Types of Conlang

For those who need an end game before they start conlanging.

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Thank you all so much for watching...Rao!

[desu]

Not gonna lie, I'm a little disappointed the burger didn't hinge open with a gaping maw full of sharp teeth while Bob reels in horror when it became "burgers ate Bob."

[Reluxthelegend]

3:30 not drawing bob being eaten by burgers 2/10

[alexandermoltu]

Speaking mandarin, I can with confidence say that you slaughtered that example sentence

[Fetch]

From your channel, we know how to design a solar system, how to design a calendar, and how to design a language. But there is still a few bits missing. How do we design land masses on planet? How to we design the dominant species that lives on the planet? How do we design their cities, vehicles, and other things?

[cerberaodollam]

Whenever someone mentions agglutinative languages I'm like "pick me! pick me!" XD (native Hungarian)

[GrothBrooks]

One conlang that I am making (Though it's currently on hiatus) is polysynthetic-agglutinative (I think). It has rough, flowing sounds and a ridiculously small amount of base words. These are both for literary reasons. Namely, I want the language to sound rough and frightening, and for the structure to seem simple. The low base word count is pretty interesting because it makes me get creative with new words. For instance, there are no words for different colors. The word for 'color' is the same as 'see'/'look' and the word for any given color is a descriptive word followed by the word for 'color'. So 'red' is 'blood-color' -> 'blood-see'.

An interesting example where my lack of base words really shows through is 'blue', which is 'not-down-see'. 'Sky' is the same word as 'up' but I don't have a word for 'up', so 'up' is actually 'not-down'. So, 'blue' -> 'sky-color' -> 'sky-see' -> 'up-see' -> 'not-down-see'.

[stelladavis]

As a musician, I was frustrated with the limitations of language to be euphonic. When writing lyrics, I would always try to leave out certain words because they contained too many hard (plosive) sounds. Sometimes it's hard to find words that mean the same thing but don't have hard sounds (unless you use words from different languages in the same sentence, which is extremely confusing). So, I decided to create my own language that would meet what I needed. This sparked a huge interest in linguistics within me. Within two days I was obsessing over Chonsky and generative grammar, verb tenses, writing systems, &c., and that's actually what introduced me to this channel. Anyways, my language (don't have a name for it) contains only sonorous consonants and light fricatives, and I took some liberties to stray away from the English grammar and instead go with what made most sense to me. (Of course, a lot of bits are the same as English, probably because I've been speaking it my whole life, and my thoughts have adapted to that.) but, for example, when thinking of word order, I went through different sentences and thought about what I would think of first. For me, SOV made the most since (I thought of who did it first, then who they did the thing to, then what they did. I also place adjectives after the nouns, like in Spanish, because that makes more sense to me. The defining characteristic of a brown dog is that it is a dog, not that it is brown. So I put the more important words first. The writing system is alphasyllabic, with vowels being marked as diacritics, although the diacritics look a bit like the letters, just oriented differently. They're about the same size. I don't have vowel killers or consonant killers, each consonant is just a consonant, and a lone vowel is attached to one of two "filler" symbols, depending on whether the vowel is part of the previous syllable (or if there isn't a previous syllable).

[kaiserinjacky]

“Very Few Morphemes, say, 100 or so.”

*visible shaking with my conlang of literally 20 single-syllable morphemes*

[azhadial]

French is not really fusional, it actually is in the process of shifting to isolating.
We have recently lost the "passé simple" (replaced by the composed past made of an auxiliary), the subjunctive mood, and some people have even stopped using conditional mood. Besides verbs, there are no other word class which inflects greatly (most nouns do not distinguish singular from plural, and many adjectives do not distinguish plural and masculine-feminine agreement aside from writing French). That transition from highly fusional (Latin) to analytic (modern French) is almost completely done.

[kemoiii]

Artifexian released a new video!



And people say I am celebrating Christmas early.

[idehnkovash]

Man, after searching far and wide for help to create a conlang, I think yours has been one of the most helpful. Keep it up.

[celtofcanaanesurix]

I mostly make synthetic languages, usually with case systems similar to Old Celtic or Germanic languages

[abowainmapping]

I’ve actually been using these to create a crude Etruscan script. It’s been very useful, and a DnD character I made, Hercna Amria, speaks solely in this ‘pseudo-conlang’ I made...

[JayFolipurba]

q is pronounced t͜ɕ and after j, x, q, [ʐ t͜ɕ ɕ] u is pronounced [y]. And now I resume my Chinese homework for tomorrow

[sophiejones]

I know why most languages are agglutinative (and nearly all languages have some kind of agglutination somewhere: even highly fusional languages like Greek and Valyrian). Agglutination is both intuitive and fun. Even baby humans understand the concept of sticking two separate things together to create a new thing. They also find doing so endlessly entertaining (and, if we're honest, we never really grow out of that). Why does everyone like Quenya so much? because it sounds epic, yet satisfies your inner two year old.

[nazamroth]

Analize that... yes, that is a legit word, even if it never, ever gets used even in really overdone text.

[inkyscrolls]

3:01 As an Englishman, I cannot tell you how nice it is to see the English language actually represented with the English flag for a change! Ta, pet.

[michaeldavis]

I *LOVE* agglutination and particles. They are my favorite and least favorite thing about Japanese.

[ConlangKrishna]

Thanks so much for adding oligosynthetic languages! I have been working on them for some years, but they turn out to become complex (polysynthetic-ish) too in the end.

[ClockworkAvatar]

Any day with new artifexian is a good day, even a rainy, cold, *monday*.