"You are turning into a cephalopod." Ah yes, one of the most important sentences to know how to say in any language. That should definitely be first in the Nlhogqwa guide books. More seriously, I suppose this is probably either metaphorical (based on some stereotypes about cephalopods that exist in their culture) or from some kind folk-tale or other story. Although, I suppose it might be a more useful sentence if they really are magical people. Either that or someone's just messing with someone.
Evfnye Misx - does this species often have engage in battles over land? (Haha, sorry, totally had to - my apologies if the species ISN’T inspired by the Inklings from Splatoon :) -Paintspot Infez Wasabi!
@@paintspot Lmao that's fine, and no they are not based on Inklings, and the battles over "land" are impossible to do since they live in a completely aquatic environment
I mean, Lovecraft was a flaming xenophobe who wrote horror stories that were thinly veiled allegories for his own fear of other cultures, interracial integration/relationships, and so on. So when he went to build the "other" he basically borrowed from a heavily distorted super racist representation of what real foreign languages sound like. Large consonant clusters, "gutteral" sounds, non-intuitive romanisation, and preposterously long words were all common tropes about "savage" or "barbarian" languages.
@@Salsmachev That is very interesting, I knew he was highly racist and all that, but the fact that his racism influenced his conlangs... Where did you read that?
Exactly! A cold, wet, and barren island halfway embraced by the unconquerable darkness and up against the edge of everything knowable, but not the edge of everything real... Straight out of his worst nightmares.
I live in Alaska and immediately noticed how similar Ilothwii is to many native languages up here. I'm no expert but it reminds me of some of the Inuit languages, and based on the geography of your language, I don't think this was a coincidence. Love the language btw.
Oh there's no way that's not a coincidence; he takes a fair bit of inspiration from other languages. The animacy ordering of nouns in sentences from Oqolaawak is very much like Navajo's system, for one.
Native American languages lend a lot of inspiration to conlangers because they have ways of doing things totally different from European languages that are also really interesting and work well. For another example from this channel Nekāchti seems to take a lot of inspiration from Nahuatl too
@@1papaya2papaya Yeah, but given how the world map clearly has a lot of longitudinal range, the planet would have to be a terrestrial planet the size of Jupiter.
Oh, this is very good! Listening to you speaking it at the beginning, it sounded like the offspring of Arabic and Klingon, and the more you explained of the grammar, the more I though "This is what Klingon could have been, had it been given to a proper conlager to create, instead of being some words that James Doohan made up hastily, then Marc Okrand tried to turn into a weird pseudo-North American native language with a weird sound inventory." Which I intend as a deeply complimentary remark! This iteration of Ilothwi is very good, thank you for sharing it with us. I have only one final hope for it - that some day, you sneak the Ilothwi equivalent of "Revenge is a dish which is best served cold" into a video :)
I really really love the North American influence. Many of the languages native to that region have such cool features that you don’t see in conlang, and I personally think they are an amazing source of inspiration to escape the PIE influence pit. Instrumental affixes that work with noun class is my favorite grammatical feature, and it’s cool to see it getting love here :D
Ilotwhii is awesome! The grammar is absolutely delightful and my favourite out of all the showcased ones. Were it not for my love for how Nekāchti sounds, Ilothwii would be my absolutely favourite.
Now that we have the refugium video it’s starting to make sense. Borders the mysterious, terrifying nightlands. Consonant clusters to make Georgian blush Arguably Pre-Proto Thirean descendant Arguably first writing system. There is some Lovecraftian shit going on in the Refugium’s origins and it’s enough for me to say I would buy that book if it existed.
Now that I think about it, Ilothwii is similar to Navajo. Large, polysynthetic verbs are inflected with a large variety of complex verbal aspects and markers that give information about class, function, and shape of nouns in the sentence.
Analysis of Ilothwii Dictionary Word Meaning 1. 'ujwaa seal 2. ghëëlithyuhlqaji' archipelago 3. hlquu snow 4. iishli' song 5. ithiichëqunji iceberg 6. ithinkthuuji giant armor fish (lit. "it customarily eats people in the water") 7. ithokshang lava (lit. "fire that moves like water") 8. ithraaji mythical sea creature (lit. "it water-lurks") 9. ithlthu sea creature (lit. "it lives in the water") 10. jukh hand 11. kougu creodont 12. kshangi'wii ash, cinder, embers (lit. "it is created by fire") 13. lu'u fish 14. Nggaachta Nekāchta 15. ngu'i rock 16. nihl person 17. rii'a woman 18. rjingi'oji spider (lit. "it customarily creates threads") 19. qëndu world 20. qukthuuji carnivore, predator (lit. "it customarily eats flesh") 21. thyu sea 22. tla'i stone 23. chihl to hear, take notice 24. mu'gqa to put to sleep (causative form of mu') 25. thaj to fall 26. thra to give 27. thung(gq) to die 28. thung to die 29. tlwi to punch 30. goj to search for 31. mu' to sleep 32. otha to speak, talk 33. ghwaa to be dark 34. thl(i) to be cold 35. thl to be cold 36. rgho to be big 37. dokh (likely momentaneous): to choose, decide 38. dra (likely durative): to hunt 39. thm (likely stative): to know 40. gqa causative 41. -ngkh inceptive 42. -(a)j(a) terminative 43. -j(a) terminative 44. -(a)j terminative 45. -j terminative 46. nu'- iterative 47. ghëël- diversative 48. y(a)- reversionary 49. y- reversionary 50. lgw(i)- prospective 51. lgw- prospective 52. -'ikh experiential 53. -ndë continuative 54. r(ë)- irresultative 55. r- irresultative 56. chë'a' still, even 57. ngaa' although 58. thi' and Popularity of Use A % E % I % O % U % 21 36% 7 12% 20 34% 7 12% 17 29% B % C % D % F % G % 0 0% 4 6% 4 6% 0 0% 19 32% H % J % K % L % M % 31 53% 14 24% 9 15% 14 24% 3 5% N % P % Q % R % S % 15 25% 0 0% 7 12% 8 13% 3 5% T % V % W % X % Y % 20 34% 0 0% 6 10% 0 0% 4 6% Z % 0 0% Popularity of use 53% H: 36% A, H: 34% T, I, A, H: thi', 32% G, T, I, A, H: 29% U, G, T, I, A, H: 25% N, U, G, T, I, A, H: ngaa', nu'-, thung, 24% J, L, N, U, G, T, I, A, H: -j, -(a)j, -(a)j(a), -j(a), thl, thl(i), goj, thaj, tla'i, nihl, lu'u, ithlthu, 15% K, J, L, N, U, G, T, I, A, H: -'ikh, -ngkh, jukh, ithinkthuuji, 13% R, K, J, L, N, U, G, T, I, A, H: r-, thra, rjingi'oji, rii'a, ithraaji, 12% E, Q, O, R, K, J, L, N, U, G, T, I, A, H: r(ë)-, ghëël-, gqa, rgho, otha, thung(gq), qukthuuji, kouga, hlquu, 10% W, E, Q, O, R, K, J, L, N, U, G, T, I, A, H: lgw-, lgw(i)-, ghwaa, tlwi, kshangi'wii, 'ujwaa, 6% C, D, Y, W, E, Q, O, R, K, J, L, N, U, G, T, I, A, H: chë'a', -ndë, y-, y(a)-, dra, dokh, chihl, thyu, qëndu, Nggaachta, ithiichëqunji, ghëëlithyuhlqaji, 5% S, M, C, D, Y, W, E, Q, O, R, K, J, L, N, U, G, T, I, A, H: thm, mu', mu'gqa, ithokshang, iishli', 0% B, F, P, V, X, Z Conclusion: the word thi' (It means and-. Obviously there are missing words from this earliest word, or it was created using an old less evolved alphabet) is on its own at 34%, and then we see a communication band gap (32%-29%) where the development jumps to the modern development period at a lower overall shared literacy and we get ngaa', nu'- , and thung forming a sentance fragment (although-to die-iterative(frequently)). So the earliest form would be in the shape nu'-thung meaning 'to die frequently'. 24% they develop the word for fish... what they ate before thus is uncertain. They dont seem to know what the sea is until 6%, yet sea creature (real 24%, then mythical 13%) gives us ith for water. So the earlier form for sea would be ith, not thyu putting it in the 34% protolanguage before the bandgap.
@@maxiapalucci2511 how so? The percentage represents the fully literate population at this point of language development. Over time as a culture develops its language, the percentage of fully literate population drops. You can see the rise and fall of a culture by the number of new ideas at a specific percentage. But all cultures decline to 1% fully literate and collapse. The Romans were at 1% fully literate when they assassinated Julius Ceasar and the republic became an empire. The Greeks were at 1% fully literate when the cult of Zeus took power and rewrote Greek history. The Americans are at less than 2% fully literate and headed towards total collapse unless they make doctorate level education mandatory for everyone starting with their military and government personnel. Only education can prevent collapse of civilization. Percentages represent a moment on a timeline of history when some significant growth occurs.
@@SMunro what's your source that only 2% of Americans are literate? Also Zeus dates back to proto-indo-european. Also there can be unattested words in attested languages (even Latin has some)
@@Thomaas551 I didnt say Literate, I said FULLY LITERATE. There is a difference in meaning. A DOCTORATE is in this modern age the bare minimum to Qualify as Fully Literate. This is the capacity to enderstand everything that defines the creative core of a civilization and participate in that civilization. The USA has less than 2% fully literate. It has less than 2% doctorate educated peoples.
Biblaridion: "Although Illothwii had never had more than a few hundred thousand speakers at any given point in history, it has hardly changed at all over millennia." Iceland:
If you remake the how to make a conlang series, will you touch more on other types of stops, instead of only voiced/voiceless. I just rewatched the episode on phonology and was surprised that you didn’t even mention aspirated, ejective, implosive, pre-nasalized or any other kind of stops (or other obstruents)
I love this! I would go far as to say it’s the best one you’ve shown us. Polysynthetic languages are enchanting but I can never stick with a conlang long enough to get something I’m truly happy with, but seeing your conlangs, and especially this one, has definitely revitalised my inspiration
I really love the Ilothwii script! I'll definitely be rewatching this series for my own conlang showcase videos so I'm not totally unsure of where to start.
I love that there is a word meaning “You are turning him into a Cephalopod” Like come on man, stop turning him into a cephalopod! Also “Regrettably, you are about to overcook our seal meat”
Phonotactically speaking *Cthulhu* can very much be an Ilothwii name, right? C being an alternative translitteration of K or Q. There’s really a Lovecraftian vibe in all that!
Okay, but this is *fire* . Practically unknown origins of both the language itself and the old writing, consonant clusters to make Polish kill itself and the fact that it sounds like a language spoken by higher beings altogether... this is my favorite conlang of yours
Okay some comments of mine. 1 - Ilothwii have basically no labial sounds such as "p" or "b", and lots of fricatives like "th". So an "Ilothwii accent" would sounds like somoene with a lisp for speakers of Edun or Nekatchi. This could be a source for discrimination maybe? 2 - As some else said, "Cthulhu" is a word that perfectly fits the Ilothwii phonetics. A cool easter egg then would be "Cthulhu" as the word for God in Ilothwii. 3 - Woudn't an alphabet fit The langauge better? They use a modified version of the Nekatchi script but a sillabary can't handle such complex syllable system. Ayway great work dude. You inspired me to make my own conlang. I'm looking foward for the next showcase. Cheers!
1: His choice of sound inventory almost reminds me of a simplified Tlingit, minus the electives and aspiration distinction. 2: Ilothwii was deliberately intended to sound Lovecraftian (in fact, that’s what the language was called before he figured out what to call it). Bib is a huge fan of Lovecraft. The word “kthuluu” is in the language as an Easter egg, I believe it means “he/she is eating it” 3: It would, but that’s the thing with borrowing writing systems: they can be incredibly imprecise and clunky. There are so many indigenous American languages that have this problem because the Latin alphabet isn’t equipped to deal with some of their sounds (especially the lateral affricate, which is ubiquitous among the Na-Dene languages, and ejective consonants) Sadly, it’ll be a while before the next showcase: the other two Refugium languages (Ts’ap’u-K’ama and Suma’a) aren’t anywhere near ready to show yet, and he won’t get back to revising them until Alien Biospheres is done.
I just pronounced some of this and a giant flaming skull appeared in front of me and screamed "The sixth seals has been broken" at me and then disappeared.
I love your videos, even though I only understand less than half of it, I learn something new every video and it keeps me motivated learning more about languages and about the endless possibilities language creating can offer!
Hierarchy of your conlangs in terms of grammar for me is. 1. Ilothwii 2. Edun 3. Nekāchti 4. Oqalaawak And phonoastheticks are 1. Edun (Ulazredhun) 2. Ilothwii 3. Nekāchti 4. Oqalaawak
I understand like...20% of this, but I'm really enjoying listening to it. Very calming and impressive. Surely if I listen to enough of these videos, linguistics will start making sense to me? Here's hoping
Why would any conworld have a fictional IPA? It seems like anyone who really cares about phonetic/phonemic transcription would use already existing IPA.
9:10 I wonder how well it would work for a language to use stative verbs (which are effectively adjectives) in the habitual mode as the nounal form of the verb. So that the verb "to be dark", said in the habitual mode, means "darkness". I think that would make sense, as the redundancy between being both stative and habitual could be interpreted as emphasis. That this isn't just an incidental habit or state of being, but a defining property. Or putting it another way, if stative verbs are serving the role of adjectives, then the nouns representing the concepts of those adjectives could be constructed as gerund forms of those verbs. "Darkness" constructed somewhat more literally as "being (habitually) dark" used as a gerund. Not that that would fit in with the rest of the structure of Ilothwii, but for some other language, that could be an interesting derivation of a lot of nouns. If we have a complete set of affixes to convert verbs between aspects (momentaneous, durative, and stative), then nounal forms of all verbs can be derived from this redundancy between the stative aspect and the habitual mode. An affix taking momentaneous to durative would mean something like "to be preparing to (verb)". Taking either momentaneous or durative to stative would mean "to be inclined to (verb)". Applying a stative affix to an initially non-stative verb, and then applying a habitual mode to the resulting stative verb, would be the gerund sense of "being habitually inclined to (verb)". So it would go something like "punch" → "to be inclined to punch" → "the state of being habitually inclined to punch" = "the profession of boxing".
As a Mandarin native, I feel like the verb classifiers are similar to measure words for nouns in Chinese, since there are a lot of different ones, many are derived from other nouns, they are obligatory, and using different measure words can convey different meanings.
I concur, both with your observation and with putting (classical) nahuatl in the list of favourite languages. Having both ɬ and tɬ is quite distinctive.
Daniel Bamberger I think it’s pretty cool but my top ten would be; 1 Welsh 2 Irish 3 Gaulish 4 Old Norse 5 Gothic 6 Latin 7 Phoenician 8 Hebrew 9 Frisian 10 Old English
I wonder if it's easier or harder to take notes in this language, since in notetaking you usually just write down the bare minimum number of words to get the point across so you can keep paying attention.
Nice, this is really cool conlang, I've been looking for a polysynthetic conlang for a while now Also at 9:20 you forgot to change "1sg-punch-HAB" to "1sg-sleep-HAB"
Having spent the last couple years looking at Hupa, I'm sensing a lot of influence from Athabaskan languages here. The postpositions as enclitics, the complex relationship between affixes and roots to create different tenses/aspects/moods, and the shape-based categories of arguments all ping my "Athabaskan alarm". I remember that you said you liked Navajo in one of your previous videos, I'm guessing that that language was one of your influences? Anyway, cool conlang!
I think I got this y'all! The planet all these languages exist on is tidally locked. The map is not oriented west-up, the Ilothwii archipelago is literally to the east of Nekachta. The Empire of the Sun is literally placed directly under the sun, with the Central Plateau being named as such because it is literally in the central spotlight! The Night Lands is the name for the side of the planet that is facing away from the sun, the archipelago lying in the twilight zone (notice how most cities lie on the western shores, facing towards the sun). This explains why in all the languages presented thus far there are no words for day-night cycle, seasons etc, only years (which are most likely counted using crop growing speed or something like that). I would LOVE to hear back from Biblaridion on whether or not I have cracked his world's mystery.
@@Ptaku93 So, you've got the general idea correct, but the world isn't necessarily a planet (its actual shape is unknown). The sun isn't an actual star (there are no stars at all in this world), it's a source of energy that floats above the center of the world (and yes, that's why it's called The Plateau of the Sun), and the equivalent of night is created by a series of "moons" that periodically eclipse the sun. The further you get from the sun, the darker, colder, and more inhospitable the conditions get, until about 6000 km from the sun, the light fades into a wall of total darkness, the lands beyond which are collectively called "The Night Lands". Nobody has ever ventured into The Night Lands and lived to tell of it, but there are legends that if you stare into the darkness for long enough, you begin to make out the shapes of vast, nightmarish beings lurking in the gloom.
@@Biblaridion nice, the last bit is sufficiently lovecraftian to raise the question: do the Night Lands beings ever come to the known world? What is seen up during the night if there are no stars, just pitch black sky? Can we hope for a video dedicated solely to the world geography, in which all could be discussed?
You should make different videos about different aspects of world building, though it might not add more to the world building scene, I would still love to see more about this world you are making : D
Thank you, Biblabribdiobn, for your conlang showcases, that inspire me to continue working on my own conlangs! P.S. Won't you mind I used your Iilwa script for my conlang? (It changed after times, but spirals n squiggles are still in use)
I think the only difficult part of conlanging to me is trying to create words and sentences that dont sound like a rip off of other languages, but also dont sound like gibberish.
Oh man I really want to take a look at all of these languages you showcased so far in detail... please please please keep feeding us this stuff. What you're doing is really a form of art.
Therapist: "Cuneiform Hangul is not real it can't hurt you."
Cuneiform Hangul:
That's is a thing I am working right now and I can't believe someone else has that idea
@@Myathingoss Almost every single conlang with con-script takes influence from Hangul though; just add the cuneiform part.
Chlota kione thunikore hangulcuneifome
@@Shindashi Hangul is a fucking awesome script so you can't blame people
that is amazing
Friendship ended with Oqolaawak
Ilothwii is now my
best friend
Emerald of Étsaiñ same here but I’m still friends with oqolaawak
Oqalaawak is great tho
@@jakerocknic5918 its v good Ilothwii is just my new favorite
@@MrRhombus Are you by any chance in a conlanging project called "new minelang"?
@@f.b.i3868 I’m Canadian, so that means CSIS not FBI
Thyohltiigqalu
"You are turning it into a cephalopod."
i don't care what galaxy you came from, but that gotta hurt
ツ
The most useful expression
*loans into non-polysynthetic language* what a great addition to our vocabulary!
Sounds like a spell that wizards cast
This conlang is pure unrestrained chaos and I love everything about it.
qth shall be the new meme
you are turning it into a cephalopod
Isn't it already a thing?
qth is the new E
@@noahlauret4354 Except with actual meaning
Qth
Can we just take a moment to respect this man who can pronounce ‘qthlgujwaaksho’uhlëkhchusiiglwaa’.
It ain't that hard bro it's actually very easy
@@cupcakkeisaslayqueenthen make a vid saying it
@@WozzyWatkins i ain't publishing vids of myself cause I sound like a fucking five years old
@@WozzyWatkins lol am i allowed to try and make a vid (i have no opinion on the ease of pronouncability of that word)
@@masela01 yes you may.
Ilothwii: "It is word-made by means of a handheld tool".
Ilothwii - Word.DIR.CLS.-speak-PASS, "That which is word-spoken".
@@Biblaridion Damn it! So close!
@@Biblaridion And how would you actually saw it?
These Conlangs keep getting better, don't they?
Bibl said that practice makes perfect. Here we see how it really works
Yep
Well you can't really use them anywhere so no.
@@arcticflower7223 Well conlangs are not used in daily life anyway.
@@arcticflower7223 do we got an outsider
"You are turning into a cephalopod."
Ah yes, one of the most important sentences to know how to say in any language. That should definitely be first in the Nlhogqwa guide books.
More seriously, I suppose this is probably either metaphorical (based on some stereotypes about cephalopods that exist in their culture) or from some kind folk-tale or other story. Although, I suppose it might be a more useful sentence if they really are magical people. Either that or someone's just messing with someone.
I have a conlang spoken by mollusc-like species that do metamorphosis, so this one would actually come really in handy
Evfnye Misx - does this species often have engage in battles over land? (Haha, sorry, totally had to - my apologies if the species ISN’T inspired by the Inklings from Splatoon :)
-Paintspot Infez
Wasabi!
@@paintspot Lmao that's fine, and no they are not based on Inklings, and the battles over "land" are impossible to do since they live in a completely aquatic environment
where does it say that? i love trying to decifer metaphors, especially ones from other languages, unless it is just the native speakers trolling us.
"STCLVLCT/AF#" is literally out of this world.
You’re right
It is
Yea... haha
*looks at Georgian*
çærlñėøjy¡ihrRt
ITS SO MUCH WORSE THAT POLISH I LOVE IT
@@rasmusvanwerkhoven1962 /gvprtskvni/
Dear lord those consonant clusters!
*Sweats nervously in Georgian*
Deep Solar gvprtskvni
Nuxalk and its vowelless syllables:
There’s a Polish surname that is:
Brzenszczikiewiewieszcz
/b͡ʒenʃɪʃtɪkieviett͡ʃ/
@@wyntyrr I would love to hear someone with that surname give their name over the phone.
"How do you spell that?"
"It's spelled just like it sounds"
Almost sounds similar to a language of Lovecraftian gods.
@@wilhelmseleorningcniht9410 those island-dwellers are probably very fish-like in their appearance I suppose
Ph’nglui mglw’nafh cthulhu r’lyeh wgah’nagl fhtagn! Iä! Iä! Cthulhu fhtagn!
I mean, Lovecraft was a flaming xenophobe who wrote horror stories that were thinly veiled allegories for his own fear of other cultures, interracial integration/relationships, and so on. So when he went to build the "other" he basically borrowed from a heavily distorted super racist representation of what real foreign languages sound like. Large consonant clusters, "gutteral" sounds, non-intuitive romanisation, and preposterously long words were all common tropes about "savage" or "barbarian" languages.
This comment is much more fun after he had made video about Refugium.
@@Salsmachev That is very interesting, I knew he was highly racist and all that, but the fact that his racism influenced his conlangs... Where did you read that?
"By means of a fish" broke me. I'm rolling on the floor laughing, and I can't get up!
"I critterly endow you with a fish."
Are you still on the floor?
@@dustinm2717 legend has it he's still rolling about endlessly in a fit of maniacal laughter
@@pedroalves6560 perpetual motion
@@unexpected2475 we found the answer
Ilothwii sounded like something straight out of lovecraft, it comming from some remote islands in the edge of the world just add to the feeling
Yes, looks like this
Exactly! A cold, wet, and barren island halfway embraced by the unconquerable darkness and up against the edge of everything knowable, but not the edge of everything real...
Straight out of his worst nightmares.
Linguistics and especially the speculative kind is actually another huge interest of mine, so this channel is just perfect really!
Are you by any chance familiar with the "scholarly journal" Specgram?
I live in Alaska and immediately noticed how similar Ilothwii is to many native languages up here. I'm no expert but it reminds me of some of the Inuit languages, and based on the geography of your language, I don't think this was a coincidence. Love the language btw.
Oh there's no way that's not a coincidence; he takes a fair bit of inspiration from other languages. The animacy ordering of nouns in sentences from Oqolaawak is very much like Navajo's system, for one.
Native American languages lend a lot of inspiration to conlangers because they have ways of doing things totally different from European languages that are also really interesting and work well. For another example from this channel Nekāchti seems to take a lot of inspiration from Nahuatl too
me: whats the wifi password?
my friend: its on the back of the router
The back: 0:00 - 0:43
xD
"Whew...."
*Incorrect Password*
"FFFFFFFFFFFFFFUUUU-"
more like 7:15 but ok
@@yinayush8991 how did you know that
I love everything about it: polysynthetic conlangs are intimidating, and this is beyond intriguing
Mom, can we get a Na-Dene language?
Honey, we have already have a Na-Dene language at home.
Na-Dene language at home:
Na-Dene at home is even better
LMAO
Korean with a hint of added Cthulhu
Qthuhlu
It sounds nothing like korean
@@user-vm9xz4kv9z i think he’s talking about the writing system
@@user-vm9xz4kv9z Even then, I immediately thought the writing system looked similar to Korean in the thumbnail.
@@viktor-8889 it does kinda look like caveman Hangul
Omg i love the sound I’m sure this will be my favorite Lang yet
Edit: Finished watching, def ousted Oqolaawak as new favorite!
yeah!
Hey əmerald
I think nothing can replace Nekachti
I personally prefer Edun, but that's mostly because I'm a sucker for logographies.
I prefer Oqolaawak and Nekāchti but this definitely ousted Edun as I literally dislike that one beyond the barrier of speech!
Illothwi the... Great/Amazing/Confusing/Interesting/Extraordinary/Glorious/EVERYTHING GOOD IN THE WORLD
There’s a word for that in my conlang. It’s “Ulestdōbrjedvīrt”.
The Night Lands make me wonder if this particular world is tidally locked.
What, you mean like one side of the planet always faces the sun? I think that would make the planet completely uninhabitable.
I'm Very Angry It's Not Butter the strip between the sunny side and the dark side might be alright
@@1papaya2papaya Yeah, but given how the world map clearly has a lot of longitudinal range, the planet would have to be a terrestrial planet the size of Jupiter.
It’s a flat world with the sun over Tsannur
But wont there be no winds in case of a Tidally locked planet?
Oh, this is very good! Listening to you speaking it at the beginning, it sounded like the offspring of Arabic and Klingon, and the more you explained of the grammar, the more I though "This is what Klingon could have been, had it been given to a proper conlager to create, instead of being some words that James Doohan made up hastily, then Marc Okrand tried to turn into a weird pseudo-North American native language with a weird sound inventory." Which I intend as a deeply complimentary remark! This iteration of Ilothwi is very good, thank you for sharing it with us. I have only one final hope for it - that some day, you sneak the Ilothwi equivalent of "Revenge is a dish which is best served cold" into a video :)
“it sounded like the offspring of arabic and klingon” is not a sentence i expected to come across in my life
Just when I was getting back into this series, yes please!
Same!
Bib got a sponsor, i’m proud.
They grow up so quickly.
I literally screamed when I got the notification. I love this series!!!
Me too😁
Me too😁 (the screaming thing, I mean)
relatable content
Same
I really really love the North American influence. Many of the languages native to that region have such cool features that you don’t see in conlang, and I personally think they are an amazing source of inspiration to escape the PIE influence pit. Instrumental affixes that work with noun class is my favorite grammatical feature, and it’s cool to see it getting love here :D
i tried to say that first line and my furniture started floating
Ilotwhii is awesome! The grammar is absolutely delightful and my favourite out of all the showcased ones. Were it not for my love for how Nekāchti sounds, Ilothwii would be my absolutely favourite.
Henlo
These are like the best vids on youtube
I like how there are 3 views and 8 likes
@@jantala3243 RUclips
This is probably one of my favorite sounding languages, specifically because I love consonant clusters, and things that are difficult to pronounce.
Poetry would be really interesting in this language, with all the derivational tools
7:31 reminds me of ASL actually. There are 3 types of verbs and some can’t take certian aspects
@Peter doesn't he live in Zanzibar now? Is that just where he lives?
@Peter bill wurtz?
Who is this Peter guy you mentioned?
Now that we have the refugium video it’s starting to make sense.
Borders the mysterious, terrifying nightlands.
Consonant clusters to make Georgian blush
Arguably Pre-Proto Thirean descendant
Arguably first writing system.
There is some Lovecraftian shit going on in the Refugium’s origins and it’s enough for me to say I would buy that book if it existed.
Now that I think about it, Ilothwii is similar to Navajo. Large, polysynthetic verbs are inflected with a large variety of complex verbal aspects and markers that give information about class, function, and shape of nouns in the sentence.
I can't explain how much I love these videos and how anticipated I am when they come out
RIP bib's mouth.
Analysis of Ilothwii Dictionary
Word Meaning
1. 'ujwaa seal
2. ghëëlithyuhlqaji' archipelago
3. hlquu snow
4. iishli' song
5. ithiichëqunji iceberg
6. ithinkthuuji giant armor fish (lit. "it customarily eats
people in the water")
7. ithokshang lava (lit. "fire that moves like water")
8. ithraaji mythical sea creature (lit. "it water-lurks")
9. ithlthu sea creature (lit. "it lives in the water")
10. jukh hand
11. kougu creodont
12. kshangi'wii ash, cinder, embers (lit. "it is created by fire")
13. lu'u fish
14. Nggaachta Nekāchta
15. ngu'i rock
16. nihl person
17. rii'a woman
18. rjingi'oji spider (lit. "it customarily creates threads")
19. qëndu world
20. qukthuuji carnivore, predator (lit. "it customarily eats flesh")
21. thyu sea
22. tla'i stone
23. chihl to hear, take notice
24. mu'gqa to put to sleep (causative form of mu')
25. thaj to fall
26. thra to give
27. thung(gq) to die
28. thung to die
29. tlwi to punch
30. goj to search for
31. mu' to sleep
32. otha to speak, talk
33. ghwaa to be dark
34. thl(i) to be cold
35. thl to be cold
36. rgho to be big
37. dokh (likely momentaneous): to choose, decide
38. dra (likely durative): to hunt
39. thm (likely stative): to know
40. gqa causative
41. -ngkh inceptive
42. -(a)j(a) terminative
43. -j(a) terminative
44. -(a)j terminative
45. -j terminative
46. nu'- iterative
47. ghëël- diversative
48. y(a)- reversionary
49. y- reversionary
50. lgw(i)- prospective
51. lgw- prospective
52. -'ikh experiential
53. -ndë continuative
54. r(ë)- irresultative
55. r- irresultative
56. chë'a' still, even
57. ngaa' although
58. thi' and
Popularity of Use
A % E % I % O % U %
21 36% 7 12% 20 34% 7 12% 17 29%
B % C % D % F % G %
0 0% 4 6% 4 6% 0 0% 19 32%
H % J % K % L % M %
31 53% 14 24% 9 15% 14 24% 3 5%
N % P % Q % R % S %
15 25% 0 0% 7 12% 8 13% 3 5%
T % V % W % X % Y %
20 34% 0 0% 6 10% 0 0% 4 6%
Z %
0 0%
Popularity of use
53% H:
36% A, H:
34% T, I, A, H: thi',
32% G, T, I, A, H:
29% U, G, T, I, A, H:
25% N, U, G, T, I, A, H: ngaa', nu'-, thung,
24% J, L, N, U, G, T, I, A, H: -j, -(a)j, -(a)j(a), -j(a), thl, thl(i), goj, thaj, tla'i, nihl, lu'u, ithlthu,
15% K, J, L, N, U, G, T, I, A, H: -'ikh, -ngkh, jukh, ithinkthuuji,
13% R, K, J, L, N, U, G, T, I, A, H: r-, thra, rjingi'oji, rii'a, ithraaji,
12% E, Q, O, R, K, J, L, N, U, G, T, I, A, H: r(ë)-, ghëël-, gqa, rgho, otha, thung(gq), qukthuuji, kouga, hlquu,
10% W, E, Q, O, R, K, J, L, N, U, G, T, I, A, H: lgw-, lgw(i)-, ghwaa, tlwi, kshangi'wii, 'ujwaa,
6% C, D, Y, W, E, Q, O, R, K, J, L, N, U, G, T, I, A, H: chë'a', -ndë, y-, y(a)-, dra, dokh, chihl, thyu, qëndu, Nggaachta, ithiichëqunji, ghëëlithyuhlqaji,
5% S, M, C, D, Y, W, E, Q, O, R, K, J, L, N, U, G, T, I, A, H: thm, mu', mu'gqa, ithokshang, iishli',
0% B, F, P, V, X, Z
Conclusion: the word thi' (It means and-. Obviously there are missing words from this earliest word, or it was created using an old less evolved alphabet) is on its own at 34%, and then we see a communication band gap (32%-29%) where the development jumps to the modern development period at a lower overall shared literacy and we get ngaa', nu'- , and thung forming a sentance fragment (although-to die-iterative(frequently)). So the earliest form would be in the shape nu'-thung meaning 'to die frequently'.
24% they develop the word for fish... what they ate before thus is uncertain.
They dont seem to know what the sea is until 6%, yet sea creature (real 24%, then mythical 13%) gives us ith for water. So the earlier form for sea would be ith, not thyu putting it in the 34% protolanguage before the bandgap.
Thxs
im so confused by the percentages
@@maxiapalucci2511 how so? The percentage represents the fully literate population at this point of language development. Over time as a culture develops its language, the percentage of fully literate population drops. You can see the rise and fall of a culture by the number of new ideas at a specific percentage.
But all cultures decline to 1% fully literate and collapse. The Romans were at 1% fully literate when they assassinated Julius Ceasar and the republic became an empire. The Greeks were at 1% fully literate when the cult of Zeus took power and rewrote Greek history.
The Americans are at less than 2% fully literate and headed towards total collapse unless they make doctorate level education mandatory for everyone starting with their military and government personnel. Only education can prevent collapse of civilization.
Percentages represent a moment on a timeline of history when some significant growth occurs.
@@SMunro what's your source that only 2% of Americans are literate? Also Zeus dates back to proto-indo-european. Also there can be unattested words in attested languages (even Latin has some)
@@Thomaas551 I didnt say Literate, I said FULLY LITERATE. There is a difference in meaning. A DOCTORATE is in this modern age the bare minimum to Qualify as Fully Literate. This is the capacity to enderstand everything that defines the creative core of a civilization and participate in that civilization. The USA has less than 2% fully literate. It has less than 2% doctorate educated peoples.
Biblaridion: "Although Illothwii had never had more than a few hundred thousand speakers at any given point in history, it has hardly changed at all over millennia."
Iceland:
Bro reinvented Iceland
Imagine having to do an essay in Ilothwii. It's got words counts of less than twenty...
Love the work, Keep it up!
It does indeed sound very mysterious and ancient!
This conlang is so complex and I love it.
Is that Navajo mixed with Georgian?
Yes
Naveorgian
@@parmaxolotl Georgajo
Navartvelian
Navajorgean
If you remake the how to make a conlang series, will you touch more on other types of stops, instead of only voiced/voiceless. I just rewatched the episode on phonology and was surprised that you didn’t even mention aspirated, ejective, implosive, pre-nasalized or any other kind of stops (or other obstruents)
Are clicks stops?
@Noah Hoffman i know, but They weren’t mentioned in the original how to make a language series
@@Win090949 No they're a different class of sound entirely.
@Hans Mork Topphol I understand now. Thank you
I love this! I would go far as to say it’s the best one you’ve shown us. Polysynthetic languages are enchanting but I can never stick with a conlang long enough to get something I’m truly happy with, but seeing your conlangs, and especially this one, has definitely revitalised my inspiration
Nekāchti: Sober
Edũn: Drunk
Ilothwii: EXTRA DRUNK
Nekatchi: Drunk
illothwi: high off of drugs
Nekāchti: wine
edun: pure but roofied literal ethanol
ilothwii: pure fentanyl
I think poetry in this language could be wonderful. You could craft very elegant new combination that convey exact abstract feelings.
A polysynthetic language with Navajo like verb conjugation is terrifying and I love it
YES YES YES Ilothwii will be amazing!!
i don't know whether i'm more curious about the weird shadow or about the creodonts
I really love the Ilothwii script! I'll definitely be rewatching this series for my own conlang showcase videos so I'm not totally unsure of where to start.
Oh man the sudden pivot from proud sense of accomplishment to brutal honesty 0:59 Love it!!
I love that there is a word meaning “You are turning him into a Cephalopod”
Like come on man, stop turning him into a cephalopod!
Also
“Regrettably, you are about to overcook our seal meat”
Whoops i accidentally turned my friend into a cephalopod
Phonotactically speaking *Cthulhu* can very much be an Ilothwii name, right? C being an alternative translitteration of K or Q. There’s really a Lovecraftian vibe in all that!
It can be one of the simplest names
Therapist: qthlgwlmothu isn't real, it can't hurt you
Qthlgwlmothu:
I’m trying to get my DND DM to say that underdark creatures canonically speak this in the campaign.
Okay, but this is *fire* . Practically unknown origins of both the language itself and the old writing, consonant clusters to make Polish kill itself and the fact that it sounds like a language spoken by higher beings altogether... this is my favorite conlang of yours
I love the Ilothwii pronunciation of Nekachta more than the native Nekachti one.
Okay some comments of mine.
1 - Ilothwii have basically no labial sounds such as "p" or "b", and lots of fricatives like "th". So an "Ilothwii accent" would sounds like somoene with a lisp for speakers of Edun or Nekatchi. This could be a source for discrimination maybe?
2 - As some else said, "Cthulhu" is a word that perfectly fits the Ilothwii phonetics. A cool easter egg then would be "Cthulhu" as the word for God in Ilothwii.
3 - Woudn't an alphabet fit The langauge better? They use a modified version of the Nekatchi script but a sillabary can't handle such complex syllable system.
Ayway great work dude. You inspired me to make my own conlang. I'm looking foward for the next showcase. Cheers!
1: His choice of sound inventory almost reminds me of a simplified Tlingit, minus the electives and aspiration distinction.
2: Ilothwii was deliberately intended to sound Lovecraftian (in fact, that’s what the language was called before he figured out what to call it). Bib is a huge fan of Lovecraft. The word “kthuluu” is in the language as an Easter egg, I believe it means “he/she is eating it”
3: It would, but that’s the thing with borrowing writing systems: they can be incredibly imprecise and clunky. There are so many indigenous American languages that have this problem because the Latin alphabet isn’t equipped to deal with some of their sounds (especially the lateral affricate, which is ubiquitous among the Na-Dene languages, and ejective consonants)
Sadly, it’ll be a while before the next showcase: the other two Refugium languages (Ts’ap’u-K’ama and Suma’a) aren’t anywhere near ready to show yet, and he won’t get back to revising them until Alien Biospheres is done.
@@NoxaClimaxXnow alien biospheres is done :)
I love these videos really. You're soo expert in this
14:15 would fishermen use the large animal classifier to boast about how big the fish was that they caught?
I would assume so.
I just pronounced some of this and a giant flaming skull appeared in front of me and screamed "The sixth seals has been broken" at me and then disappeared.
just turn it into a cephalopod!
I have a new word idea: utlwiji meaning "boxer" (lit: it customarily punches)
I love your videos, even though I only understand less than half of it, I learn something new every video and it keeps me motivated learning more about languages and about the endless possibilities language creating can offer!
Last time I was confused that much Ilothwii was still using pre Empire of the Sun writing system
2:23 This means that "tlgqghrnglgqghuukh" is a phonotactically valid Ilothwii word
nope, it should be something like"tlgqghrnglgqhuukha"
Hierarchy of your conlangs in terms of grammar for me is.
1. Ilothwii
2. Edun
3. Nekāchti
4. Oqalaawak
And phonoastheticks are
1. Edun (Ulazredhun)
2. Ilothwii
3. Nekāchti
4. Oqalaawak
I understand like...20% of this, but I'm really enjoying listening to it. Very calming and impressive. Surely if I listen to enough of these videos, linguistics will start making sense to me? Here's hoping
I mean it's how I learned. Videos and Wikipedia are very helpful in the subject
Is there a website of this conworld?
I would love to see maps and drawings and things like that!
ruclips.net/video/HMlngeycTOc/видео.html
When will we get to see this conworld's equivalent to IPA?
Parm Axolotl my guess is that it’s Nekāchti
They are a long way from inventing India pale ale. 😉
Why would any conworld have a fictional IPA? It seems like anyone who really cares about phonetic/phonemic transcription would use already existing IPA.
@@MisterSketch4 the IPA comes from the Latin alphabet, and I don't think they have that in Bib's world.
Burke Tinsley an in world one
I'd love to see a tv show or video game based in your world and languages
9:10 I wonder how well it would work for a language to use stative verbs (which are effectively adjectives) in the habitual mode as the nounal form of the verb. So that the verb "to be dark", said in the habitual mode, means "darkness". I think that would make sense, as the redundancy between being both stative and habitual could be interpreted as emphasis. That this isn't just an incidental habit or state of being, but a defining property. Or putting it another way, if stative verbs are serving the role of adjectives, then the nouns representing the concepts of those adjectives could be constructed as gerund forms of those verbs. "Darkness" constructed somewhat more literally as "being (habitually) dark" used as a gerund.
Not that that would fit in with the rest of the structure of Ilothwii, but for some other language, that could be an interesting derivation of a lot of nouns. If we have a complete set of affixes to convert verbs between aspects (momentaneous, durative, and stative), then nounal forms of all verbs can be derived from this redundancy between the stative aspect and the habitual mode.
An affix taking momentaneous to durative would mean something like "to be preparing to (verb)". Taking either momentaneous or durative to stative would mean "to be inclined to (verb)". Applying a stative affix to an initially non-stative verb, and then applying a habitual mode to the resulting stative verb, would be the gerund sense of "being habitually inclined to (verb)". So it would go something like "punch" → "to be inclined to punch" → "the state of being habitually inclined to punch" = "the profession of boxing".
I have long awaited this beautiful language
My new favourite language that Biblaridion has made
I really like the sound of the language it's quite similar to my latest conlang!
As a Mandarin native, I feel like the verb classifiers are similar to measure words for nouns in Chinese, since there are a lot of different ones, many are derived from other nouns, they are obligatory, and using different measure words can convey different meanings.
I like it. I do NOT want to have to learn to speak it.
Looks like some nahuatl influences, that’s to be expected from you though, after all you put it on your top 10 favorite languages
I concur, both with your observation and with putting (classical) nahuatl in the list of favourite languages. Having both ɬ and tɬ is quite distinctive.
Daniel Bamberger I think it’s pretty cool but my top ten would be;
1 Welsh
2 Irish
3 Gaulish
4 Old Norse
5 Gothic
6 Latin
7 Phoenician
8 Hebrew
9 Frisian
10 Old English
I wonder if it's easier or harder to take notes in this language, since in notetaking you usually just write down the bare minimum number of words to get the point across so you can keep paying attention.
Nice, this is really cool conlang, I've been looking for a polysynthetic conlang for a while now
Also at 9:20 you forgot to change "1sg-punch-HAB" to "1sg-sleep-HAB"
Having spent the last couple years looking at Hupa, I'm sensing a lot of influence from Athabaskan languages here. The postpositions as enclitics, the complex relationship between affixes and roots to create different tenses/aspects/moods, and the shape-based categories of arguments all ping my "Athabaskan alarm". I remember that you said you liked Navajo in one of your previous videos, I'm guessing that that language was one of your influences? Anyway, cool conlang!
I would say that this language looks more like Greenlandic, Inuktitut, languages like that.
@@Sovairu it doesn’t remind me much at all of Inuktitut after doing a dive into it. Looks allot like Nāhuatl and Navajo to me
'Gwahlilmang' really sum's up this language for me
I can tell alot of inspiration was taken from navajo for this
This guy is an absolute beast at making conlangs
[nods uncomprehendingly]
Lets make a petition for him to write a full grammar !!!!
that land of shadow makes me think that this is a tidally locked planet... hm...
It sounds like if I make one small mistake, I'll accidentally wake Cthulhu from his slumber.
And I love it.
Reddit
Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia...
"okay. Now we've talked about nouns, let's talk about VERBS"
that's a great language and all, but WHAT ARE THE NIGHT LANDS I am scared by them :0
*greedy trader noises*
I think I got this y'all! The planet all these languages exist on is tidally locked. The map is not oriented west-up, the Ilothwii archipelago is literally to the east of Nekachta. The Empire of the Sun is literally placed directly under the sun, with the Central Plateau being named as such because it is literally in the central spotlight! The Night Lands is the name for the side of the planet that is facing away from the sun, the archipelago lying in the twilight zone (notice how most cities lie on the western shores, facing towards the sun). This explains why in all the languages presented thus far there are no words for day-night cycle, seasons etc, only years (which are most likely counted using crop growing speed or something like that). I would LOVE to hear back from Biblaridion on whether or not I have cracked his world's mystery.
@@Ptaku93 So, you've got the general idea correct, but the world isn't necessarily a planet (its actual shape is unknown). The sun isn't an actual star (there are no stars at all in this world), it's a source of energy that floats above the center of the world (and yes, that's why it's called The Plateau of the Sun), and the equivalent of night is created by a series of "moons" that periodically eclipse the sun. The further you get from the sun, the darker, colder, and more inhospitable the conditions get, until about 6000 km from the sun, the light fades into a wall of total darkness, the lands beyond which are collectively called "The Night Lands". Nobody has ever ventured into The Night Lands and lived to tell of it, but there are legends that if you stare into the darkness for long enough, you begin to make out the shapes of vast, nightmarish beings lurking in the gloom.
@@Biblaridion nice, the last bit is sufficiently lovecraftian to raise the question: do the Night Lands beings ever come to the known world? What is seen up during the night if there are no stars, just pitch black sky? Can we hope for a video dedicated solely to the world geography, in which all could be discussed?
Your conlangs are beautiful.
You should make different videos about different aspects of world building, though it might not add more to the world building scene, I would still love to see more about this world you are making : D
Thank you, Biblabribdiobn, for your conlang showcases, that inspire me to continue working on my own conlangs!
P.S. Won't you mind I used your Iilwa script for my conlang? (It changed after times, but spirals n squiggles are still in use)
B I B L A B R I B D I O B N
@@baptistemaillard7054 fr
This is probably your best conlang video yet. The conlang sounds like some kind of chant to summon Cthulhu
I think the only difficult part of conlanging to me is trying to create words and sentences that dont sound like a rip off of other languages, but also dont sound like gibberish.
Oh man I really want to take a look at all of these languages you showcased so far in detail... please please please keep feeding us this stuff. What you're doing is really a form of art.
do the night lands speak thandian?
I understood everything you said.
I am in love with this conlang now
How cave men sounds when fire was made 0:06