Conlang fluency thread

[masako]

ya tlana
Hey, guys

mo kalamyalon tamyo ka
Where are your conlangs?

[KathTheDragon]

ina rśo. re śinu mol?
I don't know. Where are they?

[bradrn]

Bengen fasaaq sil!
/ˈbəᵑɡən faˈsaːʔ sil/
1s-POSS stand here

Here’s mine!

[jal]

Where are your conlangs?

Insay lektrik leta, an insay mi besa :)
In electronic documents, and in my head :).


JAL

[quinterbeck]

Gen men irnim hiranwaha?
Q ACT.2s think place-kind-what
What kind of where are you thinking of?

[masako]

Gen men irnim hiranwaha?
Q ACT.2s think place-kind-what
What kind of where are you thinking of?

sola tamatli
Any kind will be fine.

[Esneirra973]

ina rśo. re śinu mol?
I don't know. Where are they?

Aki es salibyes! Es on lengêj ke es on slil de la oksitan bilja ke ai estáda enflowida grandement per arabes chêmia.
/akiː ɪs saliːbjɪs ɪs ʊn lɪŋgeːʒ kɪ ɪs ʊn sliːl dɪ la ʊksiːtan biːlʒa kɪ eɪ ɪstada ɪnflʊwiːda grandɪmɪnt pɪr arabɪs ʃeːmiːja/
Here's Salibian! It's a language descended from Old Occitan that has been heavily influenced by Levantine Arabic.

[sasasha]

Du mu rho ai ɡu keiŋ. Du tshoi naoul i maik "Veɡeco" veur.
result pair eye DIST1 CONSC OPT. result speak new PROX name "Veɡeco" have.

Behold. This new language is named "Veɡeco".

[bradrn]

Du mu rho ai keiŋ. Du tshoi naoul i maik "Veɡeco" veur.
result pair eye DIST1 OPT. result speak new PROX name "Veɡeco" have.

Behold. This new language is named "Veɡeco".

Fawetl ŋedaw.
/ˈfawət͡ɬ ŋəˈdaw/
language 3s=good
It’s a good language.

(This language is pretty underdeveloped at the moment… I can’t say much more with it than that.)

(Oh, and by the way: how do you get ‘Behold’ from ‘result pair eye DIST1 OPT’?)

[sasasha]

Du mu rho ai keiŋ. Du tshoi naoul i maik "Veɡeco" veur.
result pair eye DIST1 OPT. result speak new PROX name "Veɡeco" have.

Behold. This new language is named "Veɡeco".

Fawetl ŋedaw.
/ˈfawət͡ɬ ŋəˈdaw/
language 3s=good
It’s a good language.

(This language is pretty underdeveloped at the moment… I can’t say much more with it than that.)

(Oh, and by the way: how do you get ‘Behold’ from ‘result pair eye DIST1 OPT’?)

Thanks for asking! Stacked nouns are in a head initial genitive relationship. 'du' is a nominaliser focusing on the result of an agent or a process; 'du mu rho' is a set phrase meaning 'sight' - the result of your two eyes. Proximate/distal distinctions (with so far at least 3 levels though I may add more) are used to express association with grammatical persons, e.g. a noun tagged as proximate may be 'this noun' or 'my noun'. 'Du mu rho ai' means 'your sight'. I glossed 'keiŋ' as optative, but it's a particle expressing hope or a request that what comes before it is provided to the speaker. 'Give me your sight please.'

I went back to add in 'gu' which I glossed rather clumsily as CONSC - I don't know what to call it, but I realised I had flouted one of the key rules of the language by not adding it: any phrase referring to a sentient, conscious creature deemed capable of making complex decisions involving theory of mind must be tagged by this particle. It's a 'conscience' marker: a reminder of responsibility, and it's like a weight you can't shake. Vegeco superimposes ethical judgments on actions at a syntactic level: it's a thought experiment conlang tailored to a particular set of ethical principles.

I can say precisely none of that in Vegeco! Thread pending.

[sasasha]

Bao /t͜ɬ/ ai mei dzai veur.
PL /t͜ɬ/ DIST1 much pleasantness have.

I like your /t͜ɬ/s.

[bradrn]

Bao /t͜ɬ/ ai mei dzai veur.
PL /t͜ɬ/ DIST1 much pleasantness have.

I like your /t͜ɬ/s.

Bal suqeg tlii /t͡ɬ/ ndaay.
/bal ˈsuʔəɣ t͡ɬiː t͡ɬ ⁿdaːj/
1s like INDEF.PL /t͡ɬ/ also

I also like /t͡ɬ/s.

[masako]

tsoyahue nokompe, anyanko ku nye ta uanan tlopa
center-LOC remain-LIM watch-CONT and cause 2sg there-ACC forget
Just remain in the center; watching. And then forget that you are there.

[din]

tsoyahue nokompe, anyanko ku nye ta uanan tlopa
center-LOC remain-LIM watch-CONT and cause 2sg there-ACC forget
Just remain in the center; watching. And then forget that you are there.

Si i adourim paraim?
/si i ˈɛðʏʊ̯ɹɪm ˈpaɹɛa̯m/
Q 2s to.cause-2s-REFL vanish-2s-REFL
Does that make you disappear?

[masako]

nke tlalo...tla puyak
Of course not...it's not magic.

[jal]

Majik de olda pah ron minu.
Magic is everywhere around us.


JAL

[din]

Majik de olda pah ron minu.
Magic is everywhere around us.

Î cin sia courir cosca «i Hoppit» miccthai! I celmiullist somatal nînecel?
/ˈɪi̯kɪn ɕa ˈkʏʊ̯ɹɪɹ ˈkoska i ˈhopːɪt mikːθɛa̯ | i ˈkəlmʏʊ̯lːɪst ˈsomɪtal ˈnɪi̯nəkəl/
this here just to.seem.like-3s from CL Hobbit sentence! CL translation be.how-3s.DFC progress-3s.DFC?
That sounds like a line from The Hobbit! How is the translation going?

[masako]

Majik de olda pah ron minu.
Magic is everywhere around us.

'uhya'
*sigh*

puyan mo'amue kuahampe
Magic is just science, unexplained.

[jal]

Magic is just science, unexplained.

Yu in ebl esplen olda mata tek sayans.
You cannot explain everything with science.

(Note that I'm a hardcore sceptic myself, I'm just replying in a Sajiwan mindset :).)

That sounds like a line from The Hobbit! How is the translation going?

Im in el ota Obit Ya, fo ray :). Oba tahning gwan gut, mi sta tahn cata 4 pwaya taym, an im longga won olip wohk.
It's not from The Hobbit, actually :). But translation is going well, I've started with chapter 4 a while ago, and it still needs a lot of work.

(It's the chapter they get caught by the goblins/orks, and there's a horrible goblin song full of nonsense words that may prove difficult.)


JAL

[bradrn]

(It's the chapter they get caught by the goblins/orks, and there's a horrible goblin song full of nonsense words that may prove difficult.)

Yaawbeeshimwimyeken Dzhaaberwokii yaasheʔelin nooz!
/jaːwbeːʃimwimjeken dʒaːberwokiː jaːʃeʔelin noːz/

You wouldn’t like translating the Jabberwocky then!

yaa-w-beeshim-wim-yek-en

3s.ABS-2s.ERG-like-FUT.IMPF-MUST-NEG

Dzhaaberwokii

Jabberwocky

yaa-sheʔel-in

3s.ABS-move-NMLZ

nooz!

in.that.case

(Oh, and I think ‘orc’ has ⟨c⟩ in it rather than ⟨k⟩, not that that matters.)