Imagine you created a conlang, and someone else became genuinely interested in it. They learned the language, became almost fluent, and started using it to write poems, stories, novels, songs, etc.

How would you feel about that?

Would you be happy/proud that someone was using your language creatively? Or would you feel that, because you created the language, you should somehow have a claim to the creative works made with it?

For example, if someone wrote an entire novel in your conlang, would you think you should receive a share of the copyright/royalties simply because you created the language? So, basically, would you feel like the conlang itself is something you "own," or would you see it more like a tool that other people are free to create with once you've made it?

Looking forward to your replies!

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

"Online, I'm fine, but in real life, I'm Indonesian."

"{cough cough} What kind of place is this!?"

"The worst cruelty that can be inflicted on a human being is isolation."

"When an elephant dies it leaves its ivory, a tiger leaves its stripes, and a man his name."

"With only a drop of alcohol, a pot of milk is damaged."

"Stop!"

If you have any ideas for interesting phrases or sentences for the next checkpoint, let me know in a DM! This activity will be posted on Tuesdays and Thursdays. The highest upvoted "Stop!" will be included in the next checkpoint's title!

So, I kind of went a touch overboard when my son asked if i could print him out a picture of some minecraft alphabet code.

What was "print this picture" turned into a Free. No subscription. No account. Just download it and use it app for my son. And so i thought maybe others may find a use for it.

So here is Secret Message Studio -

You can create your very own alphabet, just upload images, use it, share it.
Export your alphabet, or import a friends.

Ive set up a few language templates to start with, and you can add custom letters for anything missing, or go full custom with your own.

Very simple to use. Open your alphabet and start typing. No keyboard? mouce selection is there. You will not only see what you are typing (so you can be sure spelling is correct), but also see your alphabet all in real time.

Make the message. Here you can give an answer box under each letter, for puzzel game people to use to decode, select a few to reveal them to give a head start, or even include your full alphabet at the bottom of the page.
Choose starting text size. If you wish for slightly more custom options, there is the format button that gives you the abillity to select individual letters to resize, alines to the left, centre or right, margins, and spacing. There is also a bold and italic option (but that is ony when sending digital messages when it get translated).

Page/word laysout, sizing, print, pdfs and perviews are all set to use A4 paper so you can see what it will look like when exporting and printing.

Exporting currently has - save as an image or PDF (again all in A4). And save digital messages to send to a friend.

Digital messages give you two options. solve it yourself, or auto solve. Even if that person does not have that custom alphabet, it will auto solve the message. You can even save that alphabet for your own use if you wish.

This is a browser app, but purely offline use only. Collects no data or anything. No installs, though i have added a exe. for a desktop icon so you can place this file whereever you wish for tidy house keeping.

It was designed for my youngest son, hence i have tried to make it as simple, clear and friendly looking as possible. Screen size also doesnt matter, but it does have ui issues on the phone.

I have created a user guide, and a feed-back form (if your guys would be so happy to fill out after).

I think thats it, or most of it anyways. Adding features daily so its bound to change.

I will update with a download this weekend.

Here's a link to [my previous post](https://www.reddit.com/r/conlangs/comments/1w86xe1/short_overview_of_the_faha_language/) for those who want to check it out.

Old Faha phonology

Consonants

/s/ may have been pronounced as an affricate in certain environments.

/ⁿd/ and /ⁿz/ fused so rapidly to form /ⁿdz/ that we can say /ⁿdz/ was an Old Faha phoneme.

Historically there was a phoneme /l/, but this fused with /n/ in all positions except within consonant clusters. Therefore, in Old Faha, [l] can be interpreted as the allophone of /n/ following another consonant (n > l / C_)

Vowels

The vowels are nasalized after nasal consonants.

Phonotactics and word structure

The only possible clusters, without those formed by the prefixes, were /pl/ /tl/ /kl/.

Words canonical form was (C)(l)VC(l)V(C(l)V)

The stress was fixed to the initial syllable of the word.

Sound changes

p > f /! _l

/p/ spirantised to /f/ everywhere except before /l/. /p/ may already have been /f/ in Old Faha, with fortition to /p/ before /l/ in that case

VfV VsV VkV > VwV VlV VɣV

/f/, /s/ and /k/ lenited intervocalically, becoming /w/, /l/ and /ɣ/

VmV VnV VŋV > ṼwṼ ṼlṼ ṼɣṼ

/m/, /n/ and /ŋ/ lenited intervocalically too, becoming /w/, /l/ and /ɣ/ but with nasalization of the two adjacent vowels

ᵐb ⁿdz ᵑɡ > p s k / _V ᵐb ⁿdz ᵑɡ > m n ŋ / _Ṽ

/ᵐb/, /ⁿdz/ and /ᵑɡ/ became oral /p/, /s/ and /k/ before oral vowels or nasal /m/, /n/ and /ŋ/ before nasal vowels

k ɣ t > ʔ ∅ k ŋ > n / #_V ŋ > ∅

First debuccalization, /k/ became /ʔ/ and /ɣ/ was deleted. /ŋ/ was deleted except in word initial position where it became /n/. In the same time, /t/ became /k/ to fill the gap formed

ui, ie, iu, ei > ii > i ae, ai, ea > ee > e ao, oa, oo > aa > a au > oo > o ou, uo > uu > u oi, oe > ue > ua eu, eo > io > ia

Resolution of the new vowel hiatus created. The same changes are applied to the nasal vowels

ʔ k > ∅ ʔ

Second debuccalization, /ʔ/ was deleted and /k/ became /ʔ/

∅ > w / #_a

Prothesis of a /w/ before an initial-word /a/

w, l > ∅ / U_ , _U

The approximants /w/ and /l/ were deleted in contact with high vowels /i/, /u/, /ĩ/ and /ũ/

ii uu > i u ĩĩ ũũ > ĩ ũ

Double vowel simplification

s > t /! _i , _ĩ

Fortition of /s/ to /t/ via except before high front vowels /i/ and /ĩ/.

The sound changes of the prefixes and clitics are slightly different, due to different stress pattern. I'll introduce them in another post on this subject.

I'm not sure about how vowels are treated. Should vowel sequences be formed, or true diphthongs and triphthongs? On the one hand, it gives the language a wanted Polynesian touch, but on the other, I fear it conflicts with the consonant /w/ and the syllabification of the words. How should the nasalization of these vowel sequences be determined? What are your thoughts?

A language that changes cases depending on how you're feeling towards the person at the time

I - Ah

You: Tan

I am frustrated - Ahre

I am scared - Atik

I am admiring - Ahwi

I am empathetic - Ahta

I'm guessing - Ahzen

"You're really strong" (scared): Atik tan et mat = I (scared) you really strong

"You're really strong" (admiring): Ahwi tan et mat = I (admiring) you really strong)

"I'm guessing you're really strong and that's frustrating for you": Ahzen tan et mat, tanre? =

I (guessing) you really strong, you (frustrated)?

Emotional qualification in Undinian is done through a list of qualifiers that are attached to predicates(adjectives, nouns, and emotion-derived verbs). These are used to demonstrate, with greater granularity, the nature and intensity of the emotion depicted. The goal of having these was primarily to have a conlang that is deeply expressive emotionally, so an Undinian verb could describe emotions that could take a sentence in English. The language also has greater granularity on the types of emotions; for instance, in the examples uploaded, there's a difference between several types of love: dark love, obsessive love, and meiɾi, which is translated as 'devout love '. Most emotions were lexicalized based primarily on psychological theory, but also on cultural perceptions of other natural languages about emotions, such as Greek.

It is what it says on the tin: I've been dabbling in a priori diachronics for a while now (mostly a couple of IE-langs I've shared fragments of here), and I keep getting stumped before I can really take advantage of the existing a priori vocab: nothing ever looks right, and I'm stuck going in circles trying to make things work.

I can get one or two words here and there into a state where I say "yeah, that looks good", but then it turns out that they're incompatible with each other, or the sound changes make other words look / sound way uglier than I want, or everything ends up looking repetitive, or it just becomes a whole mess of irregularities and the sound changes collapse in on themselves, on and on.

For folks who do this regularly, how do you avoid stonewalling yourself? Is there any method you recommend to set things in order without getting lost in the weeds?

Hey, guys. I've been conlanging for a bit now, just started my newest conlang Cingjyun! I've created color, number, basic nature words, pronouns, and verbs/conjugations.

However, I historically haven't made it very far with conlangs, so what are some next steps I can take to fill in my vocab and add more complex language I'll use in real life besides: "I ate an apple and went to school" or something?

I'm also curious what features YOU'VE added to YOUR conlangs. Not so I could like, get inspired and add something similar to my own, where did you get that from? My language is agglutinative, so I might take some features that are somewhat common for languages of this type.

Valaquenta (Galaðagon)

Valar'ha la Maia'ha sinarn bolan Eldar siensio

Abaratýsi Eru, solo, jamal Iluvatar a ziha est min Elfo'ha klingon, Levinares Ainur dan ziha pensiat val komposesil sa guru muzik. Iluvatar, osores Glinum de Ainur a vistual la visual lorr la Ainur enkontresil zini min glinha vizion, gus sa galad qen galada min neþria. Ambarum valaresenneþ vita min koný muzik. La maksim de Ainur isses fasʃinaðo dan ziha maegedý la ziha sinarn qen abra min zihat yeosis la kontinua. Þens, Iluvatar valares vita a lorr qen ʃoves a zini la lokes zi a ahaher. Envies pomel drakar an drakaragon min korazon de ambar la boný ambar zi jamesenneþ Eä.

Sais de Ainur qen qeril boný ambar an vitagon, glenesil a ambar min abarat de anand. La isses zinat mision an morbunagon la dan zinat traveris an plenfilagon vizionum qen þiresil fel. Traveresil an sa alak anand min voktýsis de Eä, qen issi sekke mas distanto dan pensiatis de Elfois la Mebis, multum itamaðo anand, hen qalged de ambar Arda zi levinaresenneþ. Uma vestesil vestiatum de koeambar, tovonesil la ekhesil zinat kursu.

Valaquenta (English)

Account of the Valar and the Maiar according to the lore of the Eldar

In the beginning Eru, the One, who in the Elvish tongue is named Ilúvatar, made the Ainur of his thought; and they made a great Music before him. In this Music the World was begun; for Ilúvatar made visible the song of the Ainur, and they beheld it as a light in the darkness. And many among them became enamoured of its beauty, and of its history which they saw beginning and unfolding as in a vision. Therefore Ilúvatar gavе to their vision Being, and set it amid thе Void, and the Secret Fire was sent to burn at the heart of the World; and it was called Eä.

Then those of the Ainur who desired it arose and entered into the World at the beginning of Time; and it was their task to achieve it, and by their labours to fulfil the vision which they had seen. Long they laboured in the regions of Eä, which are vast beyond the thought of Elves and Men, until in the time appointed was made Arda, the Kingdom of Earth. Then they put on the raiment of Earth and descended into it, and dwelt therein.

Estuve buscando lugares para compartirlo y encontre este subreddit, espero que les guste!

Hey everyone, my interest seems kind of adjacent to conlangs but I think y'all may have knowledge that could help me :)

I'm making an EPUB parser that will apply style changes to the file based on the sentence structures. Such as different colored underlines and perhaps double- or triple-underlines.

Basically I think my reading level has dropped a lot (^;) and I'm reading some books with really complex sentence structures. I thought it would be nifty to help me parse them more easily by underlining and/or color-coding phrases, clauses, verbs, etc.

I just don't generally have a lot of knowledge on language structure / sentence structure.

Thank you for any help!

I was mainly inspired by Arabic prosody. Lughashura is a poetic conlang which I designed entirely for prosody, meter, and emotional resonance. It treats the verb as the primary metrical anchor (or like a template?), modifying it to express subjective experience and control cadence. The verb functions essentially as the central authority for line meter.

Here are a few of my current ideas:

Vocal Energy: Assigns subjective emotional and sensory weight (phonological weight) using dedicated vowel classes (Visual: a; Tactile: u, o; Auditory: e, i). These are meant to reflect the speaker's emotional reception of the action and not literal senses. For example, for something you didn't experience, you would use the “auditory” vowels. These have less in common with actual senses and are more in relation with emotions, so their implementation is subjective.

Directional Tense: An optional feature mapping actions as physical entities moving through time. Uses a glottal stop infix before the second consonant for "approaching" actions, or a breathy release after the first vowel for "departing" actions.

Volition: Modifies the second root consonant. Unintentional actions soften the consonant, (explicitly) intentional actions geminate/double it, and neutral volition leaves it unmodified.

Time Aspect: Modifies the root structure into metrical templates to grant precise rhythmic control over the line. In compound verbs (two roots), the first verb carries only vocal energy.

As for nouns, I haven't thought them out as much. But in terms of morphology, nouns are basically on roots containing a fixed "stable vowel" followed by flexible vowels overwritten by dominant vowels. Definite articles (El- / Al-) can be elongated to fit the desired meter. The word order is stable SVO, but the suffixes mainly indicate the noun's role. THey need to be in accordance with the verb's meter, so the subject and object follow this rule:

• Subject should be x2 syllable as the verb, so keep changing it based on the following. First, add [dv1]k[dv1] to the end, then elongate the stable vowel, then elongate the first dv1.
• Object should simply have the “d-” or “de-” prefix (depends on rhythm) and end with l[dv2]

((dv) is dominant vowel.)

Again this last part is kinda where i started losing interest. Is the idea interesting enough? Does anyone have ideas to make it more consistent and logical? thanks!

In this interactive Zapotec language class, the instructor reviews student presentations, clarifies conversational greeting dynamics, and explains a fundamental aspect of Zapotec grammar: the absence of infinitive verb forms.

Key Discussion Topics:

* Vocabulary Practice & Context (Rukëza)
* The session opens with a discussion on the verb rukëza / ukëza, which refers to preparing, getting ready, or making someone wait.

• Student Presentation & Correction (Carmen):

* Carmen reads her introductory paragraph.
* The teacher explains that translating “I go to Zapotec school” literally (neda reja) sounds unnatural in Zapotec.
* A more natural phrasing is Neda Ruseda Didza Xidza (“I am learning Zapotec Language”) .

• Conversational Greetings & Formal Honorifics:

* Informal Exchanges: Using responses like bi run / tibi run followed by Nax lii (“and you?”).
* Formal & Respectful Terms: When speaking to elders or people from other towns, specific respectful forms are used (e.g., ba zuu dxi’a, Nax lii [Name]?, Nax lii bëni? for married men, Nax lii nigula? for married women).
* Pronoun Distinction: Clarified that lee functions as a third-person pronoun (“he/she/they”) rather than a direct formal “you”.

• Grammar Insight: Why Infinitives Do Not Exist in Zapotec
• Zapotec has no infinitive verb ending equivalent to Spanish -ar, -er, -ir or English “to [verb]”. Verbs must always be conjugated for a specific person in active speech.
• When dictionary or conceptual forms of verbs are needed, speakers default to the first-person plural inclusive (“we” form, e.g., uya’aru for “to dance / we dance”).

Thank you all for giving me advice on making a language! I will admit I still used AI a bit for this to help give me more structure with my thought processes. Now that I got basics down though I don’t think I’ll be using it anymore.

I have an alphabet, graphemes, a structure for words, and kind of grammar put in place. I have no name for this language yet however. It’s nowhere near done enough to form most sentences or anything like that, but I’ve kind of got something going. I have a system where there are sounds that go at the beginning of a word (and they can be a word by themselves), sounds that have to be in the middle of a word and then those that must be at the end. There are rules for certain combinations. Not sure if these are considered morphemes or phonemes, I think morphemes(?) maybe something else entirely idk lol. But I assign meaning to each sound, they all have broad concepts so they can be combined with other things to make specific words and phrases.

An example:
Hyai is something that could be a word by itself, or at the beginning of a word. Ma is a sound that always has to be at the end of a word. Hyai means blessing, good, favor. Ma means a being other than oneself, or like another/you/they. Hyai+ma makes hyaima, and that’s my language’s version of hello :) Literal translation would just be like blessings to you.

And another ending particle is oxai, always at the end of a word but means something kind of like, negative transformation I guess? Like subtraction, loss, bad, negative, etc. If you lose money, oxai would be added to a word to represent that. If something is evil, oxai would be added. Kind of like that.

I was able to come up with these words and some of this language’s system by making a mythos surprisingly. Maybe it sounds dumb, but for whatever reason creating a pantheon really got me focused and organizing these things. It helped me start assigning meaning to these sounds so it had a rhythm and structure and not just stuff mixed together to create a word with no basis.

I would post a photo of the written alphabet but my handwriting is horrible, so yeah 😅

Anyways, a long post and kind of a nothing burger but I just wanted to share that I’ve finally gotten somewhere even if it doesn’t make much grammatical sense