My constructed language - Come and contribute!

I used to have a language (incomplete by far though)

Its verbs were like latin verbs
Its nouns were like latin
Its adjectives were like french
Extra letters were from greek (because I hate accents)
And possessive verbs were like Japanese

(I study a lot of languages at school [apart from japanese which I teach myself from websites and books])

That sounds interesting! Isn’t making a language just great? :content:

Anyway, I’ve now created a font for my script, but I’m not releasing it yet. I’ve also got around 400 words in my dictionary now. :smile:

maybe you should buy an expensive dictionary and just make up words for every single word in it

That would take a while… :eek:

My dictionary has around 650 words in it now, so I’m going to post it here along with the font to download. And, I also need contributions for more words. Want to have a go at making words for my language? This is the place to look!

First of all, a guide to the font. It’s called Pomína Symbol. Since it has such a variety of symbols and it’s designed for use on Latin keyboards, it can’t type numbers through the keyboard (unless you go into Character Map). The Character Map includes the Latin alphabet too. Here’s a guide to which keys get which symbols:

a/A - a/A
7/& - á/Á
'/@ - æ/Æ
b/B - b/B
c/C - c/C
4/$ - č/Č
5/% - ĉ/Ĉ
d/D - d/D
e/E - e/E
=/+ - é/É
f/F - f/F
g/G - g/G
h/H - ö/Ö
i/I - i/I
[/{ - í/Í
]/} - ĭ/Ĭ
j/J - j/J
k/K - k/K
l/L - l/L
m/M - m/M
n/N - n/N
o/O - o/O
p/P - p/P
q/Q - and symbol/AND symbol
r/R - r/R
s/S - s/S
6/^ - š/Š
t/T - t/T
u/U - u/U
w/W - ú/Ú
x/X - ŭ/Ŭ
y/Y - ó/Ó
z/Z - z/Z
;/: - ž/Ž

Here’s some notes on the grammar:

Plural (eg. dream -> dreams) -ai
“Upgraded word” (eg. big -> bigger) -an
Superlative (eg. big -> biggest) -æ
Belonging to (only if name or other non-pronoun used) (eg. pasQuale’s website -> vebsit é-pasQuale, lit. website of-pasQuale)
Negative: fi- (eg. This is not heavy -> Ræ etra fi gröba, lit. This is no heavy)

And now, the all-important links to the files! :smile:

[b]Dictionary (2.3 MB) -

Font (23 kB)[/b]

To install the font, copy the file into your computer’s font folder (usually C:/WINDOWS/Fonts for Windows PCs).

~ Guide to Making Words ~

So, you want to make some words. What will you need to know? Well, first of all, you shouldn’t overuse special marks, like ö and š, and try to keep the letters ĭ and ŭ to a minimum. If your word is particularly long, you should use a stress mark (acute) on 1 or 2 of the vowels in that word, in other terms, the vowels you want stressed. Try to keep words sounding fluent, although you can occasionally use abstract spellings (like the word for “width” is “vidt” (that sounds Dutch! :tongue:)).

Guide to writing with the language

Now, you want to write in Pomína. You must first refer to the grammar list above and know the verb tables:

The good thing is that this pattern is the same for every verb! It’s incredible!
The infinitive of the verb has the suffix -um. If the infinitive ends in a vowel or æ, excluding the suffix, then take the first vowel off your desired suffix. For example, take this sentence: “To hypnotise you / Ipnósium tir”. Say you want to change this to “I hypnotise you”. You would add “su”, and change the -ium suffix for -i, so you get “I hypnotise you / Su ipnósi tir”. If an infinitive ends with a consonant, excluding the suffix, just change the suffix without removing the vowel.

A note about the past and future tenses: no word like “had” or “will” is required, just like in French. If you struggle to find a correct tense and suffix, refer to English to find the correct form.

Endword

If you’re unclear on anything at all, absolutely anything, please feel free to ask. That’s what I’m here for! :mrgreen:

I’ve been toying with my own language for a long time, mainly to use in some of the stories I’m writing, and I really enjoy it. I’m a foreign language major (Russian) and I’m taking Spanish as well, so it’s been interesting learning about other grammar structures and whatnot, so I’ve kind of come up with my own (incomplete) grammar structure. I’ve also had alphabet codes for a long time, but then in high school I switched to an entirely phonetic script. I’ll have to post it some time along with a sample of what some written out would look like. sice it’s written down (and then left to right), quite a few people ask if it’s Japanese or Chinese and I usually say, “Uh, no.” I’m at work right now or else I’d post it.

The language is called “Tarakaish” (which in English is “Tarakian”).

Interesting! I’ll be writing some stories in my language too soon. :yes:

WOW! How long did it take you to make up this language?! hehe, Imagine 5 years later, a Pomina Ld4all website :tongue:

Hopefully, if I aim high and work hard enough, it just might happen… :wink:

I’ve spent around 1-2 months on it, and it’s been worth it. :tongue: The only thing I have to do now is make the vocabulary… which will take ages… sloow… proooocesssss… snore :sleep:

I’ve spent a lot of time on it, and since I started it in high school before I knew more about how grammar really can work, a lot of changes have been made. I’ve already confused myself with the numbers, though :razz: Why I made those purposefully confusing, I don’t know.

But yes, there are a lot of words, and I’m discovering that with Russian, too.

It’d be interesting to try and type up a dream in your language, too… or mine for that matter. I may just do that for the heck of it. (A shorter dream, probably)

Alright, here’s a sample. I’m not sure if it would be as helpful trying to turn this into a font, seeing as the letters go down. It’s more fun to write, I think. And I’m getting better at reading it more quickly, too! :razz:

Anyway, here’s a copy of the script, comprised of vowel sounds, consonants, “custom” letters (for things like “ch” or “-ng” or some of my own letters), and punctuation.

And here’s a sample of what some of it looks like in practice:

“Ninja”

“I am Amethyst Star”

“Come back Dream Views!”

If I have time I’ll try to show you some of the language (using a more English-ish alphabet).

Very cool! Conlangs are a lot of fun. Way back in middle school, I tried to construct one…with not so great results. I should try again sometime, now that I know a lot more about language in general.

Keep up the great work! Can’t wait to see more.

That looks great Amethyst Star! But, I advise that you make your own topic for your own language. :razz:

Yes, the font I made is a bit “rectangular” if you get my drift. In handwriting, it would be a lot curvier. I’ll try and do some handwriting with my mouse (no scanner, and I don’t know where my tablets is. :tongue:)

Thanks Datameister. :smile:

I’m currently writing a short story called “Mi Šatz” or “My Cat”, and it’ll be available here shortly with English and Pomina translations. Stay tuned, folks! :smile:

EDIT: Here it is! :happy: Mi Šatz

PS. Woohoo, 4 stars! :content:

I tried to construct a constructed languge but I didn’t finish years ago… Instead I started using a modified version of the Cyrillic Alphabet that I use to write personal things (such as my journal). I’m really fast at writing it but I’m not so fast at reading it.
About the half of the Cyrillic letters are the equivalents of their Roman letters but the others aren’t since. But still, almost no-one understands what I’m writing since almost no-one knows the Cyrillic Alphabet here (In the Central American contry I live).
I also have a modified version using the Arabic script, but I rarely use it since it takes a lot of time to write in it. And I’m not good with cursive scripts.

:smile: Cute story, Neko! (And I aplogize for the intrusion.)

cough I’m studying Russian. cough

Thanks Amethyst. :content:

@higo: LOL, owned :tongue:

So you’d able to transliterate about the half of it :wink:

What I tried to say is that I’ve never met someone who speaks or learns Russian in my country. Or even someone who knows the Cyrillic Alphabet.

Terana, Neko! Ant ankai vina ilin vinutim ant tana machinai perspa’adh.

Hello, Neko! It’s good to see another who makes languages (very rough translation).

It’s pretty awesome that you’ve managed to get all you have in two months; I’ve been at it for something like five years and just now am close to getting the grammar completed for my own language. Have you been to the ConLang Wiki? It’s a pretty good resource, and there’s some interesting stuff there.

Great job so far and good luck! :smile:

Thanks RLC, that’s a cool language you have there too! It looks very similar to mine, but it’s not crammed with accents. :tongue: