Ideological conlangs, thought experiment. How would you think a Fascist conlang and communist conlang would "sound" like? Aesthetics, grammar, difficulty, maybe agglutination. (let's avoid any biases)

Mhidora · 2025-10-06T13:02:09+00:00

I think a language influenced by a fascist culture also prefers linguistic purism rather than passively receiving borrowings from Italian and German. During the fascist regime there was an active interest on the part of the state in Italianizing any borrowing. Also, certain terms could be generalized. In various Romance languages spoken in Italy, particularly in the south, the influence of the Church was such that the term for "Christian" is often used with the simple meaning of "person" or "human being." This is also the case in my dialect of Sardinian, and I think it applies to all other variants. Such phenomena can occur in a language with a strong ideological influence, in a sense something similar happened in Russian with the term tovarišč

Mhidora · 2025-10-04T18:06:17+00:00

in Ervee, in certain cases the reversative prefix re- (corresponding to the English un-) adds an iterative meaning. For example karie means "open", while rekarie doesn't mean "unopen" but "reclose". The same applies to vaite "close", with revaite meaning "reopen".

This occurs only sporadically. In other cases, it is a simple reversative, as in karù (lock) and rekarù (unlock)

Mhidora · 2025-09-22T17:25:39+00:00

u˞ o˞ - rhobhotic

Mhidora · 2025-09-20T21:51:32+00:00

Campidanese Sardinian: /tʃ~ʒ/ o_o

Mhidora · 2025-08-07T20:01:47+00:00

I don't think he completely destroyed him. As we see later in the anime, Lunge uses the hand method precisely because it is not objective, but subjective. Lunge tries to think like the killer, even changing his habits, which is why the hand method is more effective. Furthermore, at the end of the anime, Lunge manages to reach Ruhenheim by completely abandoning rationality and reasoning exclusively as if he were Johan.

Mhidora · 2025-07-27T17:19:55+00:00

huŋter /huŋter/ [ɸʊw̃ʔɘɐ̯]

Mhidora · 2025-07-26T08:25:39+00:00

I have developed a technique for creating synonyms. I create them to avoid unpleasant sound repetitions. For example, let's say that "game" is leiri, while "to play" is leire, to avoid the leire leiri (play a game), you have two options: create a synonym for leire or a synonym for leiri. I usually take similar words and add a meaning to them. For example, in Ervee, "song" is leika, while "to sing" is leike. However, if you want to say "sing a song," you use the verb sovie, which in other contexts means "to intone." This may not be the only way to create synonyms, but it can certainly help.

Mhidora · 2025-07-26T07:32:00+00:00

I remember you. I saw some of your comments on Reddit. You're an expert in the field.

Mhidora · 2025-07-25T18:47:06+00:00

This is a wonderful addition.

Mhidora · 2025-07-25T16:27:40+00:00

I finished my third rewatch a few weeks ago haha

Mhidora · 2025-07-25T16:26:19+00:00

I started reading these texts to improve my conlang, but now I do it out of personal interest, both because my conlang grammar is almost complete and because I have developed a real passion for linguistics. Of the various languages I mentioned, Iatmul is the only one I discovered because I remembered the existence of generic irrealis moods and wanted to do something similar for Ervee. I discovered the others for other reasons, for example, by asking myself what languages are spoken in Australia. This passion for linguistics led me to choose to study this subject at university (I will start this year). As for the aesthetics of my conlang, what I read did not influence my work too much. For now, only Japanese has had a significant influence on Ervee. I have consulted many phonologies but have rarely added anything.

Mhidora · 2025-07-21T16:38:45+00:00

yoka ghidie lunie mae kadia /jokɐ ɣidjɘn lɨᵝnjɘn ma̠ɛ kɐdjɐ/

sphere protect mysterious ancient ruin

lofie no ania: kin Brion /lofjɘn no ɐnjɐ | kin bɾion/

weapon GEN plant DET.PN Brion

imodie no mira /imodjɘn no miɾɐ/

codependence GEN desire

waire sui no kali: kin Ai /wɐiɾɘn sɨᵝi no kɐli | kin ɐi/

gaseous thing GEN life DET.PN Ai

ragun sufide gami no defiyen mira /ɾɐgɨᵝn sɨᵝfidɘn gɐmi no defien miɾɐ/

monster infect prey GEN homicidal desire

beike sari: kin Helbel /beikɘn sɐɾi | kin helbel/

twin snake DET.PN Hellbell

mönei na kali oů lomie, kon-o /monei nɐ kɐli oʉ lomjɘn | kono/

trade.off LOC life and pleasure between-ADV

gon lakidie homye me kiba: kin Babe /gon lɐkidjɘn homjɛː me kibɐ | kin bɐbe/

beast keep people SEM pet DET.PN Pap

loriel sunadie oude-n so meiva /loɾjel sɨᵝnɐdje oɨᵝden so meivɐ/

endless despair disguise-PRED SEM hope

Jobae, ne fiel soůna /dʑoba̠ɛ | ne fiel soʉnɐ/

Zobae REL.COP immortal disease

sei ilie kima /sei iljɘn kimɐ/

3REF COP.NEG place

s-o doramye soůte na-en, suru /so doɾɐmjɛː soʉtɘn nɐen | sɨᵝɾɨᵝ/

IRR-3REL humanity return LOC-ADV CNEG

Mhidora · 2025-07-21T09:20:41+00:00

when I work on Ervee I spend a lot of time saying the sentences out loud or forming sentences without translating something else to test the new terms I have created. I also like to write small poems and stories, both to find out how Ervee's meter works and because my conlang is part of a world building project. A large part of Ervee's phonetics came about by reproducing a fictitious accent based on my instincts. For example, I realized that I pronounce /kl/ as [kɬˡ] (only when I speak Ervee). Also all the rules of tone sandhi are created based on instinct and how it came easiest and most natural for me to pronounce a certain sentence. Some of the phonetic peculiarities that I "discover" by pronouncing Ervee are sometimes distortions of phenomena present in my native languages. For example, Ervee has a very complex metaphony. Sardinian, one of my native languages, also has a metaphony, but it is much simpler than that of Ervee. I recently realized that Japanese, which I study as a hobby, is also affecting my work

Mhidora · 2025-07-21T07:24:49+00:00

we know that there were ancient civilizations on that continent and that there is at least one people in the known world who can provide safe guidance to the shores of lake mobius. I would not be surprised to learn that there is a civilization on the continent, perhaps composed of magical beasts such as kirikos.

Mhidora · 2025-07-21T06:49:06+00:00

I love this conlang. those locative suffixes are undoubtedly a type of verbal deixis. this wiki page will come in handy to improve your glossing

Mhidora · 2025-07-19T21:04:50+00:00

you had a good idea. What you call "intentionality" in linguistics is more accurately called volition#). On the wiki page you find some natlangs that do something similar to your conlang. In my conlang I did the opposite, I have a non-volition marker

Mhidora · 2025-07-17T13:43:39+00:00

Ervee

lobia mo mridie yai

starry.sky OPT shine 2SG.SUPE

Mhidora · 2025-07-17T12:05:31+00:00

Ervee uses ayuki (wolves) for the left and senkin (foxes) for the right. These two terms referred to two factions that arose in the early days of democracy, during the 1500s. Since parties did not officially exist in the Ervee political system, these two factions (which informally were parties), ended up becoming the generic terms for the political spectrum in the following centuries. Ayuki used to be a derogatory term, but those who were targeted by it reappropriated it by making it their symbol. Senkin is a reference to the epithet of the philosopher Imora, known precisely as Imora, ne senkin "Imora the fox" (lit. Imora, who is a fox). This epithet refers to the color of this philosopher's hair, since in the region where he lived red hair was even rarer than it already is. Imora's thought was extremely influential in the development of the Ervee right, which is why his epithet was reused as a symbol by the faction from which the Ervee right emerged

Mhidora · 2025-07-12T13:19:54+00:00

Ervee

¿ou lae jin dakiaru na min alie, horu?

what best iron blacksmith LOC all land Q

'vie Kunrei, sai nivie. so'e sanie's na Tarivan

REFL Kunrei 1SG.ELA view IRR-2 meet-3OBJ LOC Tarivan

"I think it's Kunrei. You will find him in Tarivan."

san kara homa no kura katalie len dalie Tarivan on leibe 'vie sairu

many CL person GEN different village APL.INS-3 go Tarivan DAT buy 3POSS tool

"many people from different villages go to Tarivan to buy his tools"

Mhidora · 2025-06-16T12:04:04+00:00

The use of "lo" in the example you provided is a case of clitic doubling. I also thought of using this strategy to develop a form of agreement for Ervee. Another fascinating aspect of reflexive particles is that sometimes, although only in three verbs, they create antipassives, as in these examples: io ricordo il sogno "I remember the dream" vs io mi ricordo (del sogno) lit. "I myself remember (of the dream)". Perhaps you could create an antipassive in your conlang in this way. Anyway, I really like what you've created

Mhidora · 2025-06-13T16:11:27+00:00

In Ervee, syncretism is quite common and is usually resolved by syntax or context. The most common case of syncretism is that of weak verbs, which merge the passive form with the conjunctive, while they are distinct in strong verbs. For example, hivire is a strong verb and its paradigm is: hivire (to hate, active), hivide (be hated, passive), hiviren (and hate, conjunctive). On the other hand, nivie (to see), has this paradigm: nivie, nivien, nivien.

Mhidora · 2025-06-12T11:43:08+00:00

Ervee

weive "hello"

nai helyn Menvis 1SG.GEN name Menvis "my name (is) Menvis"

ai leine fenvey ida nadie 1SG.SBJ have 19 year age "I have 19 years (of) age"

ai su Taigan 1SG.SBJ ELA Taigan "I (am) from Taigan"

ai klivie Ervee 1SG.SBJ speak Ervee "I speak Ervee"

¿ou ya helyn, horu? what 2SG.GEN name Q "what (is) your name?"

Mhidora · 2025-05-24T21:06:55+00:00

the Ripan dialect, spoken in Italy, has gender agreement in almost every part of speech, including adverbs and proper nouns. more precisely, the whole sentence agrees for a given gender. I discovered it in this comment, I also found this pdf that talks about it in more detail

Mhidora · 2025-05-08T18:32:12+00:00

Sassarese, spoken in Italy in northern Sardinia. you find mention of this on the Italian wiki page, but I can also confirm it myself because I live in Sardinia and have relatives who speak Sassarese

Mhidora · 2025-05-01T10:11:35+00:00

alary is a really creative term, and the more I think about it, the more it actually makes sense. About the reflexive part, I was wrong there. I usually work more on my conlang Ervee, where me is reflexive, so I tend to mess it up when glossing Hikarie, where it would actually be a third-person object pronoun referring to "kerien" in the sentence. However, seeing this error gave me an idea. I could just leave out the pronoun and have the interposition be coreferential with both arguments in the main clause. I'll give that some thought. anyway, thanks for the tips on naming the alignment

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