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schach @schachar.bsky.social · Oct 8
Hey all! My new TTRPG TinyPaths is out!

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#ConlangNovember 13: Words in Ullalk do not inflect for anything, but they can be derived from verbal roots through the use of suffixes. Compound words are formed by smushing two words together, usually in the form of verb + noun such as:

na (to cease) + nolk (night) => nánolk (to rouse from sleep)
miwwdu-sitsom.bsky.social miwwdu sitsom (they/them) @miwwdu-sitsom.bsky.social · 1d
#ConlangNovember 13: Let's talk morphology. How does your language combine words, roots and affixes to form new words with a more complex meaning? Talk about how it forms compounds, introduce some derivational affixes or show us inflection tables!

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Let's talk morphology. How does your language combine words, roots and affixes to form new words with a more complex meaning? We've seen the general strategy your language employs and how it conceives of time and nouns' roles in a phrase, but let's see the specifics. Are there compound words? How are they formed? Are there derivational affixes, like English '-ness'? Mention them! Do nouns, verbs or adjectives inflect for things like case, number, tense or grammatical gender? What specific affixes or other mutations are used? Show us inflection tables if you got 'em! If your language is fully isolating, I guess talk about what your language does instead!
November 13, 2025 at 6:17 PM
schachar.bsky.social
#ConlangNovember 12: Alun distinguished only between past and non-past. Ullalk has morphological devices to mark distinctions between recent and distant past. To convey TAM, Ullalk uses an array of auxiliaries and verb serialization. TAM markers are not obligatory.
miwwdu-sitsom.bsky.social miwwdu sitsom (they/them) @miwwdu-sitsom.bsky.social · 2d
#ConlangNovember 12: How does your language conceive of time? What tenses and aspects does your language distinguish?

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How does your language conceive of time? What tenses and aspects does your language distinguish? Tenses refer to when an action happens. Past, present, future, timeless? Does your language always mark tense, or sometimes leave it implied? Does it distinguish recent and remote past or future? Aspects refer to the extent of time over which an action happens, or to the particular part of the action being discussed. Momentary, habitual, ongoing, starting, ending?
November 12, 2025 at 6:26 PM
schachar.bsky.social
#ConlangNovember 11:

Ullalk is a mostly erg-abs language, but it does feature split-ergativity in person marking. As for cases, they only appear in these person marking particles. All other instances of noun case have been lost.
a showcase of split ergativity in Ullalk.
November 11, 2025 at 6:27 AM
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uintie.bsky.social
#ConlangNovember 10:

Quyy'lie is an agglutinative synthetic language! I love long words-

Basically, words that used to be auxiliary verbs and particles are fused with the verb, making words like this possible:
rüledaiyimeiluqaicemüvaizhè 'they hope to be able to allow themselves to rest'
November 10, 2025 at 7:26 PM
schachar.bsky.social
#ConlangNovember 10:

Ullalk is a significantly analytic language with a long history of (and contact with) synthesis. It mostly uses particles in conjunction with strict word order to get meaning across.
Comparing two sentences in Ullalk.
November 10, 2025 at 7:30 AM
schachar.bsky.social
#ConlangNovember 9: in Ullalk, /i/ is rounded to [y] before labial consonants, as in [nýf] ; /níf/.

/u/ is fronted to [ʉ] when between two coronal consonants, as in [sʉ́nt] ; /súnt/

When /l/ is geminated, it is heard as a [ɬː] fricative sound, as in [úɬːəlk] ; /úlːalk/

Haven't decided on more.
miwwdu-sitsom.bsky.social miwwdu sitsom (they/them) @miwwdu-sitsom.bsky.social · 5d
#ConlangNovember 9: What allophonic variation is there in your language? Are phonemes realised differently by speakers in different contexts? What about sandhi? Are words ever realised differently depending on the surrounding words?

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What allophonic variation is there in your language? Are phonemes realised differently by speakers in different contexts, despite the speakers still considering them fundamentally the same? Like how in English, the T in 'top' and the T in 'stop' are usually pronounced differently, even though most speakers don't realise this. What about sandhi? Are words ever realised differently depending on the surrounding words? Think of how in English, you might pronounce "did you" as "didge you", or how we use 'an' before a vowel sound in the next word and 'a' otherwise.
November 9, 2025 at 8:11 PM
schachar.bsky.social
#ConlangNovember 8: Ullalk's syllable structure is effectively (s)(C1)V(C2)(C3) where C1 can be any consonant, C2 can be /m n/ or /l/ and C3 can be any of /tʃ ʃ ŋ x m n p t k f s l/ or /w/.

An example of a maximal syllable is: /swálk/ - green
While a minimal syllable would be: /á/ - on
miwwdu-sitsom.bsky.social miwwdu sitsom (they/them) @miwwdu-sitsom.bsky.social · 6d
#ConlangNovember 8: Some people discussed this a bit already, but today's topic is phonotactics. What are the allowable arrangements of phonemes in your conlang? For example, must syllables start with a consonant, or end in a vowel?

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Today's topic is phonotactics. What are the allowable arrangements of phonemes in your conlang? For example, must syllables start with a consonant, or end in a vowel? Are there certain consonant clusters that are disallowed, or certain sounds that can never start a word?
November 8, 2025 at 6:08 AM
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bitticresearcher.bsky.social
#ConlangNovember 7: I haven't decided if the Iridians knew about birds or not, but this might be their best approximation for "feather" using Classic Bittic's current lexicon. #conlang #conlangs #langsky #conscript
A translation of Classic Bittic word meaning "feather". The word is comprised of three parts: a general "thing" classifier, a word for hair, and a word for the concept of flying.
November 7, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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November 7, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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uintie.bsky.social
#ConlangNovember 7:

The Quyy'lie word for 'feather' is rifimü /ɾifimy/. It came from Katanni-Illic debemi /debemi/, which meant 'spike; blade of grass'

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rifimü 'feather' in Quyy'lie
November 7, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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uintie.bsky.social
Art Train!! Choo choo!🚂
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November 7, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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November 7, 2025 at 11:14 AM
schachar.bsky.social
#ConlangNovember 7: i formally apologize for the insane formatting.

Here's a sentence featuring 'feather' and a few words in the Alun language family that involve 'feathery' things.
The notch behind the arrow's feather fits snugly into the bowstring. A diagram showcasing the evolution of a few words in Alun.
November 7, 2025 at 7:44 AM
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dmnitcernos.bsky.social
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November 6, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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#ConlangNovember 6:

This one.. I don't have much for. Alun has an alphabet (inspired by tibetan/brahmic script(s)), but I haven't decided what Ullalk has done with it yet. It also lacks punctuation just yet.
Amankola, alun's alphabet.
November 6, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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uintie.bsky.social
information. To this day, long distance communication plays a vital role in the operations of the Astral Order, and thus all of western Peijh.

And here is the evolution of ciyyi! It evolved from a logographic script into an alphabet, over many thousands of years~ (3/3)
November 6, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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uintie.bsky.social
#ConlangNovember 6:

Quyy'lie is written in the ciyyi (tsilli) alphabet! This alphabet is used by many languages in western Peijh, particularly those in the Lunic language family. It is usually written in cursive, but there are non-cursive typefaces that are used in printing and typing. (1/3)
November 6, 2025 at 11:30 AM
schachar.bsky.social
#ConlangNovember 5: Ullalk's phonology is pretty basic. Unlike the Krydic and Draconic languages it did not innovate voiced plosives/fricatives, leaving it looking very similar phoneme-wise to Alun.

A maximal Ullalk syllable would be: (s)(C)V(C)(C)
Proto-Alun. Ullalk phonology.
November 5, 2025 at 4:02 PM
schachar.bsky.social
#ConlangNovember 4: Ullalk is a priori. Alun, the proto-language, was inspired by Eskaleut languages, specifically Central Yupʼik and Inuktitut.

Ullalk's grammar was inspired by Thai, Vietnamese, and English (mostly Thai).
miwwdu-sitsom.bsky.social miwwdu sitsom (they/them) @miwwdu-sitsom.bsky.social · 10d
#ConlangNovember 4: What sources of inspiration did you use to create this conlang? Is it a priori, like Dothraki, or a posteriori, like Atlantean from Atlantis: The Lost Empire?

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What sources of inspiration did you use to create this conlang? Is it a priori (with vocabulary and other features not directly based on existing languages), like Dothraki, or a posteriori (taking vocabulary and other elements from existing languages), like Atlantean from Atlantis: The Lost Empire?
November 4, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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#ConlangNovember 3:
Ullalk belongs to the wider Alun language family. It is a Wallonic language alongside Aifumn and is more distantly related to the Krydic languages, Brumn and Mavanaman as well as the Draconic language Bholcian.
Alun language family tree.
November 3, 2025 at 7:33 AM
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#ConlangNovember 2: Ullalk used to be the everyday language of the Nimmen, but now it serves as a personal language for its last remaining speaker.
miwwdu-sitsom.bsky.social miwwdu sitsom (they/them) @miwwdu-sitsom.bsky.social · 12d
#ConlangNovember 2: What purpose does this language serve? Is it the everyday language used by the people? A lingua franca allowing peoples who speak different languages to communicate? Is it ceremonial? Or the language of magical incantations?

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What purpose does this language serve? Is it the everyday language used by the people? A lingua franca allowing peoples who speak different languages to communicate? Is it ceremonial, like Latin nowadays? Or the language of magical incantations?
November 3, 2025 at 3:31 AM
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uintie.bsky.social
happy november everyone! i'm Uintie and I mainly draw the ocs from my fantasy world and visual novel!
November 1, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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biskyriznu.bsky.social
Might as well hop on these for Frangian Sign:

It's a (fictional) lingua franca for both deaf and hearing peoples of northeastern Frangia, a continent on the collaborative conworld Pollasena
miwwdu-sitsom.bsky.social miwwdu sitsom (they/them) @miwwdu-sitsom.bsky.social · 13d
#ConlangNovember 1: Let's start by introducing your conlang! Is it intended for real-world use, like Esperanto, or part of a fictional setting, like Klingon? If the latter, what setting? Where is it spoken, and who speaks it?

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Let's start by introducing your conlang! Is it intended for real-world use, like Esperanto, or part of a fictional setting, like Klingon? If the latter, what setting? Where is it spoken, and who speaks it?
November 2, 2025 at 1:44 AM
schachar.bsky.social
oh boy an opportunity to talk about my conlangs.

I've been working on Ullalk recently, the erstwhile language of the Nimmen, now spoken by only a single remaining member of their tribe, Miraha (originally Guinonn /ku.in.noŋ/).

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a map showing the land of Tleium. Miraha/Guinonn. a tree showing the relationships between all languages in Tleium.
November 1, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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Rory dog
October 26, 2025 at 5:29 AM