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Conlang Challenges - June is a time for.... music?This month's challenge is:Conlang Challenges - June is a time for.... music?2 years ago in Personal More Like This
Write a few lines of a rap/hip-hop song in your conlang. Bonus points if it flows great. Remember to include IPA!
Submission courtesy of Red-Star-Flag. Good luck to all! Next challenge will be in July.
Suggestions for future challenges go here!
Previous challenge suggestions can be found here!
Feedback for the challenges goes here!
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Past challenges:July 2010 - Create 10 verbs and their opposites.
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Ways to Present Your Conlang OnlineThis is something that I use to think about a lot when I was first starting out but now that I've a little more exposed to the community than I was before here are some of my tips on how to present your conlang to the world wide web!Ways to Present Your Conlang Online5 months ago in Personal More Like This
1) Google Docs This is what I use to make my grammars and dictionaries. The nice thing about Google Docs is that it does almost everything that Microsoft Word can do only it saves periodically online as you edit it. PLUS! You can access it from any computer by signing in wit your GMAIL sign in. You can change the fonts, size and colour of your headings to make it look all appealing and such. For your dictionary I wouldn't necessarily suggest spreadsheets unless your conlang has a one to one word translation. This likely won't be the case to just make a format for your entries and stick to it! EXAMPLE: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1MuSrz-cmywbETJkA2N-__X2ivDfheTxhGUQI21IbUMA/edit
Airshla1 year ago in Other
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Diachronic "Traits"Conlinguistic diachronics is a fickle thing - many of those conlangers who do diachronic conlangs do it in a simple step by step process: first, they make their proto-language, often unattested and not really elaborated upon; second, they make descendants; third, they finalise their creations, then rinse and repeat from two.Diachronic "Traits"8 months ago in Personal More Like This
It's very common to see this - I know I've been "guilty" of it - but I don't really think it should go that way. In my opinion, some prior planning is needed to make the results stand out in the end.The planning I talk about isn't planning of the proto-language (although, you need to plan that one out just as well), but the idea which paths the descendant languages will take. You can do it at a whim, of course, but the method rarely produces any truly amazing results.
Now, I'm not saying you should meticulously plan out every single sound change to the minutest of details, but that you should have an idea where it's all going.This ties in to the title of this post,
A Collection of Conlanging ResoursesI've been building this list since I started on sythen 2+ years ago, and jaichizuru, among others, encouraged me to share it with you all during last week's LangCon. I've tried to take out links that are duplicates of the ones already found on the main Conlangers page, but I make no promices.A Collection of Conlanging Resourses2 years ago in Personal More Like This
Conlang Wikia: http://conlang.wikia.com/
Wikipedia's article on the IPA: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Phonetic_Alphabet
Richard Kennaway's Conlang resource list: http://www2.cmp.uea.ac.uk/~jrk/conlang.html
Rick Morneau's Essays on language design: http://www.eskimo.com/~ram/essays.html
Pablo David Flores' How to create a language: http://www.angelfire.com/scifi2/nyh/how__all.html
Conscripts on Omniglot: http://www.omniglot.com/writing/conscripts.htm
The lingua descriptive studies questionnaire: http://lingweb.eva.mpg.de/fieldtools/linguaQ.html
Justin B Rye's Xenolinguistics: http://www.xibalba.demon.co.uk/jbr/lingo.html
fantasist.net's conlang tools: http://www.fantasist.net/conlang.
Kakicha ka kapokicha1 year ago in Other
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Conlang Challenges - OctoberThis month's challenge is: Create different foods for your conculture. Be sure to describe how to make them, and, if you can, what they taste like.Conlang Challenges - October8 months ago in Personal More Like This
Conlang challenges by ~speria. This is to put in something for the month since people are busy with their lives.
Shall we have NaCoWriMo in November?
Suggestions for future challenges go here!
Previous challenge suggestions can be found here!
Feedback for the challenges goes here!
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Current Stats + NaCoWriMo + Welcome New MembersA belated Happy Halloween to you all! Did anyone make any candy words for the occasion? I created a few taste adjectives like sweet, sugar, salt, and things like that.Current Stats + NaCoWriMo + Welcome New Members7 months ago in Personal More Like This
I'd like to post our current stats:
#Conlangers was created on April 13th, 2010.
Currently it has:122 members
13141 page views
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Now that's what I call GRAMMARINTENSE!
NACOWRIMO
As some of you may know November is National Novel Writing Month, we here at #Conlangers edit that a little to make it National Conlang Writing Month! The aim of NaNoWriMo is to write 50 000 words. Clearly that is a bit much for a conlanger at this point. Hahah. So here are the requirements for NaCoWriMo!
One of Our Members on Conlangery!This is a little outdated but I wanted to throw this out there because I was hoping someone would do this!One of Our Members on Conlangery!5 months ago in Personal More Like This
One of our own ~JohnRaptor was on the Conlangery Podcast! Congratulations!
The hosts discussed his conlang: "Fairylang" with him and it made quite an interesting discussion!
I'm so happy to hear when these kind of things happen. I can't wait to see who might put forth their conlang next! Be warned they've said multiple times that they are auxlang biased so I don't know if I will be offering up my conlangs anytime soon but you never know!
Any Conlang related goals for 2013, my lovely langers?
~JohnRaptor's response to being on Conlangery:
"First of all, it was nerve wracking. I'm fairly new* to conlanging and not nearly as knowledgeable in linguistics as the hosts, so I was afraid I'd sound dumb or like I didn't belong on the show. But
April #Conlangers ChallengeToday I bring you my revival of Lhaa: Siri and 10 new vocabulary terms for the internet! :D I will provide the word, the IPA, the definition, and an example sentence.April #Conlangers Challenge1 year ago in Reviews & Guides More Like This
łasala'u [ɬɑ.sɑ.lɑ.Ɂy], "computer" (derived from sun, łasa, and sight, la'u), EXAMPLE: łasala'ulayaa sałurirí. "I am using the computer."la'ra'iłaa [lɑɁ.ɹɑ.ʔi.ɬɑ], "troll" (derived from false statement, la'ra, and make, 'iłaa), EXAMPLE: si 'a, suri ła'la li'ra'aala'ra'iłaá! "Oh my god, she trolled me(!!)!" yii'isilisi [jiːʔi.si.li.si], "(USB) port" (derived from be in, yii'i, and home, silisi), EXAMPLE: ri yii'isilisilayaa liraarya'? "Where is the USB port?" łasasiir [ɬɑ.sɑ.si˞ː], "email/to email" (derived from sun,
Smoothie Pamphlet2 years ago in Other
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Lost Tokiponian Codex 1 year ago in Calligraphy
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WIP: Harvest- Shiho-kuo and Valskian translationShiho-kuo in ITALICSWIP: Harvest- Shiho-kuo and Valskian translation7 months ago in Songs & Lyrics More Like This
Valskian in BOLD
If two parts are sung at once, they are in brackets
When you hear the whistle, sing and dance, Harvest
gén uisaara amai kokodi, neka ma kabaro, HAAVEST
(Time whistle you hear, sing and dance, HARVEST.)
The wind lightly runs through the trees, swaying the hair
ma furuta dathe ma ibori garéta shima, ma ethi touro
(The wind through the tree light+ly flow, the hair sway)
The earth that will die down someday leaves seeds and waits for the winter
Wirekvolwolt ol vaīre eik varē dezerik un eik tarit var Virīs
(Die+FUTURE+world one day it leaves seed+PLURAL and it wait for Winter)
As neverending time passes by, it will bloom flowers with the spring rain
Wēr neipīstvaīkir kutīn savak, eik vol torvāta svaīrik mīs Savēirrīn
(As not+end+time pass along,
DIXYU SEICI 0.1b (TrueType font)8 months ago in Other
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NaCoWriMo 2010 - Keippha fu.2 years ago in Calligraphy
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Social Security Application3 years ago in Conceptual
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Emoticonists on dA (8):iconkrissi001:Emoticonists on dA (8)1 year ago in Interviews More Like This
 
I asked in a previous Journal that every Emoticonist should write a comment there.
You can still do it on this Journal if you haven't commented yet.
I sent notes to all of those who commented there and asked them a couple of questions.
And now I am going to feature all of this deviants and their answers
If you saw that I have featured you and i didn't include all of your answers/or any answers, you could write a Journal and include all of your answers there. ;D
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~greenafire
What is your first reaction when you find a new Emoticonist?
If they are really good and just started, i will watch them and give them positive comments! if they are just a beginner, i will watch them and give them constructive feedback.
Pick 5 of your most favourite Emoticonists and describe why they are special to you, wha
Capital city of the kingdom of Stadner10 months ago in Fantasy
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Mentally DisabledWhen have you ever read, or even heard of, a book/movie/graphic novel/whatever in your favorite genre that had a main character who was mentally disabled?Mentally Disabled3 years ago in Writing More Like This
My challenge to you is to write that story, or at least the premise of one.
There's quite a few disabilities to choose from:
Autism
A character with Autism has distorted or overloaded senses, and will easily get overwhelmed by new textures, changing appearances, and facial expressions. They tend to like repetition, organization, and simplicity. What would happen if Eragon from the "Inheritance Cycle" were Autistic?
Asperger's Syndrome
This is actually a variant on the Autism spectrum
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