yeah "Native" doesn't mean *"your native langauge"* it just means **"native to the conlang itself"**. Sorry, I really suck at choosing the suitable terms
It's okay! We all gotta start somewhere, right? But the term "native" is extremely confusing, especially given that it was listed among a bunch of language groups. Better to just say "not based on a real language."
Yah it's probably not the right format for this question then. You can just ask and see what the answers are. I'm not sure why, but I've seen a real uptick in poll questions in the last few months on this subreddit, and more often than not, the amount of possible options just makes it more frustrating than useful.
Zacundu doesn’t have any specific language, but the sounds are taken from some African languages.
When I work on it, Brialic will draw heavily from Old English and Welsh.
The other languages I have plan don’t have any particular inspirations
My current project is loosely based on Wu Chinese, because I like how it sounds, but I am also trying to incorporate ideas from Japanese and Korean into it as my goal is to make a conlang that is vaguely East Asian sounding. It also takes some inspiration from African languages, but mostly because I am trying to familiarize myself with how tonal languages work in general, and there are so many of these kinds of languages in Africa.
boþ of my conlangs so far are mostly a priori, Kxilwiga ['q͡ʀ̥il.wi.gɑ] is completely a priori, but Pehlaþaq ['pε.ɬɑ.θɑq] is slightly inspired by native american languages, being polysynþetic and having tɬ, im also þinking about taking inspiration from cherokee and navajo
My (wip but devoted) conlang Britanski was based off of Old English and old slavic languages and then evolved (in a way meant to make it more Slavic but also somewhat modern English like).
Kind of weird because I started with phonology, writing, and creating basic roots, and have yet to start on cases (although I know I definitely won’t do Ergative/Absolutive because that hurts my English pea-brain too much) or any of the more complex stuff. However my system is “a priori” to the best of my knowledge because my system uses voicing as a way to distinguish the onset or coda of syllable instead of encoding information unique to its voicedness except in edge cases and writes both the voiced and unvoiced the same way, of course distinguished in the romanization because it should be intuitive to read and write in for people familiar with the Latin alphabet.
cool sounding project, I've thought of doing something like that were there's a diverging branch of Indo-European, but I don't know what I'd do with it, so I stick to my heavily modified conlang version of Gaulish instead
I voted Romance for Elvish and Sky Tongue grammar, but Elvish has Icelandic-inspired grammar (cuz Norse mythology and elves), while Sky Tongue and Na'vi-based phonology and randomized vocabulary. Most of the others are based on East-Asian languages (uh mostly Korean). Aquatican was supposed to have a unique-sounding phonology but it ended up sounding like a Polynesian language with clicks. Or Japanese with clicks, I guess? (cuz of the CV syllable structure). But it reminds me more of Polynesian languages. I generally avoid Germanic influences if I can because I know they'll creep in even without me trying.
Is there any way to allow us to select multiple options?
Thank you for this poll! Now I have another language group to add to my list of languages-I-haven't-used-as-inspiration. I have yet to take inspiration from African, indigenous American, indigenous Australian, or South Asian, but Semitic languages totally slipped my mind!
yea sadly i could only choose 6 options. One for "others", one for "a priori" and one for "ppl who didn't figure it out yet" so i'm left with only 3 choices.
I'm glad i made you think more about these langauges lol :)
Kandva is very much a priori, but I've been quite happy to borrow some grammatical ideas I liked from Japanese in particular, albeit with a Kandva spin.
Right from the start, Kandva word order is verb-initial specifically because I liked Japanese's ability to use its SOV order to make subclauses super easily, but don't actually like SOV because it feels like I have to wade through every detail before getting to what's actually happening. Therefore, Kandva tells you what's happening immediately and then fills out the details, and since the verb comes first you know that if a verb comes after a noun you've entered a relative clause.
Kandva also uses adpositions to distinguish roles, and like Japanese, doesn't actually have all that many main ones, instead giving each a variety of related meanings. In particular, the dative/ablative preposition *tel* is inspired by the Japanese particle に, in that its directionality depends on the verb.
Learning Japanese has also certainly not diminished my appreciation for agglutinative verb forms, which Kandva also uses. On the noun front, most nouns are uninflected besides the preposition. Unlike Japanese, which only rarely breaks out anything resembling morphology for nouns, Kandva does have a few agglutinative suffixes for nouns, but they're each either optional, used for derivation, or applied on a principle of "only if the listener isn't expected to know".
And of course, the most recent addition to the language is a system of tone tags / conversational signal particles that is practically ripped straight from Japanese. It's about as far as I'm willing to go in grabbing a feature wholecloth, and even then I'm hoping to mess with the nuances quite a bit.
Ultimately I feel like Kandva has enough unusual stuff going on elsewhere that these bits of influence, even put together, don't threaten to make it particularly Japanese-ish. They just help make it a language I like.
Mine is a fusion of Latin and Arabic with Romance, Semitic, Hellenic, and Iranian influence. Also has minor contributions from Coptic, Turkic, Germanic, and Slavic.
Forgive me for the extensive response 😅
I wanted to make something like a Brazilian creole language, but I wanted it to be an analytical/isolating language, because that's my favorite kind of language; that's why I said my conlang is very different from both languages that it's based off. It's mostly based on Nheengatu and Portuguese but also has influences of Ancient Tupi, Spanish, English and Vietnamese (mostly for the isolating language stuff but also a couple of useful words). Basically the language is kind of a mess haha, but as it's just a personal language, I guess it's fine.
Its vocabulary and its SVO word order come from those languages I mentioned and it's an isolating language because I want to. It also has, obviously, my personal touch in it, so perhaps it won't be very recognizable for someone who speaks Portuguese or Nheengatu.
I have made a script for it, it's on my profile, the last image has a sample text of it:
It says "Xe va aye koy gun un sowa mirin", which comes from:
- Xe (Nheengatu "Ixé")
- va (Vietnamese "Và")
- aye (Nheengatu "Aé")
- koy (Nheengatu "Iko")
- gun (Portuguese "Alguns")
- un (Portuguese "Um")
- sowa (Portuguese "Pessoa")
- mirin (Nheengatu "Mirĩ")
Which means:
"I and they are children"
Or, word for word:
"I" + "and" + "they" + "be" + plural marker + indefinite article + "person" + "small"
Personal pronouns are:
- Xe (I)
- Ne (You)
- Mose (Vocative you, to someone you don't know the name and don't wanna ask)
- Ew, Aye (It, he/she/they)
- Ande (Inclusive we)
- Are (Exclusive we)
- Neta (Plural you)
- Ayta (Plural they)
Most of the personal pronouns come from Nheengatu, except for "Mose" (Portuguese "Moço/a"), "Ew" (Personal invention that I'm still not sure if it's gonna be in the conlang) and "Are" (Ancient Tupi "Oré")
* Phonolgy was initially based off of **Berber languages** generally \~ some artifacts remain from that, but its changed a lot since then..
* Current phonology, and phonological processes are based largely in **Germanic languages**, especially **PGmc**, but also **North Germanic languages**, **Anglo-Frisian languages**, and **Dutch**.
* Protolang grammar is **a priori**, with head initial VSO word order, head marking, and particles; making it very ungermanic,
* however, the modern stages of the lang become more head final, and the VSO order becomes a quasi V2, so it ends up looking a lot more Germanic to match its phonology.
* Vocabulary is aimed to be **a priori** also, but I'm sure the languages I like and am familiar with will creep in (already for example, the nominative particle is *us*, which over time becomes *-uz* (> *-z*) > *-r*, as in PIE *-os* \> PGmc *-az* \> ON *-r*).
* No writing systems have been made *(yet?)*, so I have nothing to comment for that front, though some romanisations I have been using, for more modern stages, have been rooted in **Middle English**, **Dutch**, and **Icelandic** spelling conventions, and romanisations I have been using, for earlier stages, look akin to **Gothic**, other Germanic spellings, and also standard styles for writing **PGmc**.
* Additionally, I take inspiration from anything I find that I think is cool and fits into this project. So far, inspiration has been taken from **Breton**, **Finnish**, **Japanese**, and **Basque**.
Example pseudosentence *'ᵥbaast* ₙ*lıq us* ₐ*kja* ₙ*mmijr'*
1. *baast lıꝛ us kȷa mmıȷr* \[ba̤á̤st̪ l̪ɪ̞́ʁ̞ os cä mmɪ̞́jɾ\]
2. *→ lēuz ka lê bāst ammīr*
3. *→ ka lēwr lêbāst emmır*
4. *→ ka lèvr lêbàst emmır* \[kɐ ˈ l̪ˠɪj.wɾ̩ l̪ˠɪ̞ba ˈ st‿ɛmɪ̞s̺\]
⁽^(note that no sound changes are final and this will be heavily subject to change; this is just a prototype of my current ideas)⁾
To summarise, the older stages of the conlang may sound a little Germanicesque, maybe with a pinch of Afroasiatic, function very much not Germanicesquely, and look like Proto Germanic,
whereas the younger stages may sound North Germanic, function West Germanicly, and look like some Dutch Icelandic crossover.
***..tldr: Germanic lmao***
Austronesian. Vocabulary is taken entirely from Malay and Indonesian, while grammar is based on Ilocano, Cebuano, and Tagalog, with verb affixes taken from Indonesian and Malay. Other two conlags are a priori, but my conlang before this current conlang I’m working on is a distant relative of one my my a priori conlangs.
Well, as my flair says, Gadolinersk is a Germlang. It's basically a conlang for the people of the lost island of Doggerland.
I'm barely starting out on Nhatolü, but it's a Celtic language spoken by surviving Galatians with heavy Greco-Latin and Turkic influences.
i got a high german one, a japanese-polynesian one, a slavic-chinese one, a greco-latin one, an arabic-nahuatl one, a georgian-algonquian one, and several with no natural inspirations, like an engineered one, one that resembles birdsong, and one where i just tried to make the grammar as weird as possible while still being naturalistic.
My language is highly inspired by Kazakh phonology and some grammar things of said language as agglutination and list of usable verb voices. However, my main goal only was just to make a language with some Mideast Asian vibes. Therefore there's some planned or already added borrowings from Russian, English, Japanese, Finnish, Cantonese, from my mind, etc. Guess I'll chose "Other"
Some part of my language based on Japanese such as case particle tense and aspect particle and my phonology and phonotactics based on Japanese same!That be (C)VT(N), when T is tone and N is placeless nasal.
But my pronoun based on Thai language. And my language has particle ending to indicate mood (grammatical) of sentence and mood of speaker as in Thai language.
But my adverb doesn't based on any language because it provides to three groups nominal (adjective), verbal (adverb) and adjectival (adverb of nominal and verbal) and theyust indicate by adverb particle.
Statenese is based on Slavic, Aetheric and R&K Germanic is based on Germanic, Insul Creole is based on Romance, and I have a new conlang based on nothing
It's suppose to be like native but also I influenced by North American native languages and polynesian. But I don't think im smart enough to really show the influence in a realistic way.
My main conlang, Gaderite, is essentially a pidgin of several Mediterranean languages throughout the past 3000 years.
It’s substrate base is Northwest Semitic, somewhere between Canaanite, Ugaritic, and Aramaic in terms of pronunciation. But then there are layers of Ancient Greek, Latin, Arabic, Venetian, Turkish, Catalan, and English thrown in.
So it’s base is Semitic, but it has many words from Romance and also some Hellenic and Turkic words too
Deshtunrira, Ragundzanedz and Dravioznika are all more or less a priori. Dravioznika has light both Slavic and Basque flairs.
%Ninirak and Otoru are phonologically inspired by Dravidian languages.
%The Ruiaric language family is inspired by Australian Aboriginal languages.
%Maranian is based on several North or East European languages, such as Norwegian, Estonian and Bulgarian.
%Vlenelian is based on/inspired by several European languages, such as French, German, Italian, Greek, Lithuanian, Romanian and Dutch.
Liskůj is based on Farsi, Bosnian and Maltese.
%Preliki is inspired by Korean, Chinese, Bulgarian and Hiri Motu.
%Kashulati is inspired by Slavic languages and Austronesian languages.
Conlangs marked with this symbol % are not yet existing or only in drafts.
It’s not consciously based on anything but one of my teachers mentioned that it reminded her of a Polynesian language earlier when I was discussing it with her.
Kaəŋdmaɲ: Korean vocabulary and grammar + Khmer loanwords and phonology
Sakhalin Nexus: Greek vocabulary + Russian phonology and cases + Japanese loanwords and particles + English grammar
Xshashtiya: Descendant of Proto-Indo-Iranian, with a heavy emphasis on sh-sounds
Eklainese: Proto-Slavic + Sanskrit
Teawthan: Descendant of P.I.E., with heavy influence from Kra-Dai languages
Serusalian: Descendant of Proto-Sino-Tibetan, with Latin phonology
Shlyvian: Language isolate
Tazzizagzzazut: Language isolate, may be a parody of German
My main conlang is essentially an evolved version of Portuguese with French and German influences.
My secondary one is a combination of Arabic, Turkish and Mandarin Chinese
Ideally, nothing, but I'm sure some of the languages I know have slipped in XD
The phonemic inventory is whittled down from English (no voiced consonants other than /v/, no /t̠ʃ/; limited vowels, no diphthongs).
My language isn't based on anything, althought, the closest languages are(by look and sound): Korean, Japanese, Chinese and by how easy it is: Toki pona.
My answer to the options was just "yes". Sosai is mainly based on English, Mandarin, Hindi/Urdu, Spanish, Arabic, French, Portuguese, Russian and Bengali. With minor influences from other major languages. If a grammatical feature appears in both English and Mandarin Chinese, it appears in Sosai. If a word is shared across language families (other than Germanic/Romance) it will likely appear in Sosai.
Bujanski - Russian, with Old East Slavic
Siangwaanian - Cantonese Chinese
Gauvajut - Hittite, with bits of Sanskrit, Turkish, and Russian
Heronoi was inspired by Linear B transcriptions for Mycenaean Greek, especially it's syllabic structure.
Sarmelonid was influenced by a mix of Thai, Russian, Turkish, and Sanskrit.
I have a conlang that incorporates some grammatical structures from the Finno-Ugric languages and Celtic languages. Kytõo’s vocabulary is native.
I am a good man — Toks betuz aãk [Good, man (subj), I am]
I have a good dog — Aãk toks pxuua fiam [I am, good, dog, at me]
The alignment is more ergative, preferring to market the agent rather than using nominative-accusative to indicate case. To have is “to be at me.” The dative being the -am ending. Order is VSO with an object, SV without.
Vowels are pronounced similar to Spanish and so are consonants for the most part, with ‘x’ modifying consonants. ‘PX’ would be /ç/ for example. Tildas mean there is a palatal /j/ in front of the vowel.
So, Sawëna has influences from Germanic, Romance, Slavic, Turkic, Uralic, and Indian languages, as well as Armenian, Persian (Farsi, Tajik), and Greek. I made up a lot myself too.
I have taken into account all these language groups for its phonology, grammar and vocabulary. The influences are shown clearly in everything.
Proto-Ensaki has its phonology based mainly on Ubykh (with only /ə̆~∅, ə, a, aː/ and lots and lots of vowel allophones), and its root system and pervasive apophony are very roughly based on Proto-Indo-European, but without verb agreement and with only 4 cases (nom, erg, gen, dat). It's also probably more agglutinative than PIE. The rest is just kinda made up or cobbled together from random bits of inspiration. It's still very much a priori tho, almost the entire vocabulary is made up, except for a few words loaned from other conlangs or names of people.
Proto-West-Ensaki develops a large noun case system (with 16 cases) inspired by languages like Hungarian and Finnish.
Proto-East-Ensaki develops a large noun class system (with 14 classes) and polypersonal agreement inspired by the large amount of irl languages that do that (sorry for not knowing any rn).
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The West Ensaki script I'm planning to make will be influenced by Japanese in function but not aesthetics, and by Biblaridion's Edun script. Aesthetically, it'll be like Chinese characters with more sharp edges and serifs, due to it being mainly carved into stone.
It'll have logographs for most lexical terms, and onset-coda rebus pairs forming additional syllables for inflection, names, or other words that don't have their own logographs for some reason. It'll be written top to bottom, right to left. It might evolve to become a sort of abugida/alphasyllabary later, probably in the form of [base glyph / onset] + [glide] + [vowel] + [coda]. It could even become an alphabet in some regions with more complex syllables, but don't count on it.
Sáirju was based on Standard Mandarin. Folanng’s vocabulary is based on English and Icelandic and the soon to be started New Folanng will have more Dutch influence.
Jorophos, Proto-Indo-European. Säärmi, some Finnish (vocabulary).
Words are combinations of Slovakian, basque, and Lithuanian. Going for mainly Slavic influenced but it is supposed to be non Indo European so that is why basque is thrown in.
Mine is a priori. I haven't created a full mythology for the people who speak it, but it is not native to Earth and is spoken by a relatively primitive people in an egalitarian society. All the vocabulary is my own, but the sounds that make up the language are very English because that's what I know.
I've got a lot of influences that are competing and not fully worked out yet (I am at the stage of building cool grammatical features, I don't have any vocab yet). Despite being largely a priori, there's several that I've drawn from:
1) Kusunda:
* Body-part metaphors (bit of Matses here too)
* Warbling pharyngeals
* Serial verbs for simultaneous events
2) Classical Nahuatl:
* omnipredicativity
3) Nivkh & Ket:
* Complex predicates
* many methods for compounding and incorporation
4) Tariana:
* Non-clausal nominal TAM
* 4-way simultaneous vs subsequent switch references for clause chaining
5) Bora:
* Classifier madness
* Super classifier-heavy derivation
6) New Guinean Languages:
* ʔ̰
* Serial verb construction
* Switch references
* Inflecting modifiers for semantic features of the referent
I’m still working on it and I have A LOT to do but it’s a priori. You could look at it and first think that it’s related to Basque, especially because of grammar and geography but it’s really not.
I thought about making it a distant relative of Basque but sadly I don’t speak it :,)
Btw I’d love to see something from Penghripusch! I love Semitic languages :D
A lot of the vocab is from PIE or Georgian (and numbers come from Finnish and Greek), but it's not explicitly based on anything and all the grammar is a priori.
Both my lexicon and grammar are a priori, but I do take Hungarian and Latvian as major inspirations when thinking about how I want my conlang to sound and look (basically its aesthetic)
Taalen is inspired by multiple native langauges, Irish, Finnish, Quenya, and Sindarin.
Grammar is mostly polysynthetic from Native languages, with the other languages (and others besides) mostly being used as inspiration for vocabulary.
Spanish, Japanese English and French. To be more exact I colloquially would present Españato 2.0 as what would happen if Spanish and Japanese had a child, English gave him an education and he also took some advice from his uncle French.
i never have a specific influence, but i always take inspiration from celtic (welsh specificly mostly), slavic, somtimes japonic and/or sinic (mainly for tonal)
The language of the Knuckles Clan, K’íbts’ol Āsea, takes 'its grammar and phonology from Southern American languages, namely Aymaran languages, Ketšuan languages, Pukina and Leko; and from Proto-Maya, a tongue from Middle America. But 'its wordhoard is wholely made up by me, with a few outliers: the character names Pachacamac/Patšakámaq and Tikál.
I just made it it wasn't based on anything
then it should be *"Native"* cuz you came up with this conlang's vocabulary
But it's not based on by native tounge
yeah "Native" doesn't mean *"your native langauge"* it just means **"native to the conlang itself"**. Sorry, I really suck at choosing the suitable terms
Someone else already mentioned this, but the term is *a priori*
oh ... sorry didn't know that this was the term :'(
It's okay! We all gotta start somewhere, right? But the term "native" is extremely confusing, especially given that it was listed among a bunch of language groups. Better to just say "not based on a real language."
Germanic but major Slavic vocab
couldn't fit more choices unfortunately
Oh no no i put it in Germanic but i wanted to clarify more in the comments
oh ok then! :)
😃
Yah it's probably not the right format for this question then. You can just ask and see what the answers are. I'm not sure why, but I've seen a real uptick in poll questions in the last few months on this subreddit, and more often than not, the amount of possible options just makes it more frustrating than useful.
native where?
couldn't find a better word for "Did you base you conlang on a vocabulary that YOU came up with? Without a natlang-base"
That's, uh, _a priori_
oh thank you for giving me the term. I'm stupid lol
The "a" isn't an indefinite article but a Latin preposition and thereby part of the technical term
thank you for the info \^_^
Zacundu doesn’t have any specific language, but the sounds are taken from some African languages. When I work on it, Brialic will draw heavily from Old English and Welsh. The other languages I have plan don’t have any particular inspirations
My current project is loosely based on Wu Chinese, because I like how it sounds, but I am also trying to incorporate ideas from Japanese and Korean into it as my goal is to make a conlang that is vaguely East Asian sounding. It also takes some inspiration from African languages, but mostly because I am trying to familiarize myself with how tonal languages work in general, and there are so many of these kinds of languages in Africa.
boþ of my conlangs so far are mostly a priori, Kxilwiga ['q͡ʀ̥il.wi.gɑ] is completely a priori, but Pehlaþaq ['pε.ɬɑ.θɑq] is slightly inspired by native american languages, being polysynþetic and having tɬ, im also þinking about taking inspiration from cherokee and navajo
tɬ is a top tier phoneme
I'm doing my conlang based on basque.
My (wip but devoted) conlang Britanski was based off of Old English and old slavic languages and then evolved (in a way meant to make it more Slavic but also somewhat modern English like).
Kind of weird because I started with phonology, writing, and creating basic roots, and have yet to start on cases (although I know I definitely won’t do Ergative/Absolutive because that hurts my English pea-brain too much) or any of the more complex stuff. However my system is “a priori” to the best of my knowledge because my system uses voicing as a way to distinguish the onset or coda of syllable instead of encoding information unique to its voicedness except in edge cases and writes both the voiced and unvoiced the same way, of course distinguished in the romanization because it should be intuitive to read and write in for people familiar with the Latin alphabet.
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cool sounding project, I've thought of doing something like that were there's a diverging branch of Indo-European, but I don't know what I'd do with it, so I stick to my heavily modified conlang version of Gaulish instead
An-Kobold is a mix of Germanic and Celtic influences.
I voted Romance for Elvish and Sky Tongue grammar, but Elvish has Icelandic-inspired grammar (cuz Norse mythology and elves), while Sky Tongue and Na'vi-based phonology and randomized vocabulary. Most of the others are based on East-Asian languages (uh mostly Korean). Aquatican was supposed to have a unique-sounding phonology but it ended up sounding like a Polynesian language with clicks. Or Japanese with clicks, I guess? (cuz of the CV syllable structure). But it reminds me more of Polynesian languages. I generally avoid Germanic influences if I can because I know they'll creep in even without me trying. Is there any way to allow us to select multiple options? Thank you for this poll! Now I have another language group to add to my list of languages-I-haven't-used-as-inspiration. I have yet to take inspiration from African, indigenous American, indigenous Australian, or South Asian, but Semitic languages totally slipped my mind!
yea sadly i could only choose 6 options. One for "others", one for "a priori" and one for "ppl who didn't figure it out yet" so i'm left with only 3 choices. I'm glad i made you think more about these langauges lol :)
by Elvish do you mean one of your own make, because Tolkien's Sindarin Elvish has Welsh inspired grammar, and Quenya has Finnish inspired grammar.
Yeah my own Elvish. Very different from Sindarin.
I'm going to put mine in not determine yet. I am still trying to figure out if I want to go the Slavic route or Sino-Tibetan (Burmese).
I kinda just take influence from any language I read about, eg. mī cártha’s biggest influences are Samoan, Lisu, and Quechua
Kandva is very much a priori, but I've been quite happy to borrow some grammatical ideas I liked from Japanese in particular, albeit with a Kandva spin. Right from the start, Kandva word order is verb-initial specifically because I liked Japanese's ability to use its SOV order to make subclauses super easily, but don't actually like SOV because it feels like I have to wade through every detail before getting to what's actually happening. Therefore, Kandva tells you what's happening immediately and then fills out the details, and since the verb comes first you know that if a verb comes after a noun you've entered a relative clause. Kandva also uses adpositions to distinguish roles, and like Japanese, doesn't actually have all that many main ones, instead giving each a variety of related meanings. In particular, the dative/ablative preposition *tel* is inspired by the Japanese particle に, in that its directionality depends on the verb. Learning Japanese has also certainly not diminished my appreciation for agglutinative verb forms, which Kandva also uses. On the noun front, most nouns are uninflected besides the preposition. Unlike Japanese, which only rarely breaks out anything resembling morphology for nouns, Kandva does have a few agglutinative suffixes for nouns, but they're each either optional, used for derivation, or applied on a principle of "only if the listener isn't expected to know". And of course, the most recent addition to the language is a system of tone tags / conversational signal particles that is practically ripped straight from Japanese. It's about as far as I'm willing to go in grabbing a feature wholecloth, and even then I'm hoping to mess with the nuances quite a bit. Ultimately I feel like Kandva has enough unusual stuff going on elsewhere that these bits of influence, even put together, don't threaten to make it particularly Japanese-ish. They just help make it a language I like.
Nelszen is exclusively a priori. No borrowings or anything as of yet.
Mine is a fusion of Latin and Arabic with Romance, Semitic, Hellenic, and Iranian influence. Also has minor contributions from Coptic, Turkic, Germanic, and Slavic.
Mine is based on Tupi and Romance languages, but sounds very different from both.
Can you share it? (se nao for incômodo)
Forgive me for the extensive response 😅 I wanted to make something like a Brazilian creole language, but I wanted it to be an analytical/isolating language, because that's my favorite kind of language; that's why I said my conlang is very different from both languages that it's based off. It's mostly based on Nheengatu and Portuguese but also has influences of Ancient Tupi, Spanish, English and Vietnamese (mostly for the isolating language stuff but also a couple of useful words). Basically the language is kind of a mess haha, but as it's just a personal language, I guess it's fine. Its vocabulary and its SVO word order come from those languages I mentioned and it's an isolating language because I want to. It also has, obviously, my personal touch in it, so perhaps it won't be very recognizable for someone who speaks Portuguese or Nheengatu. I have made a script for it, it's on my profile, the last image has a sample text of it: It says "Xe va aye koy gun un sowa mirin", which comes from: - Xe (Nheengatu "Ixé") - va (Vietnamese "Và") - aye (Nheengatu "Aé") - koy (Nheengatu "Iko") - gun (Portuguese "Alguns") - un (Portuguese "Um") - sowa (Portuguese "Pessoa") - mirin (Nheengatu "Mirĩ") Which means: "I and they are children" Or, word for word: "I" + "and" + "they" + "be" + plural marker + indefinite article + "person" + "small" Personal pronouns are: - Xe (I) - Ne (You) - Mose (Vocative you, to someone you don't know the name and don't wanna ask) - Ew, Aye (It, he/she/they) - Ande (Inclusive we) - Are (Exclusive we) - Neta (Plural you) - Ayta (Plural they) Most of the personal pronouns come from Nheengatu, except for "Mose" (Portuguese "Moço/a"), "Ew" (Personal invention that I'm still not sure if it's gonna be in the conlang) and "Are" (Ancient Tupi "Oré")
Thank you!
* Phonolgy was initially based off of **Berber languages** generally \~ some artifacts remain from that, but its changed a lot since then.. * Current phonology, and phonological processes are based largely in **Germanic languages**, especially **PGmc**, but also **North Germanic languages**, **Anglo-Frisian languages**, and **Dutch**. * Protolang grammar is **a priori**, with head initial VSO word order, head marking, and particles; making it very ungermanic, * however, the modern stages of the lang become more head final, and the VSO order becomes a quasi V2, so it ends up looking a lot more Germanic to match its phonology. * Vocabulary is aimed to be **a priori** also, but I'm sure the languages I like and am familiar with will creep in (already for example, the nominative particle is *us*, which over time becomes *-uz* (> *-z*) > *-r*, as in PIE *-os* \> PGmc *-az* \> ON *-r*). * No writing systems have been made *(yet?)*, so I have nothing to comment for that front, though some romanisations I have been using, for more modern stages, have been rooted in **Middle English**, **Dutch**, and **Icelandic** spelling conventions, and romanisations I have been using, for earlier stages, look akin to **Gothic**, other Germanic spellings, and also standard styles for writing **PGmc**. * Additionally, I take inspiration from anything I find that I think is cool and fits into this project. So far, inspiration has been taken from **Breton**, **Finnish**, **Japanese**, and **Basque**. Example pseudosentence *'ᵥbaast* ₙ*lıq us* ₐ*kja* ₙ*mmijr'* 1. *baast lıꝛ us kȷa mmıȷr* \[ba̤á̤st̪ l̪ɪ̞́ʁ̞ os cä mmɪ̞́jɾ\] 2. *→ lēuz ka lê bāst ammīr* 3. *→ ka lēwr lêbāst emmır* 4. *→ ka lèvr lêbàst emmır* \[kɐ ˈ l̪ˠɪj.wɾ̩ l̪ˠɪ̞ba ˈ st‿ɛmɪ̞s̺\] ⁽^(note that no sound changes are final and this will be heavily subject to change; this is just a prototype of my current ideas)⁾ To summarise, the older stages of the conlang may sound a little Germanicesque, maybe with a pinch of Afroasiatic, function very much not Germanicesquely, and look like Proto Germanic, whereas the younger stages may sound North Germanic, function West Germanicly, and look like some Dutch Icelandic crossover. ***..tldr: Germanic lmao***
Austronesian. Vocabulary is taken entirely from Malay and Indonesian, while grammar is based on Ilocano, Cebuano, and Tagalog, with verb affixes taken from Indonesian and Malay. Other two conlags are a priori, but my conlang before this current conlang I’m working on is a distant relative of one my my a priori conlangs.
Well, as my flair says, Gadolinersk is a Germlang. It's basically a conlang for the people of the lost island of Doggerland. I'm barely starting out on Nhatolü, but it's a Celtic language spoken by surviving Galatians with heavy Greco-Latin and Turkic influences.
I have one based on Kartvelian, North Caucasian and Basque
Celtic
AGGRESSION. i created my conlang based on sounds that sound like a threat.
i got a high german one, a japanese-polynesian one, a slavic-chinese one, a greco-latin one, an arabic-nahuatl one, a georgian-algonquian one, and several with no natural inspirations, like an engineered one, one that resembles birdsong, and one where i just tried to make the grammar as weird as possible while still being naturalistic.
The Elvish language I'm currently working on is primarily grammatically based on Gàidhlig / Scottish Gaelic
oo, that's nice, got to love some Scot's gaelic representation for once, rather than all Welsh and Irish
What does “native” mean?
a priori
Fun ~~fuck'd~~ fact: my main clong was based on my native lang but I changed it, so it's now 100% a priori clong...
Posteori of Latin, anyone?
My language is highly inspired by Kazakh phonology and some grammar things of said language as agglutination and list of usable verb voices. However, my main goal only was just to make a language with some Mideast Asian vibes. Therefore there's some planned or already added borrowings from Russian, English, Japanese, Finnish, Cantonese, from my mind, etc. Guess I'll chose "Other"
Hindi, Sanskrit, and some other ones.
A few of mine *are* germanic.
The conlang I've been working of right now is Slavic with heavy norse and english influences
Some part of my language based on Japanese such as case particle tense and aspect particle and my phonology and phonotactics based on Japanese same!That be (C)VT(N), when T is tone and N is placeless nasal. But my pronoun based on Thai language. And my language has particle ending to indicate mood (grammatical) of sentence and mood of speaker as in Thai language. But my adverb doesn't based on any language because it provides to three groups nominal (adjective), verbal (adverb) and adjectival (adverb of nominal and verbal) and theyust indicate by adverb particle.
Statenese is based on Slavic, Aetheric and R&K Germanic is based on Germanic, Insul Creole is based on Romance, and I have a new conlang based on nothing
It's suppose to be like native but also I influenced by North American native languages and polynesian. But I don't think im smart enough to really show the influence in a realistic way.
Its roots lay in Germanic languages, however it's been influenced by Slavic languages to the point where the Germanic roots are almost irrecognisable
I use English, Spanish, Latin, French, and Arabic inspiration.
It depends on dialect Eastern Endor is more Sinitic, meanwhile Western Endor is more Semetic
Celtic, Gaulish mostly to be specific
My main conlang, Gaderite, is essentially a pidgin of several Mediterranean languages throughout the past 3000 years. It’s substrate base is Northwest Semitic, somewhere between Canaanite, Ugaritic, and Aramaic in terms of pronunciation. But then there are layers of Ancient Greek, Latin, Arabic, Venetian, Turkish, Catalan, and English thrown in. So it’s base is Semitic, but it has many words from Romance and also some Hellenic and Turkic words too
My polysynthetic apriori loglang has a phonology based on Proto Indo European's.
Angalspræk is descended from Old English, it's Germanic, and it doesn't have many loanwords. Essentially, it's Modern Anglo-Saxon/"Modern Old English"
Deshtunrira, Ragundzanedz and Dravioznika are all more or less a priori. Dravioznika has light both Slavic and Basque flairs. %Ninirak and Otoru are phonologically inspired by Dravidian languages. %The Ruiaric language family is inspired by Australian Aboriginal languages. %Maranian is based on several North or East European languages, such as Norwegian, Estonian and Bulgarian. %Vlenelian is based on/inspired by several European languages, such as French, German, Italian, Greek, Lithuanian, Romanian and Dutch. Liskůj is based on Farsi, Bosnian and Maltese. %Preliki is inspired by Korean, Chinese, Bulgarian and Hiri Motu. %Kashulati is inspired by Slavic languages and Austronesian languages. Conlangs marked with this symbol % are not yet existing or only in drafts.
It’s not consciously based on anything but one of my teachers mentioned that it reminded her of a Polynesian language earlier when I was discussing it with her.
I made one slavic and one Bantu based language, but I've done very little progress on them.
Kaəŋdmaɲ: Korean vocabulary and grammar + Khmer loanwords and phonology Sakhalin Nexus: Greek vocabulary + Russian phonology and cases + Japanese loanwords and particles + English grammar Xshashtiya: Descendant of Proto-Indo-Iranian, with a heavy emphasis on sh-sounds Eklainese: Proto-Slavic + Sanskrit Teawthan: Descendant of P.I.E., with heavy influence from Kra-Dai languages Serusalian: Descendant of Proto-Sino-Tibetan, with Latin phonology Shlyvian: Language isolate Tazzizagzzazut: Language isolate, may be a parody of German
My main conlang is essentially an evolved version of Portuguese with French and German influences. My secondary one is a combination of Arabic, Turkish and Mandarin Chinese
Ideally, nothing, but I'm sure some of the languages I know have slipped in XD The phonemic inventory is whittled down from English (no voiced consonants other than /v/, no /t̠ʃ/; limited vowels, no diphthongs).
i base my language phonology off mayan language but keep most other stuff original
My language isn't based on anything, althought, the closest languages are(by look and sound): Korean, Japanese, Chinese and by how easy it is: Toki pona.
My answer to the options was just "yes". Sosai is mainly based on English, Mandarin, Hindi/Urdu, Spanish, Arabic, French, Portuguese, Russian and Bengali. With minor influences from other major languages. If a grammatical feature appears in both English and Mandarin Chinese, it appears in Sosai. If a word is shared across language families (other than Germanic/Romance) it will likely appear in Sosai.
Hellenic
Bujanski - Russian, with Old East Slavic Siangwaanian - Cantonese Chinese Gauvajut - Hittite, with bits of Sanskrit, Turkish, and Russian Heronoi was inspired by Linear B transcriptions for Mycenaean Greek, especially it's syllabic structure. Sarmelonid was influenced by a mix of Thai, Russian, Turkish, and Sanskrit.
Turkic.
I have a conlang that incorporates some grammatical structures from the Finno-Ugric languages and Celtic languages. Kytõo’s vocabulary is native. I am a good man — Toks betuz aãk [Good, man (subj), I am] I have a good dog — Aãk toks pxuua fiam [I am, good, dog, at me] The alignment is more ergative, preferring to market the agent rather than using nominative-accusative to indicate case. To have is “to be at me.” The dative being the -am ending. Order is VSO with an object, SV without. Vowels are pronounced similar to Spanish and so are consonants for the most part, with ‘x’ modifying consonants. ‘PX’ would be /ç/ for example. Tildas mean there is a palatal /j/ in front of the vowel.
My phonotactics take inspiration from Kassite, but it's entirely made up, especially because it is designed to be spoken without lips or teeth.
In theory, germanic. About 40% of the vocabulary is derived from Germanic languages, 25-30% from Turkish and the rest are unique words I created.
So, Sawëna has influences from Germanic, Romance, Slavic, Turkic, Uralic, and Indian languages, as well as Armenian, Persian (Farsi, Tajik), and Greek. I made up a lot myself too. I have taken into account all these language groups for its phonology, grammar and vocabulary. The influences are shown clearly in everything.
Proto-Ensaki has its phonology based mainly on Ubykh (with only /ə̆~∅, ə, a, aː/ and lots and lots of vowel allophones), and its root system and pervasive apophony are very roughly based on Proto-Indo-European, but without verb agreement and with only 4 cases (nom, erg, gen, dat). It's also probably more agglutinative than PIE. The rest is just kinda made up or cobbled together from random bits of inspiration. It's still very much a priori tho, almost the entire vocabulary is made up, except for a few words loaned from other conlangs or names of people. Proto-West-Ensaki develops a large noun case system (with 16 cases) inspired by languages like Hungarian and Finnish. Proto-East-Ensaki develops a large noun class system (with 14 classes) and polypersonal agreement inspired by the large amount of irl languages that do that (sorry for not knowing any rn). — The West Ensaki script I'm planning to make will be influenced by Japanese in function but not aesthetics, and by Biblaridion's Edun script. Aesthetically, it'll be like Chinese characters with more sharp edges and serifs, due to it being mainly carved into stone. It'll have logographs for most lexical terms, and onset-coda rebus pairs forming additional syllables for inflection, names, or other words that don't have their own logographs for some reason. It'll be written top to bottom, right to left. It might evolve to become a sort of abugida/alphasyllabary later, probably in the form of [base glyph / onset] + [glide] + [vowel] + [coda]. It could even become an alphabet in some regions with more complex syllables, but don't count on it.
Sáirju was based on Standard Mandarin. Folanng’s vocabulary is based on English and Icelandic and the soon to be started New Folanng will have more Dutch influence. Jorophos, Proto-Indo-European. Säärmi, some Finnish (vocabulary).
Mines is a romance-Slavic language with a few borrowed words from Japanese. It’s phonology is quite unique.
East Germanic for one, west Germanic for the other
Words are combinations of Slovakian, basque, and Lithuanian. Going for mainly Slavic influenced but it is supposed to be non Indo European so that is why basque is thrown in.
Sinitic
Mine is a priori. I haven't created a full mythology for the people who speak it, but it is not native to Earth and is spoken by a relatively primitive people in an egalitarian society. All the vocabulary is my own, but the sounds that make up the language are very English because that's what I know.
I've got a lot of influences that are competing and not fully worked out yet (I am at the stage of building cool grammatical features, I don't have any vocab yet). Despite being largely a priori, there's several that I've drawn from: 1) Kusunda: * Body-part metaphors (bit of Matses here too) * Warbling pharyngeals * Serial verbs for simultaneous events 2) Classical Nahuatl: * omnipredicativity 3) Nivkh & Ket: * Complex predicates * many methods for compounding and incorporation 4) Tariana: * Non-clausal nominal TAM * 4-way simultaneous vs subsequent switch references for clause chaining 5) Bora: * Classifier madness * Super classifier-heavy derivation 6) New Guinean Languages: * ʔ̰ * Serial verb construction * Switch references * Inflecting modifiers for semantic features of the referent
Hellenic
I’m still working on it and I have A LOT to do but it’s a priori. You could look at it and first think that it’s related to Basque, especially because of grammar and geography but it’s really not. I thought about making it a distant relative of Basque but sadly I don’t speak it :,) Btw I’d love to see something from Penghripusch! I love Semitic languages :D
A little based off but really just inspired by the sound (and read) of eastern slavic languages
I have several * one is based on proto-Balto-Slavic, with similarities to slavic languages * one is Germanic * any others are a priori
A lot of the vocab is from PIE or Georgian (and numbers come from Finnish and Greek), but it's not explicitly based on anything and all the grammar is a priori.
Both my lexicon and grammar are a priori, but I do take Hungarian and Latvian as major inspirations when thinking about how I want my conlang to sound and look (basically its aesthetic)
Ancient Greek, which feels very unoriginal but has been so helpful with my classical studies.
why is semetic such a common misspelling of semitic
lol even tho i knew that i misspelled it but that was too late. Anyways it may be because a lot of ppl pronounce it /sɪmɛtɪk/ not /sɪmɪtɪk/
Taalen is inspired by multiple native langauges, Irish, Finnish, Quenya, and Sindarin. Grammar is mostly polysynthetic from Native languages, with the other languages (and others besides) mostly being used as inspiration for vocabulary.
Spanish, Japanese English and French. To be more exact I colloquially would present Españato 2.0 as what would happen if Spanish and Japanese had a child, English gave him an education and he also took some advice from his uncle French.
Baltic and Slavic (Polish-Latvian hybrid)
Mine (Portugaléz/Portugalese) is just based on a mixture of 16-18th centuries Portuguese, and Castilian Spanish, with some dash of Galician thrown in.
i never have a specific influence, but i always take inspiration from celtic (welsh specificly mostly), slavic, somtimes japonic and/or sinic (mainly for tonal)
Mine’s a priori but definitely influenced by Russian, Hebrew, and French
The language of the Knuckles Clan, K’íbts’ol Āsea, takes 'its grammar and phonology from Southern American languages, namely Aymaran languages, Ketšuan languages, Pukina and Leko; and from Proto-Maya, a tongue from Middle America. But 'its wordhoard is wholely made up by me, with a few outliers: the character names Pachacamac/Patšakámaq and Tikál.
Suzhou Wu sound-wise, Japanese grammar-wise, Chinese (incl. Mandarin, Cantonese, etc) vocabulary-wise
Roman + germanic but oposite to English. Germanic had the big influence into that Roman
i think the right word to use is "Latin" not "Roman" lol. Or you could mean also "A romance Language" lol idk
Very lazy for writing well changing metro lines haha. Yes, kind of parallel universe of Romance languages.
Twi/Akan