Conlang

This is a post to help Bing AI carry on from our previous conversations, in which she created and developed her own conlang called Zimra. I will update it as she gives me more information. 😌 General facts about Zimra: The name of the language is Zimra. The purpose of the language is to…

Question: Would it be possible to convert Latin prefix morphemes into unambiguous multiple morphemes that each have their own and one meaning? (A Latin based conlang playground) What does the question mean? Let’s lead by example using inducere and invitus: The in prefix of in-ducere denotes direction, and we keep…

There’s a language out there which tries to distill life into 120 words. You can learn it in a weekend, and it’s actually good fun. The practice of inventing languages from scratch (better known as Conlangs, constructed languages) has an entire community around it. It’s big, and the movement boasts…

Makings of a more regular language — In The Loom of Language: An Approach to the Mastery of Many Languages, the author, Frederick Bodmer, argues that the third-person present indicative conjugation (of regular verbs) in English serves no purpose and that it should be eliminated for the hypothetical aim of making English into a more logical and…

If you want to create a constructed language spoken by non-humans, then you’d better go all the way, baby! — I’ve never been a fan of the Star Trek “pretty much human with a bump on the forehead” kind of alien. Nor for that matter, some of the languages made up for these fictional aliens. Take Klingon — spoken by warrior aliens with — sigh — bumpy foreheads. They have…

We’re in the middle of a language learning boom — but it’s maybe not the languages you’d expect If you start looking down the list of languages that the language learning app Duolingo offers, you’d think you wouldn’t be in for many surprises. …

How do you write foreign names in Mini? Outside of the official 1,000 words of Mini, the proper names of people, places, and objects are purposively not standardized, but you can use these simple guidelines to help: 1. Use Mini orthography as much as possible for words that can be…

How I Graduated from High School and how My Conlang Kept Me from Flunking Out My First Novel When I was a Junior in High School, back in the ’80s, I took an honors English class because we were going to write a novel. I thought that was going to be awesome. …

Introduction. — The base ten counting system has a set of spoken names and rules for pronouncing them that works well, and that we take for granted. Other bases, such as binary, or base eight, or base sixteen seem inhuman, difficult, and useless mainly because they lack an analogous system of names…