User:Praimhín/Sketchbook

Old Chinese-inspired conlangs

"Chinese gone Altaic"

Inspired by Türiŋit

Ah! serkets lhüügömüd tamõŋ rembi;
Taaŋ, põltõn dzurbõŋõts khiredimsüb;
[...]
Äräitüd! Kholurtud Valimarõm!
Jõnũlõm kholurtud! Äräitüd!

"Chinese gone Elvish"

Inspired by IlL's Talman Swutsim *ʔaʔ tsˁe srek Cə.lˁəʔ ɬugs t.mˁa r.meʔ -> a ci sσech dlV σucs thəba σvə

Mutations:

• Lenition from prepositions ending with a vowel: tsˁe srek -> ci σech
• Devoicing/provection from prepositions ending with a stop: Cə.lˁəʔ srek -> dlV sσech
• Nasalization from prepositions ending with a nasal: troŋ srek -> ξu nξech

Riffs on actual Sinitic languages

• Polysynthetic quasi-Mandarin with Slavic morphology
• Analytic quasi-German with Cantonese tones

Hoþenese

Hôthen <- *hosken

Finnish giblang

mehtä = random (or mädänmehtä = random matrix?)

mädänmehtävä nuola = random matrix theory

Ideophones:

• dakkudakkuinen = lively
• mysymysyinen = squishy
• paraparainen = brittle