Conlang fluency thread

[masako]

kula pan kai sosa
All food needs seasoning.

[foxcatdog]

kula pan kai sosa
All food needs seasoning.

si·si naka sapiniko ni·di
NEG-fronted for begin+stop=event DEM.prox
“Not in this case”

inu·do pikadianseo ni/dunika neka·nekotto ke si·si naikajoe ikatuna otoduo·ɬte
inu·do(·) pikadi+anseo ni/sa/du-nika neka·ne/ka/+kotto ke si·si naik(g)a-joe ikatu+na otodu+o·ɬte
inuudhoo see+hear be.vivid-more all-thing so NEG-fronted enjoy-SUB taste.NOM large+feeling
“Inuudhoo perceive everything more vividly so cannot handle intense flavours”

[foxcatdog]

totodì niké·jami pikadilisoto·k·ata aga
totodì niké·ja-mi pikadi-liso-to·-k·ata aga
totori nikeeya-DAT look-A.A-continuous-with.the.mind 1.sg-ACC
“Totori remind me of Nikeeya”

[masako]

bugun tebáman íla shunwa shabanla
today be.tired-AUG-1s but reason-ACC know-1s.NEG
I'm very tired today but I don't know why.

[Ares Land]

Wasini nas wanomas min wanābitlis iyno.

wa-sini

1-like

nas

true

wa-noma-s

1-cold-WITH

min

and

wa-nābitl-is

1-hayfever-WITH

iyn-o

exist-SUBJ

'Me too. I got a cold, or maybe allergies.'

Sidor co dimon yenon? Qān dosinatl Kala.

sidor

this.F

co

Q

dimon

language

yen-on

new-F

/

qān

NOT

do-sin-atl

F-like-seem

an

that

Kala

Kala

'Is it a new language? It doesn't look like Kala'

[masako]

bumalwa laná emni ilha nai
This language is a side project of mine.

(it's called Amal)

[Moose-tache]

bumalwa laná emni ilha nai
This language is a side project of mine.

Galician:
Мінеі вата лікса jас салвакопі із Девід Пітерсон.
minei vata, liksa jas salvakopi iz devid piterson
"I look forward to the eventual David Peterson bastardization."

minei: to me
vata: it is anticipated
liksa jas: final, ultimate
salvakopi: literally “gray copy,” post-Soviet slang for a document that has been Xeroxed too many times.
iz devid piterson: “from David Peterson,” normally in the genitive but most proper nouns borrowed in the last fifty years are indeclinable.

[Raholeun]

Galician:
Мінеі вата лікса jас салвакопі із Девід Пітерсон.
minei vata, liksa jas salvakopi iz devid piterson

Why not яс for jac?

[Moose-tache]

Galician:
Мінеі вата лікса jас салвакопі із Девід Пітерсон.
minei vata, liksa jas salvakopi iz devid piterson

Why not яс for jac?

Because it's not Russian? The history of Cyrillic vowels is pretty complex. Just as many Cyrillic-using languages adopted I from the Latin alphabet in the early modern period, Galician borrowed the practice of using it interchangeably as a vowel or a consonant. This was a pretty logical thing to do, since phonemic palatization had already been lost, so consonantal /j/ only appeared at the beginnings of words before a vowel, or between two vowels, basically only in places where it couldn't be a vowel itself. The use of J appears in isolated cases from the sixteenth century, but was not standard until the Germanophilic 19th century, when being an educated Galician was a contest to see who could be the most in love with the language and culture of Vienna (This attitude is also why the 1798 translation of the Bible into Galician is full of demonstratives and sounds stupid, because the literati at the time were really trying to make demonstratives-as-definite-articles happen... it didn't).

Another fun holdover is ꙋ, a ligature of O and U that still survives in Galician handwriting, but has disappeared from the standard typeface.

[jal]

I look forward to the eventual David Peterson bastardization.

Yu difen im misop fo-oda man mekop langwic-dem?
You think he butchers other's conlangs?


JAL

[Moose-tache]

I look forward to the eventual David Peterson bastardization.

Yu difen im misop fo-oda man mekop langwic-dem?
You think he butchers other's conlangs?


JAL

Біjа віс аб діалекту ноу ен відеоігру Хало.
Bija vis ab dialektu nou en videoigru Halo.
“It was a joke about his language in the Halo video game.”

[masako]

ashbanla eshelwa tai
I don't understand your joke.

[Pedant]

Booladjirra:
Baalhoombar dhundhitjal gundjaadj diduja wemba djindjam wingirr.
day-IMP.CONV fall-INST.CONV lightning-INST end-TERM.REAL life tree-OBJ 1de.INS-POSS
Our tree was struck by lightning and died today.

[jal]

Our tree was struck by lightning and died today.

Kil don Ja. A wo dis sori likl pam mek fi angga Ja sem dis?
Killed by God. What did this hapless little tree do to anger God like this?


JAL

[hwhatting]

Our tree was struck by lightning and died today.

Kil don Ja. A wo dis sori likl pam mek fi angga Ja sem dis?
Killed by God. What did this hapless little tree do to anger God like this?

Nu su Daiwus dodot, nu su Daiwus emit, nuc nepadu ni waisít hemus pommo.
PRTC ART-M.SG.NOM god-SG.NOM give-3SG.PRES.ACT, PRTC ART-M.SG.NOM god-SG.NOM take-3SG.PRES.ACT, but never NEG know-3SG.PROSP.ACT man-SG.NOM why.
God gives, god takes away, but man will never know why.

[jal]

Warer nityt skalar witan ansneras munsara, sy ajnes mugar getan.
War-er nityt skal-ar wit-an ansn-eras muns-ara sy ajnes mug-ar get-an
Man-M.NOM.PL never will-PRS.PL know-INF god-N.GEN.PL thought-F.ACC.PL 3P.NOM only can-PRS.PL guess-INF
"Men will never know the gods' reasons, they can only guess"


JAL

[Pedant]

Classical Salvian:

Chilintara shimdina. Pr’-aargotaya laśrasi-thuli.
annoy-SIMP.REAL-1sA-3sE / but-rescue-PERF-REAL-3sA-1pxE regrow-POT.ABS-f branch
Guessing annoys me. Still, we did save a branch to replant.

[jal]

Potaten gy takrem ine grundam?
Do you put branches in the ground?


JAL

[Rounin Ryuuji]

I've been playing with this family more:

Ineshîmé Inishimé
植ゐ増、ほっい！
「ふわるゐほおえい゙、ほっい！」
Fariyoel, hoi!
[ɸʷɐ̞́.ɾ̪ʲì.jó̞ᵝˑ.(w)è̞l̪ | xó̞ᵝˑ.(w)ì]
grow.INFINITIVE.spreading EMPHATIC
"Propagation!"

Tournesol:
植い増、はっい！
「はいほおえい゙、ほっい！」
Heiyeul, hai!
[çéː.jø̀ːɫ | xɑ́ˑ.ì]
(id.)

[masako]

Potaten gy takrem ine grundam?
Do you put branches in the ground?

heyak
Unnecessary.

kuama palom punahuenko
Branches are always on the ground.