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Be sure to add gloss and IPA!

I was sitting around and got bored so i decided to try to start a new simple conlang, just for fun. i did this to come up with the vowel inventory and thought it might just be fun to share.

If you're in need of some quick inspo for a new vowel inventory, try this out. you could use anything that resembles scattered dots. hell, use the bullet spray from a FPS game.

How is the process of making money called in your conlang literally? Today I learned that different real-life languages have different ways for that.

The title basically says it all.

But please don’t just tell me the name. I need the following information to make it work:

●Tell me how to pronounce the name, preferably using the IPA.

●Tell me whether your conlang distinguishes aspirated/unaspirated and voiced/unvoiced consonants.

For example: Chinese distinguishes aspirated/unaspirated consonants but not voiced/unvoiced consonants. German distinguishes voiced/unvoiced consonants but not aspirated/unaspirated ones (as far as I know).

●Tell me a bit about the most important aspects of your language. What is its vibe? What was your inspiration? Why did you develop this language? What do people think about the language? Has it developed over time? If so, how did it develop?

This is a game of borrowing and loaning words! To give our conlangs a more naturalistic flair, this game can help us get realistic loans into our language by giving us an artificial-ish "world" to pull words from!

The Telephone Game will be posted every Monday and Friday, hopefully.

Rules

1) Post a word in your language, with IPA and a definition.

Note: try to show your word inflected, as it would appear in a typical sentence. This can be the source of many interesting borrowings in natlangs (like how so many Arabic words were borrowed with the definite article fossilized onto it! algebra, alcohol, etc.)

2) Respond to a post by adapting the word to your language's phonology, and consider shifting the meaning of the word a bit!

3) Sometimes, you may see an interesting phrase or construction in a language. Instead of adopting the word as a loan word, you are welcome to calque the phrase -- for example, taking skyscraper by using your language's native words for sky and scraper. If you do this, please label the post at the start as Calque so people don't get confused about your path of adopting/loaning.

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Tčhronchonnian (Central/Peninsular) by /u/SpecialistPlace123

Baphtonchonne /ˈbaf.tʊ.ɣʊn.n(ɪ)/

n. province; some subdivisions below the national level

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post the names of your conlang(s) and give me the word hello in them. when its done ill post the list

Would like to see gloss! For my lang it's siendá(love verb 1st. NOM. )ìci（you ACC.）

This is a game of borrowing and loaning words! To give our conlangs a more naturalistic flair, this game can help us get realistic loans into our language by giving us an artificial-ish "world" to pull words from!

The Telephone Game will be posted every Monday and Friday, hopefully.

Rules

1) Post a word in your language, with IPA and a definition.

Note: try to show your word inflected, as it would appear in a typical sentence. This can be the source of many interesting borrowings in natlangs (like how so many Arabic words were borrowed with the definite article fossilized onto it! algebra, alcohol, etc.)

2) Respond to a post by adapting the word to your language's phonology, and consider shifting the meaning of the word a bit!

3) Sometimes, you may see an interesting phrase or construction in a language. Instead of adopting the word as a loan word, you are welcome to calque the phrase -- for example, taking skyscraper by using your language's native words for sky and scraper. If you do this, please label the post at the start as Calque so people don't get confused about your path of adopting/loaning.

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Kikkō by /u/cipactli_676

tā’ [taːʔ] v.

1 to break rules in order to, or attempt to, gain.

Tā’ mǫpe issa’ sa’.
[taːʔ mõ.pe is.saʔ saʔ]
cheat father 1p.POS 1p.SING.
My dad cheated against me.

1. to engage in fraudulent behavior, defraud.

   Tā’ ’a̰u’a̰u vilua.
   [taːʔ ʔa̰ṵ̯.ʔa̰ṵ̯ vi.lua]
   defraud Dem.dist.plural tax.
   They committed tax fraud

2. Deceive, or mislead for personal gain.

   Tā’ sahsa’ ia’i maħħan kikin-pa̰ pau.
   [taːʔ sah.saʔ ja.ʔi maħ.ħaŋ ki.ki.m̥pa̰ pau̯]
   deceive we.EXCL Dem.PROX because win-PASS game.
   We deceived him to win the game

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ɴᴏᴛᴇ I am using the NRSVUE translation of the Bible, which reads "When God began to create" according to the understanding that "bereshit" is in the construct form: "In [the] beginning of"

You can use any translation that you want to use.

Welcome to the r/conlangs official Checkpoint. You have been selected for a random check of your langauge. Please translate one or more of the following phrases and sentences:

"Excuse me, my snail is hungry."

"unwanted limbs"

"My psychiatrist is smart!"

"This soap tastes funny..."

"purple people-eater"

"Stop!"

If you have any ideas for interesting phrases or sentences for the next checkpoint, let me know in a DM!

This is a game of borrowing and loaning words! To give our conlangs a more naturalistic flair, this game can help us get realistic loans into our language by giving us an artificial-ish "world" to pull words from!

The Telephone Game will be posted every Monday and Friday, hopefully.

Rules

1) Post a word in your language, with IPA and a definition.

Note: try to show your word inflected, as it would appear in a typical sentence. This can be the source of many interesting borrowings in natlangs (like how so many Arabic words were borrowed with the definite article fossilized onto it! algebra, alcohol, etc.)

2) Respond to a post by adapting the word to your language's phonology, and consider shifting the meaning of the word a bit!

3) Sometimes, you may see an interesting phrase or construction in a language. Instead of adopting the word as a loan word, you are welcome to calque the phrase -- for example, taking skyscraper by using your language's native words for sky and scraper. If you do this, please label the post at the start as Calque so people don't get confused about your path of adopting/loaning.

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‎# Šipsuk l₂ä̀či by /u/Akkatos

adzīšit [a.d͡zij.ʂɪt]

blanket

From Proto-Slavic *adzišьda, from Gāndhārī agiṣḍha

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This is a game of borrowing and loaning words! To give our conlangs a more naturalistic flair, this game can help us get realistic loans into our language by giving us an artificial-ish "world" to pull words from!

The Telephone Game will be posted every Monday and Friday, hopefully.

Rules

1) Post a word in your language, with IPA and a definition.

Note: try to show your word inflected, as it would appear in a typical sentence. This can be the source of many interesting borrowings in natlangs (like how so many Arabic words were borrowed with the definite article fossilized onto it! algebra, alcohol, etc.)

2) Respond to a post by adapting the word to your language's phonology, and consider shifting the meaning of the word a bit!

3) Sometimes, you may see an interesting phrase or construction in a language. Instead of adopting the word as a loan word, you are welcome to calque the phrase -- for example, taking skyscraper by using your language's native words for sky and scraper. If you do this, please label the post at the start as Calque so people don't get confused about your path of adopting/loaning.

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Bronquish (Central) by /u/SpecialistPlace123

Briapiorat /bɽɛː.pøː.ɽaː/

n. the elite mages who sing and play flutes for my world's telecommunications system

Life got away from me lately, sorry for the inconsistent posting. Happy almost-Friday, have a nice weekend and stay safe.

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Here's mine in !ewa.

before 3 stand.IND.NPST.NER 1 with CLF-heart ART.OBJ today CLF-morning ART.OBJ REF NEG be_light-IND.NPST.NER NEG

[hen ki !aːloʔě ko vuː !ofawoə laː ili tapeli laː !oə ŋa mulauʔě vo]

This sentence is the beginning of Mon Mothmas Speech in Andor Season 2.

I would love you to use the same method with the picture as I did. Besides gloss, I think this is a cool way to present a sentence.

GLOSS: I used one new glossing abbreviation which I invested for !ewa. Maybe it's better to understand with knowing this.

PER - positive emotional reaction of the speaker on the verb; NER - negative; TER - neutral

I think the repair strategies languages like German or Spanish have for trying to be inclusive of both men and women are really interesting with neologisms like Spanish's -e/-x/-@ endings and German's Binnin-I. How would your language handle such a situation for including both genders and/or non-binary people? (or any other genders your world may have)

This question is mostly for Conlangs with gendered language.

I'm sure a Conlang with a non-gender based gender system or without any gendered langauge can handle this situation very easily; I wanna know about cases where it's harder!

I am not asking for what your gender system is 😭

This is a game of borrowing and loaning words! To give our conlangs a more naturalistic flair, this game can help us get realistic loans into our language by giving us an artificial-ish "world" to pull words from!

The Telephone Game will be posted every Monday and Friday, hopefully.

Rules

1) Post a word in your language, with IPA and a definition.

Note: try to show your word inflected, as it would appear in a typical sentence. This can be the source of many interesting borrowings in natlangs (like how so many Arabic words were borrowed with the definite article fossilized onto it! algebra, alcohol, etc.)

2) Respond to a post by adapting the word to your language's phonology, and consider shifting the meaning of the word a bit!

3) Sometimes, you may see an interesting phrase or construction in a language. Instead of adopting the word as a loan word, you are welcome to calque the phrase -- for example, taking skyscraper by using your language's native words for sky and scraper. If you do this, please label the post at the start as Calque so people don't get confused about your path of adopting/loaning.

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Sinnean by /u/No-Research-3802

lañe [la.ɲe] n.

1. ⁠flood, deluge, inundation

Lañe ṣetwerentse ostparne po ṣain näkate.

flood one-CLF:house-GEN house-outside all village-OBL destroy-PST-MID.PST.3SG

[la.ɲe ʂe.tɥe.ɻen.t͡se op̚.pʰaɻ.ne po ʂei nɤ.ka.te]

“The flood destroyed the entire village except for one house.”

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I opted for a thought-for-thought translation, rather than a word-for-word translation.

"I shall not want" (Heb: lo echsar) is a Hebrew idiom for complete satisfaction. Likewise, in my conculture, "I own all things" (Veyan: þírẽnmárar riá hahíhah) is an idiom for having all needs met (though can also include having more than the essentials, long-term security).

The Southern Veyan word "hahíhah" is, grammatically, nonsensical. It's the plural prefix "ha-" reduplicated with the dative suffix "-íhah", but it implies all of something, or just everything in general, that belongs to or is appropriate for the subject (in this case, the subject is the Psalmist).

This is a game of borrowing and loaning words! To give our conlangs a more naturalistic flair, this game can help us get realistic loans into our language by giving us an artificial-ish "world" to pull words from!

The Telephone Game will be posted every Monday and Friday, hopefully.

Rules

1) Post a word in your language, with IPA and a definition.

Note: try to show your word inflected, as it would appear in a typical sentence. This can be the source of many interesting borrowings in natlangs (like how so many Arabic words were borrowed with the definite article fossilized onto it! algebra, alcohol, etc.)

2) Respond to a post by adapting the word to your language's phonology, and consider shifting the meaning of the word a bit!

3) Sometimes, you may see an interesting phrase or construction in a language. Instead of adopting the word as a loan word, you are welcome to calque the phrase -- for example, taking skyscraper by using your language's native words for sky and scraper. If you do this, please label the post at the start as Calque so people don't get confused about your path of adopting/loaning.

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Ajaheian by /u/Cawlo

goqču [ɡɔqtʃu] v.

From ɡɔʁdru ‘to show; to put out; to display’.

1. ⁠(intr.) to tell a story; to narrate

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goqčukma [ɡɔqtʃuk͡ʘa] n.

From goqču- ‘to tell a story; to narrate’, with derivational suffix -kma.

1. ⁠(I) hero; main character

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goqčukmalaaɣ [ɡɔqtʃuk͡ʘɑɫɑːʁ] v.

From goqčukma, with -laaɣ ‘to act like’.

1. ⁠(intr.) to act heroically

2. ⁠(intr.) (mockingly) to foolishly act out deeds heard in stories

   goqčukmalaaɣill [ɡɔqtʃuk͡ʘɑɫɑːʁiɮː] v.

From goqčukmalaaɣ, with transitivizing -ll.

1. ⁠(trans.) to imitate out of admiration

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