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-"farfar, får får får?" -"nej, får får inte får, får får lamm" (swedish) means -"grandpa (dads-dad), does sheep get sheep?" -"no, sheep dosent get sheep, sheep get lamb" "får" means both sheep and get lol

What Frisian sounds like to non-native speakers:

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Great video. Amazing analysis on how to both construct and break down a constructed language for a magic system and find an application for it. However, I for one find FUS RO DAH to be a very compelling way of telling someone "I would like to throw you off a cliff." in Dragon-tongue.

There are gods in my world and the god of death would not be happy if someone was going around resurrecting everyone. While it is technically possible (but not easy) both the person resurrected, and the necromancer will find themselves being punished. For the person resurrected, Death might pity them if it was against their will, but they still need to go back to being dead. Eventually, death will find them. That's literally the price. It's like bad luck. Everything will seem out to get the person. The necromancer can get out of their punishment by undoing the spell (aka murdering the one they resurrected). If the necromancer is just animating corpses, death won't notice since no souls are being stolen. This doesn't mean it's accepted social though. In my story, necromancy as in talking to spirits of the dead is common. Some people, like my protagonist, are natural mediums while others can learn the skill. Raising the dead is a far rarer skill to possess (though I'm considering this for my protagonist) and it is harder to learn. I haven't full decided whether using reanimated corpses as labor will be legal. I am leaning towards yes just for the worldbuilding. Since souls and the afterlife are known to exist, honoring and respecting the dead are considered societal responsibilities. Most necromancers work to maintain balance with the spirits. Burial sites are often considered sacred. If a grave is disturbed or destroyed the spirit might return as a ghost, draugr, or other undead spirit. With this in mind, you might think that using the dead as labor would be disrespectful. This is why I'm not sure. I could explain it that this is seen as a dishonorable and shameful practice. It's something families resort to because they need the money. People who are sick or dying might arrange to be reanimated labor in exchange for money for their family. Soldiers might even write up contracts saying if they die, they can be reanimated in order to continue fighting. So, consent might be enough to keep a spirit from returning. However, going through the legal channels means money exchanging hands. This means that there's a lot of illegal activity surrounding the practice since some would prefer free labor. Grave robbing is a serious crime in this world as it disrespects the dead. Whether legally or illegally obtained, corpses aren't always used for what the deceased argued to which can result in a haunting. What I'm not sure about is how the reanimated would be used. Due to the culture, citizens wouldn't be happy seeing animated corpses walking around the city. Most likely, they'd be used for manual labor with a high death risk outside of the city. The reanimated could be used to fight dangerous monsters or just use them as a 24 hr work force.

In my fantasy story, while dragons are dangerous even though the most common dragon species are much smaller than most dragons in fiction only being about the size of a horse (specifically winged dragons) they are still considered part of the ecosystem. Wyrms and hydras are often much larger with some being closer to the size of dinosaurs. While magic exists in my setting, I wanted to have more realistically sized dragons, so my world isn't always fighting kaiju sized monsters. It's also easier to build an ecosystem around dragons if they're smaller. Large kaiju dragons are still possible. Rarely, individuals of any species will grow abnormally large for their species. These dragons are called alpha or emperor dragons and are closer to the size of typical fantasy dragons. The males are like male lions as they are the head of a pride of female dragons which the male breeds with. Females are more like queen bees. While emperor dragons are large, the largest are the titans which are the kaiju godzilla sized dragons. Titan dragons can reduce cities to rubble. Since most dragons in my world are small, they are often dealt with like how a bear or other wild animal would be dealt with if it wonders into a town. They are caught and released unless it is attacking people. If it is a flock of aggressive dragons, lethal force will be used until the numbers are small enough where any remain dragons can be captured and released. Larger dragons will be dealt with more forcefully as they can cause more death and damage. Some species of smaller dragon can be successfully tamed and used as mounts. However, there are other species that are much easier to work with. I should mention that even small dragons can be hard to kill since they resist a lot of magical attacks and due to their scales physical attacks can also be ineffective. This would make them good mounts in battle but as I said they can be difficult to control. Something to consider with dragons, especially in warfare, is feeding the dragons. Most fantasy dragons would have to eat a couple hundred pounds of meat a day. I solve this by making most of the dragons smaller and also omnivores. The larger ones will eat anything including other dragons. I also increased the size of the prey species because the larger the predator the larger the prey needs to be.

I'm planning to write a book and some tribes are part bird, so naturally I wanted to create a whistled language for them. I think since anatomically they have bird characteristics they could potentially have only a whistled language without a spoken one?

Can a sound shift realistically occur only in multisyllabic words? Like I want word-final vowels to be reduced in my conlang, which causes me some trouble with monosyllabic words...

Hi I enjoyed this and would love the next two it was very helpful

6:53 thats so interesting! Korean did the exact opposite transformation and now lacks rounded versions of i and e.

I tried to look this up on google and it showef me porn :/

12:28 Which they tried, and failed

11:12 I don't know, maybe a self-proclaimed fascist regime had something to do with it.

10:15 This isn't "wild speculation", it's what happened when Hernán Peraza was killed.

I would've appreciated if you had used canarian music when talking about the canarian whistling, instead of some generic epidemic-music-sounding caribbean one.

to be fair, you're not making /ü/ and /ö/ either. I mean, you're better than the average english speaker and big props, but whenever you(plural) try it sounds too forced relax your throat just let your LIPS glide from i to u, and e to o. no weird throat pinching. If it comes out your nose, you're doing it wrong

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why do the subtitles think youre speaking vietnamese

I don’t know how or why but this is the only conlang showcase where I screamed with joy in the first few seconds. I’ve never screamed at a conlang before???

1:12 fuck yeah! Rotherham cameo!

The music is too loud

Cave Man 1 to Cave Man 2: ''I say, Aloysius... how about we all agree about case theory, person, gender, syntax, suffixes, prefixes and all that other stuff needed for effective verbal communication before we commit to any kind of language? What do you say to that, old fellow? Cave Man 2: ''Uggah bougghahhh?!'' (Translation: Uggah bougghahhha)

Imagine an occasion when people would learn SOS whistle in the mountainous area or jungle. That would help a lot

3 years on and still i come back to these showcases for inspiration. I wish I knew where he went, he seems to have disappeared from the internet

I think a language made for magic would place more importance object and verb and drop the subject if it's the 1st person singular pronoun

nice video, but please, don't say the word "esk*mo". it's a racial slur against inuit people.

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Rhotics become /n/? I dont see any rhotics in old examplish C table. Please explain

(3:12)nasalization also known as french😂😂😂(also you forgot the "a",nasaliztion.

Asbestos has been known to produce flame retardant materials for thousands of years. Pliny the Elder even mentions it in his 1st century AD treatise Natural History which also includes dragons! If fire breathing dragons existed then I am sure asbestos would have been used as protection in some way.

Why teleport the elephants (or any other enemy forces) to the bottom of a lake when you can teleport them to above the enemy army? You can do the same with arrows, darts, rocks, or any other handy objects too.

Great Video! You explained these important concepts which would otherwise be so confusing to learn from a School Teacher or University Professor. Anyways, I was just intrigued by a very small detail in 14:26. I don't know where you got this chart but it says Philippine languages don't have case markers and adpositional affixes? I guess? ...which isn't all that true though. They do have bound and free case markers as for some other Austronesian languages as well, as I've heard. Nontheless, this video helped me so much in my conlanging hobby, and I just subscribed. ^^

This is the most useful video on this topic I've found

In German, we also had a pretty big sound shift, which especially divides southern German from northern German dialects and especially English. For example is water in northern German Water, and in southern German Wasser, in southern German it's das and was, in northern German it's dat and wat, also things like Appel, in northern German, became Apfel in southern German, so many strong consonants turned into... Uh idk, softer, longer variants

6:47 your /y/ sounds so weird bro, lol

this sounds fucking terrifying please make it stop

I think the reason Qo'noS is pronounced Kronos for some reason is due to phonetical nativisation. It is a process when a loan word from a different language is phonetically changed into the phonemic roster of a native language.

2:26 I love it! The only problem is I can't pronounce the palatals and and the post-alveolars.

That alien remark did really age well now in 2023

10:26 Your pronunciation of Menominee is wrong. It's pronounced Men-OM-ih-nee, with the emphasis on the 2nd syllable. I'm from Wisconsin and the Menominee Indian Reservation is located in my state.

The only complain i have about the video is the excesive megaphone. Once or twice it would be funny perhaps, but so much it becomes intrusive and actualyl hurts my ears

Over 2 years, miss your content, hope you come back.

Your content was so good please come back 😢

Phonology of Slovian Vowels A E Y O U Æ Consonants B C D F G H J K L M N P R S T W Z Þ DZ NJ

My language is a language of magic, however it's also a noble tongue that was used to store information as well. In some places it's also spoken as a native language. I'm far from finished with it, but I'll talk about some of the things that I think make unique. I made the grammar fairly simple, SVO, no conjugation blah blah, however, I think I have a few systems that make it very intuitive, straightforward and interesting. Spellspeak has something similar to grammatical gender, except it fucking makes sense. Nouns can be placed into specific classes based off of what the speaker knows about it. This changes the article to show if the noun is objectual, mundane, sapient, sentient, magical, righteous, evil, otherworldly, male, female, or neutral. For example in the sentence. "I fell because of the magical floor." The phrase, "the magical floor." would be "Vae glaav."

Is he dead

Dont tell me i watched 13 minutes in before being told i cant whistle in english ... Time to break out duolingo again

Ka taea e koe te kōrero māori, e hoa?

You deserve more subscribers

"Nasty consonant clusters" laughs in Québécois.