@@LinguisticsFriend sure i am mostly making a conlang for fun as my school year is over and I have to much free time. I guess I kinda dont have a purpose as I don't have a fantasy world or something that requires it so i guess fun. 😅
Just having fun is a great purpose! It allows you to work on your conlang whenever you feel like it with no pressure and it's great for linguistic experimentation. I personally really like these kinds of languages as they just allow me to have fun and see what is possible or what "silly" result I can create. :)
@@LinguisticsFriend that was really nice for you to say that. Tho I am doing this just for fun but I also hope to create something completely unique. Create something that has not been seen by the conlang community ;)
That really is the part that takes the longest time! In the past, I did think about creating a tool to help create words with given rules as for example which sounds may appear in what position, but I never got to actually work on that idea. Such a tool would be a huge help for conlanging!
For me the hardest part is actually grammar. Words are easy; make a new word. Grammar however has you creating entirely new systems to convey ideas with. Its easy for some things like the different word orders you can use, morph-syntactic alignment, role marking strategies, etc... The problem is more niche things that are rarely discussed. Like, how many different ways can you express concepts like this: Its hard to like that book. Read that book as fast as possible. I wouldn't read this book, let alone that one. At least I found the book. There's countless little constructions like this that are unique to each language. The problem is finding alternate ways to say ideas like these. They're rarely discussed in grammars because they tend to prefer to stick to the more central stuff. I literally can't imagine any other way to convey these other than to just straight copy how its done in English. Worse yet, the only other language I know to a high degree is German, which overlaps with English far more often than not. In fact, of these four examples, a German would say all of them more or less the same way minus the third one (though I have no idea how how a German speaker would express that; I've never actually seen one do so). Grammars are never simple, every problem you solve only creates more. There's even a term for this in conlanging; its called 'fractal complexity'. To make matters worse, often times I'm forced to abandon grammars simply because they ended up with grammatical rules that weren't compatible with each other and I simply could find no way to resolve the issue. This comes up a lot if you're making configurational languages; you won't believe what goes into making sure its obvious what every word's part of speech is. Its why I've been thinking of leaning more towards synthetic languages. If all verbs have a tense marker on them, then its impossible to mistake them for another part of speech. All noun cases automatically indicate that the word is a noun. They also mean its impossible to mistake what role each noun plays, or where noun phrases begin and end, or even let you make distinctions like Esperantos 'pinti la domon rugxan' vs 'pinti la domon ruga' (the latter means 'to paint the house red, and the first means to 'to paint the red house', without case agreement these two phrases would be identical, unless you used an adjective-noun order like English does). Words are tedious to make, not hard. Grammar is hard; you're 99% of the time left completely in the dark as to what to do other than to just copy a language you deeply know (most of the time your native language). This has actually made me want to learn weird languages like Thai or Hungarian for no reason other than so I could finally fully understand how to make something that isn't just a relex (also known as a word-for-word cipher) of English to some degree.
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This was a great video. I have been trying to create a conlang for a bit now this helped me😊
Glad I could help you! Have you already got a purpose for your conlang?
@@LinguisticsFriend sure i am mostly making a conlang for fun as my school year is over and I have to much free time.
I guess I kinda dont have a purpose as I don't have a fantasy world or something that requires it so i guess fun. 😅
Just having fun is a great purpose! It allows you to work on your conlang whenever you feel like it with no pressure and it's great for linguistic experimentation.
I personally really like these kinds of languages as they just allow me to have fun and see what is possible or what "silly" result I can create. :)
@@LinguisticsFriend that was really nice for you to say that. Tho I am doing this just for fun but I also hope to create something completely unique. Create something that has not been seen by the conlang community ;)
I hope you were able to follow through on your plan! How is it going? Were you able to follow through on your plan and if so, how did it go? :)
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I am glad I could help you! Do you have plans for your own conlang? Are you already working on it?
Hardest part is making words
That really is the part that takes the longest time! In the past, I did think about creating a tool to help create words with given rules as for example which sounds may appear in what position, but I never got to actually work on that idea. Such a tool would be a huge help for conlanging!
For me the hardest part is actually grammar. Words are easy; make a new word. Grammar however has you creating entirely new systems to convey ideas with. Its easy for some things like the different word orders you can use, morph-syntactic alignment, role marking strategies, etc... The problem is more niche things that are rarely discussed. Like, how many different ways can you express concepts like this:
Its hard to like that book.
Read that book as fast as possible.
I wouldn't read this book, let alone that one.
At least I found the book.
There's countless little constructions like this that are unique to each language. The problem is finding alternate ways to say ideas like these. They're rarely discussed in grammars because they tend to prefer to stick to the more central stuff. I literally can't imagine any other way to convey these other than to just straight copy how its done in English. Worse yet, the only other language I know to a high degree is German, which overlaps with English far more often than not. In fact, of these four examples, a German would say all of them more or less the same way minus the third one (though I have no idea how how a German speaker would express that; I've never actually seen one do so).
Grammars are never simple, every problem you solve only creates more. There's even a term for this in conlanging; its called 'fractal complexity'. To make matters worse, often times I'm forced to abandon grammars simply because they ended up with grammatical rules that weren't compatible with each other and I simply could find no way to resolve the issue. This comes up a lot if you're making configurational languages; you won't believe what goes into making sure its obvious what every word's part of speech is. Its why I've been thinking of leaning more towards synthetic languages. If all verbs have a tense marker on them, then its impossible to mistake them for another part of speech. All noun cases automatically indicate that the word is a noun. They also mean its impossible to mistake what role each noun plays, or where noun phrases begin and end, or even let you make distinctions like Esperantos 'pinti la domon rugxan' vs 'pinti la domon ruga' (the latter means 'to paint the house red, and the first means to 'to paint the red house', without case agreement these two phrases would be identical, unless you used an adjective-noun order like English does).
Words are tedious to make, not hard. Grammar is hard; you're 99% of the time left completely in the dark as to what to do other than to just copy a language you deeply know (most of the time your native language). This has actually made me want to learn weird languages like Thai or Hungarian for no reason other than so I could finally fully understand how to make something that isn't just a relex (also known as a word-for-word cipher) of English to some degree.