tɬʼᶣéné - aka Proto-Mandarino-French (Cursed Conlang Circus 3)

[@Gr84me]

Reject Romance languages. Embrace Mandarino-French theory.

[@Lingostuff]

As a french speaker and once (failed) learner of mandarin, I love this conlang.

[@boptillyouflop]

Dude I'm exactly in that camp as well, high five. :3

[@Lingostuff]

@@boptillyouflop Yay ✋

[@getoutofZEWEI]

I love the way the translation sounds, super pretty

[@boptillyouflop]

Eeee thanks

[@enarmonika5557]

zewei found (hi zewei)

[@FunnyParadox]

most normal conlang be like:

[@boptillyouflop]

Yeah, I was aiming for the more casual insanity conlang style that's kinda more like the more... special natural languages like Abkhaz and Salish and Hmong and Pirahã. Doing the sample recording only took a couple takes which is kindof a small miracle considering the words are basically a pile of diacritics with some occasional phoneme under. It not the eldritch horror style that other people do which you can't even humanly read - which is fine by me, but it's not my niche. ^^;

[@kat_astrophe4279]

I finally found the answer to the age old question: what is the most difficult language for English speakers to learn?

[@RAGING_BONER]

This is awesome. You did an amazing job. It has a unique concept and sounds great

[@Wonderland_Jutomi]

It's a very nice conlang! Very sad to see you couldn't make it in time for the circus, but in fairness I'd consider this more just a creative and mildly cursed conlang than fully cursed. But hey, I'm glad to see it's got over a hundred likes and getting some of the attention it deserves, at least. :) Better luck next circus :D

[@Marlo_Strannik]

1:06 I'm already scared

[@ZiadAbdulgalil]

create a word in this language to describe something that is so cursed but so majestic at the same time cuz that's how I would describe this. also I thought I was the only one creating fake proto-langs based on fake cognates between real langs glad im not lonely in this it's very cool. I'm currently working on an old language "Qariyyet" that has a specific concatenative morphology and a typologically kinda common phonological system that could evolve, via mostly some assimilations, analogy, vowel reductions and syncope, to a proto-semitic-like (maybe proto-afroasiatic as well) and a proto-indo-european language in morphology type and phonology. so Qariyyet is sort of a typologically common proto-indo-semitic if I used some fake cognates

[@JohnSmith-of2gu]

This looks and sounds more normal than I expected given the 1 phoneme = 1 morpheme thing. Aside from the stuffed buns, what other cognates between French and Mandarin can be derived from this cursed conlang?

[@boptillyouflop]

Oooh I have a whole cursed list of double etymology... - tʼʷˤʊ́ˤ "all" (tout / dou 年) - nʰʲéné "year" (année / nian 年) - ʒˤɯˤɾˤɯˤ "day" (jour / ri 日) - l̤ᶣè̤n̤è̤ "moon" (lune / yue 月) - tsʰálʲá "sun" (soleil / taiyang 太阳) - ʃʰʷúɾʲí "mouse" (souris / shu 鼠) - tʼʷó "too much" (trop / duo 多) - ʃˤɑˤdɮˤɑˤ "sand" (sable / sha 沙) - sʲẽle "salt" (sel / yan 盐) - eje "eye" (oeuil / yan 眼) - ɕᶣy "I am" (j'suis~chu / shi 是) - pʲeː "by" (par / bei 被) - fʰátʃʰátsʰɨ́ "fork" (fourchette / chazi 叉子) etc...

[@incredulity]

​@boptillyouflop Genius

[@aliabassi8045]

major madbrain vibes 👀

[@MrBmarcika]

awesome:D

[@eclairtleqaq4758]

I was actually trying to make a lang like this for my worldbuilding! I had only about 80 phonemes though and was going in the Toki Pona direction

[@Diskoe]

hi UwU (im yusuketh443 but i cant use my phone now so im gonna say hi using my another phone instead)

[@mollof7893]

wõw

[@boptillyouflop]

When the phonology is so baroque that you give up on romanization and go straight to IPA. :3

[@youwishyoucouldbestie]

The French flag at 0:42 is the wrong way

[@boptillyouflop]

@@youwishyoucouldbestie Woups désolé pour la version Verlan du drapeau de France :3

[@josukehigashikata1481]

French flag is wrong

[@boptillyouflop]

Désolé je l'ai mis à l'envers je sais!