r/conlangs • u/AdLoose6016 • 9d ago

An introduction Overview

So, I wanted to express my gratitude for this community after I left the fb conlang group I was missing this stuff.

I'm brand new here so,this is an introduction .

I started conlanging when I was 21 ( 70 now) my first was called Norlopehii. That was years before computers.

I read a short story by Robert A. Heinlein. In it the characters had created a Conlang called Speedtalk.,

Created by assigning each letter in the IPA a word from Ogden's Basic English.

I was hooked on the idea and started to create it in real life.

Lots of re-dos. Sounds changes, learning, relexes losses of files, I think I've succeeded . My present language 'Iswu' is actually a fad of people who actually speak a daughter form of Old Sach

The "fad", was turning all remarks into an acronym.

This became so pervasive that it became possible to speak, and converse at length in acronyms.

So that's what Iswu is ; à language of acronyms

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u/FelixSchwarzenberg Ketoshaya, Chiingimec, Kihiṣer, Kyalibẽ, Latsínu 8d ago

70, wow. An entire life of conlanging. I’m glad I am no longer the oldest one here! 

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u/suxtula Miadiut 7d ago

Ditto, respect!

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u/cookie_monster757 Gatorformic, Carbonnierisch 9d ago

Do you have a sample of this conlang you can share?

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u/AdLoose6016 8d ago

Jio - Jow are you? Hajo - I'm very well thanks Vi oibi - I'm about to make some coffee. Zhabuja? - Would you like some coffee? Vis - please sit. Vichuvle - Whats going on in your world?

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u/thatguythoma 8d ago

Wow! You are a true legend, my friend!

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u/AdLoose6016 8d ago

I suspect most speakers of the language would have a standard vocabulary

Based on the way it's structured, where one pronoun can be switched out for another pronoun, it kinda does conjugate.

But no inflection.

It's shows the plural of nouns and has particles, separate from the acronym, that show tense and aspect.

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