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If you are a conlanger, a group from the University of Washington is looking for your input as they set about to create some conlanging software! The survey is fairly short (~5 minutes), and please feel free to share!
How do you type laughing in your language or conlang?
English: ha ha ha
Russian: ха ха ха (pronounced: kha kha kha)
I’m actually so curious
Truth
I've heard High Valyrian has no words for grandparents, is that right? And what word might exist for that role?
It sure didn't—until I created them.
There are four terms:
kekepa "father's father"
mumuña "mother's mother"
kepāzma "mother's father"
muñāzma "father's mother"
In a conlang, there are always words that aren't there because they're supposed to not be there, and words that aren't there because they haven't been created yet. That latter category is always going to be much, much larger than the former.
This point cannot be emphasised enough. I would never have been able to make any grammar at all without doing things this way.
Constraints are an amazing tool that actually make you more creative. Instead of trying to give your language ALL OF THE FEATUREs, try putting more constraints on it.
Day 15 (21 in base 7) of rewriting my novel.
I hit 20,000 words today! I'm so excited. This also means that I am just over 9,000 words on Part Two, which also makes me proud.
Today I also really focused on fleshing out Odapir as a conlang, and I have a little ways to go before I finish deriving Modern Odapir from Middle Odapir.
Fun fact, by the way, Odapir is an exonym, since Odeineikō is the endonym in Middle Odapir.
As a treat for reading this far into my blog, have a description of Middle Odapir phonology:
Middle Odapir Phonology
Stops: p, b, t, d, k, g
Nasal Stops: m, n
Affricates: pf, ts, c (palatal affricate)
Fricatives: f, s, sh (palatal fricative), h
Liquids: w, j (palatal approximant)
Tap: r (alveolar tap)
Vowels
High: ī, u, ū
Mid-high: o, ō
Mid-low: e, ɜ
Low: a, ā
Diphthongs: əi, ei, əu, au, ou
That's all for now. Stay tuned for tomorrow's update!