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Shaleyla! Ta shol ta lirstragunarun! Gidanit intevaún iíd onyara khaá. Varvari bashit garminey sonyaru. (Congratulations! The language of winged dragons! This is indeed a great achievement. Thank you for sharing).
Wow! Excellent work! I’ve always wanted to see what the languages from D&D would look like as fully-fledged conlangs (before this, as a Dungeon Master, I kind of had a slight sense of disappointment that there wasn't a consistent way in which they could be “used” in-game)! I’m looking forward to diving into the livestreams to see how this was made! Excited for the future Sylvan installment!
It is! I did some research on Egyptian music to incorporate elements into the music. I considered not going with the hijaz because Western scores do overuse it, but I read it’s associated with the desert and well… The battle music has a Nahawand over what should be an ayyoub pattern in the drums (not 100% sure I got it right). Not sure how easily you can hear that, though.
Wow, it feels like I'm in a wet dream… Linguists playing linguist games… It's a shame, that the screen was too small and some of the texts were rendered illegible :/ The maps were amazing, though! What software did you use to make those?
That's a great vid! I'm working on a language generation program, and recently I've been thinking about changing my vowel generation to something along these lines (choose a basic template and then apply some changes to it). This video helped me to better organize my thoughts on that idea, thanks!
So glad that it could be helpful! I hope to be able to present a system for consonants eventually, probably based on choosing series of consonants, but I am glad this worked for you.
I also wish there were more resources for what happens when languages meet. My current project idk if what happened counts as a pidgin/creole but the language did end up irrevocably changed through contact with another language. I've just been winging it on what would happen including one form of the pre-contact language getting fossilized incorrectly in liturgy/folk stories by the outside language recording it but applying their own pronunciation and grammar bias on top. The pre-contact language that continued to be spoken replaced something like 50% of its vocab with outside language terms or adopted them as synonyms in the South but in the far North there was minimal influence. Then ~800 years later we've got the Present Day with "a language" with varying degrees of mutual intelligibility between "dialects".
"RU-vid decided everyone needed to see that video." I can attest to this. I had no knowledge or interest in conlanging, and RU-vid recommended me the video "how not to make a conlang" and I was like "... sure, I'll watch it.' now conlanging is a hobby of mine and I majored in linguistics.
Could Formor, that guy from that one video with Edgar Grunewald of Artifexian about animal conlangs, be able to help Biblaridion with the conlangs that the sapient creatures of TIRA 292b would start speaking?
To both of you: Thank you for a great discussion! kudos tiny question: are there plans at Conlang Year, to make a pinned post with links to a day at/near the start of the months? Hopefully I'm the only person who has gotten a month-and-some in, only to lose the window I was working in. (computer rebooted) I still love that you did all that work...I just have to work out how to get back - start anew or scroll like mad. :)
It's really funny to hear Artifexian calling himself "a beginner" when back when I discovered his channel, he was practically the arbiter of conlang knowledge 😂 I had trouble finding the content I wanted then, so he and Biblaridion were masters of the craft from my perspective lol
Thank you Jessie for creating this and thank you George for spreading the wordǃ I joined the challenge the 28th and have managed to complete 2 prompts a day on average so far. I'm trying to catch up. It helps that I'm not starting from scratch, but it doesn't help that I'm trying to develop several languages at once. Still, I feel much more productive (conlanging-wise) than usual.
There are a few people who make languages for various media (TV, movies, video games). And there’s the growing conlang RU-vidr crowd. But most just do it for fun. That’s all it has to be. It’s art. It’s a hobby. We don’t need to monetize everything if we don’t want to.
@@conlangery Thank you for the informative response. I would love to get your thoughts on the following: Should a hobby produce something (an exhibit, a show etc), something that appeals to everyone versus something that is interesting only to select co-hobbyists? For example, the hobby of playing the piano or making a painting produces "things" - a musical piece, a painting - that are appreciated by everyone - even non-musicians and non-painters. Should all hobbies be more broadly-enjoyed like that or can they be more "narrowly" enjoyed? If so, I am trying to think of more examples of the latter because I would imagine Conlag would fall in this category as well.
Of course it doesn't have to appeal to everyone. I wouldn't be into conlanging if I thought my hobbies had to appeal to everyone. Not everyone will like your art or your music either, and people who are not artists or musicians will not understand it in the same way you do. These things are valuable by themselves if they give you joy to create them. I was conlanging for many years with the only appreciation coming from other conlangers. Some time before that when there was no one around me who understood it. Nothing wrong with that at all.
I would count “semivowels” like /j/ and /w/ as consonants for this purpose. They do have a special relationship with vowels, but the databases I use would treat them as consonants as do most language descriptions.
Really, I'm very thankful to Agma Schwa because he inspired me a lot. I've been creating conlangs for two years or so and I took a lot of inspiration from Agma Schwa and I can say that you could be proud of yourself and what you're doing if you inspire people like that. P.s. I'm sorry if my English was bad or if it didn't sound good. I'm not a native, I'm a bit tired at the moment, sorry.
