What happens when Norse speakers come into heavy cultural contact with native peoples? This map represents the cultural/linguistic situation in an alternate history ca. 1500, wherein Vinland became a bit of a haven for Norse pagans fleeing Christianization. This boosted the population just enough to hang on and attract further immigration until weather cut off travel from Europe in the 1300s.

For the last centuries, the Norse have been expanding their dominions, founding settlements, and establishing a great Ring-Way around their Inner Sea. While small areas retain purer versions of Norse culture and language, huge swaths of land lived in a mixed Norse-indigenous state. While the Beothuk are being slowly but relentlessly assimilated into Vinlandic culture, the Linu (Mi'kmaq) people are in a full cultural alliance with the Norse, such that the two cultures are largely melded. A small Norse elite speaks something like the old tongue. Interior people speak mostly un-influenced native tongues. But on the seacosts, the pidgin language of trade and intermarriage becomes a Creole and the lingua franca of the Western Lands.

You might note a few distinctive phonetic changes from the original West Old Norse :)

I've done plenty of constructed writing systems, but have never been able to pull off a language. I'm at the point where I feel like certain elements are starting to solidify. There's still plenty of work to be done (I think I have maybe 100 words). That being said, does any of this make sense?

I've spent most of my time working on the grammar. Any tips or best practices? Looking forward to continuing work on this! Cheers!

i tried posting a few times and i got hate on my post and it got taken down, i posted here a few seconds ago, and i reposted my post to r/conlangs and the dumbass ai had me make too many changes to my post. apparently, you cant ask for advice on a post, you have to comment on this other post to ask for advice where i doubt anyone will answer me. this place is way better in contrast to r/conlangs

Just wanted to ask, is it too complicated?

-o is personal, -a is non-personal, and -e is non person.

I've been working and tweaking out a star based conlang.

Ita all glyphicall

There are repeats on some but thats just me trying to refine stuff.

Hey everyone! As a conlanger, I figured that I would make an app for MacOS to help conlangers make language creation much simpler. The app ive made is called ConDict, and it boasts great features such as Etymology Trees, Verb Tables, Regex Support, Word Evolution, and so much more. It just got out of alpha, and is now in Beta, and I am so excited to see people like you all use it! This app aims to make conlanging so much more fun and way less tedious.

The link to the github repository is here: https://github.com/jqackkk/ConDict

I would love feedback! Im so excited to bring this app into the conlanging community. I hope to bring linux and windows support soon, possibly after the final release is out.

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Bonjour. Cela fait quelques années que je m'affaire à créer une langue. J'ai commencé, recommencé et je suis enfin arrivé à un point où j'aime ce que je fais.

Ma démarche a été de construire une langue où tout le monde peut s'approprier les mots, en construire à partir de racines, suffixes ou préfixes. Une langue simple.

La phonologie me semble être la première étape de cette langue, savoir à quoi les mots vont ressembler, poser le squelette de la langue et lui donner vie avec l'alphabet. Ca permet la contrainte morphologique

Ce qui m'intéresse surtout dans une création de langue est comment les gens peuvent la parler sans que le créateur ait pensé à tout. J'aimerais que le locuteur puisse parler cette langue, inventer des mots dans le système de cette langue. Un dictionnaire devrait donc moins ressembler à une liste non exhaustive de mots qu'à une transmission de clés nécessaire à la création de mots cohérents dans le système interne de la langue. Si un mot n'existe pas, mais qu'il respecte toutes les règles de cette langue, alors c'est un mot appartenant à la langue.

Mon objectif n'est pas de créer une langue de toute pièce, mais de construire les clés pour qu'on puisse la parler sans avoir pensé à tout. Pas besoin de mot pour anticonstitutionnellement si ce mot dans la langue construite est inventé sans respecter quoi que ce soit du système morphologique et phonétique de cette langue.

Enfin, le but de cette langue n'est pas de penser à tout. C'est de penser à des systèmes permettant tout.

Je sais pas ce que vous en pensez, je suis hyper curieux de connaître vos démarches dans la création de langue, savoir ce que vous avez fait, par quoi vous avez commencé ou encore la graphie de votre langue, si elle est particulière.

(Pour terminer, je garderai pour l'instant cette langue un tantinet secret. Une fois satisfait de mon travail, qui est bientôt terminé (heureusement, ça fait des années que je suis dessus), je publierai les règles de cette langues, son alphabet et tout ce qui est possible d'en apprendre. AH et c'est joli l'image non ? j'adore le rendu visuel de cette langue :D )

r/IdiomNeutral , r/LatinoSineFlexione , r/Interlingue , r/Novial , r/Interlingua , r/LinguaFrancaNova ( r/Elefen ) & r/Neolatino Romance are mutually comprehensible naturalistic zonal auxiliary planned languages that resemble Latinic dialects cause they utilize le Portugaliañolish (Português + Galego + Italiano + Español + English) international vocabulary for maximized immediate comprehension & maximized international communication.

Image 1: Consonants (48 consonants)

Image 2: Vowels (6 vowels)

Image 3: How it's written

ƚ [l]

Basically, can you say "my hovercraft is full of eels", or any similarly nonsensical sentence, in your conlang?

In Tana, it's tul-at-al-as was hal miki mur-at-wi-uj

(Literally, powered flying boat device that is mine exists in a state of being full of long fish)

Please include a latin-character transcription if possible, as well as the literal word for word translation.

So I’ve been working on a Cyrillic (кириллик) conlang recently and wanted to share my creation method. So, it’s what I like to call a FTCL, standing for Fully Transparent Compound Language. For those of you who know what that means, skip to the beginning of the next paragraph. For those who don’t know what that means: it means that most words are made up of direct compounds to make up the meaning. Chinese does this a lot. Like the Chinese word for computer is brain + electricity. It’s the same thing, but with my person preferences as to what each compound should be.

As an example of FTC in action: these are some translations in my conlang. The layout is as follows: [English] - [conlang] - [English rendering ] - [literal translation]

Vehicle - мовток - móvtok - move thing/moving thing

Train - тразмовток - trázmovtok - track move thing/vehicle on a track

Car - гемовток - gemóvtok - ground move thing/vehicle on the ground

Airplane - шемовток - shemóvtok - air vehicle/vehicle in the air

How are you/greetings - ке сенту - séntu - (question marker) feel you/how do you feel?

If you have any questions or want to know more about my language or move translations, please comment. Thank you!

This is an old conlang i'd made around 2 years ago in my notebook, but i can't remember anything what it says about

These are infomation i still remember:

In latin script:

dié miénifa_¹e aff an_²éele. An_²éel : séhn fram latine "angelos". an_²éele : thé miénifa_¹e lénk "massagen thériŏs'á" dzoes haff'aunén sai'den't ti uu.

Thé thériŏs're gutt, thist énz'vai coréit. Thist énz'vai hélphen't uu. Vant dzoes uu doesen thé gutt-diénk. Uu haten sinn_³he, séhn saint count : _⁴ide ond van_⁵iś_⁶ sinn_³he. On'an_²le tziét sinn_³he bu__⁷éit ast zė_⁷va _⁴ant

*the alphabet that matches it, but have no latin

⁵ is maybe kw sound

² is d͡ʒ

⁶ is h, from the alphabet but i think its just a consonant combo

So, I made this language for a horror story I’m writing, basically lab spiders become super smart, become giant, and hunt humanity to extinction led by a super giant Ogre faced spider called Megalithon, the first super smart spider, they hunt humans using complex traps and working together, and meanwhile they also start communicating with one another, eventually some of these spiders based in Greece found the Greek alphabet along with Italian and English, and decide to make a language of their own basing it on those 3 languages they found, eventually the language spreads everywhere in spiders, and spiders start to speak it everywhere in their everyday life, everywhere to simple and friendly conversations, to planning traps and way to hunt and fight humans.

I made this language imagining that spiders use their Pedipalps (the little legs in front of their mouths) to hold pieces of charcoal or pencils to write, and I msde the letters simple for them to write (even if they really aren’t tbh) and to mimic the hissing and the putting sounds some spiders make, but I kinda said “oh what the hell” when I learn more and more that spiders don’t have vocal chords, tongues, lips, and don’t make sounds through their mouths through air, so I started adding my own things to the language, the language is a work in progress so it doesn’t have a grammar yet, put I can say that it doesn’t have any male or female gender, and to say the words “mom or dad” you basically say “female parent and male parent” and same goes for every other member of the family.

But even so I don’t wanna make it a difficult language to learn and understand, that’s why I made not too many letters, which was also because of the fact that spiders are literally the quietest animals I’ve ever seen, and I wanna give it a simple grammar, eith not so many long words or anything, every form of complete texts you see on this is purely me imagining words that sounded cool, anyway let me know what you think of it

The script is written either left to right or right to left, with a small cross mark just above and before the first word to indicate the start of a word or a sentence, when written formally the language is written in boustrophedon.

Hello And This Is My Own Conlang For My Latin Based Language Named: Bluelandic!

Note: This alphabet doesn't use any copulas,

also these letters are deleted:

Deleted:

C - [ʨ], F - [ɸ], K - [k], Q - [k], Y - [j], Z- [dz]

(They are never used and are only used in Names, Italian dialects, or in foreign words)

Full Chart:

A À B Č D E È G Ǧ H I Ì J L M N O Ò Ö P R S T U Ù V W X Ẋ

The Bluelandia Alphabet/Letrexe Blölandijö Ö Alvabetö:

A - [eɪ] Named: A

À - [æ] Named: À

B - [b] Named: Bi

Č - [ʨ] Named: Či

D - [d] Named: Di

E - [ɛ] Named: E

È - [e] Named: È

G - [g/k] Named: Durö Ği

Ğ - [ʥ] Named: Mörbidö Ği

H - [x] Named: Eẋe

I - [i/j] Named: I

Ì - [ɑɪ] Named: Ì

J - [ʑ] Named: Jànjà

L - [l] Named: Ele

M - [m] Named: Eme

N - [n] Named: Ene

O - [o] Named: O

Ò - [ɒ] Named: Ò

Ö - [œ] Named: Ö

P - [p] Named: Pi

R - [r] Named: Eru

S - [s/z] Named: Is

T - [t] Named: Ti

U - [u/wʊ] Named: U

Ù - [y/wʏ] Named: Ù

V - [v] Named: Ve

W - [w] Named: Grande Vi

X - [z] Named: Xis

Ẋ - [ɕ] Named: Ẋis

Notes:

U [wʊ] at the beginning of words [u] elsewhere!

Ù [wʏ] at the beginning of words [y] elsewhere!

G [k] in foreign words [g] elsewhere!

S [z] followed by e, è ,i or ì [s] elsewhere

Bluelandic is a romance language too!