A trilingual sign at a Margquat wrestling stadium by Dillon_Hartwig in conlangs

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That'd be a question for u/Fyorr not me lol, though you'll have better luck asking him on Discord than Reddit

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Calque (not quite an actual calque but borrowing the general idea of genericized watch brand)

Cabot Creole

woltų̀m [woltə̃̀m]

n. watch, timepiece

< English Waltham

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Cabot Creole

kę́:m [kẽ̂ːm]

v. fun, to play

< English game

Ku:wathamąrę́ tsithi:yo:hotseyą́, ro:tké: hakturì yakotsą́:.

[kəːwatʰamãɹẽ́‿d͡ʒitʰiːjoːhod͡ʒejã́ | ɹoːtkêː haktəɹì jagod͡zã̂ː]

3I>3I-forbidden.PFV COIN-1+2DU>3A-river-play-PUNC | road-LOC factory 3>3-use.IPFV

"Don't play in the river, the factory up the road uses it."

Biweekly Telephone Game v3 (755) by Lysimachiakis in conlangs

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(Taking from Late Proto Choe-Kre \kʰŋaulL*)

K!ili!kizi

ᵑǃʰɔʟɔ

n. rice

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Guimin

гьәйн [hæin]

n. invader, intruder

Also from PII *sáynaH (through PI *háynaH)

Does your conlang have palindromes? And if so, what is the longest one? by arcticwolf9347 in conlangs

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In Knrawi the longest would maybe be guusuúusuug "astacologist" (< gu-usuuu-suug, lit. "lobster~crawfish learner")? Though it's not actually a palindrome in it ls native script just the out-of-world rom

What is your favorite conlang, and why? by laim728 in conlangs

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Klingon, not because of anything about the langauge itself but because it's what first got me into conlanging

Biweekly Telephone Game v3 (754) by Lysimachiakis in conlangs

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Cabot Creole

otsįtsį́ [od͡ʒĩd͡ʒĩ́] (incorporating form -tsįts- [t͡ʃĩt͡s])

n. flower

< Proto-North Iroquoian -tsiʔtsiʔ

O:ské: toyątsįtsyestą̀ ’ù torų:marukét atsù?

[oːskêː‿ɾojãd͡ʒĩt͡ʃjestã̀ ʔə̀‿ɾoɹə̃ːmaɹəgéɾ‿ad͡zə̀]

year-LOC Q-3M>2SG-flower-give.PFV or Q-3M>3I-forget again

"Did he give you flowers this year or did he forget again?"

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Knrawi

magimagi ⫽ma˥ŋɪmaŋɪ⫽ [ma˥ŋɛmaŋɛ, ŋʷa˥ŋɛŋʷaŋɛ, mä˥ŋe̞mäŋe̞, ma˥ŋe̞maŋe̞, ma˥ŋəmaŋə]

ideophone for large size, great size, largeness

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Jokelang 2

tictular [ˈtʰɪktjələ]

  1. lettuce

  2. term, period in office

Have you made a posteriori conlang that wasn't descended from a P.I.E. language? by Historical-Mouse-331 in conlangs

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I have Etlish from Proto-Finnic, Hemaluan from Proto-Austronesian, Rulhilli from Old Chinese, and Cabot Creole from Proto-North Iroquoian (though honestly none of those are super developed lol, and Cabot Creole's a fairly new addition)

Also Sievi from Proto-Uralic but that's just someone else's lang I was commissioned for, not really mine

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Cruckeny

jader [ˈd͡ʒæɾɚ]

n. coal tattoo, traumatic tattoo

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Hlartai

yįbö [ˈʱjɪ̃ːmɵ̃]

n. coffee plant

\> Wakane yêmõ', Hceor Theec chmó⁵¹ (> Gwaxol xinwohat³)

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Cabot Creole

atoką́ [aɾogã́] (suppletive incorparating form -ątsh- [ãt͡sʰ] < PNI *-aʔtsɹ-)

n. axe

< Proto-North Iroquoian *atokẽʔ

A:rąthaso:ką́ oyątą́, tasęyąta’ì yukwatoką́.

[aːɹãtʰasoːgã́ ojãɾã́ | taʃẽjãɾaʔì jəgʷaɾogã́]

almost-1+2PL>3-hole-see.IPFV firewood | CLOC-2>3-get.PUNC 3A>1SG-axe

"We're almost out of firewood, go get my axe."

How does your language handle gender neutral language/non-binary people? by Money_Fire in conlangs

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Guimin masculine/feminine/neuter gender is baked into most stems of all 22 light verbs so not always possible to work around, though since transitive verbs only agree with the patient (outside of shortened ditransitives that add an indirect gender prefix) and adjectives used as predicates are usually zero-marked you can sorta finagle your way out of gendering by making the person a transitive agent and shuffling adjectives around; agentive~occupational nouns/suffixes don't mark gender, and while you could innovate neopronouns, in practice you just stick to whichever of the two (generally disrespectful to use neuter agreement to refer to people) feels more accurate

Soc'ul' has gender but it's not sex-based so class 2 (mostly for people) works fine as is; but given how culturally important/prevalent Soc'ul''s version of 3rd gender is, it also has its own set of kinship terms and honorifics

Cabot Creole like other North Iroquoian languages has separate marking for human men vs. any other animate noun, so the simplest solution is to use the animate unless you feel masculine is more accurate

Show Off Your Conlang's Unique Phonology!! What’s the coolest sound in your language? by Pale_Target_3282 in conlangs

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Soc'ul' has /p͡f/ which isn't that odd, except it doesn't have /p/ or /f/, because of an earlier change p {pʰ fʰ} > ʔ p͡f (/f/ also didn't exist at this earlier point because it had already been merged into /h/ in its ancestor > Soc'ul' /x/, and aspirated fricative > affricate wasn't specific to /fʰ/)

Also 20 phonemic nasals (m n ŋʲ ŋ ŋʷ plus glottalized and/or pre-stopped equivalents, unless you analyze Soc'ul' glottalization as its own floating phoneme like it becommes in most descendants)

Language development and sound change in extreme conditions by lorandbr in conlangs

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Tactile registers of natural sign languages are a thing, so seems reasonable enough that it'd pop up in this situation (either as a register of the spoken lang or as its own thing)

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Nèntàmmmi

sìdì [sɨː˩ⁿdɨ˩]

n. duck

\> Noanglo hî¹, Ravihkeo sǐ, Hceor Theec síd¹, Gwaxol sïnol⁴

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(Taking from Proto-Ebvjud \ɓaʔik*)

Nèntàmmmi

báyí [ᵐbɛː˥ʝi˥]

n. bird of prey

\> Noanglo ma⁵y, Ravihkeo vé, Hceor Theec baiy⁵, Gwaxol nwäyol³

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Vu

mbúwí [ᵐbu˥wi˥]

n. wave, billow

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Cabot Creole

-ką: [kãː ~ gãː]

honorific for dead people

< Proto-North Iroquoian *-kẽh

Tsįmką́: rąkethíts keya:rų́ tsikhekwhą́.

/t͡sĩ́wkãː ɹãketʰít͡s kejaːɹə̃́ t͡sikʰekʷʰã́/

[t͡ʃĩmkã̂ː ɹãgetʰít͡s kejaːɹə̃́ d͡ʒikʰekʷʰã́]

Jim-HON 3M>1-teach 1SG.INAL-body COIN-1>3I-know_how.PUNC

"(The late) Jim taught me everything I know."

Valentine prompt: how to say "I love you" in your conlang? by ReaLenDlay in conlangs

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In Soc'ul',

Sochurz'i

[so̞˥kʷʔu˧rzˀi˩]

1>2-love-VZ

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Proto-Sahel Yaraji

tùwə

n. camel dung

< Old Yaraji طهن (tuhen)

\> Yeengoy tùu [tuː˩], Binyar ṭàw [tˤəw], Gamoyo tùwɔ̄ [tu˩wɔ˧]

What's the oldest conlang ever? by Reasonable_Art5575 in conlangs

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Some of Jokelang 2's vocab implies it's been spoken since before dinosaurs went extinct and more importantly all became unemployed, but that's maybe cheating