anyone here ever tried to construct their own language? how far

>>72910388
Yes. Its vocabulary is incomplete
But grammar is ok, I suppose

>>72910429
technically a language's lexicon can never be complete. thats great you've laid down some rules for it. whats the orthography like?

>>72910388
I used to do this but when I realized it was too autistic I stopped right away... It was pretty well constructed though

>>72910474
not sure whats autistic about it. would you say tolkein was autistic? language is a fascinating concept, i can understand the want to construct your own. ill begin constructing my own quite soon, probably after this uni trimester is over.

>>72910539
No it's just an excuse for me to be honest. I didn't have the talent of a linguist like Tolkien and didn't have a fantasy universe where I could insert my language. So I mostly considered it as a pointless obsession in my life. In fact I already tried to create a fantasy universe by assembling ideas and inspirations from many lores like Witcher, ASOIAF, Malazan, and of course adding some creations of mine but I really lacked imagination to construct a decent story and it just ended up being a shitty plagiarism of the books I mentionned. Anyway keep it up OP I support you

>>72910467
It has some cases:

nom. ⌀
gen. -(e)n
dat. -ne
acc. -we
loc. -na
abl. -fen
com. -(h)ǫs
abessive -nais

And a set of postpositions: ita(nom.) - for etc.

Example:

Jack
Jacken - of Jack
Jackne - to Jack
Jackwe - Jack
Jackna - on, at Jack
Jackfen - from Jack
Jackǫs - with Jack
Jacknais - without Jack
Jack ita - for Jack

I haven't created its own writing system yet ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

>>72910767
Does kazakh have cases, or did you pick this up from russian?

>>72911737
Sure, it is an agglutinative language

>>72911846
Btw case system of the Russian language is quite different from Kazakh one

Rus. :
Nom. Marisa(sg. fem.)
Gen. Marisy
Dat. Marise
Acc. Marisu
Com. Marisoj(u)
Prepos. Marise

Kaz. :
Nom. Marisa
Gen. Marisanıñ
Dat. Marisağa
Acc. Marisanı
Abl. Marisadan
Loc. Marisada
Com. Marisamen

*There is no grammatical gender and changing endings in Kazakh, just affixes

Yes
Grammar is simple af, but the script is ideogram

>>72912173
What's the point of calling it cases if it's just suffixes regularly attached to the ends of words? How are they different from postpositions?

>>72914877
>How are they different from postpositions?
Vowel harmony. That's why there are different variants of affixes(-da, -de, -ta, -te for loc.)

>>72915135
Ah, okay. But it's still relatively predictable, right?

>>72915282
Yes, it is

I just find it kind of retarded when people complain about gozillion cases in Finnish while practically they're not much more difficult than Indo-European prepositions. There should be a separate term for this category, in my opinion.

>>72910388

I tried investing my universal alphabet based on most common vowels and consonants

>>72910388
Yes.
I've been working on it for a week or so, for 20-90 minutes a day. It's quite simple due to my lack of linguistic knowledge and experience. I just wanted to create a language that was very structured, in that knowing 1 part of the structure can lead you to assume pretty much the entire thing. Same with words, I'm working on a consistent algorithm for generating words.

Though these are just general ideas, really I just wanted something to play around with while learning linguistics. In the future I want to make a more complete language that uses the concepts developed in this one. Presently this one only has 4 vowels and 8 consonants, no combinations of them either. It's very simplistic.

The development is quite haphazard and convoluted because I don't speak any language fluently except English. So nothing in it is based on another language and at the same time I intentionally stray as far away from English as I can. As such there are many things in it that I couldn't actually properly term and/or evaluate.

>>72910388
Yes, began in late 2002.
How far... I can't estimate. Last years I worked on it very sporadically. I'm afraid the effort of all those years will be in vain, after all.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6de_SbVUVfA

>>72910388
I've tried to. I don't really know linguistics enough for it to work properly and I'm awful at coming up with vocabulary.