Atsüar - A Conlang Showcase
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- Опубліковано 20 чер 2024
- A brief introduction to Atsüar, a conlang of Seylha.
This video covers the basics of the phonology, nouns, verbs, with pieces of history and a look at the writing system.
Gloss used in the video:
ERG | Ergative case
ABS | Absolutive case
GEN | Genitive case
LOC | Locative case
DAT | Dative case
DEF | Definitive article
INDEF | Indefinitive article
SG | Singular
DU | Dual
PL | Plural
TOP | Topic particle
INT | Intensifier
NEG | Negative
FUT | Future Irrealis
SBJV | Subjunctive Irrealis
OPT | Optative Irrealis
JUS | Jussive Irrealis
MOD | Realis Modal
PROG | Progressive Aspect
HAB | Habitual Aspect
PRF | Perfect Aspect
I think this is a really well done conlang, and a really good presentation. It feels quite naturalistic, aside from the lack of high vowels, which is quite weird, but I think some rare languages might have something like that. I look forward to seeing more from this channel!
Sakapultek (a Mayan language) has been described as having widespread vowel lowering similar to this - it still has five phonemic vowel qualities /aeiou/, but in casual speech some speakers lower high vowels to mid and mid vowels to [a] in stressed syllables.
Adygh and Ubykh languages have 3 and 2 (TWO!) vowels respectively. Neither has high ones. Though Ubykh is died language, but Adygh is still quite alive. And, yeah... they are related. And together isolated from other languages.
@@ciomnylordbielarusiyNW Caucasian languages are extreme edge cases, and even then schwa was very frequently realised as a high vowel
Damn, you put a lot of work into this video, glorious🙌
I really like the script! It aesthetically reminds me of Kēlen's Interlace Alphabet.
Thanks. I wasn't familiar with Kēlen, but having looked it up I see what you mean - though Kēlen's orthography looks 100 times more complicated! It's impressive stuff and makes mine look rather unambitious
This is probably the best conlang showcase I've seen so far. The video edition and images are just astonishing, and the explanation is clear and interesting. I'd love to see more about your world soon!
A great conlang and presentation. The script is really creative - I'd never come up with it on my own. Great job!
Thank you!
This is the kind of conlangs that inspire people to create their own. The presentation is amazing, the orthography is beautiful, the aesthetics look nice... the effort you put in it really paid off. Looking forward to seeing more of these, but creating these should take its time, doesn't it?
This is a spectacularly high-quality video. I can't wait to see more!
This is super slick. Love the production quality and care put into the language! Keep it up man :-)
That’s a great showcase of the language. You’ve put a lot of thought into this. I don’t think any of my languages have that complicated verb systems.
This is great work. Very well done. Your visuals are amazing! You even managed to get the carving on the pillars. I can tell you've put a lot of thought into this. I'll be sure to follow you closely in future.
Thanks! The embroidered writing on the canvas right next to the pillars took about 10 times longer than the pillars, but doesn't look nearly as good as the pillar picture. Funny how it often works out like that
Man, I gotta step up my game...
I love your map and also the language is nice definitely an inspiration
This is the best conlang showcase I’ve EVER seen!
As a first video this is incredible, as just a video it’s still impressively well done. Can’t wait to see what you do next
I loved this. Everything was so well done. You have thoroughly interested me in the world you’re creating :)
Thank you!
Loved this. Eastern dialect is my favorite. If I may, a video just pronouncing some of the lexicon would be fantastic! :D
Thank you! I wish my pronunciation was better but I'll certainly consider once I've had a bit more practice :)
Great work! Loving the visuals, attention to dialectal differences, and that writing script is beautiful!
Hope to see more of this world. The graphics are great and the language sounds so great. please keep us posted
I'm positively blown away by the care and work that you put into this video and Atsüar! I must say that congeography is one of my favorite parts of conlanging and I very much like your map. You have my subscription and I am excited to see your forthcoming work.
Please make more videos. Your production by far beats many other showcases out there, and your conlang matches that skill level. I would watch another video in a heartbeat, well done!
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Absolutely loved this! Amazing production and such an intelligent language. Really enjoyed it
Great conlang! Can't wait for more in the future
The script reminds me of the celtic knot, but the geography/history sound more like Kievan Rus. I get Early Medieval vibes of a vaguely European civilization. Really impressive presentation.
this is insane! can't wait for part 2!
This is so great! I love the worldbuilding which came with the conlang and also the aesthetic of the presentation
Thank you!
This is great quality content. Keep it up!
Amazing video) looking forward to the next one!
Я, как многоинтересующийся русскоязычный конлангер, могу сказать, что это бесподобно! Я тоже создаю несколько семей языков. Очень много плюсов, но хочу обратить внимание на качественную картинку и звук.
I have no clue what's going on but I love it, this is an awesome conlang, but like every other language I try to understand, I couldn't understand how it worked.
Good job! I can't believe you've only just started on UA-cam and your quality of video is so good!
this is a super good video, and i love the way the presentation looks
You NEED to do more of these. I'm so glad worldbuilding showcase style videos are getting more popular on UA-cam.
Thank you!
I love this writing system! It's so aesthetically pleasing!!
Thank you!
Damn, I could never fully grasp the ergative-absolutive system, and now you've explained it, just as a BTW to your conlang showcase, in a few sentences - and I've finally got it! Thanks a lot.
this is amazing bro i would love if you did more videos based around the history and culture of this world cause its so cool
Those writing systems are devine
Wow, beautiful language and writing system! This is a well put together showcase, and I just love how the interwoven alphabet looks, it's extremely appealing to the eyes, although I can only imagine what a pain it must be to read if you're only getting started on reading it 🙈 impressive work nonetheless, and extremely inspiring as well
absolutely wild whenever youtube recommends me a channel with only 435 subscribers and the production quality of the videos is this shockingly high
That really so good! Your writting system is so cool!
Inspiring stuff mate, I never have the patience to finish conlangs, but I’m hoping my current project will get to a useable point - this has actually helped me make some decisions regarding it (i was considering the same perfective present/past ambiguity) so thanks :D
Really enjoyed :), will you be making videos about the culture and other aspects of your world or will it be primarily about the conlangs?
Thank you! I'm not too sure yet. I expect videos will likely be conlang focused, though they may also touch on other elements of the culture(s).
Awesome!!! I love it
i'm eating chips and my nose itches
yoo thats an amazing video, you should really make more
Holy god your visuals are so pretty I'm so jealousssss
Damn damn mans, this high a quality production on the first video?
Subbed :)
High quality presentation, and really interesting content; subbed looking forward to future videos ^^
Thank you!
Instant sub
cool writing system
5:19 no inherent vowels + vowels marked separately, I think that would be better described as an abjad like Arabic or Hebrew. Devanagari has inherent vowels so it's considered an abugida iirc. The wiki page for abugida also mentions the term alphasyllabary, which could also work.
Really cool! I would love to see more about this world.
Thank you!
Wonderful language! You should make a video on how you make your maps, they are beautiful!
We will watch your career with great interest...
I hope to see more from you!
Goddamn this is so good.
Man plz continue, your work is amazing, i would love to see u explaning how to do conlang cases in more details!
Thank you!
Where are you all these years? I’m looking forward to see you but there’s nothing :(
More please I love the language and graphics
First of all, Amazing conlang! This video is surely one of the best conlang showcases out there.
Secondly, how did you incorporate such amazing animation shifts? What program enabled you to create such an amazing presentation?
That was fascinating. Seeing you lay out the clitics and the examples reminds me a lot of how Japanese verbs work.
Would love to see videos about the world building besides just conlanging. The setting looks so interesting!
Thank you!
This is so cool
This is a lovely introduction to your ConLangs. The map is lovely and the culture is absorbing. Will there be more? I'd really like to see one about the history as it would have more of these splendid maps.
I liked it. It's very good.
Great conlang and absolutely phenomanal presentation. Makes me ashamed of my conworld and editing... lol
I need to know more about this world please show us more
Hey, this video is good. You should do another one. Don't give up.
This was fun to learn about! Your verbs bend my mind a little bit, but that's never a bad thing. Funnily enough there's a couple minor similarities between Atsuar and one of my own conlangs? I just thought that was neat as well.
Absolutely amazing, especially for a first video! I must have watched this three times already because I'm waiting for the next one. Subscribed :)
Edit: How is the conlang called Atsuar (with a /u/) if there is no high vowels like /i/ and /u/?
Oh, it has an umlaut. Sorry, my bad.
SVO, very interesting choice
How to give more than 1 like? Cause this one deserve it.
Very interesting video. I can't help but wonder about the alphabet though. The style is absolutely gorgeous, and I can imagine the younger being an adaptation of the older, but what I'm curious about is if you gave thought to how the alphabet originated. In our history, I believe to recall there are three distinct ways (carving, cuneiform and pencil), and I could see this being a pencil one, which would usually imply another alphabet already being present, but also perhaps something that originated as cords being tied a certain way, perhaps from a maritime or other cord-heavy history. In any case, I had to ask, since it felt like a blank missing from the video. Thanks for creating something very inspirational.
Thanks! I definitely could have expanded more on the diachronics in general, and I even ended up cutting some out in edit to try and keep the video short which maybe I should have kept in. The basic idea behind the writing is an old system of physical knots used for recording information (perhaps similar to quipu, though it may not have looked quite the same). The temples were inspired to develop the more expansive writing system by the pre-existing writings of the indigenous 'barbarians'.
Excellent work! On the conworld, conlang and on the video.
Could you tell us which programs you used to make the video, by the way?
I knew this sound similar when you mentioned the people coming in by sea. Where have I seen this before? I swear I’ve seen this
I've never published anything before about this, but it may unintentionally resemble other stuff out there!
Yes the more I think about it is that it has one major difference in that yes it does follow a similar grammar system but they’re all combined into one word. So in that language a singular word could mean an entire sentence, maybe even a paragraph. The language I think is related to some kind of fictional sun culture that migrated across the seas and differentiated to multiple dialects.
Would you ever consider putting Atsüar on Omniglot? Or few new videos on how to write it?
I just found this and it's AWESOME!!!
Wow amazing video! Can i ask you what did you used for creating the map?
Really loved the video! Not sure if this was just for me but the video seemed a bit out of sync at times? Otherwise, from one conlanger to another, well done!
Good conlang showcase. We have a similar aesthetic. I like that this presentation looks like it was made by someone with a linguistics degree, as there are so many amateurs in the field. Some comments: nice script; I liked how verbs were not inflected for tense, but aspect. Tense is less variable over a narrative than aspect, so if we're thinking aesthetically of a language to write longer pieces in, marking aspect will be more informative. Well done on not doing an SVO ergative language. I do not know if OVS (verb-medial, that is) common, so maybe worth checking. Also, I felt it was unrealistic that the ergative language should have a passive voice. Ergative languages can emerge in a few ways, but one common way is for the passive to become the basic voice. Not uncommonly, these languages will have an "antipassive" where the agent raises to the absolutive argument, and the patient or theme may be left out. It does not make so much sense, however, for an ergative language to have a passive, since their "active" verbs are rather like our active verbs. Verb inflection was cool. I liked the prefixing, but felt there could have been some object incorporation - see Inuktitut for a real world example.
Thanks for your comments-they're interesting to consider particularly around incorporation. The 'passive' existing is indeed a mistake-in my formal write up of the grammar I have an antipassive. There are a few small parts of the video I wish I could edit but alas not.
Bless the algorithm!
Nice video! I would like to make this kind of video but I am not nearly as skilled at animation stuff. I guess my reference grammar will do, although it is not as entertaining. Also, nice that your genitive and ergative are the same, I see that all the time in natlangs (or locative/instrumental instead of genitive) but I don’t think I’ve ever seen it in a conlang before.
Please come back
so detail
Cool.
Wow... this is so in-depth and amazing! I hope you post again soon, but don't feel pressured, do you have any other channels? Or is this the only one?
This is the only channel I'm afraid. I'd like to do more soon but it's already been a year since this video and I'm extremely slow. Time gets away from us all
@@seylha9891 Oh, ok!
This video is really good so please continue if you want too.
i quit making my conlang that had 5 words and now this video made me want to finish it
also how long this take
AWESOME WORK THERE !
However, there is something I don't understand. How do you explain having with an accent but no without it ?
Thanks!
My intention was to choose romanisations that are likely to be pronounced close(ish) to correctly by an monolingual English speaker. I think has a chance of being pronounced close to [y~ø], whereas would not get close. also doesn't match close enough to my other phonemes, so it didn't make the cut. This is possibly a mistake as I could have made as [i~e] and [u~o] respectively, but I also like the romanisation aesthetically... :)
Cool as this is, the noun case section seemed a bit strange.
If the subject of an intransitive sentence is only marked absolutive for involuntary actions, is that even really an absolutive case? It's no different from a nominative-accusative system with a fluid subject at that point, right?
Also, I think 'passive voice' is specifically a change to the verb that changes its valency, rather than just a sentence that omits the agent.
Also also if it's the agent changing from ergative to absolutive it's not passive it's 'antipassive'.
Mind you I've never studied an ergative language so I could be completely wrong about most of this.
It's a type of split ergativity where nominative-accusative constructions are used where there is real intent. You're right, for a lot of verbs it's a fluid subject system (with patientive argument the default), though there are some verbs which can only take a patientive argument and some which only take an agentive. I definitely could have fleshed this out a bit more in the video in hindsight - having spent so long with the language I'm no good at judging what needs more explanation and examples.
You're also right about the passive. It's technically an antipassive voice to form passive constructions, so I just see it as a passive. Apologies if this (or the ergativity explanation above) are erroneous at all - I'm no linguist so there could be mistakes!
Is there another website where I can learn more about this conlang?
Where did you make the map? Very beautiful.
Thank you! It was made from scratch in Photoshop over some months
Well done, espechially the complex grammar, which is to difficult to understand for me though, further What is the language group of this language?
What did you use to make the map in the background if you don't mind me asking
The map was made entirely in Adobe Photoshop. I couldn't tell you how long it took, I spent hours at a time over a period of months on it and it's not strictly finished still.
Imagine having a way to type in this script 💖
Umm I couldn't understand most of it but since I am also working on a conlang (I don't know if what I am making will become two dialects or two distinct languages. Lets see)I must ask a question (since you definitely are an expert), how many root wordss and grammatical particles in total are required for a natlangish vocabulary. I want mine to be minimalistic like toki pona yet more convenient. So where should I stop. Vaxapu doesn't have subject-verb agreement (in person and gender etc.)for sake of minimalism. It directly borrows from Sanskrit/Hindi(since Hindi is my mother tongue) whenever there's a missing word. Thought I later remove all the loanwords. Some examples are:
asha= to see
ashaRa =one who sees (means audience, may mean something else in some other context)
ashanD=sight(ability to see)
asharl=seen
ashasin=someone who can see
ashafa= to make someone see (show)
ashaswa= to get seen(alright I gotta agree I cheated while making this one. It was not random like previous ones but from Sanskrit swa,as in swayam. But this loanage is really limited, almost unnoticeable.)
yasha= to see (imaginative)
Then I have the entire range of words like: ashafaRa, ashaswaRa, ashaswasin ,ashafasin , etc.
(Capital letters represent retroflex)
This also has two degrees of negation for sake of clarity.
Now,if I count only the roots { asha , Ra , anD , fa , swa , y , arl etc.} And not the compounds, how many words will be enough?
i wanna learn this language!!
I like how the uvular sounds voiceless, reminds me of Brazilian Portguese
Sup, I doubt you’ll see this, with it be ping w years after release, but if you do.
How did you make the map? It looks really nice
9:32 It might be my misunderstanding of either the case system or this particular sentence, but shouldn't "hunter" be in ergative case rather than dative? In this particular sentence, "the hunter" is the subject of the action, thus should be in ergative, and "the wolf" is object of the action and it's in absolutely case as it should be, or I have misunderstood something?
Besides that, this is a great work both on the language and the story & world behind it!
What'd you ise to make this map?
What program did you use to make that beautiful map?
Thank you! I drew it using Photoshop over months, starting with essentially a blank canvas and a bunch of different brushes.
This is a good'un
It is been a year
how did you make such a map and such details?
The map is manually drawn on a blank canvas in Photoshop. Lots and lots of time and revisions!
@@seylha9891 it's like a movie map