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I finally understand what a case is

An excellent video! The dative example really set it in my mind. I hole you’re still alive!

Croatian has 7 cases which is just natural to us but I can't imagine how complicated it would be for native English speakers

Your Hebrew letter shin example is correct for the proto-middle-late-modern progression, and there's a nice sanserif example (very modern) above, in the word bereshit. Your "fifth" very fancy example is not explained. So I will explain it. It's what's know as S"TAM, which is fancy calligraphy used on Torah scrolls and other formal religious materials. You'll note that the general form is closest to "late" Hebrew, which is the point of departure. This is simply a very formal, decorated form of the alphabet used to convey the special religious weight of certain texts - it's a kind of ritual calligraphy and when you see it, you know that it's telling you "this is holy text" (Note also that the sanserif is closer to "late" than it is to "modern") So that's another element you should consider more broadly: In modern English we use italics, we choose serif or sanserif fonts, we have humorous fonts for things like Halloween, and each form of the alphabet conveys a unique message of its own that lets the reader know a great deal about the text on sight before it is even read. Conlangs should consider this. Tolkein's Elvish writing, Tengwar, appears in several handwritings and fonts to perform exactly this function. Hebrew ALSO has a cursive form which is very different and preserves elements of "middle" writing, and has some unique forms of its own. Here is a cursive shin - the point being that conlangs might also have cursive! upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/10/Hebrew_letter_Shin_handwriting.svg/28px-Hebrew_letter_Shin_handwriting.svg.png

emm... you em... that's also a pro... duh... that's why it only has pros... what a dumb thing to say...

I probably won’t understand this, as most people that make conlangs usually have some sort of background in linguistics (I don’t have that). All I’m doing is using ChatGPT (horrible approach, I know, but it’s kinda… helping?). I take an English word and ask ChatGPT what a good word in my conlang should be for it. It gives me a suggestion, and bam. I also made some grammar rules. For example, “-‘na” is added to the end of a word just like the “-‘t” in “can’t” is added. Another example of a suffix is adding “-tek” to the end of a word to make it past tense, just like “-ed” works in English. If there’s a common phrase or words that are usually used together, I make individual words for them. Then I combine them into 1 or 2 words (in my conlang) using parts of those same singular words in my conlang to make it shorter. This way it retains its meaning, and keeps most of the letters from the separate words, so you can tell what it means, even if you weren’t informed beforehand. I’m not writing some fancy alphabet, I’m keeping the same letters we use in English, just moving them around to match the sound of the word. The words will also have much easier and obvious spellings. I’m not using fancy sounds either. Not making a phonology (whatever the hell that is) and this seems to be working for me for now.

great video, my only complaint is I would replace "do-er" and "reciever" as the Agent and Patient. Complicated? Yeah but once you get used to it, its so useful for expanding upon more linguistic stuff.

Thank you so much for making this video!!!

You shouldnt be sorry foor giving us homework!

Thank you! love from Cairo

I don't think an international Lingua Franca kills minority languages. National languages do. Breton isn't threatened by English but by French.

YOU DONT NEED ARTICLES! Polish (and I’m and I think other Slavic languages) don’t have them. Polish just has 7 cases and every word has cases.

3:05 epic singular

1:35 *Me: how weird the second sentence *Also me: I speak spanish

RIP

My family moved from Ukraine after WW1, during the red scare our family lost the Ukrainian language. Recently, I have decided to revive my family’s language. You are helping me reconnect with my lost mother tongue. Thank you so much for the amazing tutorial!

Don't be so hard on yourself, I think it's great

A semi related question: can a postpositional language that has a Verb first word order (V??) turn verbs into adpositions? If so, would the verbs realistically be postpositions or prepositions?

That was really useful! Thank you, I have just started learning German and that assisted in clearing up what cases are!

2:35 we literaly have that word in english. just pronounce it with an english accent and it's exactly the same.

It seems like English is the langua franca of today. wonder if latin could work.

"a number like 3697" MMM DC LXX IX = 3679 fun little easter egg, idk if it's intentional ftr, "3697" would be MMMDCXCVII in standard roman numerals, or MMMXDCCVII if you're willng to allow "XDCC" for "690"

SUPER helpful to have little videos like this explaining individual aspects of Conlanging. Help My brain at least

the best explanation out there congrats

Your video makes all the false and wrong assumptions, not every international auxiliary language is what you speak, many conlangs help people communicate without problems and cultural barriers such as Occidental, Romanid, Sabir, LFN, Interlingua, Lojiban. It depends a lot on the conlangs model being addressed. Your video is more accurate for imperialist conlangs like Esperanto or stupid colangs like manioloc to itkhuil than an anti-language to be natlang or conlang. You don't understand anything about the science of Communication and Information to judge conlangs. And your unfair opinion of a layman who attacks bad conlangs but is unfair to all good conlangs, if you are not a linguist keep your opinion to yourself and stop saying nonsense on the web, use research more and the brain is free it doesn't hurt, if care, peace and health.

Rule 3 at 7:24 is incorrect. There is the American pronounciation of "curl" and "whirl"

Koltschade reminds me of Dutch language, your conlang sounds so natural, I like it!

dang Quality Content here

nice

Is the language fusional or agglutinative?

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I once made a 5-based writing system, and tried to calculate simple and some more advanced Formulars with it, and translated different decimal numbers into that "quintemal" system, it was an absolute mindf*ck :')

Can speak more clearly

I've made a kind of gender system for my language, the gender of things are determined by their properties, or how they are perceived. There are 4; courageous/heroic/strong, angstly/vulnerable, mystic/simply unknown/neutral and evil/dangerous/unholy and these "genders" can be used in literal world and stories etc. to emphasize how different characters currently act or are perceived, and it's also an insult to use the unholy "nesâs" form for People in person, and a sign of respect, to show the heroic form "kurâs". Also, unlike in most european language, every pronoun has a form for every gender. Not like in English, just the 3rd person singular, but all. Kinda like in French, although you use for yourself "I" or "Je" to refer to yourself, but if you're female, you actually have to use the feminine form of an adjective etc. Also the pronouns are adjusted for the tenses etc. Like, not "He did it", more like "Past-he does it" and all that + all the different case dorms, so yeah, I got many pronouns

Are 14 consonants and 5 vowels enough? Btw I love your videos about conlangs!

I didnt love the video, but i liked it... i used to think that nominative, accusative, etc cases classify sentences so it was really annoying to me when the internet told me that a sentence has both nominative case and accusative case which is impossible coz the sentence can only be in one case!!! 😾But now i understood that the sentences arent classified...the nouns are!!! 😬😒

I use base 10, you'll never guess which base 10 I'm talking about

Two ideas popped in my head: could there be like a ultra-simplified language designed for use by travellers, you could learn it in like a day, and it only can express basic concepts like trying to find lodging or food, or telling people that you were robbed or injured? Also, has anyone ever made an auxlang, and then inserted it into a fictional story as a mysterious ancient language, so that fans of the story will want to learn it?

I listened to Misty Mountain Cold in Dwarvish last weekend and decided it would be cool to make a language that is meant to be sung over long distances, echoing in the caves. I stumbled onto these videos and I've been obsessed with working on this ever since. I wanted to use circles to make an Abugida. I would have loved to make my own script from scratch, but I wanted to be able to put it into a computer, so I was using google docs for the letters and copying them into google sheets where I could rotate them. That ended up failing because I couldn't rotate one letter, I had to rotate entire words. So I looked through a bunch of scripts and landed on Gurmukhi because it was written under a line. I assigned phonems to the letters and then noticed I had only three that would ever be at the end of each syllable and there were three letters that looked like another letter without the line on top so I reworked it. This is my fourth version of the script and I'm so happy with it. There's a link to the 1st and 2nd attempt in the doc with the 3rd attempt lower down in the doc. I just wanted to share because I find this so fascinating and the other day I spent 5 hours on this after work and didn't even notice that it was getting dark until 10 pm. docs.google.com/document/d/1BkatWr1qmrV9dxQm7Arz1ZZW9Ft98reAwAM7QN8rcyY/edit?usp=sharing I'm now starting on words. I have a few English words that I think would make sense if they originated from dwarves and were then adopted and changed by humans. Thank you for this, it's been a great jumping off point and way to learn about the things I don't know that I don't know.

Shrimply Divine.

A good candidate for an international language would have very high commonality with English. That is just make a better English, that's what will appeal to people who have already invested in English.

I think "make it easy to learn" is much more important than "same number of words from each source language".

SPEAK UP

you need to turn up the volume in your editing software, I put my laptop at max volume and I can barely hear you - after coming from the other video it is a very jarring volume difference.

“Wanderlust” is pretty commonly used in the US. So common that it even popped up on my auto-word-complete as a suggestion while I was typing it. Evidently it’s not in your country? That got me wondering why it’d be common in the US but not in other English-Speaking countries (excepting Canada, which American English basically swallowed whole, but didn’t entirely digest). I’m going to assume it has to do with the very large percentage of the US that has German-speaking ancestry. According to every US a census since 1980, the largest ethnic group in the US is German by a considerable margin. And it was probably nearly as frequently spoken as Spanish is in the US today. In 1900 there were about 15 German-language newspapers in Texas alone. To be clear, these were American newspapers full of American news, intended to be read by Americans who were fluent in German. Because a lot of people were. But as people assimilate more and more their native language tends to fade. Plus World War I made German Americans ashamed, and they basically stopped speaking it in public. It was making a minor comeback when World War 2 happened, and that was that. Done. BUT given the obvious phonetic similarities between some English and German words - water/gasser, garden/garten, seben/seven, etc, probably a lot of German words got passed over in a slightly anglicized fashion prior to the death of American German. (Wanderlust is pronounced with a W sound here, not a V) So that was interesting and gave me something to think about for a few minutes. Thank you!

when is pt 2 coming

When you say "we don't have in english" I'm not sure what you mean because wanderlust has been used in english for quite some time.

Speak up dude! I can't hear the video at max volume!

I had no idea wanderlust was a loan word

Important thing to consider is that certain scripts will fit a language better depending on its grammar and phonology: Abjads work very well for Semitic languages bc they have short root words made up of only a couple of consonants that are then put into set grammatical templates. That and Semitic languages have very predictable vowels, so after you get the hang of how a word is pronounced you don't really need to mark the vowels in it. Abjad wouldn't work at all for Slavic languages for example, bc they have root words that stay together and you attach prefixes and suffixes to them and many of these root words differ by only a single vowel eg. "Sąd" means "court (of law)" in Polish but "Sad" means "orchard". For Slavic languages precision is needed, and they also tend to have long consonant clusters (especially West Slavic languages like Polish or Czech) so for them an alphabet is the perfect writing system, and they all have mostly consistent spelling. But for a language like Hindi an Abugida is a much better choice bc its words are built of consonant vowel pairs, some words ending in a consonant, lots of consonant-vowel combinations... Having a system that cares mostly about consonants but also has a way to differentiate between different possible syllables suits it and many other languages of India very well. What wouldn't suit it would be a Syllabary, bc then you'd have to create HUNDREDS of individual characters for every possible consonant-vowel pairing in the language. This is why it fits languages with very strict syllable structure like Japanese. There are only so many possible syllables in Japanese and all words are (V-)CV-CV-CV(-n) with no exceptions. Japanese though has many historical and grammatical quirks that made it end up with three writing systems all at once: two Syllabaies and some 50 thousand Logographs... A similar language that doesn't suffer from this is Korean, which uses a Featural script (Hangul) that works like an alphabet where letters form syllable blocks, which works really well with Korean phonotactics and grammar and such, bc it didn't evolve naturally but was created by a group of VERY intelligent people on the order of King Sejong the Great. The only real reason why most languages today don't use featural scripts is bc it'd be REALLY hard to implement in real life, especially with global languages like English where different dialects can have wildly different pronunciations- to the point where certain words would be unreadable between dialects if it used a featural script (was written how the word is pronounced).