@@Biblaridion To be honest I really like it that way. Informal videos like this do tend to get boring when they stretch out, but the music made this video feel pretty nice and fast, keeping my attention throughout it all. Since it wasn't all that loud, I don't find it very annoying or distracting.
Has to be said, most world builders create languages to flesh out their worlds. Tolkien basically created a world to place his languages. He spent years making Elvish for the simple reason that he enjoyed it, not because he really needed to.
One of the toughest courses for my B.A. in English program was Linguistics 101 which was required regardless if you had a linguistics minor. You had to pay attention and never miss a day. If you didn't keep up you'd drown. A lot of people failed it at least once regardless of instructor. But I not only found it challenging but absolutely fascinating. I still remember it as being one of my favorites.
I'm just making a language so i can pretend to be a non-english speaker and watch the staff not know what translator to use/get because only i know the language And so i can write music and shit that only i know the meaning to, but the sound can still be appreciated by others. There's a lot of things i could do with a language that only i speak tbh
I mean, Tokien's the one who essentially started fictional conlangs, but David J. Peterson was the one who pushed it into the more popular culture. I'm not saying he was the first, but GoT's success was undeniably a huge boost to the marketability of conlangs.
I’m *so* glad that these are here. I’m a writer as a hobby, and I’m also planning to make a language to share with people and see how it turns out as a sort of project.
Hello I'm making a language with my friends, would you like to join us? You will be able to add new words and to give your ideas. I'm waiting for your answer ;)
Don’t degrade your language by calling it a conlang every language was constructed. So teach your kids and people you know who are willing to learn and keep it going for many generations to come you can be known in history for your own tribe! It all starts with creativity. I think it’s time to move on from old world languages and transition into new ones.
My goal is to create a fictional language with words that doesn’t exist in our languages just so I can explain things that we can’t and still have it seem like a real language.. It’s gonna be something I can use and also something that I can place in fiction, it’s gonna be hard to pronounce just so it will seem like it’s from another planet. Another goal I have for it is to make it cryptic so no one will ever understand what it is and will have to spend months trying to figure it out... this is all part of my plan😈
ok update: I feel like it went as expected for a first fictional language. It was fun making it, tho it was not very functional and creating words were very time consuming. At some point I was like, "eh, let's just make this as complicated as I can, its already confusing". And it was that, playing around with making it and learning what works and what doesn't, that was the most fun to me. So, in the end the language didn't come out as I wanted it to. however, I learnt a lot and just need to find the time to make a second one, which will be better built! (Plan is still in play)
A real-world Conlang example is Esperanto. Developed from 1873-1887 by Ludoviko Lazaro Zamenhofo in Warsaw, then a multilingual area, where you had to speak many languages to be able to speak to everyone in town, so he came up with Esperanto as an international auxiliary language. It was meant to bring the world closer together( among other reasons like just straight convinence), because Zamenhofo grew up dreaming of a world without war.
One of my favorite instances of a fictional language is "Maherian", from a game called "Shiness: The Lightning Kingdom" Not because it's any good (I honestly have no idea if it is or not), but because they went out of their way to not just create a whole fictional language, but to record the *ENTIRE GAME* in said language as an optional language pack you can download for free. That right there is going above and beyond
“Made for fictional world building projects” I don’t know about you, but I’m here to make a language for only me and my friends to understand, not world building.
me too I want to make a language with my friends that way nobody will know what we are saying and so teachers have no idea of what the hell we would be planning
I've been working on my own language for eight years, it's a fully functional language now and you can learn it. It's based on my dreams of a world I've been dreaming of since I was little. It's called Azaiyan and you can check it out if you want. My language book is called "Modern Azaiyan." An "alien" language spoken by a human race on a planet somewhere near Orion.
"star shrek" had me laughing Anyways this is a pretty good video. Nice job! By the way, would you mind if I used this particular video series of yours as reference for my school project?
I've been trying to make languages for months now and keep quitting after realizing that it's not perfect or too similar to what I want the final product to be ;0
@@user-xm2nb7qj1t I actually closed s lot of Languages I started off! But somehow in the lockdown , I focused more on one Language! To actually succeed in a language you have to have a phonetic inventory and a proper grammar system! I hope that you do like that bcz you might end up quitting if not done right
Create several languages and have someone speedrun translating them from never having heard the language before. Find other people who create conlangs and other people to translate. See what patterns evolve for finding meanings to brand new sounds and program them into a universal translator to put aboard spacecraft _just in case._
My dream was to create a language in which every word is a simbol or resembeling a simbol which has rules to its form so I wo'nt have to remember 10,000 simbols that dont have any corolation from my perspective. And I made it
Conlanging is so cool, it’s so amazing that you can make your own language! My parents think it’s boring though :( but I just assume they have bad taste!
I have absolutely no experience with nonverbal languages (so don't take what I say to heart), but I would assume that it would be similar to how he explains it, though just replace different vocal sounds with different combinations of hand movements
@@thebe1azi500 agreed. I know that ASL really doesn't have much grammar (not sure about other sign languages but I'd assume the same), so you're mostly just going to be making gestures for words here and maybe a few rules
could you please also talk about how to properly organize your work, like what you show at 2:20 ? if anything, that has always been my biggest problem in developing my language rather than all the linguistic works
I’m trying to write a conlang for an oc-story, and this seems very helpful! Thank you for laying out what the next few videos entail, and for starting at the absolute beginning. This is a very valuable resource, thank you so much 👍👍
Ooh. This looks like an interesting series. I am starting to develop my own language. I made a couple of attempts in the past. I have a world called Lonlarrien. The people are Larriens. The end of video gave general questions. So I can answear this here. The Larriens have thier own world in an alternate parrallel universe. They have a variety of natural environments. They don't have neighbors. All the inhabiting people are Larriens. They re divided in terms of where they live. This could potentially be a cause for developing dialect, but that is a can of worms I am not ready for. A big thing about the Larriens is that they use magic. So they are very lacking in the kind of fancy technology that people get in the real world. Larriens for example don't have cars and computers, so they wouldn't have words for those things. One can even turn to an animal and fly through the sky. That is way cooler than using a mundane car. Inuits have lots of words for snow. I think it is interesting how the natural environment of the people is reflected in thier vocabulary. So that can be something to consider. I think Larriens could potentially have magical jargon up the wazoo and it would be used by the laypeople. Some basic words would definitely be used like wizard, witch, wand and element. There can also be more obscure jargon-like words like shaman, druid, occult and divination. Maybe there can even be a special word for class. Class has a lot of meanings in English. I am going for a specific meaning that distinguishes different kinds of fighters in an RPG. The mage and the priest are the two best examples of distinct magical classes. So maybe there can be a word for this distinctive meaning of class. I already made my own class system while world building. So the word does work well in the context of using magic.
my fictional world veronia is quite the opposite of your lonlarrien the main tribes are the chuQura which are r'oyya speakers the r'oyya language is designed to sound awkward and the khalanians the other tribe[s] khalanian is designed to sound horrible to human ears with a lot of pharyngeal sounds plus it uses a syllabary so it drops a lot of vowels like the word for fighter which is written pakata but is pronounced pkta and the word for fight pakataliji [pktalj] r'oyya has a supersyllabary but r'oyya has a highly complex syllable structure and more vowels than khalanian so you can't go on with a syllabary this long there are logographs for the words that have the most complex syllable structure both languages are polysynthetic but r'oyya has massive words with the habit of turning nouns into verbs and verbs into other verbs khalanian has smaller words in speech but equally massive words in writing because of needing to write so many vpwels that are not prounounced lets give an example word in r'oyya isespanp'alungangangatuturle [i saw you swimmimg in your pool] and in khalanian kalapakatalijimine prounonced kalpktaljmn [my fighter formal] get the logic. i am nine years old and i am aromanian nerd.
Peeps really out here to do world building, whilst I just want to know how language really works. Conlang sounds like a fun way to get a grasp of it rather than dedicating months or even years to read, write and speak another language. It could also not accomplish that, but still.
One more conlang to the list, a recent one: Antoine Henry, a developer of Assasin's Creed Valhalla was responsible for creating the Isu language. I was so hyped when I realized, that it was a nicely developed language, but sadly we still don't know exactly how to pronounce, but the fact that you can translate some ancient Isu writings is amazing by itself. Also an unfortunate thing (or for some people the exact opposite) that you can just see the part of the laguage, you can learn new words along the way and some grammar, but for the players most of Isu is still going to be a thing to discover in later games.
Nice this helped I’m making a language called Amaracana, it’s a mix of Dutch and and English with a bit of French. It’s supposed to be a language easy to learn and understand by Americans who can’t really even learn simple Dutch, or French, and open up a world of language learning.
Hello I'm making a language with my friends, would you like to join us? You will be able to add new words and to give your ideas. I'm waiting for your answer ;)
I was just doing some random symbols to tend my boredom and make my own code for others not to undertsand, and here I am... trying to make my own WORKING LANGUAGE.
i mean, klingon was actually just sounds that resembled a language. it took years of fans extrapolating, and people who actualy study language to make it a fleshed out language
Also, some more advice here: You don't have to use all of Biblaridion's advice for making a conlang. I made one that is far less naturalistic, and I'm fairly happy with it. I use it for my fantasy world, prayer, personal journals, and songwriting. Good luck and... Or lés Æðosúanstúávi nov kræt un páð k'álkiäu ciňfýtýr væ ančvúrjarst! May all the waves of Earth move to create a path so you can walk to the future without submission!
Okay, i'm watching this to create a language for a project i'm doing (it's basically creating a fictional country, that could exist. currently, i've taken some "inspiration" from welsh by using "llyod" or "lyod", but i'm gonna study the welsh language a little more and see if i can pick anything else out. the language (Called "Ariopian", after the country/nation of islands, called "Ariope") consists of mostly "Ka" "Ke" "La" "Lo" "Le" "Ha" & "He". i'm just wondering, how could i expand on this language?
After having your words, simulate evolution by speaking them quickly. Over time, sound will dissapear and new word types can emerge. Eg: In my language, the word for 'verb' is breunah (Bɜʊnɐx). But, when changing a noun to a verb, (announcement to announce) its the noun + brua (Bʊɐ). In this way, you'll have more words, and sound to add.
I made a language, I call is Prudesion (Prudens as in wise in Latin), it is writable with 76 letters and each having there own sounds. It is basically symbols (like hieroglyphics)
I'd say it's not necessary but it will help. A lot to know the context of those influences. I'd recommend learning at least bits and pieces of those influences and their general grammar. It certainly never hurts to learn more
No, you can find some people on /r/conlangs on Reddit who only speak English. But it really helps. Either way, you should be reading a lot of grammars and linguistic articles to get a feel of how natlangs of the world tend to behave.
I got into this stuff from Warframe, they have 3 languages. The Grineer, the Corpus, and the Orokin. Every single one is english based but have different letters, sounds and such. They are quite simple but I think they look and sound good, even though they are english put thru multiple filters.
Hey there, I'm new to this channel and I really appreciate all the information you provide on this video series, keep on it my friend and thanks a lot! Cheers from Argentina.
I'm writing a book ;) and i created the language "Amnoryensis" where the writing system is called "Rhunt" How i make is take words from other languages and stitch them. Ask me something i could add to my explanation here
Funny, I found your channel because of the Alien Biosphere stuff but now I've clicked on this video to learn how to conlang. Serendipitous to have found you already instead of having to do a search!
my first one was made when i had absolutely no idea how things work so it was a dumpster fire with extra dog crap, now im going to do it the right way.
The first thing I tried doing was was to make the phrase is gay, I came up with eit krai desinen and just to let you know, yes I’m planning to take a lot from German in this thing, I call it EntroKoita or language of the Koiatal
I started creating my own language some time ago, for fun. I wanted to make a language that's internally consistent and as simple as possible, so that it's easy to learn, without having to sacrifice complexity in expression. One of the first things I did was to start working on a number system, and I had a lot of fun doing that. I then went on to come up with a better pronoun system and stuff like that, but eventually got lazy and stopped, so I thought this video series might be a good idea, to help me pick up my slack. Whoops Edit: Looking at my notes, again, I think I started working on it, because I was annoyed by how a lot of languages are phonetically inconsistent, and have a lot of redundancy in how the sounds are written with our alphabet.
this series had helped me making my own constructed language in my fictional world, Blooper's World named Anglang (In Anglang, Niʃiyolaŋ)! though my conlang is basically an auxiliary language and not a natural conlang language
What tool(s) should I use to create database for my language? I tried writing stuff down on paper but that was just inconvinient, so if anyone reads this and has an answer or a resource, I'd be glad if you left it here :]
I actually started working on my 1st conlang in 2016(I was 8 years old then) It was just like a different dialect to Telugu(my mother tongue) cause it had EXACTLY the SAME grammar and the words weren't that different from it too... I wasnt satisfied with that language so I abandoned that project and started making another language in the lockdown of 2020 with grammar and vocabulary that satisfies me...
I'm an aspiring writer, so I hope this can help me. My idea is a society that's completely disconnected from the rest of the world is discovered. I'll leave it at that.
The conlang I'm working on is really logical. There is no difference between nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs. I invent it because of my love to linguistics, not for a fiction universe. I was inspired by Lojban and Language, Thought, Reality, which is a book by Benjamin Lee Whorf (that doesn't mean I'm a fan of the Sapir-Whorf-Hypothese).
"There is no difference between nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs." Do you mean the same word-stems can be used in any of those functions, or that there are no such functions?
@@MatthewMcVeagh The same stems are used in those functions. I think it's no coincidence (and not necessarily genetically determined) that all languages have them. It's probably the most practical way of making a one-dimensional language string of a parse tree. (As far as I can know as a interested layman.)
That really really really depends on the culture. You must first speak the language a LOT to understand how slang may come to be. What is quick and easy to say? "What's up" is slang in English, it's widely used and easy to say quickly. It's kind of like proverbs: How they came to be often is quite nonsensical.
@@CDexie I was curious mostly because everytime I see conlangs, it's always in such formal ways of talks for every character, and I kind of wanna see at least a few of them using slang, or at least some more informal ways of talk.
Is there a conlang for a species that perceives colors differently to us and has a completely different relation to colors, their names, metaphors etc.? I'd be interested.
Should I follow this series if I want to create one language, or at least that can be a "proto-language" which divides in different languages as of the different culture of a fictional world? Like some sort of "ancient language" which could be the origin of the more recent language of a world. also, what about the potential fictional creature which can produce the sound we cannot, or cannot produce sounds we can?
I was randomly doodling and made up a rune looking thing that reminded me of an alien letter. I ended up making a whole alphabet minus C and even had TH, ING, OW, OO, ect. Now I decided I want it to be its own functional language so I can drive people nuts. XD
you know what would be cool ? a software programm that does alot of this work for you e.g. the language evolution all youd have to do is the protolanguage, then set a new rule and the software automatically evolves the words according to your rules.
I am also creating my language in a vacuum because I am going to need 10 different dialects, each with very separate geography and cultural values. So, I'm intending a "Latin--> Spanish, French, Italian, etc, etc." situation. :))
I wanted to make a few conlangs for my personal story/book. One for the shape shifters in the story and the mushroom people who are more mushroom than people.
I'm going to enjoy watching this. The one I'm working on is for Neanderthals. I got tired of the old, "Me Ug. Me cave man." So I came up with some personal names (Tsillatashu, Rillakishoi, Konomallik) and now I'm wanting to make the language such names could have come from.
Well, Neanderthals can indeed speak like us and so it's obvious they would had a language, probably primitive but still a language. Could those ancient Neanderthal words have entered languages of modern humans? There is a chance.
i’ve already made a language but there are no sounds to it only text so i’m thinking of upgrading it to full language status (one person has learned the text version so far)
This language is sumandrian and is my favourite created language: Ru-oghogé eugig sa suhai sumarae'laidag ana ituaé , tsa ru-kioé vasdi maludog , tasan ru-hihé suhi. Translating: I don't have friends or a big fantasy world to use it , but I created various languages, because I like it vary much. Tradução: Eu não tenho amigos ou um grande mundo de fantasia para usar isso, mas eu criei vários idiomas , porque eu gosto muito disso.
alright boy. creating one that has no word for "no" or "not" so you are forced into stating an alternative to even communicate rather than shutting down. lets see if your videos can help me, since i didnt create a single word yet but already know how i want my grammar and where i wish to differ from common languages. im really interested^^
"It's not that difficult if you know what you're doing". Well, so is rocket science :P
Rocket surgery is worse.
The fundamentals of rocket science and orbital mechanics are actually quite simple, it’s just a wall instead of a learning curve :/
Rocket science is actually really easy, It's something about maths that I catch onto relatively easy unless it's division.
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My biology teacher said that all the timr
I wonder if there's a KSP for conlangs.
The video is very good, but I'd suggest you to use a milder/softer background music
Yeah, I realised this after I uploaded the first episode. The following episodes have quieter and more ambient music (I think).
are you kidding? I was jamming out the whole time!
@@Biblaridion To be honest I really like it that way. Informal videos like this do tend to get boring when they stretch out, but the music made this video feel pretty nice and fast, keeping my attention throughout it all. Since it wasn't all that loud, I don't find it very annoying or distracting.
@@azteciandrumset7140 I think if it was a tad bit more quite it would've been better, I found it distracting,
NUUU I like feeling excited to learn. I just bounce along to the knowledge being fed to me, y'know?
"Made in a few months" Tolkien spent most of his adult life working on Elvish and its language tree. Love your videos but that made me chuckle.
yeah but it was true of some other of the examples
*and its language tree*
Bitch thats a tree, and not whats common. A few months is plenty of time for most
Has to be said, most world builders create languages to flesh out their worlds. Tolkien basically created a world to place his languages. He spent years making Elvish for the simple reason that he enjoyed it, not because he really needed to.
He also created other languages, not just Elvish.
To induce anxiety watch this video at 2x speed and the music will overwhelm u
Potato Man it already induces my anxiety
One of the toughest courses for my B.A. in English program was Linguistics 101 which was required regardless if you had a linguistics minor. You had to pay attention and never miss a day. If you didn't keep up you'd drown. A lot of people failed it at least once regardless of instructor. But I not only found it challenging but absolutely fascinating. I still remember it as being one of my favorites.
I'm just making a language so i can pretend to be a non-english speaker and watch the staff not know what translator to use/get because only i know the language
And so i can write music and shit that only i know the meaning to, but the sound can still be appreciated by others.
There's a lot of things i could do with a language that only i speak tbh
🅰
@@piggyzig very informative
Same XD i want people confused by my status
Cool thing when you're a natural basque speaker: you don't have to make up a whole language to be able to speak to people without being understood
insult your teachers in your own language, perhaps?
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Because i am making my own country.
Obviously.
Thats overkill
Hope you achieve that dream (i might regret saying that one day but we'll see)
Yes that’s the real Dream.
That’s my goal 2 no cap
@@DanielCadden true I wanna create a language then a fictional world to put in
"In recent years-"
First given example is almost 70 years old lol
70 years is pretty recent when you compare ot to languages that have been around for thousands.
Recent is a relative term here
You're American, aren't you?
I mean, Tokien's the one who essentially started fictional conlangs, but David J. Peterson was the one who pushed it into the more popular culture. I'm not saying he was the first, but GoT's success was undeniably a huge boost to the marketability of conlangs.
love how everyone is almost sure that this person is american 😂
Good video, content was great. But holy shit man, the music sounded like a robot having a seizure. It was so abrasive.
Yup, I love it
I hated it.
I almost asphifixiated with laugh
I was about to comment about........that
Lmao you should listen to pulse demon by merzbow if you think that is “abrasive”
3:25 : Why?
Me: Because its Covid and I'm bored
i am making an auxiliary language for people who want to talk to me in secret
Sameeeee
Same here
Im making my own conlang, for diary and maybe to plan to put it on my roblox game in the future
@@6i6itjeruki absolutely love that idea
I’m *so* glad that these are here. I’m a writer as a hobby, and I’m also planning to make a language to share with people and see how it turns out as a sort of project.
Hello I'm making a language with my friends, would you like to join us? You will be able to add new words and to give your ideas. I'm waiting for your answer ;)
Don’t degrade your language by calling it a conlang every language was constructed. So teach your kids and people you know who are willing to learn and keep it going for many generations to come you can be known in history for your own tribe! It all starts with creativity. I think it’s time to move on from old world languages and transition into new ones.
Well this version of spoken English is relatively new but still as people we are always changing anyways.
My goal is to create a fictional language with words that doesn’t exist in our languages just so I can explain things that we can’t and still have it seem like a real language..
It’s gonna be something I can use and also something that I can place in fiction, it’s gonna be hard to pronounce just so it will seem like it’s from another planet. Another goal I have for it is to make it cryptic so no one will ever understand what it is and will have to spend months trying to figure it out... this is all part of my plan😈
Sounds nice
It’s been seven months, did it work out?
I'm curious too, any updates?
Update pls
ok update: I feel like it went as expected for a first fictional language. It was fun making it, tho it was not very functional and creating words were very time consuming. At some point I was like, "eh, let's just make this as complicated as I can, its already confusing". And it was that, playing around with making it and learning what works and what doesn't, that was the most fun to me. So, in the end the language didn't come out as I wanted it to. however, I learnt a lot and just need to find the time to make a second one, which will be better built! (Plan is still in play)
A real-world Conlang example is Esperanto. Developed from 1873-1887 by Ludoviko Lazaro Zamenhofo in Warsaw, then a multilingual area, where you had to speak many languages to be able to speak to everyone in town, so he came up with Esperanto as an international auxiliary language. It was meant to bring the world closer together( among other reasons like just straight convinence), because Zamenhofo grew up dreaming of a world without war.
One of my favorite instances of a fictional language is "Maherian", from a game called "Shiness: The Lightning Kingdom"
Not because it's any good (I honestly have no idea if it is or not), but because they went out of their way to not just create a whole fictional language, but to record the *ENTIRE GAME* in said language as an optional language pack you can download for free.
That right there is going above and beyond
THAT is what we call dedication
Making a language to make my future child think I'm from another planet (and make a mocumentary)
Nah, to start a civilisation that speaks another language
"in recent years" and then starts with Elvish and Klingon ;)
Incredibly recent compared to the amount of time English took to develop
“Made for fictional world building projects”
I don’t know about you, but I’m here to make a language for only me and my friends to understand, not world building.
me too I want to make a language with my friends that way nobody will know what we are saying and so teachers have no idea of what the hell we would be planning
I just want to worldbuild in the most casual way possible
I made my own language
tejih e'jma cpòj Leji'zguedè i'j miëz iź
translate: do you like my language i made it
@@greatbritain6989 why do i feel like it should be said with a french accent
Same
I've been working on my own language for eight years, it's a fully functional language now and you can learn it. It's based on my dreams of a world I've been dreaming of since I was little. It's called Azaiyan and you can check it out if you want. My language book is called "Modern Azaiyan." An "alien" language spoken by a human race on a planet somewhere near Orion.
wow.. eight years? it should be a very well developed language!
@@Tricke432_YT I plan on starting a UA-cam channel of me teaching Azaiyan/Atlantean. I have a couple videos of me speaking it if you're interested.
I thought it said onion instead of orion💀
@@Arkham.H. yeah.. a planet somewhere near an onion 🙄
@@Tricke432_YT it was a joke mind u. Besides mistakes happen. We're humans not aliens.
"star shrek" had me laughing
Anyways this is a pretty good video. Nice job!
By the way, would you mind if I used this particular video series of yours as reference for my school project?
Thanks! Sure thing, as long as they would accept this as a reliable source.
Somebody once told me the stars were gonna roll me
“It ain’t the sharpest crew on the ship”
*its 12 am I’m just gonna stay up all night to make a conlang*
JUST PEACHY
did you? :0
Im makeing a whole languages in quarantine
I've been trying to make languages for months now and keep quitting after realizing that it's not perfect or too similar to what I want the final product to be ;0
̥ ̥ Things don’t have to be prefect. You might like it once your done.
@@user-xm2nb7qj1t I actually closed s lot of Languages I started off! But somehow in the lockdown , I focused more on one Language!
To actually succeed in a language you have to have a phonetic inventory and a proper grammar system!
I hope that you do like that bcz you might end up quitting if not done right
pls tone down that background music
Create several languages and have someone speedrun translating them from never having heard the language before. Find other people who create conlangs and other people to translate. See what patterns evolve for finding meanings to brand new sounds and program them into a universal translator to put aboard spacecraft _just in case._
0:22 "Star Shrek"
you mean 2:20
Roy mercer what?
My dream was to create a language in which every word is a simbol or resembeling a simbol which has rules to its form so I wo'nt have to remember 10,000 simbols that dont have any corolation from my perspective.
And I made it
Bravo
*symbol
The Cubicle so just, mandarin?
wHERE?!
Brilliant, sounds really interesting Hudey. I've had a similar idea. Do you have it on the internet somewhere?
ironically, this _is_ my homework 😎
Well there’s over 700 native languages in Papua New Guinea, use one and act like it’s new, DONT choose a one that’s widely known
@@th3radlad_727 probably the most useful thing I have heard today
@@semi-automaticdooropened9007 lmao
@@th3radlad_727 that's actually really smart
@@UwU-xw1bd lol
Conlanging is so cool, it’s so amazing that you can make your own language! My parents think it’s boring though :( but I just assume they have bad taste!
my family too :(
I know right
Remember Every language we speak we’re constructed by someone else. Become the next historical figure with you own language and tribe.
I'm here to make the Minecraft enchantment table language pronounceable
Lmao 💀
@@preacherofmusic yaya hebrew
Do you have any recommendations for making a nonverbal language?
My oc specise speaks natively in an esl-like gesture language
I have absolutely no experience with nonverbal languages (so don't take what I say to heart), but I would assume that it would be similar to how he explains it, though just replace different vocal sounds with different combinations of hand movements
Look into the common movements for sign languages across the world, to see what movements are common
@@thebe1azi500 agreed. I know that ASL really doesn't have much grammar (not sure about other sign languages but I'd assume the same), so you're mostly just going to be making gestures for words here and maybe a few rules
Have you succeeded?
@@thewhovianhippo7103 i realized it was a bad idea to try and do something hard for my first conlang and changed into a verbal conlang
The background sounded like a robot with a spasam and also having a seizure
could you please also talk about how to properly organize your work, like what you show at 2:20 ? if anything, that has always been my biggest problem in developing my language rather than all the linguistic works
Imagine a digital conlang engine/interface. Would make a smashing video game as well as a great tool. Like spore but for language
these are the types of videos that people will listen to
and give a reason why theyre procrastinate with work
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I’m trying to write a conlang for an oc-story, and this seems very helpful! Thank you for laying out what the next few videos entail, and for starting at the absolute beginning. This is a very valuable resource, thank you so much 👍👍
click shuffle on the playlist, and try to make a language from there
maybe i should try that again
Ooh. This looks like an interesting series. I am starting to develop my own language. I made a couple of attempts in the past. I have a world called Lonlarrien. The people are Larriens. The end of video gave general questions. So I can answear this here. The Larriens have thier own world in an alternate parrallel universe. They have a variety of natural environments. They don't have neighbors. All the inhabiting people are Larriens. They re divided in terms of where they live. This could potentially be a cause for developing dialect, but that is a can of worms I am not ready for. A big thing about the Larriens is that they use magic. So they are very lacking in the kind of fancy technology that people get in the real world. Larriens for example don't have cars and computers, so they wouldn't have words for those things. One can even turn to an animal and fly through the sky. That is way cooler than using a mundane car. Inuits have lots of words for snow. I think it is interesting how the natural environment of the people is reflected in thier vocabulary. So that can be something to consider. I think Larriens could potentially have magical jargon up the wazoo and it would be used by the laypeople. Some basic words would definitely be used like wizard, witch, wand and element. There can also be more obscure jargon-like words like shaman, druid, occult and divination. Maybe there can even be a special word for class. Class has a lot of meanings in English. I am going for a specific meaning that distinguishes different kinds of fighters in an RPG. The mage and the priest are the two best examples of distinct magical classes. So maybe there can be a word for this distinctive meaning of class. I already made my own class system while world building. So the word does work well in the context of using magic.
my fictional world veronia is quite the opposite of your lonlarrien the main tribes are the chuQura which are r'oyya speakers the r'oyya language is designed to sound awkward and the khalanians the other tribe[s] khalanian is designed to sound horrible to human ears with a lot of pharyngeal sounds plus it uses a syllabary so it drops a lot of vowels like the word for fighter which is written pakata but is pronounced pkta and the word for fight pakataliji [pktalj] r'oyya has a supersyllabary but r'oyya has a highly complex syllable structure and more vowels than khalanian so you can't go on with a syllabary this long there are logographs for the words that have the most complex syllable structure both languages are polysynthetic but r'oyya has massive words with the habit of turning nouns into verbs and verbs into other verbs khalanian has smaller words in speech but equally massive words in writing because of needing to write so many vpwels that are not prounounced lets give an example word in r'oyya isespanp'alungangangatuturle [i saw you swimmimg in your pool] and in khalanian kalapakatalijimine prounonced kalpktaljmn [my fighter formal] get the logic. i am nine years old and i am aromanian nerd.
Peeps really out here to do world building, whilst I just want to know how language really works. Conlang sounds like a fun way to get a grasp of it rather than dedicating months or even years to read, write and speak another language. It could also not accomplish that, but still.
I rewarltch this series every year or so to make sure I'm doing everything right.
I come from another videos on this topic, but right from the start you mentioned something I totally forgot about...
The neighboring cultures ;-;
very glad i found this before getting too far into making my language- thank you endlessly
One more conlang to the list, a recent one: Antoine Henry, a developer of Assasin's Creed Valhalla was responsible for creating the Isu language. I was so hyped when I realized, that it was a nicely developed language, but sadly we still don't know exactly how to pronounce, but the fact that you can translate some ancient Isu writings is amazing by itself. Also an unfortunate thing (or for some people the exact opposite) that you can just see the part of the laguage, you can learn new words along the way and some grammar, but for the players most of Isu is still going to be a thing to discover in later games.
honestly d best guide to naturalistic conlanging out there 🙌🙌
Nice this helped I’m making a language called Amaracana, it’s a mix of Dutch and and English with a bit of French. It’s supposed to be a language easy to learn and understand by Americans who can’t really even learn simple Dutch, or French, and open up a world of language learning.
Hello I'm making a language with my friends, would you like to join us? You will be able to add new words and to give your ideas. I'm waiting for your answer ;)
Dask biblaridion, elaz za sanes xen.
Thanks biblaridion,this realy helped me.
I was just doing some random symbols to tend my boredom and make my own code for others not to undertsand, and here I am... trying to make my own WORKING LANGUAGE.
i mean, klingon was actually just sounds that resembled a language. it took years of fans extrapolating, and people who actualy study language to make it a fleshed out language
My language is called Crelin. In school my friend helped me make a sentence for it, “Mikt seu syralpk” I think, which means “you are my friend(s)”
I guess this is the start of my language creation journey.
I'm here to keep people from understanding my writings/ notes or my speech when i cuss them out under my breath :P
Also, some more advice here: You don't have to use all of Biblaridion's advice for making a conlang. I made one that is far less naturalistic, and I'm fairly happy with it. I use it for my fantasy world, prayer, personal journals, and songwriting. Good luck and...
Or lés Æðosúanstúávi nov kræt un páð k'álkiäu ciňfýtýr væ ančvúrjarst!
May all the waves of Earth move to create a path so you can walk to the future without submission!
OK, is there anything I can watch so that I know what sounds are documented in IPA?
Okay, i'm watching this to create a language for a project i'm doing (it's basically creating a fictional country, that could exist.
currently, i've taken some "inspiration" from welsh by using "llyod" or "lyod", but i'm gonna study the welsh language a little more and see if i can pick anything else out.
the language (Called "Ariopian", after the country/nation of islands, called "Ariope") consists of mostly "Ka" "Ke" "La" "Lo" "Le" "Ha" & "He".
i'm just wondering, how could i expand on this language?
Try grouping totally unrelated languages find some similaruties and adopt those words
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By adding "Do" "Re" "Mi" "Fa" "So" and "Ti" sounds.
After having your words, simulate evolution by speaking them quickly. Over time, sound will dissapear and new word types can emerge. Eg: In my language, the word for 'verb' is breunah (Bɜʊnɐx). But, when changing a noun to a verb, (announcement to announce) its the noun + brua (Bʊɐ).
In this way, you'll have more words, and sound to add.
I made a few and droped all of them. There are 2 I picked up but that was from writing and such from already exsisting shows.
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I made a language, I call is Prudesion (Prudens as in wise in Latin), it is writable with 76 letters and each having there own sounds. It is basically symbols (like hieroglyphics)
If my conlang has outside influences, do I need to know another language to improve upon it?
I'd say it's not necessary but it will help. A lot to know the context of those influences. I'd recommend learning at least bits and pieces of those influences and their general grammar. It certainly never hurts to learn more
No, you can find some people on /r/conlangs on Reddit who only speak English. But it really helps. Either way, you should be reading a lot of grammars and linguistic articles to get a feel of how natlangs of the world tend to behave.
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I got into this stuff from Warframe, they have 3 languages. The Grineer, the Corpus, and the Orokin. Every single one is english based but have different letters, sounds and such.
They are quite simple but I think they look and sound good, even though they are english put thru multiple filters.
Hey there, I'm new to this channel and I really appreciate all the information you provide on this video series, keep on it my friend and thanks a lot! Cheers from Argentina.
I'm writing a book ;) and i created the language "Amnoryensis" where the writing system is called "Rhunt"
How i make is take words from other languages and stitch them.
Ask me something i could add to my explanation here
His voice, relaxed.
The music, (blasting electric... stuff?)
Funny, I found your channel because of the Alien Biosphere stuff but now I've clicked on this video to learn how to conlang. Serendipitous to have found you already instead of having to do a search!
my first one was made when i had absolutely no idea how things work so it was a dumpster fire with extra dog crap, now im going to do it the right way.
The first thing I tried doing was was to make the phrase is gay, I came up with eit krai desinen and just to let you know, yes I’m planning to take a lot from German in this thing, I call it EntroKoita or language of the Koiatal
I started creating my own language some time ago, for fun. I wanted to make a language that's internally consistent and as simple as possible, so that it's easy to learn, without having to sacrifice complexity in expression.
One of the first things I did was to start working on a number system, and I had a lot of fun doing that. I then went on to come up with a better pronoun system and stuff like that, but eventually got lazy and stopped, so I thought this video series might be a good idea, to help me pick up my slack. Whoops
Edit: Looking at my notes, again, I think I started working on it, because I was annoyed by how a lot of languages are phonetically inconsistent, and have a lot of redundancy in how the sounds are written with our alphabet.
I'll try it, I'll try it again
this series had helped me making my own constructed language in my fictional world, Blooper's World named Anglang (In Anglang, Niʃiyolaŋ)!
though my conlang is basically an auxiliary language and not a natural conlang language
What tool(s) should I use to create database for my language? I tried writing stuff down on paper but that was just inconvinient, so if anyone reads this and has an answer or a resource, I'd be glad if you left it here :]
Microsoft Excel or Access could work, depending on what you're doing.
Access does Databases and Excel does spreadsheets ^^
ConWorkShop is pretty good.
UA-cam totally notified me. Thanks
I can't believe i started studying linguistics at college just to be able to create my own conlangs...
And how did that go for you?
This is where quarantine has taken me, I'm now sat here trying to create my own language.
Thank You, Biblaridion!!!
I legit found this between 50% and 70% through constructing my conlang lol
And now in 2023, my masterpiece: Barohsawkies.
Hey brother can you teach me the basics of conlang please i had just created my alphabets design please 🙏
I actually started working on my 1st conlang in 2016(I was 8 years old then)
It was just like a different dialect to Telugu(my mother tongue) cause it had EXACTLY the SAME grammar and the words weren't that different from it too... I wasnt satisfied with that language so I abandoned that project and started making another language in the lockdown of 2020 with grammar and vocabulary that satisfies me...
Im dyslexic, this is going to be fun
I'm an aspiring writer, so I hope this can help me. My idea is a society that's completely disconnected from the rest of the world is discovered. I'll leave it at that.
The conlang I'm working on is really logical. There is no difference between nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs. I invent it because of my love to linguistics, not for a fiction universe. I was inspired by Lojban and Language, Thought, Reality, which is a book by Benjamin Lee Whorf (that doesn't mean I'm a fan of the Sapir-Whorf-Hypothese).
"There is no difference between nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs."
Do you mean the same word-stems can be used in any of those functions, or that there are no such functions?
@@MatthewMcVeagh The same stems are used in those functions. I think it's no coincidence (and not necessarily genetically determined) that all languages have them. It's probably the most practical way of making a one-dimensional language string of a parse tree. (As far as I can know as a interested layman.)
An aspect I don't really see with conlangs is slang. How would you go about creating slang for your finctional language?
That really really really depends on the culture. You must first speak the language a LOT to understand how slang may come to be. What is quick and easy to say? "What's up" is slang in English, it's widely used and easy to say quickly. It's kind of like proverbs: How they came to be often is quite nonsensical.
@@CDexie I was curious mostly because everytime I see conlangs, it's always in such formal ways of talks for every character, and I kind of wanna see at least a few of them using slang, or at least some more informal ways of talk.
Is there a conlang for a species that perceives colors differently to us and has a completely different relation to colors, their names, metaphors etc.? I'd be interested.
Should I follow this series if I want to create one language, or at least that can be a "proto-language" which divides in different languages as of the different culture of a fictional world? Like some sort of "ancient language" which could be the origin of the more recent language of a world. also, what about the potential fictional creature which can produce the sound we cannot, or cannot produce sounds we can?
I was randomly doodling and made up a rune looking thing that reminded me of an alien letter. I ended up making a whole alphabet minus C and even had TH, ING, OW, OO, ect. Now I decided I want it to be its own functional language so I can drive people nuts. XD
Dude I love the music
Shakriisat fratsong frongsaa fonadik montamaa popkelonk.
you know what would be cool ? a software programm that does alot of this work for you e.g. the language evolution
all youd have to do is the protolanguage, then set a new rule and the software automatically evolves the words according to your rules.
This is a useful tutorial! Now I can make a conlang for my little nation in a country roleplay!
I am also creating my language in a vacuum because I am going to need 10 different dialects, each with very separate geography and cultural values. So, I'm intending a "Latin--> Spanish, French, Italian, etc, etc." situation. :))
I wanted to make a few conlangs for my personal story/book.
One for the shape shifters in the story and the mushroom people who are more mushroom than people.
Thanks, I'm trying to write a novel, and I need to make a language for the Dragonborn people
thanks for helping i think im ready to make my own one
Thank you. These guides to me to create my conlsngs.
For the timeline, you should've added "2001- Atlantean (Atlantis: The Lost Empire).
This looks like a very good series. Even though it's aimed toward fictional languages, would it help with a log-auxlang?
I got my language constructed
I'm going to enjoy watching this. The one I'm working on is for Neanderthals. I got tired of the old, "Me Ug. Me cave man." So I came up with some personal names (Tsillatashu, Rillakishoi, Konomallik) and now I'm wanting to make the language such names could have come from.
Well, Neanderthals can indeed speak like us and so it's obvious they would had a language, probably primitive but still a language.
Could those ancient Neanderthal words have entered languages of modern humans? There is a chance.
i’ve already made a language but there are no sounds to it only text so i’m thinking of upgrading it to full language status (one person has learned the text version so far)
I am now adding Yiddish sounds to it, and it now has an alphabet, probably going to use this in a dnd campaign
And suddenly the number of languages increased by 368,000.
Thanks for this.
This language is sumandrian and is my favourite created language:
Ru-oghogé eugig sa suhai sumarae'laidag ana ituaé , tsa ru-kioé vasdi maludog , tasan ru-hihé suhi.
Translating:
I don't have friends or a big fantasy world to use it , but I created various languages, because I like it vary much.
Tradução:
Eu não tenho amigos ou um grande mundo de fantasia para usar isso, mas eu criei vários idiomas , porque eu gosto muito disso.
Gramática?
alright boy.
creating one that has no word for "no" or "not" so you are forced into stating an alternative to even communicate rather than shutting down.
lets see if your videos can help me, since i didnt create a single word yet but already know how i want my grammar and where i wish to differ from common languages.
im really interested^^
i coulda had the BEST panic attacks to the background back in the day im TELLING you
thank you for creating this series