A Personal Conlang, Pegakibo

[@zionj104]

The amazing thing is that this level of quality still passes in 2020

[@eggplantsauce2842]

This is the most interesting conlang video I've found on youtube, which is kind of sad.

[@JoeKotroczo]

Eggplantsauce i know

[@whatno5090]

Making a good language doesn't excuse him for making the abomination that is Votgil

[@leem4386]

Neptune Neptune pegakibo is flawed, but the writing system is so satisfying.

[@nomadicweaboo8358]

I got you girl. Check out my conlang docs.google.com/document/d/1Yi5XKy41D3FM5T698nZCwfn1cZjjJ70CtiXt58npDOU/edit

[@yeetyeet-jb6nc]

Vötgil

[@PiercingSight]

"I sit-on chair eat pasta" Is there a method of knowing that that doesn't mean "I sit on a chair that eats pasta"?

[@consensuslphisk]

PiercingSight context

[@dominicdoherty502]

Brian The Destroyer I know it's an example but do things you sit on eat pasta

[@dominicdoherty502]

Brian The Destroyer neither have I maybe they are hungry

[@annabelarduino8548]

"chair eat pasta" is treated as a situational noun there if the chair is doing the eating

[@tech6hutch]

You could sit on a horse. I bet a horse would eat pasta.

[@astrodonunt]

This language seems incredibly adorable!

[@ziggy41]

1:27 says 'rareku', spells 'rareki'..........

[@willway1234]

Can I ask... why base 5? It's not easy to use base 5 for fractions as every fraction (except 1/10, 1/100 etc) is recurring. (This is because 5 is prime), so I'm a little confused why you picked it. Everything else seems cool!

[@ryuko4478]

also odd number bases are bad, and prime numbers aren't good either

[@fgvcosmic6752]

willway1234 base 12 is bae 12

[@aeyempire]

Nah that is cool.

[@mariafe7050]

If only it was base 6...

[@nomasan]

@@fgvcosmic6752 That's why my conlang tue-soan is base 12

[@carlosvazquez8766]

Very interesting. I like very much the internal logic and the simplicity. I only have concerns with the adjacency of the names and the implicit 'and' conjunction. What if you want to adjectivize a noun?

[@Esperantanaso]

@MASTERULEZ Esperanto does a similar thing; all Esperanto nouns end in -o. I really liked this property; it made understanding the language easy, and it added some flexibility through switching suffixes (Vivo = life, vivi = to live, vive = lively, etc). The only downside is that it makes speech longer. It's up to you!

[@timeisyonger695]

My first conlang video i ever watched

[@MultiSciGeek]

sounds like a video game language

[@tux1468]

greatest conlang of all time dont @ me

[@Esperantanaso]

@AinukeDetsu Spanish has no case endings for most nouns; you look at the position of a word relative to verbs and prepositions. If a noun is before a verb, the noun is "nominative"; if a noun is after a verb, the noun is "accusative".

[@Fregmazors]

This is fascinating! I'm developing a written language based on the 44 phenoms of the english spoken language. I always thought that constructing a completely unique vocabulary would be too arduous, but you've done it! That's amazing, I admire your work. I will look at the link you included in the description to see more about it!

[@bitmikealerts_lol]

This is a language so simple that anyone can learn it and it could easily be a small child's first language, and it could easily be used as an auxiliary language.

[@kaijoswilman]

The TouTube algorithm has blessed me (a linguiset) with a conlang video from 14 years ago. Thank you.

[@Linguist1x]

Flóri fíðeo! Mo ośa lágjet an lingo, buta Mo na'vér ko P'appellep Po. P'er na'þfét dó'a. Nice video! I've also made a language, but I don't know what I'll call it. It isn't done though.

[@tablasechstitu1122]

I suggest calling it altermanic!

[@tablasechstitu1122]

Good.

[@grimhavenz]

Woah, that conlang looks difficult and impossible to learn at the same time! Good job!

[@hexdiqoreprime7974]

Mrall vézaxcé dí llavajen mim.

[@hakonsoreide]

You could call it flórilingo (nice language).

[@assortednonsense1]

Im a big fan of both your writing system and pasta illustrations

[@kwepsu3686]

I made a language, a mix of Twi (language spoken in Ghana), Haitian Creole, Italian, Spanish, Maltese, Malagasy, and Esperanto. A very easy language, actually. Like Esperanto, the destination of action ends with "-n" (example: sky = cielo, fly in the sky = vole en cielon). The articles "a" and "the" have no word.

[@Esperantanaso]

@zantrua I wanted to have a simpler counting system (ie: fewer digits to memorize), but I wanted conversions from base 10 to be relatively easy. Base 2 obviously has the fewest digits, but requires some time for conversions. I figured base 5 would be a nice compromise because it is easy to divide by 5 and get a remainder.

[@Esperantanaso]

@xezton I'm still learning the language, I only know about 100 words. I hope to be much more fluent in the future. In the full guide I've translated 200 random sentences, so at least I know it will be usable. ;) When I was in middle school, my goal was to make an international language. As I've matured, I've realized that this isn't quite feasible... so I have opted to use it for myself instead.

[@bitmikealerts_lol]

Ayo @esperantanaso pegakibo and zese sound like faux japanese

[@judgemondgeboren]

That's the most amazing language idea I've ever seen! Wow!

[@jankansi5679]

So if I wanted to write that I was sitting on a chair that's eating pasta I would put CHAIR EAT PASTA, would I do I SIT 'CHAIR EAT PASTA'.

[@Esperantanaso]

Situation nouns would be distinguished in speech by intonation and context. Substitute "being with sun" for "sunny". I haven't thought about word borrowing, but I will look into those other languages. Thanks!

[@spidermilk3447]

That's not a syllabary that's an abugida.

[@soupy4099]

+spider milk It reminds me a lot of Korean. It seems to blur the line. It really depends on your definition of "modify".

[@sebas346]

+spider milk He never said it was a syllabary, he said it was a "syllabic alphabet"... I get what you say, but like +Soupy said, it reminds me a lot of Korean, with groups of sounds placed into "blocks"

[@txikitofandango]

Do you pronounce the quotation marks? If so, then I don't hear it. If not, then why do you need them?

[@the-bruh.cum5]

Look at there their and they're

[@needlessnoise]

same reason we use them in English? convenience

[@annyone3293]

Well, in English phrase in quotation is usually pronounced with slightly different intonation implying it’s someone else’s speech.

[@Esperantanaso]

@AinukeDetsu I have verbs like "to be inside of", "to be over", "to be about", etc. You can make a clause the subject of a verb (by creating a situation noun), so the verbs practically behave like prepositions.

[@lXBlackWolfXl]

@Esperantanaso there is something similar to that that exists in natlangs, it's called a 'coverb', chinese uses alot of them. a coverb is a word that can be used as a verb or preposition. for example the chinese word for 'to go' is also the preposition for 'to'. my conlang (which coincidentally has a virtually identical grammar to your own) relies heavily on coverbs. sadly i've never made a dictionary bc i can never decide how i want the language to sound...

[@angusmcmillain]

Crazy to think he's been going to a dozen years, & he started at this high quality!

[@mirrortarget5729]

When Gravity Man's theme started playing, I knew I had picked the right video

[@christianmiddleton2597]

This is a little similar to a conlang I use for a role play lab I am doing with a few with my friends studying stone age culture. Languages can be created through the continual use and situational things that happen. But for mine, it follows some tribal rules of taboos and also you can slightly change a sound of the verb ending if the taboo is discussed and also if the verbs don't rhyme. I learned that there are languages in the world that also do not have a numeric system, aboriginal language (Australia) is a good example of this, a fifth world language that is very ancient. In conclusion, as long as you have a use for it, it is possible to invent any language you want to have among peers.

[@Esperantanaso]

@reviver96 I generated a lonnnng list of unique words using the Pegakibo alphabet. Then I tried to make good matches between Pegakibo and English words. This meant making onomatopoeic relationships, size/vowel relationships, and compound Pegakibo words.

[@Esperantanaso]

@reviver96 I sat down with a children's dictionary and flipped through each page, one at a time. I selected the words that I wanted.

[@Esperantanaso]

@AinukeDetsu It is a word order based language, no need for endings and such.

[@Esperantanaso]

@darris321 Well in Pegakibo each word can only have 1 part of speech; "sun" can never be "sunny". To say that sentence, you could say "I see (subj)"cat is-like sun"" (I see a cat which is like the sun).

[@Esperantanaso]

Nifty! I recommend looking at the grammar of other natural languages. You can pick out the elements you enjoy for your own language. Esperanto, one of the most popular conlangs, should also give you some inspiration.

[@lamudri]

That was something I noticed. I guess it was made to have 1 vowel per digit. But yes, 1 _consonant_ per digit would be nice! If you don't care that much about word length (and if you wanted to use base 5, you don't) senary (base 6) is an excellent choice. It's also got the nice property that the reciprocals of the first 4 primes have easy-to-remember digital expansions: 1/2 = 0.3 1/3 = 0.2 1/5 = 0.(1) recurring 1/7 = 0.(05) recurring 2 and 3 are factors, whilst 5 and 7 are neighbours.

[@o_enamuel]

I would chose /m/ /p/ /t/ /s/ /l/ /k/ as consonants, it sounds more diverse.

[@dormetulo]

I like the quotations to gerund-ize verbs, nice touch.

[@gwiazdawilk5416]

I really look forward to learning this conlang you created! Artificial languages can't be considered fake, because... once they are created and used, they might as well be considered real. Lots of people take interest and start learning the conlangs through both writing and speaking alike. I could help but have the idea of you translating a sample phrase for me, much to the point that I can get a feel of the language. Sample phrase, please translate it: "I hope to learn as much as I can and will study, practice hard, also taking the time to work with the phonetics. Learning something new should be a lot of fun for me!" I wonder what it will look like...

[@Esperantanaso]

@ConlangFan Pegakibo is intended to be a-priori, meaning it does not originate from an existing language. That is why I chose a base 5 counting system. 31 in base 5 is 111, because it is 25 + 5 + 1.

[@antimatter_nvf]

What about past and future tenses?

[@antimatter_nvf]

Something like: He make(s) bread yesterday

[@AllisimaProductions]

The descriptors RA and TOKI are placed on a verb for the past and future tenses respectively.

[@Esperantanaso]

@bornforwater The funny thing is that I actually understood the Esperanto you wrote before I realized you provided a translation... XD Thanks for the feedback. I made a descendent of this language which I may post soon.

[@damskovc]

Thank you. I am actually going to learn Esperanto for education purposes. It is said to increase a student's performance in other European languages. Other than that, what do you reccomend using for typesetting a language?

[@ArkovProd]

Some ideas felt truly new. Great job, especially for a personal language! It's quite experimental which is great!

[@linguaphilly]

The phonetic inventory sounds practically the same as english, it features the pretty rare "english r", without featuring common non-english sounds such as /r/ or /x/

[@linguaphilly]

(Not hating on your language, just maybe something you'd like to consider)

[@linguaphilly]

btw I love the situation nouns

[@courteous_count]

+TRASH. It's probably supposed to since this is a personal conlang and he is an English speaker

[@hakonsoreide]

It's always a bit weird, but I've heard it before: many conlangers seem to pronounce their conlangs with a heavy English accent, which doesn't suit the intended phonology of their language. Even if you make a language yourself, you might not sound like a native speaker...

[@skornbjornson1917]

@@courteous_count I can pronounce every uncommon sound not used in English and I'm an English speaker. It's not that hard is it?

[@aa-nw8hk]

I want to add to Gaerteuth's match. Do you know lojban and why it is more formal than, say, esperanto. It has a dictionary where matched all agents of each verb. For example, you may congratulate smbdy on his birthday. In my native (russian) language you will congratulate WITH. It is very important to solve the dilleme especially when two language has absolutely contrast ways to say smth. Sorry for my poor English, I will be very grateful if you correct my mistakes.

[@sendiulo]

E.g. in "a-pe-ga-ki-bo-e the "a" and "e" at the end and the begining are not trailing a consonant. If you take two different vokals the you can use them like brackets "a"="(", "e"=")".

[@Artifex421]

The simplistic phonology & grammar is actually a little reassuring for me. My conlang's phonology is syllabic like yours, with 81 possible combinations. The grammar is what's been troubling me. Maybe I've been overthinking it. Either way, interesting conlang.

[@astrodonunt]

I've made a Memrise course for Pegakibo (in progress) www.memrise.com/course/238857/pegakibo/

[@kasane1337]

+astrodonunt Good to know such a side exists. Made it possible for me to make a course fo Revantean, too. www.memrise.com/course/1070780/revantean-beginner/

[@myrus5722]

This is a pretty nice Conlang, but how would you say words like or, if, because, at, behind ... etc.?

[@damskovc]

I love the language. It is actually the first language I found that wasn't a natural language. Before, I had no idea that conlangs existed. It has even brought me to start a language of my own. If you have any tips for a linguistic noob, I'd appreciate it.

[@bookle5829]

I was going to make my own conlang but screw that. I like this one better. The only thing I don't like is the number part. But whatever.

[@bookle5829]

+Author Cat Studios / toogletoggleOfTheCats I actually did change my mind about it. I have an idea for a conlang but for now, I need to focus on the languages I need to learn.

[@bookle5829]

***** You know, because of your comment, I come back and make my own conlang. :P I was planning to do that after I learned those languages.

[@Alice-gr1kb]

I hope after 3 years you made one

[@lildiffy131]

have u made 1?

[@Esperantanaso]

@IndigoPenguin64 Pasta is my favorite food, how could I NOT make it? (OK, I could describe it as a hard wheat paste cooked in boiling water to become soft, but that takes too much time.)

[@niku..]

Descriptor sounds cool, right? 😏 But what you explain is just an adjective. Adjectives can often be used as adverbs (as in German or probably also in Japanese although Japanese adjectives are very much like verbs...)

[@xezton]

This is really interesting. :) I like how simple it is. How often do you find yourself using this? What inspired you to make it?

[@LadyTink]

I dabbled with making a language :) I like the art style of your language! I have a partially constructed language which has a overly complex grammar... It called it Pwdarzy... Many problems plagued the language, as I tried to accomplish too many goals... You language seems very straight forward, and doesn't seem overly ambitious :D I think you've inspired me to give conlanging another shot :D

[@ronjahack792]

I wish I was brave enough to share my own language "Spikia" Like u shared Pegakibo, nice video :)

[@agnomilted5206]

Just make a WordPress website

[@squizz222]

Never mind that last question, I didn't realize you had answered in the video.

[@Marcsine]

Wow, you're constructed language is *so much better* than the conlang I'm trying to mash together. And you only took, like, 2 years max!

[@aabceacba]

Amazing! I love how organized and how there's no complicated nonsense in Pegakibo. It also sounds cool! I'm making my first conlang right now too. It's the first time I've seriously made progress with conlanging (b/c there's so much revising). Does anyone call you crazy? Because I get that a lot. All I can say is that it takes a certain type of genius to design these. Have you thought of making more?

[@Esperantanaso]

GI = be on top of, TA = be inside of.

[@mateuszadamkiewicz7317]

I really like your language. It reminds me of my own made up language called metsx. Initially it was very similar to yours, but having found out grammar rules in various languages, I upgrade it and created a new language based on the elder one. It's very difficult and its grammar is generally very difficult. The vocabulary is based on bulgarian, Hawaiian, mas (my previous language), Albanian, Maori etc

[@galileor.cuevas9739]

"Kegepe" sounds like the nickname of an Spanish blogger I used to watch; it was Cadepe.

[@Tog1259]

¡Tyokpaduja tyople! Onepto chahazo kasto. I love this! This is great!

[@qui9]

"I intend to only use this by myself, but I am more than happy to share it" *proceeds to explain pegakibo with less enthusiasm than a university professor*

[@dtrez09]

The alphabet is beautiful in it's simplicity and aesthetics, but some of the words sound like they're just randomly made up of syllables. Pasta for example is a word that is similar in most languages in the world because they all got it from the same root word. what is the etymology for ke-ge-pe? it would be easier to learn if words that come straight from other languages kept some of their origin. A language with words that are just randomly made would require endless memorisation.

[@Marcsine]

Personal use only. Preferences of self outweigh preferences of others in this situation.

[@wintherr3527]

all words of natural languages were "randomly made" at one point in time. why do we call a ball a ball, a chair a chair? what on earth is a ball? why could'nt we call it a tóll instead?

[@jokai00]

@Arturo Stojanoff I created a language with prepositions and cases: You(sub): Té; You(obj): dTé; Your(of you): Ab té; From you: Ab dté; To you: Ad té; For you: Ad dté; In you: Ag té; With you: Ag dté. The name of the language is Áirnonn (the airy one).

[@bjdthethreecoolmathfolk2528]

I was 5 when this was made wow

[@icehockey5944]

I was 1 lol

[@jakubpociecha8819]

Same

[@Gwest555]

im in love with your writing system

[@bitmikealerts_lol]

NFL hangul vibes and I love it

[@squizz222]

Nice, I love conlangs with few phonemes. Question, though: you said all verbs in Pegakibo are transitive. Does that mean they can be used intransitively, as well, as in English? Also, how would you express the meaning of melt as in "The ice melts"? Do you use some other voice, passive or mediopassive perhaps? I've made a language with only intransitive verbs before, but the idea of a transitive-only language is unheard of to me; sounds intruiging.

[@MURDERPILLOW.]

The passage of time scares me. This video was created 23 days before i were born

[@Vearru]

I think this language is probably handled better than mine where every word acts as a noun adjective and verb and has adjective after nouns. I handled it by making it strictly SVO and only the subject can be modified by adjective, to modify the object you instead add it to the verb and the original adjective became the new object.

[@bluebeef563]

+Lingua Antiche You gave me a very good Idea.

[@Esperantanaso]

In English, the grammatical construction of placing two nouns adjacent to each other means "Y of or relating to X". This is not true in Pegakibo; for "hat rack", you would say something like "the rack holding hats". When a single noun is in a sentence, the noun is the subject if it is before the verb, or passive if it is after the verb.

[@nelsonnicholson6175]

why are there no nasals?

[@violet_broregarde]

Good job on making such an easy writing system, I was starting to be able to read it by the end of the video, and I'm a little baked :D Also your situational nouns are very naturalistic. Pegakibo and Chinese would both translate "you want me to sing" as "you want I sing" Have you resolved any of the possible ambiguities, like the "I sit-on horse eat pasta" example? Are they uncommon in practice, or did you need to modify your rules?

[@dEndiProductions]

@ConlangFan Translating the number between systems is difficult, but if you learn to recognize the size of base 5 numbers, you won't have to translate into base 10.

[@mrboomward]

Cool orthography

He said it himself that he had been working on the language for years. Took me a year to speak without an accent for a new language. I didn't speak with any accent at all for the language i created myself because i knew exactly how it should be pronounced. Hence me pointing the accent out. Do you understand me now?

[@jjovereats]

my new conlang, 'jaka' (say: yaka with both vowels stressed and obvious) is a pegakibo-inspired conlang. there are twelve consonants, and 7 vowels, with about 30 diphthongs and at least 60 triphthongs (yes, that is a word). my conlang is highly contextual, and its word for pegakibo is 'pekakibo' because I have no voiced k. 'that which is small which is big' is used for basic, so basic liquid (water) is ðibo-kumasø. The ø represents the nulol vowel, and in typing, the null word, which is a comma.

[@badday4885]

You say that verbs are ALWAYS transitive, but then proceed to give an example of an intransitive sentence by removing subject of a sentence and giving the example of: "Ice melts"

[@badday4885]

and then again at 5:04 with "I sing;" because your singing is not happening to an object, sing is by its very nature an intransitive verb in this sentence

[@AllisimaProductions]

Blake Beesley 1. That sentence is transitive because the verb has an object. It just doesn't have a subject. 2. The verb 'to sing' is transitive. The object is the song that you are singing.

[@Double-Negative]

Just from a language-in-general perspective, why have no nasals, but also have an american rhotic? Is it so you can speak it when you have a cold?

[@zasharan2]

If the vowels and consonants are separate kinds of characters, the vowels being attached to the consonants, wouldn't that make it an abugida, not a syllabic writing system?

[@reviver96]

@Esperantanaso I'm sorry, I should've been more clear. I meant how did you decide what things would be called (i.e. gake = man; gige = chair)?

[@honeycomblord9384]

No offense to you Jack, but you took a pretty big step back when you made Vötgil, and especially its writing system. This writing system was actually okay. However, Vötgil's writing system is nearly impossible to write correctly. Did I mention that if Vötgil means "not English," that is incorrect on so many levels, based on the fact Vötgil was based on English. My personal belief is that you should scrap this language family and create something from scratch. I'd like to see what you can do, Jack.

[@MrRyanroberson1]

"I sing" is equivalent to "ice melts", no? 6:17 is there a way to imply I sit on the "chair that eats pasta"?

[@juliuscaesar5397]

I think you should create a country for your language. I would love to help you if you wish.

[@Cheknov]

I have been on a language project for over 3 years now, its coming quite well. Also I enjoyed the video :) Кустос етом! таша язика ентерасанта!

[@tophu7903]

0:09 I also love pasta.

[@LinguarumFautor]

Neat language. I too have a weakness for small phonologies. Some concerns, though. 1) Assuming that you would speak this to someone else, how would you clarify what is a situation noun. 2) If 'sun' is always a noun, how do you say 'sunny'? Is there a derivational process? 3) Pegakibo has a small phonemic inventory (b p g k r t a e i o u). How do you borrow words or names into Pegakibo? If you have not thought about this, I suggest you look at small phonology languages like Rotokas or Piraha.

[@Astronomy487]

0:40 Is that, in any way, a refference to Toki Pona?

[@lemonadepie9631]

but the word in the video was "toki" i think thats why they were asking

[@chris_outh]

This is a great conlang but how will you write conjunctions other than and. Also what about prepositions like at, in, on, near, etc.

[@chris_outh]

true.

[@royjs9108]

How might one do indirect objects in this language? Such as in english "sing him it" or in spanish "cántaselo" (I'm using the spanish example since they occur far more often and work in a simpler way than in english) Also I really like this language even though I'm like 6 years late lmao.

[@Lovemaxman1234]

I like what you did with the transitive and non-transitive verbs :)

[@SomeTomfoolery]

How would one distinguish between an adjective modifying another adjective, and two adjectives modify the same noun? If adjectives always modify the word they follow, then it seems that any sentence that goes "NOUN ADJECTIVE-1 ADJECTIVE-2" would assume that ADJECTIVE-2 is modifying ADJECTIVE-1, never NOUN.

[@astrodonunt]

I've made a sideways font for Pegakibo (soz that it's sideways) fontstruct.com/fontstructions/show/sideways_pegakibo

[@D_M_U]

From what is heard here, the "language sound flavor" is very Malay

[@brandonb8035]

What is the status of this project now? Your website has no dates associated with the entries and I am curious to see how far you've gotten with this in 6 years. I know I have started ambitious personal projects before (but not creating conlangs!) and if you have managed to keep working at this for 6 more years now that would be quite impressive!

[@Curvyfeets]

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[@worstedwoolens]

Base 5 makes my mind scream, how do you get that to work with fractions? The only finite decimals you could represent would be 1/10, 10/10 or 1/1, 1/any number, or 0/any number because of the prime nature of 5. I love the simplicity of the rest of the language, though.

[@ninoandsem]

Nice! Btw, did you make the song yourself?

[@larho9031]

no look at the end of the video