conlang

  1. Plausibility Check: A Sub-Saharan African country adopting a conlang as its official language and lingua franca

    In Sub-Saharan Africa, the colonial borders resulted in very linguistically diverse countries in the aftermath of decolonization. As a result, many of those countries retained the colonial language as the lingua franca, and as the official language of the state. The closest a Sub-Saharan...
  2. Tomislav Addai

    Conlanging: Help, questions and plausibility- for Languags in Dunes of the Desert scenario

    Hello folks, in my timeline, I have a surviving Africano-Romance kingdom based in Carthage, another realm based in Ceuta and then a pocket of British-Roman speakers in the region of Severn. Also I am exploring the possiblity of an alternate development of Aramaic (going from standard Syriac) and...
  3. The Professor

    A Guide to Designing a Script
    Threadmarks: Introduction

    A Guide to Designing a Script Introduction Those who want to design a script for a language generally do so for 1) a cypher or code, 2) a constructed language (conlang), or 3) both (this is where most tv based scripts start from). This Guide is to provide a basic understanding of how natural...
  4. Hypothetical Anglo-Romance Language

    I was curious if any of the linguists on this forum have any ideas on what an Anglo-Saxon Romance language would be like. Now, before any one posts these: - I don't mean the English adopt Normand as their primary language - I don't mean Brithenig, which is a Welsh Romance language -I certainly...
  5. Chrzęścimir

    My Conlang Thread

    Proto-Samaran language Phonology Consonants: /p t ʈ k q/ [p t ṭ k q] /pʰ tʰ ʈʰ kʰ qʰ/ [ph th ṭh kh qh] /b d ɖ g ɢ/ [b d ḍ g ġ] /bʰ dʰ ɖʰ gʰ ɢʰ/ [bh dh ḍh gh ġh] /t͡s t͡ɬ t͡ʃ ʈ͡ʂ/ [ts tl tšh ṭṣ] /t͡sʰ t͡ɬʰ t͡ʃʰ ʈ͡ʂʰ/ [tsh tlh tšh ṭṣh] /d͡z d͡ɮ d͡ʒ ɖ͡ʐ/ [dz dł dž ḍẓ] /d͡zʰ d͡ɮʰ d͡ʒʰ ɖ͡ʐʰ/ [dzh...
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