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A Wiki for development and hosting of constructed languages. A constructed language is a language made for a specific purpose, own enjoyment and more. Constructed Languages are usually linked to constructed cultures and other kinds of inspired settings.

Featured Conlangs

Umbrean

Name: Umbrean

Type: Fusional

Alignment: Tripartite

Head Direction: Final

Number of genders: 4

Declensions: Yes

Conjugations: Yes

Nouns declined according to
Case	Number
Definitiveness	Gender
Verbs conjugations according to
Voice	Mood
Person	Number
Tense	Aspect

Umbrean is a highly inflectional language and semi-polysynthetic as very simple sentences are possible to render into a single word. Most word clases are inflected in accordance to something to represent their meaning and position.

Adwan

Name: Adwan

Type: Fusional Synthetic

Alignment: Nominative-Accusative

Head Direction: Head-Initial

Number of genders: 3

Declensions: Yes

Conjugations: Yes

Nouns declined according to
Case	Number
Definitiveness	Gender
Verbs conjugations according to
Voice	Mood
Person	Number
Tense	Aspect

Adwan is an unclassified, inflecting language. It is unknown as to what language family it belongs to, although grammatically, it has been said to resemble both Indo-European and, if only some, Uralic traits. Adwan carries many unique features apart from the features that it shares with many languages (such as a 7 case system, all cases shared with Latin, 6 of which are shared with most Slavic languages, verb conjugation, flexible word order, etc), such as the use of agglutination for verbs, the lack of gender-by-default in nouns, and the innovative use of preposition meaning depending on case. Adwan, unlike many languages, does not strive to be simple. Ont he contrary, for English speakers, Adwan will be quite difficult to master, if not grammatically, then definitely phonetically. Adwan was influenced by many European languages, such as Icelandic, Czech, and Polish, with the other occasional influences by Welsh, Spanish and Norwegian. Adwan, fictionally, is also the main language spoken in Aðwánia or Adwania.

Creating a language

Want to create a language? It can take a lot of work to make it presentable, but the results can be amazing. To make your own, decide what sounds you want, create words, and hold it all together with a grammar. (Not necessarily in that order.)

Decide the phonology (sounds in the language)
1. What sounds are meaning changing? English: B/P is (bat and pat) and in korean p and p^h is (put/p^hut) while b and p is the same
2. What sounds correspond to the same meaning? Many see the and de as the same and free and three when it comes to pronounciation
Decide on phonotactics; which consonants go togather and which don't? In English you can say "Spanish," but in Spanish the letter S cannot begin a word when followed by a consonant so it becomes "Espanish." Can you have vowels at the end of syllables? Not in Hawai'ian.
Create words and/or roots
1. If you're also creating a conculture, think of what's important to them. There will probably be many words about it.
2. How are roots derived? Semitic languages get the word for 'read' from 'blood.'
Construct a grammar, how is it all put together in a flow? (May be done at the end)
1. Is it agglutinating, isolating, fusional or polysynthetic
2. If not isolating, what is its morphosyntactic alignment?
3. Is it heavily inflected?
  1. Are verbs conjugated?
  2. Do the nouns decline?
4. Are there different voices? moods? aspects? tenses (can be more than past, present, future)?
5. Does it have nouns? adjectives? verbs? adverbs? particles? articles?
How are things expressed? (English: "I am eating" and "I eat" is the same in spanish and swedish)

By the way, you do not have to follow these rules. You can make your own, like what was done with Delang.

Use the input text below to start the creation of your language. <createbox> break=no preload=Template:NewLang buttonlabel=Start creating your own language now! </createbox> See also: New conlangs

Expanding your language

After you have created an extended dictionary of your language, you can start the building of a constructed culture. Your constructed culture can include its own myths and legends, poems, religions, tales, etc... they all written in your new language. You have to build a very good dictionary if you want to start a good conculture!