#conlanger

This language is being used in the AO3 series "What Hides Underneath" and this blog is meant to serve as bonus content on the language. I'm also in the process of developing a wiki page for the language here for those who are interested in the grammar.

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As you can see from the screenshots I have pages for words that include IPA, definitions, and even things like tags. These tags are useful for making automatically updating lists, so if I tag a word as "Verb" it will show up in the list of verbs without me having to manually add it.

And there's a "properties" section at the top, it is a bit tedious to fill out the same info that's already in the text into the properties but it allows you to see those properties on the automatically updating lists, as you can see on the third screenshot.

You can even have a list for transitive verbs specifically by either adding a "transitive" tag, or in my case adding a link to the transitive page (trans.) which also doubles as a glossary so I can click on it and it shows me what transitive means (This lends itself well to noun classes imo).

I use templates so if I want to add a new word I can just click on the template for "Proto-Abyssal Noun" or "Proto-Abyssal Verb" and it will give me a page ready for me to add all the info I need to. This feels like a pretty convenient way for me to keep track of things.

One of the main advantages imo is that if you have several languages in the same world you can easily link between them, for example you can add "this is a borrowing from X language's word: Y" and have actual links between the pages, works with Proto-languages as well.

And if you do have several languages it's useful to have a page for each definition, so you can see what a word is in several of your languages at once, like in the first screenshot if you click "sing" you'd see the word for sing in all of my languages (only 1 has a word for sing atm tho).

Now, of course, anyone can learn to set up their own Obsidian vault, it's not that difficult, but I've found a handful of plugins and things that are useful for beginners, so if you need to change the name of a tag or a language you don't have to manually edit hundreds of notes.

(A language created by me)

Consonants:

ch, h, s, l, r, d, q, p, c, ç, f, g, v, n

Vowels:

a, i, u, e, ė, o, y, ø

I was hoping to get some feedback on a Conlang I was working on

So, the basic premise involves a Symbolic Alphabet (an evolution from the Phonecian Alphabet), and 2-Letter Roots

The Words are created by the combination of the Letters (as an example, ʔ has the meaning of a Creator, and L has the meaning of Balance, so ʔL is to word for a God, which I admit is blatantly stolen from Semitic)

The Although I said above 2-Letter Roots are the Basis, many of the Words are 3-Letter Roots

This is because the 3-Letter Roots grow out of the 2-Letter Roots

Now, for the crazy part of my Conlang, I want the expansion to tell a story. So, if you expand ʃ-W, it would tell a story like this:

ʃ-W-ʔ: Death/Destruction

ʃ-W-B: Return/Restore

ʃ-W-D: Lord

ʃ-W-H: Judgement/Balace

ʃ-W-χ: To Sink Down

ʃ-W-T: Whip/Lash/Scourge/Punish

ʃ-W-L: Uncover/Expose

ʃ-W-L-L: Prisoner/Naked

ʃ-W-M: To Stink

ʃ-W-N: To Be Quiet

ʃ-W-ʕ: To become Rich/Freed from Distress

ʃ-W-ʕ-L: Fox or Jackel

ʃ-W-ʕ-R: Door Keeper

ʃ-W-P: Lie in Wait

ʃ-W-Q: To Run

ʃ-W-R: To Journey/To Be Strong

I made this myth as a prototypical Dying-and-Rising Story. The Lord dies, and seeks to restore Life. They suffer, until a moment of Quiet. They then pass the Door Keeper (I was using Egyptian Myth as an inspiration, so Anubis, the Jackal) back into Mortality. They then run to their Followers (you can't be a Lord without Followers), and teach them the Journey they made, so they can follow it when they die

But, these 3-Letter Roots have influence from both sides

Lets take K-L-B (Dog). It's a combination of the Primary Root (K-L, meaning All or Every), and the Secondary (L-B, meaning Heart, as the Core of Being, or as the Physical Organ). K-L-B therefore means the Heart of Everything (which, in the Faith of this hypothetical people, is Sirius, the Dog Star, so it grew to mean Dog, as they associated this Star with Dogs)

And finally, there are 5 Vowels, and they change the meaning of the Word

Lets take M-N

Man: Archetypal Human

Men: Humanity

Min: People/Nation/Culture

Mon: Clan/Tribe

this is for language that's only ever dubbed over by Magic for Mortal ears!!