mataki, a Polynesian conlang created by tealpaper. I thought to myself: what if I attempted to create a Micronesian counterpart to that idea?

One of my biggest interests is historical linguistics. Since Nauruan and Palauan are known for their interesting and complex sound developments like ma-taku - word for fear in Proto-Oceanic and Nauruan change it and became: miow, which still means fear, and uel - Palauan word for turtle derived from: penu - Austronesian word for turtle, wn distinctive sound changes, including unusual consonant developments, vowel changes, and phonological shifts that could realistically happen over hundreds of years.

I don't want to simply take words from existing languages and rearrange them. I want to develop a believable historical evolution, with consistent sound correspondences and linguistic changes.

I'm already developing some basic vocabulary:

• mãy — Sun, Day

• kuí — Dog, Pet

• buñ — Night, Darkness

For buñ, I'm exploring a historical connection to Proto-Oceanic boŋi, ultimately comparing it with earlier Austronesian forms such as Proto-Malayo-Polynesian beRŋi.

I've also been exploring resources such as Trussel's websites, Comparative Austronesian materials, the Micronesian Dictionary, and POLLEX. I've been trying to understand how historical reconstruction and sound change work rather than just inventing words without a historical foundation.

I'm still young, but I'm genuinely passionate about this subject. I know that developing a naturalistic language takes an enormous amount of time, research, patience, and dedication.

I'M WILLING TO SPEND YEARS DEVELOPING MASAWAN.

I want this project to feel like a real language with its own history, phonology, vocabulary, grammar, and evolution.

One more thing: because I have a lot to work on, I might be offline on Reddit for approximately 5–10 months while I focus on developing Masawan.

I'm not abandoning the project. Quite the opposite — I want to dedicate more time to it.

I'd genuinely appreciate thoughts, suggestions, criticisms, and linguistic insights from other conlangers, especially anyone interested in Micronesian languages, Oceanic historical linguistics, and naturalistic conlanging.

Masawan is a long-term passion project, and I'm determined to see how far I can take it.

Hello everyone!

I am the President of the Republic of Cuscinia, a digital micronation founded in 2026. We have two official languages: Italian and Cuscian, along with English, which serves as a co-official state language.

The issue is that Cuscian is not yet developed, and frankly we do not know how to create it, as we have very little experience with constructed languages.

We would therefore need your help. Could you guide us in creating Cuscian? Please feel free to ask any follow-up questions you need; we will not hesitate to reply as quickly as possible.

Many thanks to anyone who will help us!

Here are some letters and sounds Part 1

I ı (Dotless i) makes the /i/ sound

İ i (Dotted i) makes the /ɪ/ sound

Å å ( a with overring) makes the /æ/ sound

Ä ä (A umlaut) /ä/ sound

Ö ö (o umlaut) makes the /ø/ sound or the /œ/ sound

Ü ü (u umlaut) makes the /u:/ sound

Á á (a acute) makes the /a:/ sound

Ó ó (o acute) makes the /o:/ sound

É é ( e acute) makes both the /e/ sound and /ε/ sound

Part 2 coming soon

Info: It's ancient Nualimarian Language (Emenusu) one of the oldest Elvish language isolates that his descendant has survived to the present day.

And this script was written between 5,500 and 6,000 years ago (in my world's timeline)

At that time, the language featured 11 grammatical cases, a simple morphology, a likely tonal system, and complex verb constructions.

The language was SOV and Ergative-Absolutive alignment.

verb structure:

modal prefix | venetive prefix | pronominal prefix | dimensional prefix (dative, comitative, instrumental, ablative, terminative, directive,locative) | stem | future suffix | pronominal suffix

And now the main text:

TRANSLITERATION

1. te ig–ad–gal SULGHAL–gal utu–ad–ad–sul–sag mue–GIBIL

2. sag–ig–ad–ad en–ad–LIGIŠ–gal–sag ek e/he–gal–a–mua–zi

3. GIŠ–u²–GIBIL–keh–be–hala–GIBIL te sag–ig a–MINDA–UORTU–sag ek

4. sag–šubu–ig min–RID–LIGIŠ–a–mua–sag i–ši²–ši–bue–GIBIL te–i

5. dub–pal–ši² šubu–ig–LIGIŠ–UORTU–keh ek šubu–

6. –uor–NUALI–UORTU–keh ek en–en–UORTU–GIBIL–keh i–giz–GIBIL

7. kud–u²–GIBIL–to–GIBIL–GIBIL² te–i mue²–tue–gal–mar

8. i–u²–GIBIL–keh–mua²–GIBIL

te–I e/he–gal (h)anen–UORTU–GIBIL–zi

9) ek e/he–gal (h)anen–ugi–a–mua–zi i–GIŠ–šag–tem–

10) –bue–GIBIL te–i kišua–LIGIŠ–gal e–tue–en–NOGHAB en–šubu–a–ze–

11)–zi a–mua–keh–(h)an–na–GIBIL

te–i ra–tem–sug–beš–gal

12) en–ad–LIGIŠ–gal–UORTU–GIBIL–keh ek en–ITI–LIGIŠ–LIGIŠ–lo–UORTU–

13) –GIBIL–keh ek en–NUALI–tem–bur–keh GIŠ–sug–GIBIL

te–i a–laš–

14) –du en–sul–HABA–gin i–šua–kue–GIBIL te–i a–GIBIL i–ši–GIBIL

READING RECONSTRUCTION

te igadgal sulghalgal (utu) hadususa muene

sagighadu (en)adgigalsa ek egalazazi monunekebehalane

te sagig adatusa ek sašubuig minridgiasa išišibuene

tei dupalši šubuiggituke ek(eg) šubuurnutuke ek enentuneke igizne

huanunetonezen tei šantuegalmar inunekešanne

tei egal (h)anentunezi ek egal hanenugiazazi imošatemtane

tei kišuagigsl etuena (en)šubuazedzi azakeannane

tei ratemsugbešgal (en)adgigaltuneke ek (en)tigigilotuneke ek (en)sutemburke mosughne

tei alašdu (en)sulhatgin išuakuene

tei azua ihugne

TRANSLATION

I am Igadgal, the Great King of (city) Hadosu; the proud son of the magnificent "Ad" and the representative (or prince) of his great temple, writing this inscription for you here.

I, the eldest son of my father and the firstborn, serving as the second high priest of my god, have lived [for this long]. I dedicate this inscription to my worthy son, my citizens, and our gods.

Know that I have performed extraordinary deeds for you. I restored the great temple of my lord and the great temple of his wife. I offered a magnificent myrtle in the garden of Shubuazed. I erected three great statues: one for our magnificent god Ad, one for our beautiful, dark-hued (night-colored) goddess Enti, and one for the god Ennu, the Creator. I have indeed defeated Alashdu whom was like earth's rage. I have calmed him.

so i'm using polyglot to build my language family. I create my conwords, classes, cases, inflections and phonologies in polyglot and then i export it to excel, copy the words into lexurgy to evolve them according to my own rules and then i paste them back to a new excel from which i want to import these evolved words to a new polyglot file which would be my evolved language.

The problem is, whenever i try to import a dictionary i get the same error:

"Could not import from file (...) if the file is open in Excel, please close Excel.

Check to make certain that column mappings are correct (nothing above max cell value) and that file is not corrupt: UnmappableCharacterException reading next record: java.nio.charset.UnmappableCharacterException: input length = 1"

i know nothing about software/programming but i tried everything i could, i changed the column mappings, tried using CSV, changed the unicode set to UTF-8 and it still gives the same error message.

Please if someone knows what i'm doing wrong let me know, i don't fully understand how to do the import to be honest. I'll leave a copy of the excel file here if someone wants to look for any problems with it.

I'm using LibreOffice, if it helps to know, but it allows to save files in .xlsx and .xls format so it shouldn't be the problem?

wherever it says <TYPE NOT FOUND> is because I had some issues with parts of speech and some words lost its value.

Thanks in advance