Seraphim: An Angelic Conlang for Agma Schwa's Cursed Conlang Contest 

Bold assumption

@Babelingua did u work out the dialect for fallen angels? Cause a proper blasphemous tounge would be amazing

@@pacotaco1246 nah, but I can probably come up with something real quick in the comments. It's worth noting that these changes make this dialect quite literally sinful to speak (especially the mandatory writing of god's name) -everything is backwards. If you play a sentence in reverse, it will sound almost identical to Seraphim (excluding the other dialectal differences listed below) -all vowel phonemes except 1, 3, 15, and 16 must be a name of God, not just any ol' Hebrew string. Vowels 15 and 16 must be written in incorrect notation as to spell the name of god - 613 -> 666, 400 -> 420 ("sound" changes) -no more distinction between 6 and 7 (now there's just 6) -no more distinction between 777 and 666 (now just 666) -nominative case is now marked using honorifics. Depending on the microsyntactic subject's rank in the hierarchy of hell, it would receive a different honorific (or dishonorific) title -the benecactive transitivizer is lost -phonemic brightness is replaced with phonemic bleeding (low ocular bleeding, high ocular bleeding, and anal bleeding). Some older regional dialects still have allophonic brightness and/or heat, though -pro-phrases are only requisite at the end of a macro-word, but word order is stricter -the three tense voices sing eternal blasphemy, not prayer. -devils now distinguish present (Latin blasphemy) and future (anything in French), although especially craft academic devils known to deal with mortals will often mark the future tense using other languages, including conlangs (Mephistopheles has been observed blaspheming in Kay(f)bop(t) )

@@babelingua the idea of constant blasphemy in Kay(f)bop(t) is just hilarious to think about

@@babelinguaConsidering there's an esoteric programming language named Malebolge after one of the circles of Hell, I bet some devil uses that as their future tense marker of choice

Agma balls

Thank u for further enhancing the community

I have regrets

Fung Schwa

It come wit egg schwuhh, it come wit egg schwuuuh

I went out of my way to ensure that the "start" phoneme included an ionizing vowel. That way, you literally cannot listen to a grammatical sentence in this language without getting blasted

ikr I'd be like 😮

Except vaporized

@@babelingua I love the phrase "ionizing vowel".

Isn't that the trope, though? That the voice of Yaweh, and possibly angels, kills mortals when they hear it? Maybe this is why!

It's brilliant.

My original plan had been to take bible verses in biblical hebrew and divide them into words, but the addition of pro-phrases meant that it didn't work anymore. Rather than scrap the entire project, I just crammed consonants together such that they'd add up to the right values. I'm glad that a native Hebrew speaker likes the video! It's a truly beautiful language, and I do apologize that I couldn't give it the spotlight like it deserves

Vas juden?

@@asedonii-chan8466 ‏כן, אני יהודי

@@novaace2474 Save the Palestine

@@novaace2474 Nice

It might be the ionizing blasts not gonna lie

*BE AFRAID*

CORRECT. BE NOT AFRAID.

Hey, he who has no sin has no fear

@@terminator572 Sure is convenient that there is no man without sin.

@@XavierVB *BE **_VERY_** AFRAID*

Yup yup, linguists are armed with Syntax Trees and the IPA and can describe anything. We don't judge any varieties of language!

To look into the face of the Lord and hear His voice, one must first go mad. Madder than the prophet of the eldritch gods

Oh God! I hope this contest becomes an annual thing so we can see those horrifying creations

This reminds me about conditional modifiers in Dragon Poker

Don't forget eye movements, the angel got a lot of eyes, are they blinking in a specific order? How fast do they blink?

Oh yeah I could work some of those concepts into a language pretty easily. Only if I found out about this contest before the deadline

Why limit yourself to forces that exist in the observable universe? Also, consider the language God as the creator could use. Encoding grammar and syntax into created matter with its particles' individual, atomic, molecular, and bulk properties. There's also the state of the spacetime that matter inhabits itself, level of curvature due to gravity and expansion/contraction rate. Cosmic background radiation, etc. A language that requires Feynman diagrams to communicate.

Same except for the mom part

As someone who does know a thing or two, this is still a genuinely unhinged endeavor even if you can follow it

Nice name

show this to ur mom

@@theodoric7335 Already have. Lol

The struggles of a field linguist

true *angma schwa grindset

Him*

God made man and woman in their image, implying God is non-binary/intersex. Stay mad.

@@joeyuzwa891 why does god need to be gendered

I am now both very intrigued and very scared what do these things look like

@@gamie99 Sort of like eight foot long mantis shrimps

@@KorbentMarksman Ah. How lovely

@@KorbentMarksman so basically just the prawns from district 9?

@@wolfetteplays8894 no, they're not bipedal

Yes please

Do it.

I didn't coin any vocab outside of what's in the video, but if you manage to come up with something I'll definitely share it

@@stephenweigel Didn't expect to see you here! I've ran into your comments in the most unexpected videos; seems like we're into similar regions of RU-vid.

Even a very short children song would be insane to pull off any guy who would actually do it has all of my respect

A single word sound like a whole chorus

Oooh a theologian! You bring up some awesome points that I hadn't even considered -- there seems to be a lot of complexity behind these questions of time and the supernatural. My thought process was that the tense would mostly be used for discussing earthly events: it'd allow an angel to refer to events relative to the subject's specific point in time. It does pose a problem for supernatural subjects, though. As you observed, you can't mark tense relative to the subject if the subject exists outside of time. In those scenarios, I assume the angels would use the Gnomic marking (which says that something's a general truth, like "fish swim" and "birds fly"). Thank you for your comment! I hope you enjoyed the video despite my lack of theological prowess!

@@babelingua Oh the video was excellent. I subscribed imediately. Interesting, using the subject as the base for tense, that does make sense and seems fittingly cool. I can't help but feel like the gnomic would become the norm, making temporal markings fairly rare. If one speaks of God a lot, which I'd imagine angels to do, having to speak in a very diferent way when reffering to subjects bound by time feels... unnatural (though that is far from inappropriate in this context). I imagine that a speaker of this language would express themselves using the gnomic aspect in almost all communication, building sentences with infinitives as subject for example. The easy thing to do may be to simply apply a tense with relevant words in Constructus, having the tense either as an affix or separate word. E.g. "Being[negation; constructus] (present tense marker) affraid" = "You should not currently be affraid", if that way of writing makes sense (I'm no linguist). Maybe that's what you already had in mind, but non-linearly with the three mouths taking care of tense at the same time as all else is spoken?

@@EldhjaertaZ I did not have that in mind, but it's a good idea! If the gnomic is used in all contexts, a tense distinction would likely evolve out of use entirely. Then, the three extra voices would just be used for non-linguistics purposes. Your point about using other grammatical systems to encode tense when absolutely necessary is really insightful: it mirrors how grammatical markers evolve in the first place

@@babelingua Which could mean various dialects. Basically, if God engineered (?) them with temporal markings but then they forgot because they didn’t speak to anyone besides angels they would have to, like was said, make specific markers. Honestly, I’d probably be like that originally. But here’s a bit of an issue: If angels are timeless, how exactly do they interact? Ok, so let’s say that an Angel can move across the temporal axis at will like you stated. Well, how does their memory work? Do they remember everything on their timeline? If so, there’s two options: Infinite timelines and finite timelines. In the case of infinite timelines (which is probably the case since angels are immortal), the Angel could remember everything (at least in theory) because of the whole infinite probability issues thing. But why would angels communicate then? Well, basing angelic memories on human ones, memories are fresher closer to the time they took place & how important they are. Adapting it, angels would only have “closer” memories with “important” ones being metaphorical mountains. This means that angels would have to talk and not remember literally everything instead. Meaning that time would have meaning, but past and future would be equivalent. I’m not a linguist, but this would probably be where the time tenses are. Probably would go in order radiating out from the angel’s “present” with present, close, far, and very far. Oh, but this gets worse. Firstly, the Atium problem. Named after the magic metal from Mistborn, the Atium Problem deals with two future-seers interacting. Basically, 1 responds to 2’s future which is determined by 1’s response to 2’s which is . . . And so on. It makes an indecipherable temporal mess, a knot of causality. Honestly, there’d probably be an educate to minimize this for sanity reasons. Who knows, it could make time loops or something WHICH BOTH ANGELS WOULD REMEMBER AND INTERACT WITH. . . . And then there’s Many Worlds Quantum Mechanics which makes alternate timelines, effectively turning each angel present into a point with radiating layers of recollection, each interacting with each other to compensate for the memories they don’t have access to yet. . . . Well, at least I now understand a fraction of what the god of the To the Stars feels like (except that she remembers everything perfectly, probably, which only makes things easier because she doesn’t have to talk to people to do stuff. And the cycling through stages of development during conversations is kinda cool. This probably has something to do with the whole everything=nothing thing) . . .

@@jocylinfrancis930 Hold on, which "To the Stars" are you talking about? Because I was not expecting to see a reference to it and The Goddess here.

I understood absolutely none of any of the non-grammar linguistics terms. Not that I would expect to, I take a VERY instinctive approach to language learning, I dont study the theoretical side at all.

The two can actually be one and the same.

Thank you for publicating the Video again! It is indeed very entertaining (especially for someone who isn't a linguist, like me) I hope that in the future you can make conlangs (if that still interests you) with you furthered knowledge that are even more convoluted (if that's also a thing that's enjoy able for you) If not then you can take These words as encouragement for you other projects, whatever they may be

Can you elaborate? I don't understand what you mean by "level of caffeine," since I didn't drink any more coffee than usual while making this video

I'm sorry, my mother tongue is Catalan and I may not have expressed myself well. These videos feel as if you had taken extra caffeine both with the oral intention and with the editing of your doll, it gives him a very cool dynamism and at the same time a clear intention, I am very dyslexic and I really enjoyed this video, without understanding almost anything about how you did it. Keep going and you'll go far.

@@arnauvhs612 you communicated perfectly fine! I just didn't understand the idiom, but now it makes sense! So you're saying that confusing frantic videos are more entertaining?

@@babelingua Rather, if you put so much passion into it and look for an intention (as in this case I am defining it as "extra caffeine", and in other videos it could be another, but with a narrative sense) even if the video is gibberish for non-philologists It will entertain them, like my self did. Keep growing man, you are doing really great.

@@arnauvhs612 thanks a ton! I'm notoriously bad at figuring out the kind of stuff people want to watch, so constructive feedback like this is greatly appreciated

literally me

Sounds like that Thrice song. "I speak in many tongues with many men/Argue with angels and I always win/But I don't know the first thing about love."

@@Nightriser271828 Gosh, between the thing written 2000 years ago and the one written in the last decade, it's gotta be the latter that was the inspiration. Non-linear timelines are fun.

If you ever write something like that HMU for language stuff

Church of Asriel holy text does that. Soft A = Grass, hard A = Prayer, long f = flower, K trill = Death, Emphasized S = Cigarette, soft e = baby goat. Yeah, it’s Batshit insane, but I spend a lot of time around junkies so I got used to it after a while

@@wolfetteplays8894 church of asrial?

​@@wolfetteplays8894Undertale Church real!?

Indeed@@lucasgamerbr2774

The greatest aspect of this conlang, in my opinion, is that it's constructed from other languages. Therefore, a truly angelic mind using this language could hold multiple concurrent conversations simultaneously in each language as well as with another angel in this meta language.

I’m also intrigued.

Yeah!

well we would certainly hope it's angelic

I guess you could say that despite the result being divine, the-- devil's in the details

Alas, there is no further documentation. Making this video alone was a nightmare, and I don't have the energy to write this up in LaTeX. Glad you appreciate it tho, and it sounds like you've got quite the monstrous language yourself!

_In sanctis nominis patris filiumque_

You don’t have enough eyes.

Godspeed

"Timmy it's your turn to present yourself to the class" *walks out the door* *walks back in three days later* *plugs USB drive into the classroom computer* *plays highly edited recorded video with seven versions of himself singing* *projector bursts into flame from the impossible luminosity values*

I might record a satanic demo this weekend (if I have time). If so, I'll release them both as separate, loopable videos

@@babelingua I think there would still be interest if you find time.

Ooooooh that sounds like a very hard task! But if you do decide to do it, I'll gladly point people towards your work. I'm glad you enjoyed the video!

This video isn't particularly understandable, so if you understood any of it you're on the right track

@@babelingua or maybe on the wrong track

also you were very generous with my facial hair

@@GoblinGwen given that it's more of a quick icon rather than a faithful representation, I didn't put too much effort into accurately portraying your hair or beard

I'm in a linguistics grad program, although the deadline is for a cursed conlang contest

@@babelingua Bravo! Good luck with your studies. I know absolutely nothing about linguistics and it’s purposes, but it’s evident what you do will be a great positive for society.

I'm working on my master's and I still don't understand the hell I've created. If you want some extra linguistics education, though, Andrew Carnie has a great series on syntax that walks you through all the details from a very basic level.

It's not instantaneous to a native seraphim speaker?

A comment from Hochelaga?? I really like your channel - keep making great stuff!

Me:(makes an overly complicated conlang to mess with a linguistics friend) Commentors: "I smoked DMT and exchanged consciousness with a primordial being that changed my entire perception of reality in a way I can never express in language. Neato-burrito" In seriousness, that sounds like quite the experience! It is, indeed, weird to have a brain (or, rather, to be a brain)

The number phonemes are based on holy numbers in abrahamic religions (I tried to get them to be applicable to the three big ones, but the numbers may have a judeu-christian slant, since that's what I'm familiar with). All vowels have a gematria somehow alluding to God: 1 refers to monotheism, 3 refers to the holy trinity, 15 and 16 include the name of God when written in Hebrew, so they must be written different, 26 is the gematria for the tetragrammaton, etc

​@@babelingua i wonder how complex it will become if you add Islam to all of this Just curious what happened if the 3 abrahamic religion would be combined Is there like a secret code hidden in 3 of them