Conlang Showcase: Agēre

Finally! I've been wanting to put this together for a while. Agēre is my most thoroughly-developed conlang, and contains a few of the things I most enjoy about historical and naturalistic conlanging. I hope it's interesting!
Music:
Suonatore di Liuto - Kevin MacLeod
(seriously, check Kevin MacLeod out, his audio library is royalty-free, free to use, and has tons of quirky genres!)
0:00 Introduction
1:04 Welcome
1:48 History
2:02 Phonology
2:36 Phonotactics
3:47 Grammar
4:18 Nouns
8:13 Adjectives
10:55 Postpositions
11:11 Verbs
15:03 Adverbs
15:12 Pronouns
15:21 Numerals
15:51 Final words

[@AgmaSchwa]

Quite *aesthetic*

[@narandil5481]

Thanks man! Appreciate the comment. Been a big fan of your channel for a good while now, keep up the good work!

[@dioni_progaming66]

Hello Agma Schwa

[@kvanctok9234]

ŋ

[@bowl1858]

You seem like the kind of youtuber to have abuse allegations

[@decorativewingdings]

ŋə

[@bluetannery1527]

This is the most highly developed, convoluted, overgrown and swollen conlang I have ever seen. Please don't stop here, I fucking love it

[@bluetannery1527]

also let me have your discord or sometbing i'd love to ask u some questions abt conlangs

[@narandil5481]

@@bluetannery1527 Hi, thanks very much! Happy to be the creator of a "swollen" conlang! My email is on the About section on my page, feel free to drop me a couple questions and I'll get back to you when I can.

[@portinari76]

Well, you haven't seen anything yet.

[@tyunpeters3170]

Try Ithkuil

[@yipperson2974]

@@tyunpeters3170Imagine ithkuil beinga an actual language that real life people fluently spoke

[@cobyobrien9036]

at the start i thought this sounded a bit like old english with a bit of finnish, and I feel that carries through! Its very,,,, unplaceably european, which i really like, well apart from declining participles and the genitive absolute * flashbacks to greek class *

[@amjan]

If you told me it was Estonian, I would believe it. It's totally "placable".

[@eagle0710]

i heard it to be quite similar to an eastern european, and i also heard the finnish inspiration

[@quoku7335]

Can you make a discord?

[@user-oe3zl3nd1o]

Dude. You just inspired my to get back to conlanging. Truly amazing!

[@MarcyYorsa]

A beautiful language! Taught me some new stuff as well~ I couldn't help but notice how omnipresent /e/ is as a phoneme x3

[@Hauskreisbenni]

We really want to see more of this! ^^ Please tell us more about the history and language of Αgēre or give us a summory of the related tongues like Eagro and so on :)

[@narandil5481]

Funny you should mention that! Watch this space...

[@kadenvanciel9335]

@@narandil5481 Space?

[@AprilLVideos]

Oooooooooo I really like this! It kinda gives me Tolkien vibes

[@dropletdraws8907]

I understood almost none of this, but I can tell that that’s just because I’m not good with languages, and this could be a real one at this point.

[@im3635]

really love the language,looks like spicy IE + some uniqueness unknown vibes,anyway it sounds good and looks amazing!

[@jan_Masewin]

Beautiful aesthetic, beautiful depth, I love not being able to understand something but knowing there is such careful craft behind it.

[@Helmet_enthusiast]

After getting through half the video, my brain has broken (in a good way if that makes sense) although I’m still relatively new to conlangs. Also, at the start of the video when you switched from Agēre to english, that was a surprise! Felt like two different people were speaking, awesome conlang

[@AdventureCJ]

man I love conlangs that get their own classes after a couple years

[@majahadra7905]

This is very well put together, good job!

[@junodoesworldbuilding2956]

Imma give you a shout out in my next video, this is pretty spicy 👌

[@narandil5481]

Wow thanks man! Much appreciated :D

[@junodoesworldbuilding2956]

@@narandil5481 No problem! Trust me, this is the kind of conlanging content people are looking for 👀

Oooh great stuff! The grammar really gives it a great vibe, super well thought out!

[@MatthewMcVeagh]

Just watched this for the 2nd or 3rd time. It's undoubtedly one of the best artlangs out there. I'm familiar with the inflection patterns due to learning Latin, but for some viewers this must be fearsome.

[@Curvyfeets]

I've rewatched this video many times

[@Moses_Caesar_Augustus]

I watched this video a while ago when I didn't have a clear understanding of grammar. Now I have realized how beautiful and well-made this language is, because now I have a better understanding of grammar. Grammatically, it reminds me of Latin which is one of my favorite languages. The phonology has Old English vibes. The prayer that you read at the beginning of the video sounded a lot like the Lord's Prayer in Old English.

[@zarathustraf5950]

fantastic! one of the best showcases ive seen thus far!

[@conze3029]

Conlangs are so cool to me, and this is such a pretty one. I actually made a kinda silly one myself: “Uns clojan, Lub glub bazzabi di foozma shablawa, clu tenzoj lub glub opjan kojasta… kojasta glub doo elamagrabaclubi. Lub glub infojoob leebi kojasta, u leebi apkoovaj glub shiktakzabi aji lub di plekbon di lubimoab fobac. Lub glub comjes di polkoovdil plekbon di moublubi, lub glub comjes di cobun abio joob leeb keejda bamoo lub di sooba di moab. Jos di glub kolja, lub glub hazelin lubishabablid. Heej… Lub glub rabtoos elamagrabaclubi glub feep-krabtoos aji lub, clu lub glub haphaj fabtoos… gloksee…” This is a short story in my conlang about a guy describing a time he was going to the shoe store, but his mom called him to return home, and he later realizes it was because he forgot his money. Your conlang is significantly better made than mine lol. Great video.

[@whyismycumpink]

The complex grammar really adds the aesthetics of this conlang, and i love it man❤

[@Lichenthefictioneer]

Very nice

[@watson-disambiguation]

Very neat and well done. Reminds me of IE languages, which makes sense, but also for some reason of biblaridion's conlangs in some ways. Very good stuff though.

[@thatprogramer]

Very beautiful!

[@user-ig4mx2te4u]

This is such an impressive amount of thought and development!!! This is top tier shit and it's totally inspiring.

[@horationorman5366]

This is really good work! I hope you keep making videos.

[@Natasha-ig9hr]

Nice. Even as someone who personally dislikes the Greek/Latin aesthetic I quite like it. Almost feels like someone combined Welsh and Greek in terms of phonoaesthetics and idk why.

[@user-zs3vd5np2s]

Very beautiful! Thanks for sharing. I'll copy some of your ideas to my own conlang ;)

[@LoganKearsley]

If you accept the DP hypothesis, putting articles in front of nouns is not an exception to head-initial structure.

[@Hinderlengjes]

Very interesting - the sound is very Finnish/Quenya. Any songs on the way?

[@kadenvanciel9335]

This video, now that I think about it, gives me the impression that the alveolar lateral of Ancient Thirēan evolved to the voiceless dental fricative upon the transition to Classical Thirēan.

[@Moses_Caesar_Augustus]

This isn't a Thirēan language... It's not even made by Biblaridion...

[@kadenvanciel9335]

@@Moses_Caesar_Augustus I know that. I’m just saying it’s giving me the idea. And I think the transition from lateral to dental fricatives occurred in Hebrew.

[@Moses_Caesar_Augustus]

@@kadenvanciel9335 ok

[@scottelkington2245]

Hi, great video ! just a heads up that adpositions (and determiners) are generally considered the heads of their phrases and so postpositions are a head final construction but your exceptions aren't

[@johnargeles7019]

I totally wanna learn this conlang now!

[@RafalRacegPolonusSum]

This is Quenya level gorgeous

[@viperking6573]

It sounds so natural

[@cleitondecarvalho431]

it sounded so damn natural.

[@fyorr]

I was curious, how did /ku:/ become /o/? Great conlangery btw 👀

[@narandil5481]

I explain this at 7:20. /ku:/ > /ku/ > /ko/ then /k/ disappears, but only in the Genitive Singular.

[@fyorr]

@@narandil5481 Ah, sorry, I didn't notice. Thanks! :)

[@choealley8105]

It sound a surprising amount like Latin, cool use of the "quirky" subject though haha

[@runanja]

Kissammi! Would it be possible for you to make a video on how you make these videos😅, as I want to get into doing this kind of stuff. Kwolan!

[@narandil5481]

Happy to by comment :) video from phone, audio from mic through garageband, background music from royalty free platforms, presentation in google slides, screen-record software, sync them up and edit together in GarageBand, voilà!

[@TheKillerwolfi]

you got a sub

[@theoneandonlymr.d]

I am desperately trying to learn to conlang i've got a (pretty new) world i need languages for in total, i think i have about 19 languages (a lot, i know) planned, but i've just barely started on one, using Biblidarion's 8-video tutorial on how to make a language

[@bingolingo6555]

Sounds like old English

[@NormanTheDummy_YouTube]

5:35 it's funny to me because in my conlang (currently known ass Siþtoksk or Sithtokish) virø means man

[@diegosamir4603]

Hola! muy bueno este conlang, como puedo conseguir su vocabulario y gramatica?

[@portinari76]

Great job, man.

[@brillitheworldbuilder]

The sound of this gives me vibes of both Italian and Sámi somehow

[@sorayawaller2041]

Is there a reason the language has postpositions rather than prepositions? I was under the impression that the adposition usually acts as the head, and thus head-initial languages are slightly more likely to use prepositions, so I was curious if there was a particular reason your language has postpositions instead.

[@kadenvanciel9335]

2:07-2:30 Can anyone tell the allophones? (Aside from the obvious.) I can't tell all of them. And the asterisks aren't helping. Are they there to symbolize that the phonemes they're next to are involved with certain allophones? The brackets are somewhat helping, and the footnotes as well. But still...

[@yerdasellsavon9232]

This is class

[@keylime6]

Sounds like a mix between Greek and Finnish

[@sortingoutmyclothes8131]

pretty neat very classical indoeuropean-escque

[@brillitheworldbuilder]

Cool!

[@justaguy0082]

very cool

[@RezonSV]

The Finnish influences mske it sound like Quenya, I like it. 👍

[@farlingvantokajfarmondanto9041]

I would like to study it

[@tzshchsjsjxijyo]

This gives me very Old English and Norse vibes

[@salumtheconlang2953]

woow

[@narandil5481]

Thank you! Big fan of your work on Mondir!

[@grumpyinbrooklyn6347]

This is... a lot!

[@harikrishnabaral7206]

just a beginner here. Your language family is awesome. Appreciated. But try to make other conlangs more diverse. It eerily resembles french to me which is ok by seeing your inspirational languages but try to learn other language's grammar to get a feel of how diverse languages are. May you achieve this task.

[@cassandradawn780]

this feels like it could be a natlang

[@ymin1195]

That' a... Rather complicated language 😅 But impressive job mate 🤎

[@shannonparkhill5557]

I'm guessing you too quite like spanish :)

[@cassandradawn780]

agere

[@joelformica8344]

I didn’t understand the mora thing whatsoever. What do you mean with “third mora from the end of the word”? I thought morae were points each syllable got. How do you count points “from the end of a word”? What does that mean? I’m so confused

[@cellularautomaton.]

i know this is half a year later, but... you're right that morae are the amount of points each syllable gets. we can imagine laying out all those points side by side, for example: .|..|... can represent a word with three syllables where the first has one mora, the second has two morae, and the third has three morae. here's the third mora raised up: .|..|·.. so stress would go on the third syllable. another example: ..|.|..|.|.|. in this six-syllable word, stress falls on the fourth syllable, because it again contains the third from last mora. again, with the third-from-last mora highlighted: ..|.|..|·|.|. hope this helps!

[@Schockmetamorphose]

This sounds like Latin with dental fricatives

[@ivandinsmore6217]

This sounds like the Pope.

[@LanguageBLOX1_Alt]

the nasal. THE NASAL.

[@carolinemasson7172]

Random, but are you a lowland Scot?

[@narandil5481]

Ah ha, knew the accent would give it away eventually! Originally from further north in Scotland but I live around the Lowlands now.

[@carolinemasson7172]

@@narandil5481 ah okay, makes sense, from Edinburgh myself and I haven't heard an accent since I moved to America

[@tlatolcalli682]

This is how Latin sounds to non-native speakers

[@celty5858]

Are you Dutch or Scottish?

[@LeReubzRic]

Scottish

[@Garfield_Minecraft]

Agere sounds so เกเร😏

[@ems7623]

I see how conlangs can be entertaining and even useful in the entertainment industry. But i still wonder ... Given the difficulty of learning languages, why would anyone choose to develop or learn a conlang instead of a real-world language? Surely, the payoff of actually being able to use a language in the real world is greater than the private entertainment of a conlang.

[@rubbedibubb5017]

Not for everyone. However, people who make conlangs are generally into real languages as well, and conlang can be a really goodway of learning and experimenting with foreign linuistic concepts, at least for me. Edit: one more thing is that far from everyone actually learns their language.

[@cellularautomaton.]

the point of making a conlang isn't usually to learn it, so that "instead" doesn't make sense. most conlangers develop conlangs AND learn real languages!

[@NeroDefogger]

I hate natlangs, and this one is a specially bad one, before you even try to say "why do you watch then?" let me tell you that I just searched for "conlang" and the title doesn't say anything about natlang, only conlang, so I had no way to know, and is not like to many showed up so that answers why

[@k1j1j1j]

what the fuck are you talking about bro