The best false cognate is the Mbabaram word for dog. Their word for dog is ''dog''. It's a coincidence, related Australian languages have similar words for dog, but a couple regular sound shifts in the history of the language caused it to look like the English word.
Since seriously starting worldbuilding I have come to truly love conlangs and that has lead me to really enjoy and love listening to people speaking other languages even if I don't understand anything they said. I tried to make a conlang for an alien race I made, but... having 4 pairs of spiracles with vocal cords, no teeth, and rigid tongues made that extremely difficult, so I had to drop it. But I hope to work on a conlang for another project some other time.
@hadrianpollard Yeah that's why I had to drop it. Made too difficult on the offset. But I hope to try conlangs again with other projects that are less difficult.
I would say that the whole reduplicating verbs thing, up to 5 times, is extremely unnatural, but aesthetically it sounds very rabbit-like and considering that's part of the speakers' visual design I love that connection
Thanks for that! It does feel very silly, but seems to fit the characters well. Per the phillipines connection -- the tagalog language of the Phillipines is very similar to Indonesian, which doubles words to pluralize. Not sure if they do that in tagalog, but Indonesian doubling is where I got the idea.
Well my own fictional language is basically latin-greek inspired because I wanted to create a language that might remind you of latin. So you have two masculine endings: -os, -us; and two femenine endings: -a, -e. It is not a stric rule, since some nouns do end in -a and are classified as masculine.
The best false cognate is the Mbabaram word for dog. Their word for dog is ''dog''. It's a coincidence, related Australian languages have similar words for dog, but a couple regular sound shifts in the history of the language caused it to look like the English word.
Very nice. I just found your channel and subscribed.
Awesome, thank you!
Since seriously starting worldbuilding I have come to truly love conlangs and that has lead me to really enjoy and love listening to people speaking other languages even if I don't understand anything they said.
I tried to make a conlang for an alien race I made, but... having 4 pairs of spiracles with vocal cords, no teeth, and rigid tongues made that extremely difficult, so I had to drop it. But I hope to work on a conlang for another project some other time.
WHOA, that'll make the phonemes challenging. Good luck with your languages!
@hadrianpollard
Yeah that's why I had to drop it. Made too difficult on the offset.
But I hope to try conlangs again with other projects that are less difficult.
Wasn't expecting farsi mentioned !
Your depiction of taaruf is very accurate.
Merci!
Man, your job is amazing, and your videos are extremely compelling, shame this video is not 8 hours long. Keep up the awesome work!
Thank you!
I would say that the whole reduplicating verbs thing, up to 5 times, is extremely unnatural, but aesthetically it sounds very rabbit-like and considering that's part of the speakers' visual design I love that connection
dont they in some phillipine languages or is that adjectives
Thanks for that! It does feel very silly, but seems to fit the characters well. Per the phillipines connection -- the tagalog language of the Phillipines is very similar to Indonesian, which doubles words to pluralize. Not sure if they do that in tagalog, but Indonesian doubling is where I got the idea.
Bro really dropped a whole language
Well my own fictional language is basically latin-greek inspired because I wanted to create a language that might remind you of latin. So you have two masculine endings: -os, -us; and two femenine endings: -a, -e. It is not a stric rule, since some nouns do end in -a and are classified as masculine.
Very nice!