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Welcome to [email protected]! This community is geared towards people who seek to discuss artificial languages or create and showcase their own.


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Just wandering around Lemmy looking for conlanging communities. Saw this one linked in the sidebar of [email protected] .

I happen to be partial to xenolangs, and the above is a sample of Commonthroat, a language inspired by the sounds my dog makes when he's dreaming. The "Romanization", if you can call it that, is rCFqKqmqn, pronounced /chuff, long rising strong whine, huff, long high strong growl, huff, short low strong grunt, huff, short high weak grunt/, and means egg eater.

The script is read from right to left, and as the phrase reverse abjad implies, the letters are vowels (whines, growls, or grunts) and the diacritics are consonants (huffs, chuffs, or yips). Both tone and volume are significant in vowels.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

A reverse abjad (dajba?) is a fun concept that just doesn't work in most human languages. This would also fit well in [email protected]. How many characters does this script have?