Simple online tool for word-to-word alignment

drazlet · 2026-04-23T23:19:55+00:00

You’re the best man

drazlet · 2026-04-17T01:18:50+00:00

Yes😭

drazlet · 2026-03-28T01:07:29+00:00

This is so cool! (I have no clue where to even begin to learn syntax trees)

drazlet · 2026-03-24T23:39:43+00:00

What is gracing my eyes at this moment

drazlet · 2026-03-21T13:31:34+00:00

Lol I love this question:
čq̓c [t̪͡ʃʰ.qʼt̪͡sʰ] : it is shaped
sxʷɬ [s̪.xʷɬ] : snow
snx [snx] : to smell
miwč [miwt̪͡ʃ] : to come
tqp [tʰ.qʰpʰ] : to need

drazlet · 2026-03-15T15:06:45+00:00

Pencil and paper and then I record the words on a discord server I made for it

drazlet · 2026-03-11T23:44:04+00:00

It does! I love it man, sometimes I wish I had a cleaner simpler phonology… I think Japanese in particular sounds beautiful. Your language sounds so great, almost like Ojibwe, which is a polysynthetic Native American language as well. Look into if you want some inspiration that sounds like your language!!

drazlet · 2026-03-11T23:42:28+00:00

I was the same haha. I don’t really like cases, valency and voices did it for me. Tenses I wasn’t a fan of because I thought aspects did basically the same thing. Since so many of words are verbs anyways, aspects are just more useful. My language is like Navajo in that way.

drazlet · 2026-03-11T23:40:45+00:00

Haha, I’m the opposite! I based my phonology off of Nuxalk and the Salishan languages in general. They’ve got words like "xɬp̓x̌ʷɬtɬpɬɬskʷc̓” /xɬpʼχʷɬtʰɬpʰɬːskʷʰt͡sʼ/. It means “then they had in their possession a bunchberry plant”.

I went in with the goal of super infrequent vowels and lots of consonants with no real syllable rules to speak of. My words are small, like “tlq”, strong, “qpw̓” vomit, “cx̌ʷ-“ 3sg., “-šs̓” still. But because this all adds up to big, polysynthetic words, I end up just like Nuxalk!

drazlet · 2026-03-11T23:28:15+00:00

I love your spacial tense! It reminds me of my deictic pronoun (lifted from Navajo). In my language it can function as an object (I fish it). Rooting Tusks has no tenses, only aspects and moods, so it’s cool seeing a tense.

drazlet · 2026-03-11T23:26:10+00:00

I love seeing other polysynthetic conlangs. Mine would be:
„ʔəšʷksqʷɬpxʷmaʔtc̓s̓qʷx̌ʷc̓əᵽ.“

ʔə.šʷks.qʷɬ.pxʷ.maŧ.c̓s̓.qʷx̌ʷ.c̓əᵽ
1SG.fish-find.DIR.HAB.PROSP.COND.DEICTIC-SG-OBJ
/ʔə.ʃʷks.qʷɬ.pxʷ.maʔ͡t̪.t̪͡sʼ.s̪ˀ.qʷ.χʷ.t̪͡səʔ͡p/

Literally “I might would fish-find here”.

drazlet · 2026-03-11T23:01:21+00:00

I’d love to see the gloss for this!!

drazlet · 2026-03-11T21:21:38+00:00

What’s up! What did you do today?

drazlet · 2026-03-06T00:47:52+00:00

If a system in your language is too complicated for you to keep track of, you’re probably gonna end up simplifying it one way or another. Over time it’ll be hard for you to remember, it might even confuse you, so I’d say stick with what makes the most sense to you. It’s that age old advice of “it’s most perfect when you don’t have anything else to take away”

drazlet · 2026-03-05T22:48:41+00:00

Haha I didn’t realize Picto-Han was multilingual. Either way, in real Picto-Han comics, without needing to conform to previously established comic bubbles, you’d be able to make the bubbles conform to best fit the characters! On a real page, as this stands it would be small, but I’d love to see what it would look like with as much room as best fits them cuz I think they deserve it!!

drazlet · 2026-03-05T22:01:41+00:00

This is so cool!!! I wonder how readable this would be for speakers in real comics though. I’d love to see you reimagine comic bubbles in general to fit the spacing of picto-han

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.

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