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The conlang 'Jeïos' [dʒɛɪ'ʝiːɔs] was created in the year 2012 by Marvin Johanning. | The conlang 'Jeïos' [dʒɛɪ'ʝiːɔs] was created in the year 2012 by Marvin Johanning. | ||
The name "Jeïos" comes from his username "Jeytas". It was created in the year 2010. His friend and him wanted to make a radio show on YouTube, so they had to think of a name. They chose to combine both of their names and ended up with Jeitas. When they | The name "Jeïos" comes from his username "Jeytas". It was created in the year 2010. His friend and him wanted to make a radio show on YouTube, so they had to think of a name. They chose to combine both of their names and ended up with Jeitas. When they tried that name, it was already used, so they switched the "i" with a "y" and Jeytas was the end result. Three years later in school, in chemistry class, Marvin was bored so he started working on a little language. He had to think of a name for it, so he took his username and changed it a bit. | ||
== The | == About the language == | ||
It was created as a language used by a time traveller in a movie, but has since then become more of an artistic language. It is also used to try out linguistic features that don't exist in a lot of languages yet. It is still a very small languages, with about 600 words (20.06.2015). The goal is, to make the language bigger, and eventually make it big enough to be able to really converse with it | |||
== Phonlogy == | |||
=== Vowels === | |||
The language has a very large vowel inventory. Most of the vowels come from German, but some are from Swedish and English. | The language has a very large vowel inventory. Most of the vowels come from German, but some are from Swedish and English. | ||
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[[File:Jeiios_Consonants.png|800px|]] | [[File:Jeiios_Consonants.png|800px|]] | ||
== The vocabulary == | |||
The vocabulary of Jeïos is largely based on Germanic Languages | |||
Revision as of 20:09, 20 June 2015
Jeïos
The conlang 'Jeïos' [dʒɛɪ'ʝiːɔs] was created in the year 2012 by Marvin Johanning. The name "Jeïos" comes from his username "Jeytas". It was created in the year 2010. His friend and him wanted to make a radio show on YouTube, so they had to think of a name. They chose to combine both of their names and ended up with Jeitas. When they tried that name, it was already used, so they switched the "i" with a "y" and Jeytas was the end result. Three years later in school, in chemistry class, Marvin was bored so he started working on a little language. He had to think of a name for it, so he took his username and changed it a bit.
About the language
It was created as a language used by a time traveller in a movie, but has since then become more of an artistic language. It is also used to try out linguistic features that don't exist in a lot of languages yet. It is still a very small languages, with about 600 words (20.06.2015). The goal is, to make the language bigger, and eventually make it big enough to be able to really converse with it
Phonlogy
Vowels
The language has a very large vowel inventory. Most of the vowels come from German, but some are from Swedish and English.
It also has a large consonant inventory, a lot of the vowels come from Germanic languages.
The vocabulary
The vocabulary of Jeïos is largely based on Germanic Languages