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dolljointhalfpint.bsky.social
a path that splits into two directions. on the left, an idyllic castle with blue skies with the text "respecting cultural and historical context"; on the right, a totally badass castle on a craggy cliff with lightning in the background with the text "conlangs"
November 6, 2025 at 4:12 AM
bitticresearcher.bsky.social
#ConlangNovember 6: Glyphs in Classic Bittic are 4x4 grids of binary digits which represents a thing or a concept. These evolved from larger and more literal pictograms that had simplified and shrunk for more information density. #conlang #conlangs #langsky #conscript
A Classic Bittic sentence that translates to: "They habitually eat plants for groundhogs (lit. below dirt animal) and nothing else." The coloring is to demonstrate phrases or groups of words.
November 6, 2025 at 10:35 PM
miwwdu-sitsom.bsky.social
#ConlangNovember 7: This week's prompt is 'feather'. Your choice how to interpret. You could give the translation, use it in a sentence in your conlang, or just take it as a starting point for inspiration for something conlang-related to discuss.

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We've come to our first weekly prompt! This week's prompt is 'feather'. It's your choice how to interpret this prompt. You could give the translation, use it in a sentence in your conlang, or just take it as a starting point for inspiration for something conlang-related to discuss.
November 7, 2025 at 4:51 AM
sayaashrah.bsky.social
#ConlangNovember 4. As you might've noticed, Álfæn has that Norse flavour. Icelandic, Danish, Finnish, and Old Norse are my references. I like creating conlangs, but I'm no Tolkien: sounds, grammar, those are based on existing languages and adapted to what I need for my own language 😅

The (1/2)
miwwdu-sitsom.bsky.social miwwdu sitsom (they/them) @miwwdu-sitsom.bsky.social · 7d
#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 12:17 PM
miwwdu-sitsom.bsky.social
#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 4:54 AM
bitticresearcher.bsky.social
#ConlangNovember 8: Since Bittic does not have a phonology, here is are the rules that govern what is a valid glyph. The idea is that every glyph fills out the whole space it occupies, making boundaries between the glyphs clear. #conlang #conlangs #langsky #conscript
Glyphs in Bittic are four-by-four grids made up of bits (borders are here to show the individual bits). Ones are represented by white pixels. Zeros by black pixels. Every glyph must have at least one “one” bit in every no or column In other words, rows or columns containing all “zeros” are not allowed. A comparison of glyphs, the first is valid and the other two aren't.
November 9, 2025 at 11:47 PM
miwwdu-sitsom.bsky.social
#ConlangNovember 5: Let's start delving into the nitty gritty, with phonemics. What are the basic building blocks that make up words, whether sounds, gestures, pheromones or telepathic brainwaves, that are distinguished by speakers of your language?

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Let's start delving into the nitty gritty, with phonemics. What are the basic building blocks that make up words, whether sounds, gestures, pheromones or telepathic brainwaves, that are distinguished by speakers of your language?
November 5, 2025 at 4:05 AM
miwwdu-sitsom.bsky.social
#ConlangNovember 6: Let's talk orthography. This can be either a script used by the speakers, or a transcription you use that doesn't exist in world. If it's phonemic (alphabet, syllabary, etc.), tell us how the characters match with sounds!

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Let's talk orthography. There are two things you could talk about here. (And you can do both, if you want!) 1. You could discuss a script used by the speakers themselves. How do they record knowledge and messages for posterity, if at all? Clay, stone or wooden tablets? Parchment, papyrus or paper? Digitally? 2. You could discuss a transcription you use in your conlanging notes or in the story that doesn't exist in world. In either case, does it use an alphabet, syllabary or logograms? And if you've developed it, what are the specific characters used? For phonemic writing systems, what phonemes do these characters correspond to? Is it one-to-one?
November 6, 2025 at 4:04 AM
miwwdu-sitsom.bsky.social
#ConlangNovember 11: Let's discuss morphosyntactic alignment. How does your language treat the agent and patient of a transitive verb compared to the sole argument of an intransitive verb? Also, what noun cases does your language distinguish?

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Let's discuss morphosyntactic alignment. How does your language treat the agent (A) and patient (P) of a transitive verb compared to the sole argument (S) of an intransitive verb? With nominative–accusative alignment, A and S are treated the same way (the nominative case), while P is treated differently (the accusative case). E.g. in English, we use 'he' in both "he laughed" (S) and "he saw the girl" (A), but 'him' in "the girl saw him" (P). With ergative–absolutive alignment, P and S are treated the same way (the absolutive case), while A is treated differently (the ergative case). These are the most common alignments, but there are a few other possibilities, and it's also possible to mix and match. If you want to go further, what noun cases does your language's grammar distinguish (whether or not they mark it using inflection)?
November 11, 2025 at 5:40 AM
miwwdu-sitsom.bsky.social
#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 5:02 AM
miwwdu-sitsom.bsky.social
#ConlangNovember 3: Are there various dialects of your language, and where are each of them spoken? Is your language an isolate, or does it belong to a broader family? If the latter, what other languages belong to this family?

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Are there various dialects of your language, and where are each of them spoken? Is your language an isolate, or does it belong to a broader family? If the latter, what other languages belong to this family?
November 3, 2025 at 5:53 AM
miwwdu-sitsom.bsky.social
I'm afraid I don't know much about indigenous American and Australian sign languages, but that sounds really cool! Also, there's other Frangian conlangs? Can you say a little bit about them?
November 4, 2025 at 3:54 PM
sayaashrah.bsky.social
#ConlangNovember 1. Oh, a prompt for conlangs? That sounds fun—even if I don't know if I'll be able to answer all the questions! 😅

I'll talk about Álfæn, the "language of the stars" in #ValkíforSaga, which I'm still developing but have a few notions about already. It originated with the elves (1/2)
miwwdu-sitsom.bsky.social miwwdu sitsom (they/them) @miwwdu-sitsom.bsky.social · 10d
#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 1, 2025 at 11:50 AM
miwwdu-sitsom.bsky.social
#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 2, 2025 at 4:30 AM
miwwdu-sitsom.bsky.social
#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 1, 2025 at 4:13 AM
brambonius.bsky.social
Okay, and let's do the #ConlangNovember too
I've made several rudimentary conlangs over the years, but the one that is the most complete is Nummersil, the language of the Nummerfa from Nuanderra (sort of a parallel Earth), usually called 'forest women' by other Nuanderrans.
miwwdu-sitsom.bsky.social miwwdu sitsom (they/them) @miwwdu-sitsom.bsky.social · 10d
#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 1, 2025 at 5:32 PM
miwwdu-sitsom.bsky.social
Admittedly, I wrote the prompts for this assuming the conlangs were for fictional settings. But if you've got a real-world conlang that you're developing, go ahead and discuss it!
November 1, 2025 at 4:13 AM
miwwdu-sitsom.bsky.social
Here are the prompts for #ConlangNovember! I've been busy lately, but I hope I'll still have time to host it.

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#ConlangNovember hosted by @miwwdu-sitsom.bsky.social 1. Introduce your conlang. Who speaks it? 2. Purpose. Everyday? Lingua franca? Ceremonial? Magical? 3. Dialects and language family 4. Sources of inspiration? A priori or a posteriori? 5. Phonemic inventory. The sounds or gestures of your conlang. 6. Orthography. Script or transcription. 7. Weekly prompt: feather 8. Phonotactics 9. Allophonic variation and sandhi 10. Analytic or synthetic? Agglutinative? Isolating? Fusional? 11. Alignment. Nominative-accusative? Ergative-absolutive? And noun cases. 12. Tenses and aspects. How does your language conceive of time? 13. Morphology. How does your language mark case, number, tenses, etc.? Grammatical gender, if it has it? 14. Weekly prompt: stand 15. Word order 16. Questions, negations, orders 17. Recursion and dependent clauses 18. Formality and registers 19. Language evolution. Sound/gesture changes and semantic drift. 20. Common expressions 21. Weekly prompt: bone 22. Borrowings from other languages 23. Onomatopoeia 24. Cultural influence/references 25. Taboos 26. Important texts or oral traditions 27. Your characters' idiolects 28. Weekly prompt: say 29. Challenge: The North Wind and the Sun (translate as much as you can) – or free day! 30. Reflection
November 1, 2025 at 3:54 AM
kiraofthewind.com
Intentional on my part because I just never had an interest in it, but conlangs. My people just speak languages from Earth (it's a portal fantasy setting, so I excuse it by saying people from Earth and the fantasy world have mingled).

But later I became interested and conlanged a little bit
October 23, 2025 at 6:25 PM
koboldart.bsky.social
Thank you!! I love conlangs too!! Throughout the year I did several attempts to make conlangs, but this is the first one that reached the first viable version stage which is not just “English-but-different-vocabulary”
October 21, 2025 at 5:29 PM
britishmuffin.bsky.social
omfg this is SO cool!! I love conlangs dude, these are great
October 21, 2025 at 9:37 AM
theboringedward.bsky.social
I should really finish at least one of my conlangs
October 20, 2025 at 2:24 PM
tokipona.org
youtu.be/goAxdwer99I

The Guosa community is making waves again!

It's an honour to have been able to collaborate with the Evolutionist, Alex G Ìgbìnéwéká, on the ranaseme.org friendship & alliance.

Conlangs in the West can learn a lot from Guosa's success.

tokipona.org/conlang_collaboration#guosa
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October 18, 2025 at 6:45 AM
stancarey.bsky.social
Tolkien once wrote that all his work was "fundamentally linguistic in inspiration". Conlangs were his "secret vice", and his aim with Lord of the Rings was to create a world in which an Elvish dialect he had invented "might seem real"

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October 17, 2025 at 10:42 AM