As an active user of Conworkshop, I could not recommend it enough! It takes a bit to get used to PhoMo, the tool behind grammar tables and CWS's pronunciation estimation, but it gives you so many pointers on aspects of a language that you might not have even thought of, particularly if you're an amateur like I am. CWS also hosts a decently sized (for our niche standards, that is) community of conlangers from many different backgrounds, who con all sorts of langs.
"Tools, tips, tricks and tools and tips and tools and tricks" solid intro! 3:20 opera gx, I see you are a man of culture! srsly tho, great video again!
I probably won’t understand this, as most people that make conlangs usually have some sort of background in linguistics (I don’t have that). All I’m doing is using ChatGPT (horrible approach, I know, but it’s kinda… helping?). I take an English word and ask ChatGPT what a good word in my conlang should be for it. It gives me a suggestion, and bam. I also made some grammar rules. For example, “-‘na” is added to the end of a word just like the “-‘t” in “can’t” is added. Another example of a suffix is adding “-tek” to the end of a word to make it past tense, just like “-ed” works in English. If there’s a common phrase or words that are usually used together, I make individual words for them. Then I combine them into 1 or 2 words (in my conlang) using parts of those same singular words in my conlang to make it shorter. This way it retains its meaning, and keeps most of the letters from the separate words, so you can tell what it means, even if you weren’t informed beforehand. I’m not writing some fancy alphabet, I’m keeping the same letters we use in English, just moving them around to match the sound of the word. The words will also have much easier and obvious spellings. I’m not using fancy sounds either. Not making a phonology (whatever the hell that is) and this seems to be working for me for now.
I feel like the Index Diachronica should be here
chridd.nfshost.com/diachronica/
That is a really useful tool, thank you for suggesting it!
David Peterson has an excellent series of videos on conlanging.
As an active user of Conworkshop, I could not recommend it enough! It takes a bit to get used to PhoMo, the tool behind grammar tables and CWS's pronunciation estimation, but it gives you so many pointers on aspects of a language that you might not have even thought of, particularly if you're an amateur like I am. CWS also hosts a decently sized (for our niche standards, that is) community of conlangers from many different backgrounds, who con all sorts of langs.
"Tools, tips, tricks and tools and tips and tools and tricks"
solid intro!
3:20 opera gx, I see you are a man of culture!
srsly tho, great video again!
Waiting for the Tools, Tips and Tricks song to be released xD
Indeed!
Thank you!
you again?
I probably won’t understand this, as most people that make conlangs usually have some sort of background in linguistics (I don’t have that). All I’m doing is using ChatGPT (horrible approach, I know, but it’s kinda… helping?). I take an English word and ask ChatGPT what a good word in my conlang should be for it. It gives me a suggestion, and bam. I also made some grammar rules. For example, “-‘na” is added to the end of a word just like the “-‘t” in “can’t” is added. Another example of a suffix is adding “-tek” to the end of a word to make it past tense, just like “-ed” works in English. If there’s a common phrase or words that are usually used together, I make individual words for them. Then I combine them into 1 or 2 words (in my conlang) using parts of those same singular words in my conlang to make it shorter. This way it retains its meaning, and keeps most of the letters from the separate words, so you can tell what it means, even if you weren’t informed beforehand. I’m not writing some fancy alphabet, I’m keeping the same letters we use in English, just moving them around to match the sound of the word. The words will also have much easier and obvious spellings. I’m not using fancy sounds either. Not making a phonology (whatever the hell that is) and this seems to be working for me for now.
Thank you too Dracheneks!!
Thanks for the mention!
You surely deserve much more subscribers than 200. Awesome videos.
Thank you very much, I'm glad you like them!
Thanks for the tips!
Thank you!
I saw you on amino
Fantastic! Hello from UA-cam, I hope these videos have been helpful!