First off, I want to thank u/Pliny_The_Elder_1789 for inspiring me to do this! I found out that my and his conlanguage are both based in Russia, are Indo-European but are different from the main IE branches. He helped me get motivated for this project.
Hadic, as you may already know, is a language spoken in Russia that is a likely isolated IE language that came to existence thousands of years ago. It is one of the oldest IE languages known to exist. Hadic is spoken in Russia (and some parts of the Caucasus and Ukraine), and uses the Cyrillic script, though it has also been known to have historically used the Latin script too.
The etymological root of "Hadic" is vastly uncertain. The native name is "хадиша" (hadįšā) оr "хадишкэ" (hadiškə). The origin of the word is unknown, and many modern linguists assume that it is how Hadians refer to themself; it could easily be a word to refer to the people (may be translated/interpreted as "person"). More information will come later, as long as Hadic keeps developing and evolving. I look forward to share more with you guys, until the next time! Leave your thoughts about the language down in the comments. :)
Welcome to the r/conlangs Official Checkpoint. You have been selected for a random check of your language. Please translate one or more of the following phrases and sentences:
"I am not a “who,” Archivist, I am a “what.” A “who” requires a degree of identity I can’t ever retain."
"Ceaseless Watcher, turn your gaze upon this wretched thing."
"There is a wasps’ nest in my attic. Perhaps it can soothe my itching soul."
"[EXTENDED SOUNDS OF BRUTAL PIPE MURDER]"
“Be still, for there is strange music."
"Stop!"
If you have any ideas for interesting phrases or sentences for the next checkpoint, let me know in a DM! This activity will be posted on Tuesdays and Thursdays. The highest upvoted "Stop!" will be included in the next checkpoint's title!
Hey all, about two and a half years ago I shared Monkehere, a word generator I made for my own conlang. A lot of you tried it and sent feedback and bug reports, thanks a lot for that.
Last week I finally found time and motivation to work on that feedback, but what started as just a small 2h effort to fix a couple of bugs turned into a fully fledged multi evening rework of Monke to the point I'm calling it a version 2.
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The biggest new thing is phonological features, which I really wanted for my own language. Let's say you want vowel harmony: you declare a feature harmony with the values front and back, tell your Vowel rule that its sounds are tagged by it, and tag each vowel. Then a rule higher up (like Word) picks a value (at random), and every vowel inside it is filtered by this choice. In practice it means you get harmony like features without writing every rule twice.
You can also filter a reference directly: Vowel<front> only gives front vowels, and Vowel<!back> gives anything that isn't back (so untagged ones too). While this was mainly designed with harmony in mind, it is completely generic and supports any use you have for it!
Example of using harmony features for selecting vowels
Other changes:
Words update while you edit and output comes from a seed you can set, so a shared link always shows the same words.
"Generate all" lists every distinct word a grammar can make (up to 10,000), with rewrites and exclusions applied.
Word boundaries ^ and $ in rewrites and exclusions, e.g. no word final h: 'h'.$
Back-references in exclusions, C.#0# bans pp but still allows pt
Repeat weights: each pattern or terminal can get a repeat factor next to its weight, e.g. 0.5 makes it half as likely each time it already showed up in the word. Same thing in a pattern with V~0.5.
An option to repeat rewrites until nothing changes, so one rewrite can act on the output of another
Browser back/forward work as undo/redo
Awkwords import: open an .awkw file or paste a pattern. Anything that can't be translated exactly gets listed so you can check it. (experimental feature)
The editor got redesigned too, and the old guide is now a Reference with hopefully better examples you can open directly in the generator. The syntax is still a bit more complex than other generators, but it's better explained now. I also spent a lot of time on keyboard and screen reader support for improved accessibility.
Plenty of bugs got fixed as well: escapes in quotes, rewrites that could freeze the page, unweighted choices that weren't actually equal, share links breaking on big grammars. (Old links and .monke files still work)
A VERY WIP overview of the logography of Zhonan, a conlang I've been working on for years, it accurately represents the grammar and such of the written language.
Nodos Anem e Sola sbaanti ambi ke wamen westa klatalo, swa ans deta vez po se ke wamen kunata de ganbila walmekamen teg apo anli telmea inosgu. Nodos Anem pelta ensdi, blala klatanete an kuna, mas din enune wiken walmekamen wel ans inosgu tetane um ani i telmini. Nas, Sola fosnata visane e to telmeane, dela ale so modanala ke walmekamen wellane tegta apo ans inosgu.
“The North Wind and the Sun argued about who was stronger, so they made a bet to see who could make a passing traveler remove his warm coat. The North Wind triedfirst, blowing as hard as he could, but this only caused the traveler to wrap his coat tighter around himself in the cold. Next, the Sun shone gently and then warmly, making the air so pleasant that the traveler willingly took off his coat.'
I was in the shower thinking about a simplified language, (my current idea is no pronouns outside of you, me, we, they) and it struck me that most modern languages just have pronouns for gender (i know japanese has honorifics too), and not anything else.
I feel like there are more meaningful differences than just gender! Is this a consequence of colonization or globalization or whatever, and those other pronouns just got erased?
