At 25:44 I unlocked a new fear

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one of my favourite conlangs grammar sounds like a weird computer language cuz of how it ended up evolving number got associated with height, so oneplace = airborne twoplace = above threeplace = sitting ontop fourplace = inside fiveplace = on the bottom sixplace = moving away (coming from the fact that once things are off the bottom its affected by gravity therefore moves away from the object) sevenplace = bellow eight/tenplace = underground height then got associated with grammar airborne = far future above = future (ill do it) ontop = near future (ill do it in a second inside = present on the bottom = near past (i just did it) bellow = past (i did it) underground = far past then moving away got turned into an imperfective so what ended up happening is "sixplace fourplace sit" means "sitting" ps "once things are off the bottom" sounds like something a boove from the movie home would say and i think thats funny

how the hell does [ᶰɢaː.hi] even turn to [vɛj] in the first place

3:15 yeah it's a featural abugida.

Our language is now called our language

2:27 me with a conlang that has 106 tenses 😁

watching you learn blender would be great

2:35 "Other than the hydrogen sulfide" lol i still remember artifexian in the first episode yelling "You want to add, HYDROGEN SULFIDE??"

I made this one language I called Ashenyan, and to be honest if you think Thandian was bad, you will commit suicide seeing ashenyan. And I SOMEHOW turned it into Shanai, my best Natural artlang so far. "Shanai savi aza, unamei mirava." - Shanai is good, trust me.

Please do the future is wild review!

Neotectons or _Neotecton ecumenenes_ Lived: 0.2-0 Ma Range: World wide except for the western rainforest and large parts of the southern continent Phylum: Polypodia Class: Edaphotheria Order: Rhamphodontia Suborder: Acrocheiridae Infraorder: Distropheognatha Family: Neodistropheognatha Subfamily: Dryptognatha Tribe: Astrolophidae Genus: Neotecton Species: Neotecton ecumenenes

This Make English And French Look Like Bengali Lol

Basically: Don't make your languages polysynthetic

This series cured my aracnophobia That is not a joke

2:45 Instructions unclear, my animal is bigging

me: is making a silly little conlang Bibalaridion: NOOOO STOP YOU CAN’T HAVE A CONLANG THAT HAS A SIBILANT FRICATIVE GLOTTAL STOP AND NO NA SOUND

Oh, so it can't be as simple as adding a letter in front or behind the word depending on CVC placement? Or can it? Like, if "zoa" (o like octopus and a like apple) means prey/food, then "zoa't" would mean animal/future prey/future food.

I have a set of symbols which I really like but they are for a language a few generations in, not the proto one at the top of the family tree. How can I reverse engineer all of these changes 😭

“What’s hydrogen sulfide?” *one Wikipedia page later* “A H, E G G S”

8:30 It's a Fantasia reference!

Why did you make up a word in the modern language and see what would produce it in the proto-language. Is there some reasoning behind it or is it just personal preference?

I for one did understand what you were getting at with regards to the Neotechs. Like with humans, the Neotech's long term survival depends on overcoming instinctual lag.

i think Oqolaawak might be my fav of the language's you've showcased. Also people are poking fun at ts'ap'u-k'ama's pronunciation, but personally i think it is a delightful word to say

You can use this for the Cursed Conlang Circus.

...And we still don't know anything about Khadzar.

gitmek - root verb meaning to go git - command gidiyorum - I'm going gidiyormuşum - I was told that I'm going gidiyordum - I was going gideceğim - I'm going to go gidecekmişim - I was told that I'm going to go gidecektim - I was about to go gideyim - volution of the verb "to go" gitmeliyim - I should go gitmeliymişim - I was told that I should go gitmeliydim - I should've gone gittim - I went gitsem - another volution forn for "to go" gitsem - If I go gitseydim - If I went gideceksem - If I'm about to go gitmeliysem - If I should go gittiysem - If I had gone gitmekteyim - I'm in the state of going gitmekteymişim - I was told that I was in the state of going gitmekteyken - When I was in the state of going gidiyorken - When I was going gitmeliyken - When I should go gide gide - The more I go the more I... gittikçe - As I go more gidesim - My willpower to go I'm So FUCKING TİRED BECAUSE THERE IS LİKE AT LEAST 50 MORE CONJUGATİONS

Also in American english the sound “cun” could mean couldn’t and the only difference is that its emphasized more.

That's a NICE name man! Thandian is phat as fuqqinn shaatt

yooo finally made it to the civilization stage

another language that uses ’dual’ morphology is mandarin 两个狗 would mean two dogs

0:20 - glossing seems to be incorrect: should be 2sg.OBJ, due to how the Nahuatl causative-applicative affix promotes the beneficiary to a core argument akin to a direct object i think

A nitpick around 6:06: with the possible exception of رأى, all of the Arabic verbs listed are actually better analyzed as falling into an alternate regular conjugation, not a true irregular pattern. For example, كان (to be) conjugates exactly like داب (to melt or dissolve). You even have a paired example listed: أخذ and أكل follow the same conjugation pattern, as would all verbs of the standard verb whose root starts with the glottal stop.

Please do the rest I can't understand grammatical gender at all.

mega in megabyte is not an augmentative although it may appear that way and was likely even derived from that. mega in megabyte is a metric prefix which represents an exact quantity. it's something more in line with grammatical number than augmentatives

you **can** say "I jump you" but it's a different, slang form of jump referring to a group of people(generally the agent and his associates) assauting the patient

Don't animate the hairy stick😶

The comment on middle-earth clones is so relatable haha

Your alien biospheres series is so amazing and inspiring. All the way back in 2019 when I started my work on my book series your discussion of body-plans inspired me in such a vivid way. My first book is going to come out next year (on a discord server) and the fantasy world I made is partly based on your series. I can't believe it's been 5 years.

MORE ILOTHWII BABY!

Alien Languages : fully scent based seems difficult to even speculate correctly about, but maybe using it in a supplementary role to audio signals might be easier. same with colour, it could be conscious and have a linguistic impact, but i could see it more as a background information tool, indicating context or subject. acting somewhat as a "Modifier", changing the meaning of a sentence (giving a very unique importance to ventilation systems)

4:23 Il that sentence, "desu" isn't the copula. It's the politeness marker because "abunai" is already a word that can be a predicate.

God I love how Ilothwii sounds! ❤

"specially when it comes to fish, they make too much sense, it's so irritating"

If a 2 hour Q&A is the result of being selective, then i think describing it even as a "deluge" of questions might be underselling it

Huge fan of the series, sorry to hear it that making them was sort of a shit time. Super thrilled to hear there’s more coming regardless of content format.

You could turn Thandian into a language of a small area in a fictional setting where some sort of time anomaly occurred, instantly blending together dozens of parallel universes' versions of the local language, with millennia old point of divergence. This might even justify the time/space separation!

Here's the full playlist: kzbin.info/www/bejne/oICzlmiXpsuoZ8U

This has been so informative, thank you! I’m not making a conlang for now, but all of these videos have given me a lot more insight into how English has evolved, why our spelling/pronunciation is so mis-matched. I’ve got a 7-year-old and learning to read the past couple years has reminded me just how hard of a skill it is to learn to read and write, something I take for granted every day. So many times I’ve had to tell her things like “English is really weird, and a lot of stuff you just have to memorize. Not all vowels go a-walkin’” (or whatever. I don’t remember the rule). I can also see this helping me in my Dutch studies! Tytyty for this series. It must have been so much work! It’ll take several full re-watches for me to fully grasp it all. I had one into to linguistics course in uni, and this series covers SO much more than that one course did. So many new words for things 👀

I would LOVE a "learn along with me" for Blendr!