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East Coast Conlangers

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liyaá łí', fellow conlangers!

You haven't seen me here very much since I've been busy, but I wanted to stop by and let you all know of a group I'm trying to start. It began on Tumblr and I'm trying to get as many interested conlangers at possible. It's a group called "east coast conlangers / ECC" (sounds ganglike, right? xD).

This began because the Conlang Society is based out of California and has much of its membership from the west coast. There're very few conlangers that I know of on the east coast (of the US). I live in NYC and attend college at NYU, so I'm trying to get an event planned for a lot of conlangers to come together somewhere in or near NYC. This can also be somewhere like Philadelphia or Washington, D.C. if the demand is there.

I have some links below, but if you want to be part of discussion with other conlangers and planning an event for this group, send me an ask (you don't need to sign up) on my Tumblr or a note on deviantART with your Skype username and I can add you to the ECC skype group!

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#east coast conlangers

Please leave questions below, but no guarantees about how fast I'll respond. :saddummy:

Happy conlanging!
Xak
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:iconwaahlis:
~Waahlis Mar 11, 2013  Hobbyist General Artist
ʾasírìitsa!

What do you do if you forgot the grammar of an old language of yours!? And the old you didn't keep any notes!?

God! Stupid!
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~leAloha Feb 23, 2013  Hobbyist Writer
Another question: Where should I start with making words? I have an alphabet down and how I'm going to get the words, but where to begin? I need enough words to be able to test a grammar out.
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~Etohautakuva 11 hours ago  Hobbyist Artist
What you should really focus on first, is the sounds of the language, not the looks or limits of the alphabet. Writting comes after speaking, so when you're making a language you want to begin with the sounds and the relations of the different phonemes to eachother. This is where speaking out loud to yourself comes into play.
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Mood: Neutral ~SonarSnow 4 days ago  Student General Artist
Like Jai, I also simply come up with words as I need them. (Mind you, I generally need to do some research, though, as my own conlang is based off of Latin) If I'm truly in need and it seems appopriate, I just borrow from English! (Cirès "carax", car, comes from English "carriage", for example. :meow: )
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~zuloo37 Mar 3, 2013
The famous basic word list that Jai was talking about is the Swadesh List (I'm assuming)
[link]
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~JaiLatte Feb 23, 2013  Hobbyist Digital Artist
Usually I just come up with the words as I need them. That's how I prefer to build my lexicon. Another way to build a big lexicon is using a basic word list. There's a really famous one but I can't find it.. so here's another! [link]
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~leAloha Feb 20, 2013  Hobbyist Writer
Quick question: how long would a managable alphabet be? Because I've currently got 42 letters (16 vowels, 26 consonants) and I'm wondering if that's too much.
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~Nialtirora Mar 2, 2013  Hobbyist Traditional Artist
Japanese has two sets of 44 characters, so don't worry about that just yet.
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~Waahlis Feb 21, 2013  Hobbyist General Artist
Hi! I wouldn't say there's such a thing as an unmanagable alphabet. It's very relative matter.

My latest language has 14 consonants and 8 vowels - and then I struggle to use them equally often.

My native language and dialect has about 24 consonants (including allophones/marginal phonemes) and 18 vowels, which is about the same as your language. And that's not really muc to me.

Then we have a lot of Caucasian and North American languages with huge consonant inventories, and dialects of Khmer with over 20 vowels!

However, remember that you might end up using certain letters more often than others, in which case you can remove a sound you barely use. :)

My other advice would be to maybe make some of the sounds allophonic if you think it's too much? Perhaps only present in certain combinations?

Hope it helped somewhat! :)
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~Oseviel Jan 2, 2013
Hi conlangers!

I've been into conlanging for about two years now and I was wondering where I should concentrate on my language if I intend it for small communication for a story, sorta like how Quenya was used I guess? I've run out of ideas.

Thanks for any and all answers!
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