I'm creating a language!

[Giant_Squid]

Hyperborean: degevithim usumurál. ukarevithipi marisai osilikakazulanal.
English: Ignore the infidels. They just don't understand the coolness of conlangs.

If you're interested in this, I suggest you check out www.langmaker.com, which is the hub site for this sort of thing. And that you find a more visually appealing way of rendering the stresses (or just don't mark them down, like English doesn't)

[st_swithin]

What's that translate to in Esperanto?

[Tis I]

get some velaric and glottalic ingressive sounds to make it sound real sweet.

http://hctv.humnet.ucla.edu/departments/linguistics/VowelsandConsonants/index/sounds.html

velaric ingressive are clicks btw.

[civman2000]

Yeah, I know about glottalics and velarics, I just made my phonological system based on some of the most common sounds (so it's like a typical langauge with the exception of lacking m). And for the writing system, ordinarily stress is marked by an accent mark, but i'm too lazy to use the special codes to get accented characters.

A little quiz:
Translate the following sentences into Inagalasi (make up words if necessary!):
I hate dogs that eat pigs
You are a crazy maniac
They will have hoped that we will not have smelled the giant pig

[Bugs ****ing Bunny]

Can I pose a question?

What's the ****ing point?

Aren't you just wasting time you could otherwise spend beating your face against a wall?

[Bugs ****ing Bunny]

Originally posted by Lazarus and the Gimp

What's the ****ing point?

Incidentally, that was from my own invented language- Gimpese. It's exactly like English except it has only one adjective.

[Bosh]

another thing you might look at for pronunciation is the difference between aspirated and unaspirated consonants. Aspirated bascially means a puff of air comes out when you say it (its also how people who spit a lot when they speak talk).

For example in korean there's a letter that's kind of a cross between a b and an unaspirated p and then there's one that's an aspirated p. Similarly there's a letter that's kind of a cross between a d and an unaspirated t and then there's one that's an aspirated t and a letter that's kind of a cross between a j and an unaspirated ch and then there's one that's an aspirated ch and finally there's one that's one that's kind of a cross between a g and an unaspirated k and one that's an aspirated k.

[Drake Tungsten]

Verbs of Inagalasi:
This is the biggest part. True verbs always end in consonants. The roots of verbs always end in consonants (eg "sapIk" speak). Verbs are inflected by adding a ton of suffixes to them. A scary example: "nohEtusinahepil" "they will not have eaten" comes from the short simple root "Et" "eat".

Heavily inflected languages can wrap around my ass.

Incidentally, that was from my own invented language- Gimpese. It's exactly like English except it has only one adjective.

[st_swithin]

Quechua.

[Immortal Wombat]

Suffixes suck.


"Hira cuilë."

[civman2000]

another thing you might look at for pronunciation is the difference between aspirated and unaspirated consonants. Aspirated bascially means a puff of air comes out when you say it (its also how people who spit a lot when they speak talk).

For example in korean there's a letter that's kind of a cross between a b and an unaspirated p and then there's one that's an aspirated p. Similarly there's a letter that's kind of a cross between a d and an unaspirated t and then there's one that's an aspirated t and a letter that's kind of a cross between a j and an unaspirated ch and then there's one that's an aspirated ch and finally there's one that's one that's kind of a cross between a g and an unaspirated k and one that's an aspirated k.

Yeah, I know all about this stuff. One of my major goals was for the phonology of the language to be simple. BTW, all stops in Inagalasi are unaspirated.

What's the ****ing point?

It's fun

Heavily inflected languages can wrap around my ass.

Well Inagalasi technically is not inflected at all, rather jsut the opposite: it's a purely agglutinative language, so you never have to worry about how endings change, just which ones are there. For example, in romance languages you have separate endings for each person and number for every single tense. In Inagalasi on the other hand there is one ending for each person, one ending for plurality, and one ending for each tense you just stick on the end.

Working on part 3 now, it will be added in an edit to a post on the first page.

[civman2000]

Part 3 added on the first page and part 2 edited to reverse relative clause order. All three parts together in a text file (I recommend viewing in wordpad, make sure you have wordwrap on!) uploaded: http://apolyton.net/upload/files/civ.../inagalasi.txt

[Starchild]

The thing is, it looks like an artificial language. It's got no true flow or rhythm to it that natural languages do.

Languages are powerful, they shape the way we percieve the world. You can create a vocabulary but if you base it just off of English, all you get in the end is English with odd grammar. You won't be able to express concepts English has no words for.

[civman2000]

You can create a vocabulary but if you base it just off of English, all you get in the end is English with odd grammar. You won't be able to express concepts English has no words for.

I've been trying to introduce as many semantic differences as possible through the grammar, and in the next few days I hope to work a lot on the vocabulary. Thanks for the advice, I'll try to make some differences (particularly with things like family relations and colors and other very variable things in langauges). I'm also going to try to make major differences with the derivational morphemes (ie affixes like "ion" or "dis" or "ment" in english)

[Mercator]

You do know you can only use your upload space for civ-related stuff, don't you?

*Zap* ... and another language died.

Maybe you should invest your time in trying to learn one of the many languages of the world that is going extinct as we speak.