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  • Опубликовано: 15 авг 2024
  • in this special episode of Conlang Critic, I speak to several members of the Viossa community about their language, a collaborative conpidgin.
    official Viossa Discord server: / discord
    Vikoli (Viossa wiki): vikoli.org/
    Davi hanu! (Viossa podcast): open.spotify.c...
    reddit post announcing the end of the initial experiment: / viossa_an_experimental...
    Ka Du Hanasu?-Collaborative Conpidgins: • Eighth Language Creati...
    Viossa Q&A special episode: • Viossa Q&A - Special (...
    Pancake's Viossa sample: vocaroo.com/kA...
    Stibitzki's Viossa sample: / a_viossa_poem
    / hbmmaster
    conlangcritic.b...
    seximal.net
    / hbmmaster
    / janmisali
    0:00 - intro
    4:39 - PHONOLOGY
    12:30 - ORTHOGRAPHY
    14:38 - VOCABULARY
    19:27 - GRAMMAR
    23:54 - SPOKEN SAMPLE
    27:25 - RATING VIOSSA

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  • @morninglurker
    @morninglurker 4 года назад +3230

    The real conlang was the friends we made along the way

    • @MorganEarlJones
      @MorganEarlJones 3 года назад +49

      I came here thinking this video was going to be about a programming language called Conlang and this comment remedied my disappointment

    • @palatasikuntheyoutubecomme2046
      @palatasikuntheyoutubecomme2046 3 года назад +15

      Enough to make a grown man cry *Sniffles*

    • @eac-ox2ly
      @eac-ox2ly 3 года назад +4

      Adorable

    • @emtheslav2295
      @emtheslav2295 3 года назад +6

      Lol, literately, since viossa is a pidgin

    • @lanisepa4471
      @lanisepa4471 3 года назад +1

      Literally lol

  • @DarthFennec
    @DarthFennec 4 года назад +2725

    Imagine being on a discord call with your friends and one day just going "hey, let's all start speaking different languages and see what happens". This is just about the nerdiest thing I've ever seen and I love it so much.

    • @narsames814
      @narsames814 4 года назад +15

      Omg, me too

    • @eac-ox2ly
      @eac-ox2ly 3 года назад +5

      Amazing

    • @exedeath
      @exedeath 3 года назад +47

      "This is just about the nerdiest thing I've ever seen"
      Would be nerdier, if everyone joining the chat would need to pick an unknown language problably few will know and try to spend X days trying to learning it (and then stop trying to do it FOREVER), they will have just enought info to start the thing.
      Some tried to start one just with pictures, but there is the problems that the pictures may be "explaining too much"

    • @jackiecozzie4803
      @jackiecozzie4803 3 года назад +32

      when i first heard of it as a con-pidgin i thought it was even more nerdy and was a pidgin between conlangs... that would be so cool

    • @longiusaescius2537
      @longiusaescius2537 10 месяцев назад

      Hmmm

  • @ferociousfeind8538
    @ferociousfeind8538 4 года назад +1184

    "rock in mouth" is one of the most creative ways to explain a tooth without knowing the word tbh

    • @sictoabu9611
      @sictoabu9611 4 года назад +123

      agreed. sounds like something i'd say in toki pona

    • @TwentyOneBasses
      @TwentyOneBasses 4 года назад +6

      @@sictoabu9611 hahaha lmao u r righr

    • @tomsilver
      @tomsilver 4 года назад +70

      @@sictoabu9611 I literally do say that in toki pona... "kiwen uta" and I've never heard anyone use anything else lol

    • @CapitalLuke
      @CapitalLuke 3 года назад +16

      Chewing bone

    • @EnriqueLaberintico
      @EnriqueLaberintico 2 года назад +8

      @@tomsilver "oral rock" makes sense.

  • @atlantis720
    @atlantis720 4 года назад +1857

    Viossa’s logo is just the Twitter logo from a different angle

    • @jamiebullshit
      @jamiebullshit 4 года назад +21

      Lol

    • @kzeriar25
      @kzeriar25 4 года назад +50

      It's probably because it was created in Skype

    • @henry55
      @henry55 4 года назад +6

      I don’t see it

    • @saschabaer3327
      @saschabaer3327 4 года назад +39

      It’s a pigeon (get it?) flying in front of the sun (compare conlangs flag), with blue/white colors (viossa started on skype)

    • @erikwg3814
      @erikwg3814 4 года назад +11

      Lemon Gang Twitter’s logo is a bird seen from the side. Viossa’s is a bird from the front/back

  • @kevincsellak296
    @kevincsellak296 4 года назад +1152

    I think they should make a “snapshot,” a recording of a specific text widely known in another language, transferred into Viossa every half year or so, possibly the same text every time, possibly a different one It would serve as a scientific record that could genuinely used by some linguistics student somewhere for a thesis. Plus, it’d give you something to marvel at in accomplishment.

    • @fairycat23
      @fairycat23 4 года назад +40

      That would be so cool!

    • @_yellow
      @_yellow 4 года назад +32

      The Sun and the Wind

    • @mccookies3664
      @mccookies3664 3 года назад +63

      probably either The Sun and the Wind or the Tower of Babel narrative would be good to use since they're so widely translated as samples of conlangs.

    • @Sean-of9rs
      @Sean-of9rs 3 года назад +4

      You win the comment section.

    • @frzzldiscord6730
      @frzzldiscord6730 3 года назад +8

      Since everyone has their own dialect, since everyone will teach you different things, this wouldn't really be possible.

  • @polifemo3967
    @polifemo3967 4 года назад +799

    its just like conlangers that, when they get to speak in their conlang, they speak ABOUT language XD

    • @jeremias-serus
      @jeremias-serus 4 года назад +20

      yes because the vast majority of people that make these insignificant conlangs don't actually put in the work to learn their own creation

    • @spegnagmaglorious3590
      @spegnagmaglorious3590 4 года назад +8

      ⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻
      *i feel called out*

    • @jeremias-serus
      @jeremias-serus 4 года назад +34

      @@spegnagmaglorious3590 I'm included in that demographic, as well. For all the conlangs I've attempted and completed--some I feel great about, others not so much--I've never actually applied myself and tried to learn any of them. If the creator of a language can't even bother learning it, that ought to be pretty telling of its usefulness and purpose... unless I suppose it's use is to be useless.

    • @Katerina-kqkq
      @Katerina-kqkq 3 года назад +6

      @@jeremias-serus conlangs created for stories can be a mess to learn because they’re realistic and there can be a bunch of them…

  • @driveasandwich6734
    @driveasandwich6734 4 года назад +1060

    Viossa: everything is allowed. except "is". screw "is".

  • @italianrobo7608
    @italianrobo7608 4 года назад +715

    I just want to say that I absolutely love that the word for "soft" is fuwafuwa

    • @jh5401
      @jh5401 4 года назад +108

      that's the softest word I have ever thought

    • @theMoporter
      @theMoporter 4 года назад +159

      Japanese onomatopoeia is very fun, I would totally integrate mochimochi too!

    • @Milark
      @Milark 4 года назад +25

      You should learn Japanese then ;0

    • @idonthaveanygoodnametouse1704
      @idonthaveanygoodnametouse1704 4 года назад +94

      I like “auauauau” for “so on and so on”

    • @zacf991
      @zacf991 3 года назад +14

      i love reduplication

  • @montymcgee7087
    @montymcgee7087 4 года назад +890

    Maybe it's because I'm still bad at understanding the nuts and bolts of conlangs, but I think this is my favorite conlang critic episode. Everyone jan Misali interviewed seemed super fun and the spoken sample was hilarious and whenever jan suddenly giggles it rejuvenates my spirit. It was just such a unique episode

    • @spinnis
      @spinnis 4 года назад +54

      Just so you know, 'jan' isn't part of his name, it just means person in toki pona, and it's there cuz names in toki pona are adjectives that must be applied to the noun they are naming, which in this case is a person.

    • @cardboardhed1967
      @cardboardhed1967 3 года назад +8

      @@spinnis ona li jan Misali e nimi kepeken "Jan" la, mi pali e kalama pona a! ni li toki.

    • @Sean-of9rs
      @Sean-of9rs 3 года назад +17

      @@spinnis yes, but even in English, it is still common to refer to them as "jan Misali".

    • @parnikkapore
      @parnikkapore Год назад +4

      @@Sean-of9rs (OP referred to jan Misali as just "jan" later on.)

    • @Sean-of9rs
      @Sean-of9rs Год назад +2

      @@parnikkapore True; past me was not clear on the wording of this comment.

  • @KazuTree
    @KazuTree 4 года назад +878

    Viossa is such an interesting concept to me. it's just super special and unique. It feels like a snapshot of how a language would naturally form-accidentally and by chance. Just throwing things together and what sticks, sticks; and what doesn't, doesn't.
    It's the kind of thing that would be difficult to actually learn traditionally, but this 'experiment' helps people visualize the process.
    It's just so fascinating, I love it. This is linguistic nerds just hanging out and being linguistic nerds.
    I really do hope they keep at this, I think it's great!

    • @godminnette2
      @godminnette2 4 года назад +54

      Obviously it's far from a perfect experiment - as they mentioned, they all study linguistics and have a further level of self-awareness in what they are doing. But it is still fascinating. I'd love to contribute, though my only languages I have any form of confidence in are English and French, which are already covered.

    • @W4t3rf1r3
      @W4t3rf1r3 4 года назад +10

      In a way it's a bit comparable to the genesis of Nicaraguan Sign Language.

    • @jslice6137
      @jslice6137 3 года назад +5

      @@godminnette2 you can always bring more french stuff and participate! some of us have wiktionary or another dictionary handy in case there’s a new word that we need :p

    • @lonewolf711_
      @lonewolf711_ 3 года назад +2

      Yeah, it’s such a cool idea, but I wish it were done with people who didn’t speak a common language and had less linguistic awareness. Admittedly, that would be INCREDIBLY difficult, but it would still be cool and even more accurate if it were even possible

    • @martakoakowska9872
      @martakoakowska9872 Год назад

      @@lonewolf711_ that's something I'm actually planning to do in the future. Now you know after those 2 years xd

  • @brianb660
    @brianb660 4 года назад +487

    Viossa couldve easily been ised as an April Fools video if he didnt go to the trouble of getting interviews and just said “its anything! Phonology? Anything! Granmar? Anything!” On the other hand, this is such an organic living thing without being traditionally developed and I love this idea. What better way to make a real looking language!

  • @kiro9291
    @kiro9291 4 года назад +529

    holy cow it's a pidgin
    it's a peer-pressure-fueled group pidgin, stressful but fun
    the pidgin is so vast in phonology so it sounds like an emulsion of vocabulary and pronunciation, a bit of a patchworky quilt for everyone to work on
    this was really fun and unique as a concept

  • @sictoabu9611
    @sictoabu9611 4 года назад +809

    I love hearing the pleasant surprise in jan Misali's chuckles.

  • @anxez
    @anxez 4 года назад +906

    "I'll be reviewing English."
    You'll be what?
    *About time* someone puts that crap conlang on blast.

    • @palatasikuntheyoutubecomme2046
      @palatasikuntheyoutubecomme2046 4 года назад +42

      Iqlic, Jack Eisenmann’s English

    • @atomsplitter601
      @atomsplitter601 4 года назад +6

      XD

    • @oledakaajel
      @oledakaajel 4 года назад +3

      didn't he already talk about that one before?

    • @gmestanley2214
      @gmestanley2214 4 года назад +7

      @@oledakaajel he briefly mentioned it in the zese (?) episode
      also i wouldve pronounced it another way (/ikgliç/ for example) but i guess saying english the same adds humour to it lol

    • @livedandletdie
      @livedandletdie 4 года назад +4

      @@gmestanley2214 there aren't enough symbols in the IPA for me to accurately write down the English word English. After all, there's only about 20 vowels in the IPA. And they don't distinguish between roundedness or not, or the type of roundedness or any other characteristics that vowels contain such as creak...

  • @ananas_anna
    @ananas_anna 4 года назад +510

    This is legitimately the coolest conlang I’ve ever seen.

    • @joshuascott7641
      @joshuascott7641 4 года назад +23

      I'm so jealous to not be a part of it

    • @bakk.
      @bakk. 3 года назад +15

      @@joshuascott7641 You could change that... /r/Viossa

    • @fanaticofmetal
      @fanaticofmetal 2 года назад +6

      @@joshuascott7641 you can head to their Discord

    • @AylaKD
      @AylaKD Год назад +1

      akkurat

  • @thedeadgoldfish
    @thedeadgoldfish 4 года назад +218

    At some point in the video, I fell out of my seat and screamed "THEY'RE TALKING LIKE THE SIMS"

  • @andreaaristokrates9516
    @andreaaristokrates9516 4 года назад +541

    I would listen to the 5 hour interview.

    • @sictoabu9611
      @sictoabu9611 4 года назад +94

      I also support the idea of a jan Misali podcast.

    • @kaioocarvalho
      @kaioocarvalho 4 года назад +14

      I'd listen to the whole version too.

    • @elephant3109
      @elephant3109 4 года назад +12

      UPLOAD THIS SHIT

    • @Squirl7504
      @Squirl7504 4 года назад +26

      jan 👏 misali 👏 podcast 👏

    • @dominicdoherty7208
      @dominicdoherty7208 4 года назад +10

      Misali please get on this

  • @peterschmidt6200
    @peterschmidt6200 4 года назад +401

    So I've been doing research on the Saami languages (dialects?) for the last few months, and I just wanna say that I hella appreciate Pauli giving North Saami the recognition it deserves by contributing some of its vocabulary to this fascinating project. This has been one of my favorite Conlang Critic episodes so far (gotta give props to Poliespo tho), and I really hope you keep up this fabulous work sinjoro Misali!

    • @lahagemo
      @lahagemo 4 года назад +9

      they’re considered their own languages, and not dialects of each other ;) tho there’s a intelligibility continuum

    • @peterschmidt6200
      @peterschmidt6200 4 года назад +15

      @@lahagemo I wouldn't say it's as cut and dry as that. Languages from opposite ends of the spectrum are mutually unintelligible, and definitely would be considered different languages, but the lines get a lot fuzzier when you look at neighboring communities. Adjacent Sámi languages/dialects are typically about as distant from one another as different dialects of English (maybe slightly more), so the speakers can understand each other fairly easily. On top of that, Sámi speakers rarely make a distinction between different dialects (referring to all simply as Sábme), so that sounds a lot more like dialectal variation to me. The fact of the matter is that the boundary between dialect and language is not well defined, and both terms can apply within a continuum like this depending on which speakers you're comparing.
      Sorry for the essay of a response, but I mostly meant to be cheeky about the ambiguity of the situation in my original comment, and I don't want to leave the impression that there is one correct answer.

    • @RedHair651
      @RedHair651 4 года назад +1

      Peter Schmidt Definitely different languages

  • @MrMageofHeart
    @MrMageofHeart 4 года назад +165

    I was involved in the Skype group around four years ago and fell off from it because of some drama (I can’t remember what it was about but I think it had to do with some infighting between long-standing members and activity dropping off from the Skype chart that I was in) and the fact that I was getting ready to go to university. It was so special for me to see this episode finally come out. Viossa is still one of the coolest and most fascinating projects I’ve ever come across.

    • @jh5401
      @jh5401 4 года назад +14

      was there any familiarity of it to you?

    • @MrMageofHeart
      @MrMageofHeart 4 года назад +30

      James H Only the most mild familiarity. Things like the pronouns, akkurat or akk meaning yes, and the most recognizable being fshto. I was only actively involved for around a month or two. But I remember being very fascinated by the project, it being something of a meme on /r/conlangs, and being lightly chided in good faith for using things like emojis and pictures. It was a fun experience though, the challenge of trying to understand or describe what a word meant using only the words you knew already was an exhilarating experience.

  • @BlackM3sh
    @BlackM3sh 4 года назад +147

    They talked about how Norwegian was one of the languages they got their words from. Being Norwegian I find it fascinating to see how many Norwegian words made it into the core vocabulary. *Especially* how the meaning has slightly drifted from their original meaning in Norwegian. E.g. «akkurat» which translates to «exactly», but seems to have drifted somewhat to become general agreement or the word «yes». And «mange» which means «many» has seemingly become a general word for a large quantity so also has the meaning «a lot» and «very». These makes sense to me, but would probably be difficult for me to do naturally as I'm already very familiar with these words. Very interesting. Thanks for the insight into Viossa.

    • @tahmidt
      @tahmidt 4 года назад +9

      Blackmesh I’m learning norwegian and I found so many similarities as well, fsto representing understanding was another one of them.

    • @_yellow
      @_yellow 4 года назад +9

      "Mange bra" sounded so goofy, it was quite amusing

    • @Liggliluff
      @Liggliluff 3 года назад +3

      As far as I can see, "akkurat" can be used as the response "exactly". So "'hammas' means tooth?" "exactly/akkurat". But I'm no Norwegian speaker.

    • @MatthewMcVeagh
      @MatthewMcVeagh 3 года назад +2

      When English speakers comes across English pidgins and creoles we experience a similar thing. "Fellow" has become "-pela" in a lot of them. "Belonging to" has been shortened to "bilong", meaning "of". But if you want to communicate with the people that speak it, you have to speak it! It helps to think of it not as a 'broken' form of your language, but one that's borrowed the form of a word and then changed its meaning. Come to that I have never had to talk in German about mobile phones but if I did I'd have to use "Handy", if they're still using that term. I'd really have to say "cellphone" or "cell" in the States.

    • @thewanderingmistnull2451
      @thewanderingmistnull2451 3 года назад +2

      @@MatthewMcVeagh Really? Most people in the US just call them phones where I'm from. You gotta specify if it's landline now.

  • @12-343
    @12-343 4 года назад +148

    Oh that's why it took so long to make. Glad to see this, it's really cool!

  • @lonewolf711_
    @lonewolf711_ 3 года назад +38

    I love the backstory behind the word “deza” they mentioned
    They unintentionally took a grammatical feature that made things a mess, and it evolved to mean “a mess”. That was incredible to me

  • @Tesl8n
    @Tesl8n 4 года назад +112

    "Auauau" is such a cute phrase! Very wonderful :)
    I actually really liked the conversational sample. It feels a lot more realistic and natural than a reading of something written. It's definitely a harder thing to put in the video, but if you have the opportunity for future conlangs, I'd love to see it

    • @Styrbjiorn
      @Styrbjiorn 3 года назад +5

      I saw in another comment it's from Japanese and means "and so on"?

    • @angelodc1652
      @angelodc1652 3 года назад +2

      @@Styrbjiorn Auauau

  • @pkphyre8920
    @pkphyre8920 4 года назад +155

    I've never been spoiler warned on a language before

  • @mrboomward
    @mrboomward 4 года назад +85

    This is, by definition, the best conlang critic episode because it contained the longest phonology section. You may not like it but this is what peak performance looks like.

  • @WiseMasterNinja
    @WiseMasterNinja 4 года назад +100

    I love "imadag", it sounds so perfectly Japanoswedish.

    • @angelodc1652
      @angelodc1652 4 года назад +19

      I'm guessing that means "Today"

    • @WiseMasterNinja
      @WiseMasterNinja 4 года назад +4

      @@angelodc1652 Spot on

    • @JESUSWASAJUGGALO
      @JESUSWASAJUGGALO 2 года назад +4

      "ishilik ting" for "rock-like thing", too. absolutely underbart

    • @cmyk8964
      @cmyk8964 2 года назад +1

      今(いま)日(dag)

    • @AylaKD
      @AylaKD Год назад

      from the root "dag" which means day

  • @nixel1324
    @nixel1324 4 года назад +158

    This feels like the language equivalent of abstract art or freestyle dance.

  • @morismateljan6458
    @morismateljan6458 4 года назад +212

    "and then ther is "zh" which I don't uzhually use..."

  • @jeffreyulman5969
    @jeffreyulman5969 4 года назад +64

    Next step: gather even more languages and start over with Viossa as a donor

    • @jerryq1837
      @jerryq1837 2 года назад +12

      Update: they did that with other conlangs. It’s called wodox, and viossa is a contribution language along with things like dusolulu

    • @whistler_
      @whistler_ 7 месяцев назад

      ​@@jerryq1837 i tried looking up "wodox" and cant find anything, is it spelled differently?

  • @georgios_5342
    @georgios_5342 4 года назад +46

    24:21 hanasutropos. From hanasu which means speak in Japanese and tropos which means way/manner in Greek. Way of speech ie pronunciation. I love this language already.

  • @fieryphoenix6432
    @fieryphoenix6432 2 года назад +15

    Me and my (online) friends did something very similar to this, a "conlang" that we dubbed 'Monke'. None of us new a thing about linguistics or had any experience with conlangs, and most of us only spoke English. We created a discord text channel and explicitly banned any pre-existing natlangs or conlangs, with the aim to create a language that we can communicate in, nothing more. Most of how we defined words was by putting an emoji and then the suggested word. It went for just over a month, mostly developed by 3 people (Monke developed incredibly quickly, and was hard to keep on top of) before we got bored of it and archived the channel. At the end of this month, we had 72 words, if you ignore plurals, and we had present and future tenses, and had a grammar system that was basically just simplified English.
    I'd highly recommend doing this if you have a group of people willing to do it, it is 100% worth it.

  • @LoraCoggins
    @LoraCoggins 4 года назад +30

    As someone who's been studying Japanese for about three years, I can definitely see the amount of Japanese that has been put into the vocabulary, but also it's really cool how they can just add a loan word from Spanish to a Japanese loan word and then abbreviate the combination to make a whole new word! This is linguistic freedom at its finest!
    Also, this makes me want to study other languages that aren't Japanese so that I can feel confident enough to one day add them to an experimental pidgin language. -(I'm thinking maybe Hawaiian, or Navajo. And ooh, what if I spoke everything with my mouth closed?)-

    • @thewanderingmistnull2451
      @thewanderingmistnull2451 3 года назад

      I've been trying to teach myself Norwegian for the past 10 months and its influence is also very obvious.

  • @oliviamay
    @oliviamay 4 года назад +45

    The spoken conversation sample was beautiful. I don't think I've heard a language I like the sound of more than Salp's Viossa.

  • @duckles426
    @duckles426 4 года назад +100

    They are gonna get a LOT of discord messages now

    • @andreluiz6023
      @andreluiz6023 3 года назад +2

      that is, if we can find the link ;-;

    • @Anafyral666
      @Anafyral666 3 года назад +13

      @@andreluiz6023 their discord names are on screen when they speak

    • @wookielocks
      @wookielocks 3 года назад +12

      true

    • @eac-ox2ly
      @eac-ox2ly 3 года назад +1

      THIS

    • @aderynator
      @aderynator 3 года назад

      What's the server

  • @eldabys
    @eldabys 4 года назад +117

    what a wonderful, wholesome episode of conlang critic

  • @mads_in_zero
    @mads_in_zero 4 года назад +21

    The amount of Norwegian in this meant I recognized a lot of it in the sample conversation.
    "Nei mange bra" registers in my head literally as "no many good", which is a fascinating construction.

  • @MaraK_dialmformara
    @MaraK_dialmformara 4 года назад +100

    Me now: I should join this community, it would be a lot of fun.
    Me from ten years ago: remember how lost you felt at Chinese immersion camp? now imagine that without any possibility of reference material
    Me now: dammit

  • @girv98
    @girv98 4 года назад +70

    Oh man, I love everything about this. Especially love that I can almost understand it because of the Norwegian influence.

    • @HAL-oj4jb
      @HAL-oj4jb 4 года назад +6

      Honestly the amount of Norwegian was a little too much for me, I don't speak it very well but I still recognized so many words from the sample that it sounded much less exotic and diverse than I expected :/

    • @atlasnataniel
      @atlasnataniel 4 года назад +2

      It surprised me how much Norwegian there was in this 😍

    • @hakonsoreide
      @hakonsoreide 4 года назад +5

      Knowing Norwegian and Japanese, I almost didn't need the translation for the conversation example.

    • @iivarimokelainen
      @iivarimokelainen 4 года назад +1

      @@HAL-oj4jb agree. expected something diverse or exotic. i barely know Swedish (as I'm from Finland) but half of it was understandable. pretty boring and disappointing, sorry to say

    • @girv98
      @girv98 4 года назад +16

      @@iivarimokelainen I don't know what all yous were expecting lol. Pidgins/Creoles usually get most of their vocabulary from only 1 or 2 "prestige" languages. This is pretty naturalistic

  • @OwO-fw9ir
    @OwO-fw9ir 4 года назад +105

    @Altantis, Viossa's logo is a pigeon... with a skype blue background since it started on skype :)

    • @diegodankquixote-wry3242
      @diegodankquixote-wry3242 4 года назад +26

      Bruh you nonironically used the old styled way to respond to a comment before they allowed us to comment on comments. You must be a Veteran

    • @Hi_Brien
      @Hi_Brien 4 года назад

      @@diegodankquixote-wry3242 does it still work?

    • @diegodankquixote-wry3242
      @diegodankquixote-wry3242 4 года назад +23

      @@Hi_Brien heck no. OwO2600's comment will never arrive upon Altantis' notifications. Altantis would have no idea that OwO2600 responded to this comment. He would have to stumble upon it.

    • @Hi_Brien
      @Hi_Brien 4 года назад +2

      @@diegodankquixote-wry3242 thought so, sad days

    • @Hi_Brien
      @Hi_Brien 4 года назад

      @@diegodankquixote-wry3242 I found Atlantis's comment

  • @VaradMahashabde
    @VaradMahashabde 4 года назад +48

    I would just like to say that the edit was amazing and very well put together. I honestly thought that it was a group call until he pointed it out that it was recorded as separate interviews

  • @Dilpikl2
    @Dilpikl2 3 года назад +14

    This reminds me of a trip where my father, who only speaks english and poorly remembered spanish and italian, was working with a man who only speaks portuguese, and they more or less created a Romance-language pidgin on the fly

  • @TheZenytram
    @TheZenytram 4 года назад +148

    I wanna see a viossa 2,0 in which everyone that started it speaks only his natural language, and has ppl as diverse as possible.

    • @jh5401
      @jh5401 4 года назад +58

      I could see a bunch of universities or high schools pairing up from around the world that are distinctly without too many common language speakers, with a bunch of students essentially being online group pen pals without common language coming up with their own version of the experiment.

    • @hungjury7482
      @hungjury7482 4 года назад +1

      Any other non-English native speakers who want to take part in such a thing?

    • @exedeath
      @exedeath 4 года назад +5

      This would stil not work because you could speak a language that is someone else natural language as second language, so you would understand what he says. If you have someone that speak the same natural language as you as first language, its even worse as you would be able to understant what he says and talk with him.
      Viossa 2.0 would require people that only speak one language only and this language is a language no one else at the viossa group speaks, that would be hard to do because who the hell that cares about linguistics and such kind of stuff dont speak english.
      You could create a group where people can speak more than one language, but if a person A speak language X and Y, no one else would be able to speak either X or Y. This would at some times make things harder and other times easier. Because if you allow someone that knows language X and Y, you are blocking someone that knows language Y (but not know X) to join later.

    • @nadeen6968
      @nadeen6968 4 года назад +3

      @@exedeath doesn't basically forbidding English (or any one specific language y) count as a solution- as in to know language y and the language you'd contribute

    • @nadeen6968
      @nadeen6968 4 года назад

      @@hungjury7482 kinda yea

  • @blacky6552
    @blacky6552 4 года назад +116

    26:27 "You dont have to be sad, if life-red goes everywhere"
    "Life-red" means "Blood", right?

    • @redpepper74
      @redpepper74 4 года назад

      Describing a numbing solution?

    • @Duiker36
      @Duiker36 4 года назад +17

      I think they're referring to the gums starting to bleed.

    • @mightyxt
      @mightyxt 3 года назад

      HOW DARE YOU SPOIL IT!!!!!!!

    • @eac-ox2ly
      @eac-ox2ly 3 года назад

      I'm so glad I got this too

    • @Curvyfeets
      @Curvyfeets 4 месяца назад

      I assume so

  • @jack_of_all_1565
    @jack_of_all_1565 4 года назад +28

    I loved hearing the spoken sample! It’s so cool to see them slowly shaping the language as they talked and using similar words to describe what they were trying to say.

  • @pafnutiytheartist
    @pafnutiytheartist 3 года назад +22

    Conlang with the concept of spoilers? Viossa is indeed something different.

  • @gal749
    @gal749 2 года назад +12

    Viossa, and arguably just this video, had sparked a whole new subset in conlangs - there are now countless conpidgins now (one of which I'm part of) and it's such a fun way to communicate with people internationally
    Edit: two now lol

  • @Wonderland_Jutomi
    @Wonderland_Jutomi 4 года назад +12

    Am I the only one noticing the ending to each video is getting more and more complicated, epic, and beautiful every darn video?
    Also 100% this is the most epic conlang I've seen featured on this channel thus far. Excellent video. :)

  • @MSilva-ee7nc
    @MSilva-ee7nc 4 года назад +96

    You should do an episode on Tsolyáni . Its an artlang created by M. A. R. Barker for his world of Tekumel.
    Its a very interesting medieval fantasy world, based on things like mayan and egyptian culture and mithology, instead of western european mithology like Tolkien.
    Theres is a lot of material about it and its not talked about a lot

    • @Painocus
      @Painocus 4 года назад +8

      Meso- and South-American (mainly Aztec) and South-East Asian mostly actually. I don't think there is much Egyptian in there. Also, while the form religious practices and iconology take are inspired by those cultures, the mythology is one of the few elements of Tekumel culture that is explicitly not.

    • @MSilva-ee7nc
      @MSilva-ee7nc 4 года назад +2

      @@Painocus you're right. I remember seeing Egyptian being cited as part of the influences, but it might've been mostly for the languagues

    • @iivarimokelainen
      @iivarimokelainen 4 года назад +1

      *mythology

  • @HAL-oj4jb
    @HAL-oj4jb 4 года назад +133

    It's so strange to hear jan Misali talk to people

    • @AylaKD
      @AylaKD Год назад

      nai, nai.

    • @vnXun
      @vnXun Год назад

      nai shiru jan Misali talk to people

  • @undeniablySomeGuy
    @undeniablySomeGuy 4 года назад +36

    This is so interesting! Probably one of my favorite conlang critic episodes

  • @romefromiris7424
    @romefromiris7424 4 года назад +272

    It’s weird do hear the conlangs people’s voices

  • @hikingpete
    @hikingpete 4 года назад +14

    Great job editing! I was blown away how well the video flowed. This was way more cohesive than interviews have any right to be.

  • @parmaxolotl
    @parmaxolotl 4 года назад +22

    "I'll see you next time, where I'll be reviewing English."

  • @joelthomastr
    @joelthomastr 4 года назад +7

    Dude, this video is so successful, in less than a week there's already new words for describing people who knew Viossa before and after it
    BUT I'M NOT GOING TO TELL YOU WHAT THEY ARE NYAHAHA

  • @MrZyroid
    @MrZyroid 4 года назад +62

    "Oh yeah, this is gonna be editted out" ☠️

  • @m__y-t-s
    @m__y-t-s 4 года назад +52

    Ohhhhh, conPIDGIN.

    • @Liggliluff
      @Liggliluff 3 года назад +4

      Is it a conlang at that point though?

  • @rhytlas2582
    @rhytlas2582 3 года назад +12

    I like how "fshto" gives "I get you, I get you" vibes

  • @ottovonbismarck3905
    @ottovonbismarck3905 4 года назад +36

    (Spoiler warning)
    Before I saw that “fshto” was “understand” I noticed just from the way they were using it that it sounded like “verstah” which is the Swiss German for “verstehen” i.e. “to understand”.
    It’s amazing that you could pick up the language from acquisition so quickly.

  • @flurkeydurkey6354
    @flurkeydurkey6354 Год назад +3

    as a musician, its really nice to see other musicians who are this into conlanging.

    • @EchoLog
      @EchoLog Год назад +1

      Yes yes
      I never thought of music and language as separate things until people started saying that music was "a language of sorts" as though that wasn't already known. Commodotization and technological evolution of music i think took the connection away from the people in a lot of ways.
      The internet let's us congregate around ideas like taking that creative power back.

  • @ourtube1128
    @ourtube1128 4 года назад +29

    Yay conlang! Thanks for making us this high quality conlang content! I don't know of anybody who does such a comprehensive overview of conlangs :-)

  • @notoriouswhitemoth
    @notoriouswhitemoth 4 года назад +22

    This is a fascinating case study in linguistic evolution

  • @m4rch3n1ng
    @m4rch3n1ng 4 года назад +4

    i love the usage of "akkurat" as a "yes"

  • @konnorkuznetsov1035
    @konnorkuznetsov1035 4 года назад +28

    Your channel is really growing fast. Crazy.

    • @Hi_Brien
      @Hi_Brien 4 года назад +4

      It's the math content I swear!

    • @sictoabu9611
      @sictoabu9611 4 года назад +3

      A lot of people came after he made the video about hangman. I'd say the math videos were the product of the fact that more subscribers came to the channel after that.

  • @bengoodwin2141
    @bengoodwin2141 4 года назад +230

    Hey wait this isn’t a weird math video

  • @uranus2970
    @uranus2970 3 года назад +7

    Damn... I know German, English, Swedish and I learn Japanese and I am amazed of how much I understood of the conversation without reading the subtitles.

  • @LilyTengoku
    @LilyTengoku 4 года назад +39

    LET'S GOOOOOOOOO!!! I love conlanging so much

  • @crimsonhawk52
    @crimsonhawk52 4 года назад +3

    Idk why but the uhhh sound-visual (idk what it's called) under the names while they talk really helped me focus on the discussion. Glad you did that

    • @migarsormrapophis2755
      @migarsormrapophis2755 4 года назад

      That's called an audio visualization, and it's created by graphing the different pitches of sound. Spikes on the far left represent bassy sounds, spikes on the far right represent high pitched sounds.

  • @popretmaster
    @popretmaster 4 года назад +216

    Is there a place to join and try to immerse oneself in viossa? This sounds like a fascinating learn.

    • @spaceisspace1771
      @spaceisspace1771 4 года назад +23

      i really want to as well

    • @girv98
      @girv98 4 года назад +10

      aye same, I love this

    • @404am3
      @404am3 4 года назад +26

      I think its on a discord server, don’t know which tho

    • @soudesu6726
      @soudesu6726 4 года назад +71

      discord.gg/psJvGxc
      there's a link to the r/conlangs server. if you join here, you can ask around for a link, because this is the home of the viossadjin c:

    • @Agnes.Nutter
      @Agnes.Nutter 4 года назад +4

      Is your icon the bowl of cheese puffs from Scratch?? :D

  • @PiercingSight
    @PiercingSight 4 года назад +37

    [SPOILERS] As a weeb, I love that "soft" is "fuwafuwa" (potentially just "fuwa" if that was reduplication to mean "very soft"?)

    • @ChristianPerrotta
      @ChristianPerrotta 4 года назад +7

      I'm pretty sure it comes from the Japanese ふわふわ, which means "soft, fluffy".

    • @PiercingSight
      @PiercingSight 4 года назад +3

      @@ChristianPerrotta - Indeed, but I'm unsure if Viossa speakers shorten it to just ふわ in normal speech because I know I totally would.

    • @mr.osamabingaming2633
      @mr.osamabingaming2633 3 года назад

      You're not a weeb.

    • @CarelessMiss
      @CarelessMiss 3 года назад

      Youre gonna love this language then. It has a lot of Japanese

  • @impiaaa
    @impiaaa 4 года назад +12

    I love how much fun the speakers are having in the sample conversation.

  • @invertedtritone
    @invertedtritone 4 года назад +40

    wow, a whole video about my favourite regular polygon!

  • @joannasthings
    @joannasthings 2 года назад +2

    knowing japanese to a certain degree, listening to them speak sounds like exactly how they describe it in the end: english syntax made up of a large japano-norwegian vocab. it is a beautiful language it honestly couldn't be any more perfect for what it is

  • @watsonwrote
    @watsonwrote 3 года назад +3

    This has to be one of my favorite logos. Not saying this is the best logo for everyone, but it hits so many of my own personal design delights

  • @issy.with.s
    @issy.with.s 4 года назад +15

    me, a french speaker, seeing the word "mange" in viossa:

  • @amushpe5243
    @amushpe5243 2 года назад +3

    as a viossadjin for almost a year now, i love coming back to this video to see how the language has grown since :) with the massive influx of people since this video, and seeing just how viossa has expanded, in lexicon, in literature, in video content, in music, its kinda nuts, thank you for this video, and it would be really really cool to see a part 2 for this to see just how much viossa has grown in this past year :)

    • @22tfortnitevevo
      @22tfortnitevevo Год назад

      is there an invite? id like to contribute a little hindi

  • @sargecad3t
    @sargecad3t 4 года назад +24

    This is the coolest fricken thing I've ever heard

  • @foxtemple1952
    @foxtemple1952 4 года назад +12

    Does Salp have a youtube channel? She has a really beautiful voice and her pronounciation of the phonemes is just so fucking satisfying for some reason

  • @OrangeC7
    @OrangeC7 3 года назад +9

    Hearing the spoken sample move into Japanese vocabulary and then move out again was probably the strangest thing my brain has had to comprehend

  • @SonOfMeme
    @SonOfMeme 3 года назад +3

    Something about this is just incredibly nourishing to the soul.
    And it's not **just** Salp's voice

  • @rileyshipman4479
    @rileyshipman4479 4 года назад +14

    The sound of this language is so pretty. I loved hearing it

  • @belgaer4943
    @belgaer4943 4 года назад +10

    This makes me wish I knew people irl who were willing to do this kind of major linguistic project with me

  • @Riurelia
    @Riurelia 3 года назад +5

    It's been a while since I've seen this video, but it's one of the most interesting episodes of Conlang Critic that I've seen.

  • @Zeigren
    @Zeigren 4 года назад +82

    I've definitely watched the entire video before making this comment. I can't believe you said that thing you said that is really controversial for a reason I don't understand

    • @jeremias-serus
      @jeremias-serus 4 года назад +7

      cheeky

    • @cirlu_bd
      @cirlu_bd 4 года назад +17

      @@jeremias-serus stop commenting or change your username, my screen is not yours to break.

    • @jeremias-serus
      @jeremias-serus 4 года назад +15

      Ulric-cirlU no

    • @hole1274
      @hole1274 4 года назад +2

      ⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻ Follow your bliss

    • @garret1930
      @garret1930 4 года назад

      @@jeremias-serus ha

  • @g4_61
    @g4_61 4 года назад +210

    Hey, jan Misali, ever thought about making your own conlang? Just curious

    • @xvstar_
      @xvstar_ 4 года назад +13

      I haven't watched his vids in a while, but I think he did. Might be thinking of someone else.

    • @jeremias-serus
      @jeremias-serus 4 года назад +34

      p sure he’s done a video on how not to make a conlang, showing one he’s made

    • @nyarthecat8195
      @nyarthecat8195 4 года назад +54

      @@jeremias-serus that was biblaridion

    • @m__y-t-s
      @m__y-t-s 4 года назад +55

      toki pona with enough numbers added to do his preferred base

    • @dentar5233
      @dentar5233 4 года назад +23

      Hello. I invented a totally new way of writing, I use it to do math operations but it works to create words.
      I called it the "Argentine Numeral System"
      Google it. It's on Medium
      If you are interested, ask me here! I would like to make it known to the whole world.

  • @PuyoTetris2Fan
    @PuyoTetris2Fan 4 года назад +24

    Came here from school meeting
    watched the intro
    *yeet, here we go*

  • @dieke8978
    @dieke8978 4 года назад +4

    I could listen to Salp talking for hours

  • @demopem
    @demopem 4 года назад +7

    I haven't even seen the whole thing yet, but I can already tell: This is brilliant.

  • @ratedpending
    @ratedpending 4 года назад +18

    I got the notification for RUclips then Discord and it made me feel so special

  • @jumpythehat
    @jumpythehat 4 года назад +6

    Being familiar with a lot of the donor languages and hearing/seeing all of them in Viossa is really beautiful in a way I can't describe

  • @bidaubadeadieu
    @bidaubadeadieu 4 года назад +5

    Oh my god, this is so amazing. I love this journalistic style, and your editing on this interviews is excellent. I'm sure you felt plenty of pressure to cut it down, but I would have watched (er, listened to? since it's more like a podcast than video) a whole hour of this.

  • @sleepiestgf
    @sleepiestgf 4 года назад +74

    damn. this is so cool. i wish i could join this. even if they're letting new people in, im just an anglophone with nothing to contribute :|

    • @spaceisspace1771
      @spaceisspace1771 4 года назад +1

      same

    • @blabit4983
      @blabit4983 4 года назад +7

      Someone should go in with their own conlang

    • @sictoabu9611
      @sictoabu9611 4 года назад

      agreed. ever heard of viesa?

    • @kzeriar25
      @kzeriar25 4 года назад +9

      @@blabit4983 I logged in and chatted a bit with everyone, learned some of the basics. I have a pretty developed conlang that I can use, but at least in voice chat I ended up being more spontaneous so I used words from real languages.

    • @jamesmaple
      @jamesmaple 4 года назад +1

      @@kzeriar25 Would you happen to have the link to the discord?

  • @Scrogan
    @Scrogan 4 года назад +4

    Really good language, fascinating to see how language evolves naturally like this. Though the idea of getting 20 or so monolingual people from different languages together to make an “interpidgin” could really be fascinating from a research point of view.

  • @huntmcdede1238
    @huntmcdede1238 4 года назад +20

    whoa. didn't even have notifications on, and i got here fifteen seconds ago. nice.

  • @MrKogeta
    @MrKogeta 4 года назад +8

    So I was listening to the video instead of watching it, which means I heard Iqglic as English, and thought jan Misali was abt to have the boldest take imaginable

  • @Composer_Ben
    @Composer_Ben 3 года назад +2

    It was really nice to have the community view of Viossa on this one. Also, salp's voice sounds super, very really nice. @_@
    The Viossa conversation was funny, and I was surprised to see a certain Swedish word having the same meaning in English and Viossa.

  • @FTZPLTC
    @FTZPLTC 3 года назад +3

    The concept of a language having spoilers is completely gorgeous to me.

  • @Garbaz
    @Garbaz 4 года назад +6

    Love the spoken sample! My mind keeps trying to sort it into languages I roughly know, at least phonetically. Very interesting.
    I particularly like the use of fuwafuwa for soft (very soft?, soft-soft?) from Japanese フワフワ.

  • @MalachiCo0
    @MalachiCo0 4 года назад +5

    "Next time I'll be reviewing English"
    Oh my gosh...
    I was joking when I said he should make natlang critic

  • @TNTErick
    @TNTErick 4 года назад +7

    long been waiting for another Conlang Critic!

  • @Taib-Atte
    @Taib-Atte 4 года назад +4

    **SPOILERS**
    During the recorded conversation I found it very interesting that by listening to their inflections I could tell what line they were on in the translation. At the same time I heard both Japanese and English words even though they were spelled differently. Viossa is amazing!