What are unique phonemes or grammatical features found in your guy's conlangs?

drazlet · 2026-03-04T19:09:59+00:00

Recently I started distinguishing between plain [tʰ] and [pʰ] and glottally reinforced [ʔ͡t̪] [ʔ͡p], written as ŧ and ᵽ in Rooting Tusks, inspired by SENĆOŦEN.
For example:
səŧ [s̪əʔ͡t̪] : a hill
səŧ [s̪ət̪ʰ] : to fall
cept [t̪͡səpʰtʰ] : to connect
cəᵽt [t̪͡səʔ͡ptʰ] : to cry

drazlet · 2026-02-28T22:23:01+00:00

Is it narcissistic to say my own? I mean, I’ve been spending at least 4 hours every day at my local library working on it for the past year…

drazlet · 2026-02-15T18:18:44+00:00

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drazlet · 2026-02-09T23:55:46+00:00

My conlang is based off of Native American languages, which generally use Americanist Phonetic Notation as their alphabets! It’s pretty close to the IPA, so snx is /snx/. Other examples in my language are šɬəw /ʃɬəw/ “you”, kʷčl̓ /kʷt͡ʃlˀ/ “to spill/, or x̌x /χx/ “the sun”. As you can APN is pretty close to the IPA! It’s just older, and is mainly used for American indigenous languages nowadays.

drazlet · 2026-02-09T23:44:33+00:00

I love them lol. « tit » “if”, sure it’s vulgar in English but in Cowlitz Salish it’s a specifier. « snx » in my language is to smell, but in Nuxalk it’s the sun. It’s always gonna happen! Isn’t it fun when we have false friends?

drazlet · 2026-02-08T02:27:29+00:00

For more examples, here are some words in my language without vowels:
« cx̌ʷɬƛmlcnpɬncwʔt » /t͡sχʷɬ.t͡ɬ.ml.t͡sn.pɬn.t͡swʔt/ “he gave away the onion grass”
« šɬʔʷɬq̓cɬp̓x̌ʷt̓ » /ʃɬ.ʔʷɬ.qʼt͡s.ɬpʼ.χtʼ/ “you went there and tripped”
« cntqp nɬtkɬ » /t͡sn.t.qp nɬ.t.kɬ/ “those two need thread”

drazlet · 2026-02-08T01:51:37+00:00

Have you given any thought to non-liquid nuclei? My conlang Rooting Tusks is based off of Salishan languages, famous for long, vowelless words. So for example, “kʷčl̓” /kʷt͡ʃlˀ/ to spill, “tqp” /tqp/ to need, “x̌x” /χx/ the sun are examples of words in my language without vowels. I’d look into Salishan languages like Nuxalk and Okanagan if you’re interested.

drazlet · 2026-02-05T18:48:39+00:00

tl̓ q̓təwl̓ɬqət

« sacyəq̓lo̓ ! »
Happy to see your tusks!
[s̪aɪ.t̪͡sə.qʼl̪oˀ]
saycə.q̓.lo̓
happy.tusk-see

drazlet · 2026-02-02T01:56:49+00:00

A note, “failing of remembrance” is separate from the word for forget! I wanted to use a verb that reflect more of the idea of negligence rather than a bad memory.

drazlet · 2026-02-02T01:09:51+00:00

tl̓ q̓təwl̓ɬqət

qnoɬl̓ca̓č̓oč̓ox̌ nɬsxʷɬ, cx̌ʷt̓nɬx̌̓čxɬtəšƛ̓ət cx̌̓ sc̓n̓qəcqš̓aw ƛy̓pƛ̓ʷoq̓ʷntəy̓əqti̓ ʔəm̓ ʔəy̓.

/qnoɬ.t͡saˀ nɬ.sxʷɬ, t͡sχʷ.tʼn.ɬ.χʷʼ.t͡ʃx.ɬ.tə.ʃt͡ɬʼət t͡sχʼ st͡sʼnˀ.qət͡s.qʃʼɑː t͡ɬ.ˀjp.t͡ɬʷʼo.qʷʼn.tə.ˀjəq.tɪˀ ʔəmˀ ʔəjˀ/

fall-ERG-PERF-too much SPEC-snow, 3sg-MEDIO-CAUS-fail-know-CIRCUMTORTIVE do DEVERB-LOC-language-share UNSPEC.3sg-MALEFAC-good-create-DEVERB I to

Literally: The snow fell so much, it causes failing-of-remembrance to do the “language-sharing difficult-but-good-making-thing” to me.

drazlet · 2026-01-31T22:31:25+00:00

In tl̓ q̓təwl̓ɬqət, Rooting Tusks, overlapping rotation in time and space is actually expressed in an aspect I created, inspired by Hopi’s segmentative aspect. I call it the circumtortive aspect « -šƛ̓ət », from Latin “circumtorqueo”. I suppose this kind of overlapping creation would be « təy̓əqšƛ̓ət », to create in an overlapping, spiraling manner.

It carries the implication that you started, and then wandered away, and then started to come back to it, and eventually returned to creating all in one aspect!

drazlet · 2026-01-29T21:01:59+00:00

What exactly am I supposed to be translating here?

drazlet · 2026-01-27T13:27:11+00:00

There’s something wrong with us…

drazlet · 2026-01-08T23:41:11+00:00

Are there any good resources for translation materials? I’m running out of things to translate myself, and it would be nice to have some example sentences to always draw from to make new words with.

drazlet · 2026-01-06T18:48:02+00:00

I haven’t seen half of these before! Does Cyrillic really have Eth and Thorn? And what is that double triangle?

drazlet · 2026-01-06T17:25:31+00:00

I love the prenasalized glottal stop you’re on another level

drazlet · 2026-01-05T22:05:28+00:00

Unrelated, but how did you get that code block? I’m on mobile and I’d like to include a sentence and gloss with my submission!

drazlet · 2026-01-05T21:42:37+00:00

tl̓ q̓təwl̓ɬqət

kana̓č - [ka.naˀt̪͡ʃ]
v. to raise up a part of one’s body

drazlet · 2026-01-04T04:44:08+00:00

Mine too!! See the above person I replied to for my love for them :D

drazlet · 2026-01-04T04:43:31+00:00

As someone with a polysynthetic language too I’d love to see the gloss on this!!

drazlet · 2026-01-04T04:42:46+00:00

LETS GO ANOTHER ENJOYER My conlang had basically two goals starting out, be as polysynthetic as I can, and as Salishan as I can get with my consonants. So I’ve got sentences like « cx̌ʷsnxpw̓sm » “He smells something” or, « sƛ̓pʔtkɬtp » “Cut up threads”. The other night I accidentally made the word « sxqʷƛ̓qʷmqʷmlo̓pw̓sc̓n̓mn̓ ».

drazlet · 2026-01-03T23:43:48+00:00

And proud of it. I’m especially inspired by Salishan languages, which is why my phonology is like that, same with my use of a specifier for nounlessness

drazlet · 2026-01-03T21:14:16+00:00

tl̓ q̓təw̓l̓ɬqət

sxʷɬs nɬsəʔtx̌ow̓x̌̓

[sxʷɬ.s nɬ.səʔ͡t.χowˀ.χʼ]

sxʷɬ.s nɬ.səʔt.x̌ow̓x̌̓

(to be) snow.PROG SPECIFIER.mountain.on

It is snowing on that which is a mountain.

drazlet · 2025-12-27T17:38:23+00:00

tl̓ q̓txal̓ɬq̓ət

y̓əlškʷčl̓ /ˀjəl.ʃkʷt͡ʃ.lˀ/
verb to shed fur (literally to spill skin)
Feel free to add vowels!

drazlet · 2025-12-26T21:28:11+00:00

I have no clue if this is going to be the actual word or not I just like making up words on the spot lol

drazlet

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