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by SLiV
26 Jan 2022 00:41
Forum: Everything Else
Topic: Other Creativity
Replies: 1362
Views: 358605

Re: Other Creativity

Thanks!
by SLiV
25 Jan 2022 18:28
Forum: Everything Else
Topic: Other Creativity
Replies: 1362
Views: 358605

Re: Other Creativity

Last week I made a little space horror gamejam game called You Will Return . It's about space explorers who return to their home planet after thousands of years, only to find the place completely barren. The only remaining structure is an underground vault whose walls and floor are covered in the sy...
by SLiV
26 Dec 2021 20:57
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: What did you accomplish today?
Replies: 734
Views: 207092

Re: What did you accomplish today?

I made a new conscript for Imperial and, after struggling with Inkscape and FontForge for a while, whipped up a pixel art font: https://i.imgur.com/0rmw6DO.png Glyphs: p b t d k g m n ts j f s sh h l y / w a e i u ia ua -o i * -o * -n -ng - - - Samples: - - - lung ming jai wei shiang nai huan shi yi...
by SLiV
21 Aug 2021 19:56
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Imperial & Cave Creole
Replies: 4
Views: 1535

Re: Imperial & Cave Creole

I've decided to use <ts> for /ts/ (instead of <z>) and <ien> for /jɛn/ instead of <ian>. Note sure about the fate of /ʒ/. Basic numbers in Imperial and Cave Creole: 1: 一 yi /ji/ >>> hin /hin/ 2: 二 wen /wən/ >>> vinn /vɪn/ 3: 三 san /san/ >>> san /san/ 4: 四 tsen /tsən/ >>> stinn /stɪn/ 5: 五 wu /wu/ --...
by SLiV
14 Aug 2021 19:24
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Imperial & Cave Creole
Replies: 4
Views: 1535

Re: Imperial & Cave Creole

It is quite Chinese, but the vowels are sufficiently different and the absence of the retroflex sibilants helps to make it feel a little different. Yeah, but I'm worried that in the game it will only appear romanized, so those nuances would be lost. I might have to lean more heavily into romanizing...
by SLiV
14 Aug 2021 17:27
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Imperial & Cave Creole
Replies: 4
Views: 1535

Re: Imperial & Cave Creole

Imperial Phonology /m n ŋ/ <m n ng> /p b t d k g/ <p b t d k g> /t͡s t͡ɕ/ <z j> /f s ʃ ʒ h/ <f s sh zh h> /l/ <l> /w j/ <w y> /i u/ <i u> /(ɪ) (ʊ)/ /e o/ <e o> /(ɛ) (ə)/ /a (ɑ)/ <a> Syllable structure is C(S)V(V)(C) or SV(V)(C), where S is a semivowel w or y , the onset maybe any consonant except n...
by SLiV
14 Aug 2021 16:55
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Imperial & Cave Creole
Replies: 4
Views: 1535

Imperial & Cave Creole

As a little side-project to a video game I'm working on, I want to sketch out two conlangs so that I can use their phonotactics when naming characters and locations. The first is a language called Imperial that is loosely inspired by Chinese, and the second I'm imagining as a pidgin/creole used by c...
by SLiV
03 Nov 2018 11:33
Forum: Everything Else
Topic: Other Creativity
Replies: 1362
Views: 358605

Re: Other Creativity

Thanks! At the moment, no, it's for Windows, Mac and Linux. We also have plans for mobile, but we just don't have the time/money for that as of yet.
by SLiV
02 Nov 2018 20:26
Forum: Everything Else
Topic: Other Creativity
Replies: 1362
Views: 358605

Re: Other Creativity

Games count as creativity, right? I'm making a turn-based strategy game about global warming. We haven't done a lot of worldbuilding yet, so unfortunately I haven't been able to flex my conworlding muscles in that respect. The vibe is a bit alt-history "what if World War 1 lasted through to tod...
by SLiV
17 Sep 2018 11:04
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: What did you accomplish today? [2011–2019]
Replies: 11462
Views: 1631573

Re: What did you accomplish today?

Started translating a piece of a fable I wrote, into Maran. Δησβαστε Ιντεστε [dæsbɑstʃ ɪntɛstʃ] dysboss.NOM.CONJ sun.NOM.CONJ The Tyrant and the Sun Μαχα χρονα πριν, εν χρονον εντι ναμ δ' εσσ' ηνας κεννις, Βαστι Νορι τει δησβας αμ ωμηνε νοιμιν Ιμρας, βας δε Δραμιτα. [mɑxa xrona prɪn, ɛn xronɔn ɛnti ...
by SLiV
02 Sep 2018 14:41
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Maran, a small greeklang with portuguese and english influences
Replies: 8
Views: 2671

Re: Maran, a small greeklang with portuguese and english influences

I made some verb conjugation tables: https://i.imgur.com/VY1mgyi.png https://i.imgur.com/0HSgxtm.png https://i.imgur.com/loBfKXi.png https://i.imgur.com/abDF6lJ.png https://i.imgur.com/d47J66C.png https://i.imgur.com/fPp27Yg.png https://i.imgur.com/lNdmCNp.png https://i.imgur.com/hm9V0Zf.png https:/...
by SLiV
01 Sep 2018 18:50
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: What did you accomplish today? [2011–2019]
Replies: 11462
Views: 1631573

Re: What did you accomplish today?

Despite promising myself I would work on Maran by hand, I dove back into my Haskell+Latex project, adapted it for Maran and wrote some new code to generate nice little standalone conjugation tables. Input: telOH (v) 'carry, bring' iia: telOH telEIs telEI telom telete telen apa: telson telsas telsa t...
by SLiV
01 Sep 2018 13:11
Forum: Everything Else
Topic: Conlanger stereotype poll
Replies: 148
Views: 76722

Re: Conlanger stereotype poll

1. Male
2. Gay
3. Right-handed
4. Dutch
5. Dutch
6. Neurotypical
7. No health conditions
8. Slightly short-sighted, but only wear glasses while driving or watching movies
9. No facial hair
10. Tall and thin
11. Math nerd / Programmer / Loner
12. Used to have cats
13. Atheist
by SLiV
18 Aug 2018 14:52
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Conlang Conversation Thread [2010–2019]
Replies: 8666
Views: 1442263

Re: Conlang Conversation Thread

Ωμε ναμ αιφτοραι ηναμ, στη ο δμιν ειλτι ρομωσαν.
[umɛ nɑw ɑɪftorɑɪ ænɑw, stæ o dmɪn ɛɪwtʃi rɔmuzɑn]
GEN-1SG NEG+INDEF freeday-PL-NOM NEG-COP, because TOP money-SG-OBL lack-INF INCEP-PST-1SG
I didn't have any holidays, because I have started to run out of money.
by SLiV
10 Aug 2018 15:50
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Maran, a small greeklang with portuguese and english influences
Replies: 8
Views: 2671

Re: Maran, a small greeklang with portuguese and english influences

1 - I saw how your copulæ have /μ/ for both 1Pl and 3PL, which looks and feels like a def :por: influence . Is there a reason why the 'regular' verb conjugation has /ν/ for the 3PL, and not a /μ/ as well? Because I came up with the copulae after I wrote down the regular verbs. [xP] I guess 3PL is a...
by SLiV
08 Aug 2018 02:43
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Maran, a small greeklang with portuguese and english influences
Replies: 8
Views: 2671

Re: Maran, a small greeklang with portuguese and english influences

If I might ask, what variety of Greek is Maran descended from? What is the etymology of its name? [...] If possible, could we see the sound changes leading to Maran? What happened to the letters <γ θ υ>? Are they not even used in etymological spellings? Maran is an a priori language inspired by anc...
by SLiV
05 Aug 2018 17:43
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Maran, a small greeklang with portuguese and english influences
Replies: 8
Views: 2671

Re: Maran, a small greeklang with portuguese and english influences

Are the nouns always regular?
I don't know yet. [:P]
Because the declension tables for nouns are so small (only four forms), I imagine they will all turn out regular in the sense that they can be grouped based on gender and sg. nom. ending. But I might add an ablaut somewhere.
by SLiV
05 Aug 2018 15:12
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Maran, a small greeklang with portuguese and english influences
Replies: 8
Views: 2671

Maran, a small greeklang with portuguese and english influences

Maran is a small a priori greeklang I've been scribbling down over the past couple of weekends. It is a bit of a reboot of Kerdos, where I focussed mostly on programmatically generating diachronics and dictionaries; although I liked the programming exercise and the neat pdfs it generated, it left th...
by SLiV
29 Jul 2018 14:55
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: What did you accomplish today? [2011–2019]
Replies: 11462
Views: 1631573

Re: What did you accomplish today?

Thanks! The two sound changes I kept from my experiment with a portuguese-inspired greeklang are /m/,/l/,/r/ > [w] in coda positions and /tə/ > [tʃ] everywhere, so I'm happy they show off well in 1PL and 2PL.
by SLiV
29 Jul 2018 14:04
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: What did you accomplish today? [2011–2019]
Replies: 11462
Views: 1631573

Re: What did you accomplish today?

Lately I've been working on a smaller greeklang using just pen and paper. Today I have worked out some regular verb conjugations: Conjugations of τελω ( to carry, to bring ) and other regular verbs whose root end in -λ , -ρ or -ν : Present tense: τελω ['tɛlu] τελεις ['tɛlɛɪs] τελει ['tɛlɛɪ] τελομ ['...