Mpiua Tiostouea, a Language for Time Travelers | Cursed Conlang Circus 2 Entry 

imagine needing to use matrix math to understand which conjugation you need to use

Finally, a language with which I can describe games of "5D chess with multiverse timetravel".

"Huh, a language that only uses diphthongs and no single vowels? That's a pretty cool idea actual-- oh, triphthongs, too... ok th-- wait, WHAT DO YOU MEAN TETRAPHTHONGS"

in the hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy it mentions a linguist who attempted to make new verb forms for time travel. They never caught on.

I'm in love with cursed conlang creators conceptualizing entirely new fields of logic to base a language on, it's actually so fascinating

Now to just apply some language drift across multitudes of timelines and time travellers and you’ve got yourself the foundation of a timeless storyline.

I love how Russel's paradox shows up in the 7th tense-- anyone who knows how to actually use it is by definition in an unreachable timeline, where the concept being referred to is known but then is it actually in the 7th tense? Quite suitable for a timetravelling language!

Truly, one of the languages of all time

There's someone amazing about there being a regular feature of a language that is existentially horrifying.

Scp-055 is a good example of a 7th person being, whenever you think about it, you forget it ever existed, a perfect example of an antimeme

I love languages that are easy to pronounce and somehwat logical if used on easy examples, but grow exponentially in complexity once you try to understand any more of its core concept. It's like reading a forbidden tome which at first appears to make sense but then melts your brain.

as a potential future coauthor of the (in some probable futures) bestselling book "Navigating Multidimensional Time: An Introduction to Time Travel in a Non-Deterministic Branching Multiverse and Related Transtemporal Concepts", I approve of this conlang.

I actually really like this concept. Please expand everything so that it could serve as a functional language, I'm sure it would be good in a sci-fi story.

Your language uses four time dimensions. You actually made a language that talks about the four-dimensional time cube.

Good video, this is what first got me into the language! Some notes I made during this watching: - It should be noted that some time-travelers refuse to use Ioa, which might confuse people new to the language - Would be nice with an example of an -insteosui - You may see some written texts starting with "nnn" to prevent confusion when communicating with mirrored or rotated entities

This is horrible, i love it

this is really clever, I'd hesitate to call it cursed except for the fact that time travel itself is cursed so anything trying to explain or quantify it is cursed by association. otherwise, it's just really cool. except for the tetrapthongs, those are definitely cursed.

I mean this isn’t really cursed just very well worldbuilt

Now i can FINALLY talk about Doctor Who like a Timelord would! Edit: I commented before the Doctor/River example. I guess i was accidentally correct...

I know what you meant in the title but “the language of all time” has the same vibe as “the most language I’ve ever seen”

imagine a time travel puzzle game where several almost all of the characters exclusively speak this language.

This is some very high effort cursedlanging. Even some of the most well known clongs often don't have lost/reconstructed forms lmao

I wonder if this would be an efficient language to use for 5d chess with multiverse time travel

Dear lord that’s so many verb forms. But I need to know the kinship terms. How do we differentiate relatives across timelines?

Very nice. I am tempted to suggest that special evidence markers would be helpful, especially when talking about the future. EG, I can assert this because I've been there in this timeline; I can assert this because it is usual for timelines; I assert this based on conjecture from known facts. But I suppose this is already covered by tense, given the dimensions of time you identified. EG, if I assert something with a low-negentropy tense, I am asserting that it is what normally happens (so we might expect it in a given timeline, absent reason to the contrary). If I assert something with a past-to-me tense, it means I've seen it with my own eyes, or something close to that.

I would like to point out that there are actually five temporal dimensions (or possibly six, maybe) because _Ioa_ (Objective Time) is relative to the universe(s) at large and doesn’t account for time dilation which happens locally. Given the rule that there are no absolutes, and anything possible can/will/has occurred, eventually a time traveler will encounter a situation where they are within a single universe and timeline, but experiencing time slower than the speed it is actually flowing relative to everything else all at once. Time dilation is a phenomenon where if there is anything supermassive nearby, the gravitational pull literally distorts spacetime. Anyone near one of these events experiences time at a much slower rate. This can also happen when traveling at superspeeds (approaching the speed of light), because you yourself become smaller, size-wise, and heavier, mass-wise, until the gravitational force you exert on the universe slows you down. Technically, this happens with any gravitational body (anything with mass) and increases the faster (relative to multiple points throughout the rest of the universe or the universe at large) it moves. The International Space Station has to set their clocks to be fractionally faster than the ones on earth. Time dilation can theoretically be used to hold you in stasis while the world moves around you, effectively acting as a gateway to the future. Since all motion and mass contribute to this, time travelers will need an additional relative universal time since this enables them to travel forward on a timeline without branching. The true objective time can still be measured relative to the entire universe at large, because of fancy handwavey stuff with relative motion that I don’t really understand well enough to explain, but this also introduces a larger question: If each person can take a perfectly accurate timepiece with them and experience different dilations, that means that relative to them, time flows at a consistent rate. Each person has their own time that is both objective and relative; relative to the flow of time around you, you’re _not_ time traveling, yet it still counts as time travel. This can be corrected against with the universal objective time, but that means that objectively, time flows at different rates for each person. Again, not a problem since the universal time can correct for it. But the question bothering me is, what guarantees that time flows at the same rates between multiverses? How would one even calibrate against that? Because a perfectly accurate clock continues at the same relative rate, time travelers would have no way of knowing if they’re experiencing dimensional time dilation while they are in that universe? To them the clock always tics once per second. Sorry to blast you with nitpicks that might require you to reconstruct your entire language to fix, but I just wanted to put my thoughts out there. It is a super interesting and well thought-out conlang otherwise though!

the way you wove a horror story through your conlang was perfect

let's hope the different multiversal branches also came up with this same system, or else we'd have an uncountable amount of different time travelling languages

you missed a line. “Because these are universal, it’s safe to assume they’re also multiversal”

The reading at the end sounds like characters from Hello Neighbor X ) As complex as this conlang is, it's honestly really cool to imagine how would people communicate if time travel was common.

The Fermat joke a couple of minutes in nearly took me out. Amazing work 😂😂💀💀

I've thought about the idea of a conlang for time travelers before, but I see now I didn't consider nearly enough variables (good job taking the concept and running it to its cursed conclusion)

This is amazingly creative! I love the concept, and I love the subtle horror with stuff like the 7th person that suggests something nasty lurks under the surface.

7 grammatical persons is so bonkers, especially having one of them that nobody has ever even heard of being used haha

This is definitely one of the most languages of all time

This is great. Finally one that doesn'te seem like a short shitpost, but something well thought out! This is actually a great concept

This is unironically a cool Conlang.

Okay so a couple things I've been thinking about with this: 1: an Oeitei of 0 shouldn't be the average across all timelines. That would be impossible to comprehend and isn't a feasible thing you can't just average different variations of reality. Your example highlights a far better definition: it is the deviation from the speaker's timeline of events, or alternatively the speaker's definition of normalcy. This would actually be really useful for 2 travelers meeting, as they could quickly find out how unusual their current timeline is in comparison to each of their own home timelines. 2: the 7th person is honestly way less cursed than it seems (okay, the fact that some words have been deleted from collective memory probably from some antimemetic being is still very cursed) and I'm not sure why there would be no known examples of use. It could simply be some concept that has never been thought of in the speaker's timeline, yet is perfectly normal elsewhere. Say you traveled to a timeline where starting a billion years ago life on earth evolved in a completely different direction. You would have no feasible way of comprehending what that life would look like before observing it. Its pure concept would be unknown to you. Thus, 7th person would be appropriate in this case.

I always hate it when I lose my quantum homing device.

I am watching this as a former nuclear technician and current software engineer. And this is the most emotions I have ever felt about a technical topic. This is insane and so straight forward while adhering to the rules of the construction of language so eloquently.

13:45 I think there's a glitch in the video. The middle of the chart just disappeared here and became solid white for a bit

You could make a whole science fiction story or film in this clong

I took latin for 5 years, I think I would cry if i had to learn mpiua tiostouea

I'm surprised prime number multiplication was not implemented to map on to some ungodly complex chart of some sort that can only be deciphered by prime number factorialization.

Imagine a linguist in this world, concerned that the language is too complex, and conducting a wide survey across speakers of fluency in different aspects of the language. Some communities more prominently participating in time travel might more quickly and accurately use unusual tenses, since they frequently need them to describe their lives or the lives of their friends and family. Other communities may have less access to time travel, and may struggle to describe tenses and relationships they rarely experience. Imagine that one of the few nearly universal results found by the survey is an unexpectedly high fluency across virtually all demographics in speech using the 7th person, scoring higher than many of the most common forms of speech. This result surely indicates a vast mismanagement of educational resources across a diverse array of timelines to make students so intimately familiar with academic details that they'll certainly never need to use in the real world.

"impossibility is expressed with an adverb denotating failure"

I love how much worldbuilding you were able to squeeze into a conlanging video. This better win.

Lost it at "if it's in this timeline, it's usually 4th person parasingular"

Someone should integrate this into a toki pona derivative.

God I can’t imagine how relative long this would take to learn in one continuous time line

Finally, a ccc entry that wasnt recorded on a phonogram

I typically reconstruct the Ergative Singular 7th-II-V slightly differently. You have *iosteui for it at 16:02, but my colleagues and I prefer to instead use

mfer i swear if a time traveler meats another in America of our time and gets told to speak English, they will not visit us again

Woo! I love your channel To see you join us in the cursed conlang contest is absolutely lovely :))

Watched a few submissions and this is my favorite by far, good job

Couldn't 7th person stuff survive if the speakers told fictional stories that include them? Like campfire scary stories? Maybe this is going over my head.

you did a really good job, this takes a lot of work.

so this is how 5d conlang with multivowel time travel was born. nice to see its origin

jfc, what kinda astral horror kinda fearlang is this... you outdid yourself with this one sir I'm gonna be drooling over this for WEEKS

Actually a really cool concept for science fiction

Oooh sweet mercy the sweetspot of my special interests has arrived. Love this one so much.

I love the idea of a temporal tower of Babel due to slang terms existing in only certain timelines

The phrase "does not exist in our memespace" is absurdly cursed in and of itself.

This is unironically a cool conlang

Honestly the orthography would be cursed even without the language and the tripthongs and whatnot... imagine trying to read that with dyslexia.

I know saying this has basically no relevance I just like showing off the conlang I made about 2 and a half years ago. So, here's the first part of the bee movie script translated into it. Nakrodoniain eeba nalla fo neiwa hovollanall fean aviatacou, nean heibei ton shueldo ebia fo nonnbllei utafallee. Neaneema thoba nanggamv sa chuchuma sallma ein nea sa heinennv chuchuma hatoman. Tubei, kazan nea nedu, tell heibei sa kotinuwee utafallee ebkonnsou heibeinall ton akreeya honntour humnanall kinthou sa fo eponnsabellann. And here's my shitty direct translation of it. (I know very little about linguistic structure so this might not give as much detail as you may want) In accordance by all (past participle marker)->know law-all of aviation, a bee not should be (ppm)->able to-fly. Its

I love this! The 7th person got me.

What’s interesting, is I can see a natural learning path in which you stagger the language. As a child you only use the timeline tense, and as you grow or get a timeline job you go to school to learn the REST of the language 😂

This is one of the most spurious videos I've ever seen here on RU-vid clearly on the level of the flat-earthers. Time travel is simply not possible, since time and space are different manifestations of the very same immutable phenomenon which we perceive as the expansion of the universe. To travel back in time then would require the contraction of all space/time everywhere which is just not possible.

this truly is one of the languages of all time

I HAD THIS SAME IDEA A YEAR AGOOO THIS IS SO COOL BEING REALIZEEEED

this is the first cursed conlang i've seen that actually sounds like it might be a *learnable, pronouncable, understandable* language and that scares me.

this is barely cursed, it's really just. Cool

I love this!! I remember similar ideas of really funky grammar for different strange time situations in two books I read when I was a kid. The Time Machine by HG Wells and Hitchhikers Guide to the galaxy by Douglas someone (can't remember his name)

i like how 7th person's "no known examples of use, but experts insist we need it" implies that it is definitely being used but due to antimemetic shenanigans its use cannot be perceived or recalled

this is actually really cool

It'd be cool to see an uncursed version of this, e.g. antimemetics get uninvolved due to being completely forgotten/don't extend into the basic concept of antimemetics and thus don't extend into deleting pronouns, phonology isn't affected by old gods, etc. Maybe also if it were changed to different forms of time travel like where the time travel effect always happens and thus results in the time travel happening later on or even more chaotic variations where it's just confusing and sometimes time travel will make alternate timelines but sometimes that deletes the original timeline and sends 2 guys to 2022 to make sure a warlord doesn't die because we end up in a utopia if ww3 happens.

8:28 It is said that the executioner was the first man to live a truly private life. Forced by societal shame to live on the outskirts of town, doing a necessary but grim task no one else wished to do. The same will be true of the Time Travel Ethics Committee, Hitler Timeline Protection Squad. Why yes, I have read Wikihistory.

I absolutely love this

I like to think that the time travel patterns from 1:45 are actually a well-estabilished schemes and more complicated / cursed ones don't even have a name (p.s. I simply love the aesthetics of this language)

Possibly one use case of the 7th person subject would be the Tao (道). The first line of the Tao Te Ching describes it like this: "the Tao that can be known is not the Tao"

This is brilliant, and maybe the nerdiest thing I’ve stumbled onto in RU-vid.

Love the language, but even moreso the world building! When is the book coming out set in a universe where time travelers have this type of culture?

Mpiua Tiostouea is one of the languages of all time.

iunno, i don't find it particularly cursed.. it's actually very beautiful ( ")

I'm pretty sure this uses the exact type of time travel dragon ball z uses

This is awesome.

2:52 Is that a goddamn Fermat reference?

Do you think maybe 7th person could be used for irony? Like “honest politician-nst-” or “our friendship-nst-” where the speaker is aware the subject definitely does exist in some timeline but wants to imply it can't

Great video, i definitely understood the language, yea…

The meta note at 2:52 instantly earned you a sub

Given the references, is this language meant to be part of the SCP Universe? If so, I vote for putting MTF Mu-143 "Prescriptivists" in charge of enforcing grammer across the multiverse xD

The graph at 7:16 has an error i think. In a time traveling multiverse scheme you create a new branch each time you time travel. So the blue track cannot go back to the same branch it started from. That should have grammatical consequences. Unless you are rick and dont care...

excellent conlang i tippeth my hat to thee in 7th person

The worst part about this is I'm unironically in love with this language now

Powerpoint supports ligatures, but you need to go into advanced font settings and turn them on.

I just realized something: The concept of time being either subjective or objective is in principle entirely separate from the concept of subject and object in linguistics. Yet, you designed a conlang centered all around making them one and the same. Nice work you madman! (Assuming I am correct in understanding that the "objective tense marker" on verbs is determined by Ioa while the "subjective tense marker" is determined by Uea). That said, I don't see what impact Nsea and Oeitei have on grammar. Are they just worldbuilding flavor? On another note, the non-simple-plural form being used for all other tenses is pretty dang cursed now that I think about it. If only there were three forms for 'singular' 'simple plural' and 'multiple timeline shenanigans are involved'...

So grammatical person are 1st (me) 2nd (you) 3rd (the guy near us) 4th (the guy not near us who's somewhere in our universe) 5th (the guy that was never born who's somewhere in our multiverse) 6th (the guy that's just a cartoon character who's somewhere in the omniverse) 7th (the omni-non-existent entity who's nowhere in the omniverse)

5d-chess is a game, where any time travel to the past creates a new timeline, BUT ALSO any token can move between parallel PRESENT timelines (with chess-toke-constrains for this), without creating a new timeline, and when you move in a past-timeline, the "present-moment" may move back in time.

This one of the languages of all time.