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Acrua wrote:

I am from an IRL Germanic speaking country so your conlang is especially cool to me because I can partially make out what the text says.

Same here. Speaking Norwegian natively, I can understand close to every word of Richtlants language. It feels kind of like a Scandinavian (mainly Norwegian) vocabulary fitted to a simplified Dutch/German phonetic system on a hybrid Dutch/English grammar system. Or something like that. XD

Richtlant wrote:

Ik haabet de samme mot Davjeted. Odv est ajnfachiiret Engliss gramatik mot hautlik Norsk vokabulaar unt ne Tisk vortät unt ej hauch av Neederlandisk.

I had the same with Dawietwd. Btw it is simplified English grammar with mainly Norwegian vocabulary and some German words and a hint of Dutch.

Funny. I speak Dutch nativly, English as a second language (not really used but mandatory in schools) and I'm trying to get into some Swedish as well. A better fit would be near impossible.

Fontcollina wrote:

I translated a UN program's covid poster into Collinese (after seeing the idea on reddit): https://i.imgur.com/YJFvqM1.png

Breakdown of the grammar

Stop the Spread
Biraste edandendîm
Lit. Halt the Giving-out

How to wear a mask
Kev Rozilad Zilîn
Lit. How face-cover to wear

Wash your hands properly before putting it on and after taking it off
Biyozde rad casteme-ye din ti medîn-e bor u dir girîn-e ma
Lit. Clean your hands rightly before putting on yourself and after taking from yourself

Put the mask on so it covers your nose and mouth
Bimede ti rozilêm damu naşim u yazim-e din bizila
Lit. Put the face-cover on yourself thus, so it may cover your nose and mouth

Make sure it fits tightly so there’s no air leakage
Bivikate kîd ti dirade tan damu na guf bişîzoka
Lit. Ensure that it fits you tightly thus, so no air may leak

Don’t touch the mask except to take it off
Micaste rozilêm le dir ve girîn-e bo
Lit. Don't handle the mask but to take it from yourself

Verified
Radakat
Lit. Made true

I realized while doing this that I forgot to add the ezafe on the gerunds in my post about heathen tongues, oops. This poster probably has the most "proper" grammar I've ever done for Collinese though.

English poster: https://i.imgur.com/wlRoI4W.jpg
Blank poster: https://i.imgur.com/p1DQatJ.jpg

Not just one, but five.
Lazy to use imgur so I used something that's more convenient to me.

Aurun: https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/635482981573722114/803924462348926976/Mask-Poster-Thing-AUR.png
Aruzhin: https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/635482981573722114/803924455968735272/Mask-Poster-Thing-ARU.png
Kuyonnen: https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/635482981573722114/803924469638627328/Mask-Poster-Thing-KUY.png
Tälevani: https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/635482981573722114/803924478438539324/Mask-Poster-Thing-TAL.png
Miyazakina: https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/635482981573722114/803924474021543956/Mask-Poster-Thing-MYK.png

Kuerhyedeenistan wrote:

Nice! Now I feel lazy for only doing Kuerhyét.. might have to do Inna later today or tomorrow..

Covid 19

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Thanks!

Yours look nice, I like the look of Kuerhyét.

I have a question for you. Testing the mutual intelligibility of Kuyonnen with other North Germanic languages.
Do you understand the Kuyonnen one? If yes, how much do you understand the vocabulary and grammar?

Auruna wrote:

Thanks!

Yours look nice, I like the look of Kuerhyét.

I have a question for you. Testing the mutual intelligibility of Kuyonnen with other North Germanic languages.
Do you understand the Kuyonnen one? If yes, how much do you understand the vocabulary and grammar?

Thanks! :D

I recognise all of the words except one (koska) as Germanic, and only one of them (tvette) does only have cognates (that I know of) in only one language (Swedish); one (ikje (cool that you went (almost) Nynorsk here XD )) is (to my knowledge) only found within North Germanic; one (nik) has a form only found in West Germanic, dän feels familiar somehow but I can't immediately recognise it, cognate to touch? West Germanic is my guess anyhow. The words not mentioned seem to be pretty universally common Germanic. So, no problem understanding the gist of it. :)

Grammar wise the only confusion is on the second point. I'm assuming dür is 2p.sg-GEN, IE your, at least in the first point; is it a homophone in the second point, meaning cover or something? If it's still your in the second point, then I'm really confused as to the use of så; which would make perfect sense if it means cover.

Point four is also kindof difficult due to the two "difficult" words dän and koska, though grammar wise it flows just fine. I'm assuming nik is not, which makes it interesting with its use of double negation, and even juxtaposed negators. Cool. :)

Kuyonnen seems to me somehow like a medieval North Germanic language trying to be Dutch. XD

Looking at your poster in some detail made me realise I made an error in the Kuerhyét one; it says to wash your hands before both taking on and off the mask as it is now; it's missing the word after.. :(

Richtlant wrote:

I see that the map hasn't been updated for a very long time despite I talked to Auruna about it some two months ago.. Many nations came and have died without ever being on the map while Vietidielieneshchina still remains there... I've been seriously considering the option to take over the regional cartography if the map situation doesn't improve.

Apologies. The map was done, the holidays and a lot of personal stuff made me forget.

I'll be sending it tomorrow.

Auruna wrote:

Kuyonnen is slightly tonal with two primary tones on the first syllable: flat and rising.

The dür in the second point is a homophone meaning "cover", pronounced with a flat tone. It's actually a shortened form of düreet.

Ah, cool! Kind of like IRL Nor & Swe pitch accent? Are the alternations restricted to just nouns or are verbs also involved?

Auruna wrote:

Koska came from Aurun, koskuataa, which translates to "touch". Dän by itself roughly translates to "do".

All right! Dän is cognate to Eng do and Germ tun then. And I suppose Nor & Dan (maybe Swe too?) dåd.

Auruna wrote:

Anothing to point out: the taare here is the same as the täre in the first point. A special rule caused this on verbs like these, if the last syllable on the previous word contains a front or neutral vowel, the following verb will be fronted and if the last syllable only has back vowels, the verb is backed and the first syllable's vowels will be doubled if it's originally a front vowel.

eften täre
förskott taare

This is a cool rool (sry, couldn't not highlight that alliteration a tad XD )! Like vowel harmony light!

Nice, well thought out conlang work Auruna, as always! :D

Eastern Tatarstan wrote:

hwtwrmsk

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I'm a sucker for Cyrillic on official looking posters and signs like these. It looks awesome. :D

I see Шь- is used initially in three out of four points (and you probably have vowel harmony so it's really on all four?), what does it mean? Personal marking, imperative or something else?

The Altaic Regional Ministery of Propaganda presents:

Altayball

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Nations of Altay according to the regional map on 27th January 2021.
Credit: Bithynia-crimea

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Fontcollina wrote:

I translated a UN program's covid poster into Collinese (after seeing the idea on reddit): https://i.imgur.com/YJFvqM1.png

Breakdown of the grammar

Stop the Spread
Biraste edandendîm
Lit. Halt the Giving-out

How to wear a mask
Kev Rozilad Zilîn
Lit. How face-cover to wear

Wash your hands properly before putting it on and after taking it off
Biyozde rad casteme-ye din ti medîn-e bor u dir girîn-e ma
Lit. Clean your hands rightly before putting on yourself and after taking from yourself

Put the mask on so it covers your nose and mouth
Bimede ti rozilêm damu naşim u yazim-e din bizila
Lit. Put the face-cover on yourself thus, so it may cover your nose and mouth

Make sure it fits tightly so there’s no air leakage
Bivikate kîd ti dirade tan damu na guf bişîzoka
Lit. Ensure that it fits you tightly thus, so no air may leak

Don’t touch the mask except to take it off
Micaste rozilêm le dir ve girîn-e bo
Lit. Don't handle the mask but to take it from yourself

Verified
Radakat
Lit. Made true

I realized while doing this that I forgot to add the ezafe on the gerunds in my post about heathen tongues, oops. This poster probably has the most "proper" grammar I've ever done for Collinese though.

English poster: https://i.imgur.com/wlRoI4W.jpg
Blank poster: https://i.imgur.com/p1DQatJ.jpg

this but in anm

by Lower alterac

transliteration in latin:

ä̇fd tù kràkt
ràn e tàk tù tìa

p̌àr tù kwsw tù yàk aśn tàk tù tìaɴ ÿ dùf tàk tù tìaƞ

tàk tù tìaɴ tù ʒ yàn tù ñ ÿ sàsm

sèm sé ʒ kŧàn-tk aŭ ʒ fòš ipàƞ

fòš kŧàn tù tìa, iàḿk e tàk tù tìaƞ

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Kuerhyedeenistan wrote:

Cool stuff!

Which script(s) does the other languages (/dialects?) use? Is the Suomi-bit of the name a reflection on where this dialect is spoken?

Yes it is, as well as alobteynia, and tazrelia, and the anmevigian script i've shown in factbooks and stuff, i might do something with the other ones idk

Toying around with the idea of making a new conlang based on Turkish...