How To Create A Conlang: Episode 2 - Orthography

[@swaree]

I don't be to be _that_ smartass guy, but a romanization is the adaptation of a script to the Latin alphabet (e.g. Romaji for Japanese), a more general term is transliteration, to mean any script. The written rendering of the sounds of a language is indeed an orthography, as you rightly said. Thanks for doing this series, quite informative and a great introduction to those new to conlangs. Also a fan of the heavy breath at the end

[@Dracheneks]

Ah, so it is, whoops! Thank you for letting me know. I'm glad you're enjoying it, thank you for sticking around to watch! Another whoops 😅

[@Kaza0kun]

I had to learn IPA for a linguistics course I took. That’s how I learned most of them. I wish I could have taken more classes on linguistics.

[@Dracheneks]

A great head start! I wish I could have too, however much of my schooling is devoted to engineering. Self-teaching is fun, however, and with the right resources, things can be made easy, that's why I'm here to help!

[@Liggliluff]

(2:30) Also, why's the options always; Latin or invent your own? 🤔

[@ivyisgreeen]

because we're speaking english and we use the latin alphabet for english

[@vb0t429]

These are really good! They honestly teach so much :D

[@Dracheneks]

I'm glad they are! thank you for watching them!

[@talkingweevil3172]

I love the yay at the start, it’s so me! Lol 😂

[@MrRhombus]

Tip: You shouldn’t have a ch digraph when there is no sound for c by it’s own in your conlang, but you may do that if you wish I am just pointing out that characters should make sense in their representation

[@Barrinetic]

This is going to make a year…. And I’m impatient but I’m still going to do it as I’ve been stalling for 3 years

[@fleet367]

Love these videos, really enjoyed it!

[@notoriouswhitemoth]

The abugida used for Hindi, Sanskrit, and a few other indo-aryan languages is devanagari. The abjad used for Arabic and a handful of Balkan and north African languages is Arabic. If you want a "futuristic" writing system, featural is a foregone conclusion.

[@kerimbabic6124]

FYI abjad isn't used in Balkan languages since 20th century. I don't want to be rude, I just want to inform

[@qwertyTRiG]

My favourite featural writing system is Sutton SignWriting.

[@Dracheneks]

I've just read about it in Wikipedia and it's indeed very interesting! It looks nice and is very useful, thank you for bringing it to my attention!

[@qwertyTRiG]

@@Dracheneks You need to know a little about sign language phonology to properly get it, but it is a truly fascinating system. I really should try to research and write a conlanger's guide to sign languages. Most conlangers know very little about how sign languages work and the fascinating ways in which they differ from spoken languages.

[@Dracheneks]

@@qwertyTRiG Absolutely. Sign language is fascinating and I'd love to learn about it.

[@qwertyTRiG]

@@Dracheneks I did two years of a four-year Deaf Studies course, hoping to become an interpreter. Dropped out because of stress. But I still have my notes and a fascination with linguistics. I just need to talk myself into doing the work.

[@Dracheneks]

That's really interesting! And does seem very taxing. There are so many different types of language, even some that people don't realise are so different, like sign language.

[@iantyner7520]

a good way of starting to make a script for me is to try to make it work in English, its not hard to make english an abjad. a writing system i made is like that, one feature i think was interesting is that there is a symbol for no continent, where an ending vowel would be

[@Liggliluff]

Why did you use Y for /j/? It makes more sense to use J. Wished conlangers weren't so afraid of using J for /j/.

[@Dracheneks]

I'm not scared of using J at all. I used y, since most of my audience are English speaking, and is mainly aimed for English speakers to learn. I can choose whichever letter I want to use. I could have chosen Z, it is not a decision that will affect or harm anybody, just a personal choice.

[@8thorpe]

Using y for j is a style thing

[@arkhandhwr]

Are there any types of script outside of the six mentioned here (outside of combining them)?

[@anawkwardsweetpotato4728]

ʸᵃʸ...

[@seilaessecanalnvaitervideo6414]

iu criatindo ua lenguage thue es purtuglis da fusion of purtugues and english i just used 3 english words in this sentence of,and,fusion

[@Afon705]

"Fusion" isn't actually an English word, it comes from Latin (see "fusão" in Portuguese and "fusión" in Spanish).

[@rhupereiira5995]

Eu sou brasileiro e consegui entender, já que falo espanhol e inglês também!

[@kerimbabic6124]

I just want to point out that you pronounced voiceless palatal fricative as voiceless post-alveolar fricative. Maybe you aren't good with that sound. You should change it to velar or post-alveolar or even alveolo-palatal fricative. Just saying, not trying to be mean. Video is very good BTW

[@Dracheneks]

Yeah, I noticed afterwards. I was tired when recording the voiceover for this video so that's just came out my mouth xD I can pronounce both, believe me, I do when I speak German. It was just an off-day. It's fine, I understand. Thank you very much, I'm glad you enjoyed it!

[@livedandletdie]

stress... I prefer pitch accent... AKA Swedish, Japanese or say Chinese, Norwegian and Danish. Let's see Swedish doesn't have stress, well it does have stress, kind of, pitch is after all a form of stress, however Swedish is a pitch accent, like chinese, although I do think tonal language is a bit better of a term, as it's tone based. Although Swedish isn't as awful as Chinese when it comes to tone, after all Swedish only has 2 tones at most. Minimum 1, which is known as type 0 Swedish pitch, it's weird and an outlier and it's how Finnish people speak Swedish. I myself speak with a pretty archaic 2 tone pitch, in fact the oldest known pitch accent that's in a European language, although there are only the Scandinavian languages that are pitch accent languages in Europe. Then we have the Danes, which have stød, which is unique to Danish, it's a weird thing that evolved from pitch accent... it's weird even from my perspective and no matter how much I try to understand it, I can't. Even though I speak Danish. I did after all say I speak the most archaic pitch accent in Swedish... it just so happens to be the most archaic form of Danish as well. Nothing to think about there. However pitch accent is way harder to design into a language than simple stress.

[@eidanruyao]

i stole the english alphabet and added some diacritics

[@kalinkavelinova2529]

Neymarese uses an alphabet

[@brighamhellewell1747]

You need more subscribers I should see 10,000 Subscribers

[@supermobileman6055]

You made binary lol

[@yanagelfand4337]

Seriously, you're explaining what "unstressed" means? Do you really think there are people watching this who don't know that? It's taught in like first grade...

[@Dracheneks]

This tutorial is meant to be for absolute beginners of conlanging, therefore explaining everything is the best course of action so that people aren't confused in case it wasn't taught. Not everyone's education is the same.

[@nyelvbabycakes]

i mean its not the same for every country including mine