What Happened To French? (Conlang Showcase)

French has changed, and here's how.
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[@antoineleblanc9765]

I love the fact that 80% of that phonetic inventory is absolutely unpronounceable by the average french speaker

[@katakana1]

Or the average human, for that matter

[@dominicdoherty7208]

@@katakana1bold to assume the ‘french’ are human

[@freddyh2213]

So, just like regular French?

[@mew2knight337]

c'est ce que je trouve totalement con

[@fabulouschild2005]

​@@mew2knight337 Bro is speaking the language of ancients 🫵😮

[@Vishanti]

This channel is proof that there's a level of knowledge that drives humans insane

[@DontYouDareToCallMePolisz]

This language sounds like the language that villagers would speak

[@Erinwells-po5jf]

True.

[@maikha8963]

jokes aside, for a unexperienced non french speaker this would actually sound like french

[@thezipcreator]

am an unexperienced non-french speaker, yeah this does just sound like french

[@malegria9641]

@@thezipcreatorsaying that is basically the equivalent of murdering my family you realize that right

[@thezipcreator]

@@malegria9641 yeah

[@zackbuildit88]

​@@malegria9641y'all're french, last I was in Paris my family got insulted and treated like trash for trying to use French and *succeeding.* Y'all deserve it methinks

[@bananacraft69]

I had an idea for "Hyperfrench" about 6 months ago but didn't achieve much because the whole point of the language was to have as much silent letters as possible. "xsomzabenoxekz" (3rd person of "to be") is pronounced /sɔmɞk/

[@misterhydra7285]

You should finish it, that's clever as hell

[@stuchly1]

Speaking of silent letters, I really thought 'queue' with four is as bad as things get but this is hilarious. Well done. That language would waste so much paper just thinking about that makes me giggle 😂

[@DontYouDareToCallMePolisz]

@@stuchly1 too bad "queue" has only 1 silent letter

[@imgvillasrc1608]

If it helps, use Agma's Ultrafrench rules and add in your silent letters idea.

[@smuecke]

Now do Anti-French, where it loses all nasal vowels and reduces its phonology to Rotokas.

[@akirapink]

oiseaux -> waso

[@friesgaming487]

@@akirapinktoki pona!

[@akirapink]

@@friesgaming487 exactly!

[@Eosinophyllis]

I mean if you’re looking for that in orthography Michif does that! You just also have to deal with nouns and verbs having virtually no correlation with one another

[@zackbuildit88]

It should evolve its orthography to somehow be identical to a bunch of combined characters in Japanese

[@Trolligi]

As a speaker of French I can confirm this is true

[@fujiyamathesamoyed7751]

as a french canadian.... I have no words XD I still use the old pronunciation

[@malegria9641]

As a fellow speaker of French I too can confirm this is true

[@NStripleseven]

real

[@Zane-It]

Oui oui

[@MicroBlogganism]

With Ultra French done, it's only a matter of time before we get a video on Mega Danish

[@DontYouDareToCallMePolisz]

yes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@VtinMusic]

we need mega danish

[@tkmfischerman2582]

As a Dane i'm sorry to inform you that it already exists and has for a long time. It is called Jysk and it even has its own local dialects equally incomprensible to each other and actual danish speakers

[@AndreaColombo-fx1wh]

​@@VtinMusicevfnye misx has made stendansk

[@GregoryMom]

Stendansk

[@AgmaSchwa]

btw,The CCC2 is going to be like 8 hours long at this rate, I've already gotten like 80 submissions

[@Denneth_D.]

*80?!*

[@Dr._Geno]

8 hours? serieously, can't wait, that's going to be wonderful, can't wait! Also if you to a CCC3 I plan on having a conlang for that one, I only just discovered your channel, thanks to ceraphim, (and therefore through CCC1), and so I deffinetly won't have time to start, and complete my first ever conlang in time for CCC2, so I'm just hoping you do another one next year again.

[@Commeownicat]

im still gonna watch it lmao

Do not threaten us with a good time

[@teamcyeborg]

​@@Dr._GenoI believe in you, you've got literally hundreds of minutes to make it before the deadline!

[@KalimbaJammer]

Next time, Agma Schwa should do this to either Polish or Portuguese

[@misterhydra7285]

ultrapolish will just turn into an abjad

[@RafalRacegPolonusSum]

@@misterhydra7285 More like a snake language

[@elaqgarahulelpon1479]

Kinda scared to ask because it's next to polish but, What happened with Portuguese?

[@gcewing]

Ultrapolish would consist entirely of consonants.

[@GammaMuDMu]

Ultraportuguese?

[@NStripleseven]

You’re slowly creating an entire dystopian world that’s based solely around the complete inability for efficient communication due to incomprehensible languages.

[@futrey9353]

Ænd aj'm ol for æt (and i'm all for it)

[@stuchly1]

This is what god did to the people who built the tower of babel 😂😂😂

[@zackbuildit88]

Post-babel dystopia

[@vaiyt]

Ultrababel

[@DapperDinosaur]

It's like being back in High School French class!

[@CrystalLily1302]

what is my favourite anti creationist theropod doing in linguistics youtube? this is not the crossover I expected

[@Denneth_D.]

HOLY DAMN IT’S DAPPER THE KLINGON SPEAKING CERATOSAURUS!

[@DapperDinosaur]

@@Denneth_D. oh yeah I'm here! naDev jIH!

[@Denneth_D.]

@@DapperDinosauroh no My only weakness Mixed case (along with a stinky romanization)

[@mollof7893]

Holy šit Dapper Dino!😮

[@gatyunla]

question: how do I distinguish between speakers of Ultra French and patients with ultra pneumonia? they sound so similar 🤔 (more serious comment: thanks for the vid. absolutely love your cursed conlangs and I'm looking forward to the results of the circus)

[@isaacthedestroyerofstuped7676]

This sounds like if Vincent Price had a stroke whilst havong an argument with someone in French. Also, this is not the language of romance; it is the language of being thrice divorced.

[@SurfTheSkyline]

How would one say "oh dear lord I am so scared please make the cursed circus man stop before he unintentionally summons an eldritch horror into existence"

[@zackbuildit88]

No that one's forbidden. Last time someone said it the sun turned blue and the sky was red

[@quarksquare]

well now i wanna see your take on Ultra-English. Ultra-American and Ultra-British maybe

[@Shareenear]

Ultra-Brummie would be great

[@Desolationmachine]

Ultrawelsh might be funny

[@imgvillasrc1608]

There already is an Ultra-English, it's called Anglish. It removes all non-germanic words from its vocabulary.

[@samuelmarger9031]

Me seeing this video: ... ... "NON ! Dieu... Non, Dieu, s'il vous plaît, non ! Non ! Non ! NOOOOOOOOOOO"

[@xX_wiLLiam_Xx]

OUIIIIIIIIIIIIII

[@CasIsCuriousAboutScience]

As someone with a sore throat, I agree with you

[@samuelcheung4799]

How you managed to put French, Turkish, Irish, 1000 years of language development, and cursedness in a mixing bowl and make it work well is beyond my comprehension. But I must say: I adore it.

[@k.umquat8604]

I don't know about Irish,but this sounds nothing like Turkish...

[@samuelcheung4799]

@@k.umquat8604 Turkish by its highly agglutinative grammar structure.

[@JDWatkins-ws4jt]

Ultrafrench is basically a Gaulish-Basque-Latin creole

[@Hwelhos]

Thanks for simplifying the orthography

[@erkinalp]

yeah french orthography is broken to the fullest extent

[@volvagianintendo6465]

Wow! Polysynthetic French! 🎉❤

[@DapperDinosaur]

But isn't that just French?

[@volvagianintendo6465]

​No, @@DapperDinosaur, for the true French speech isn't as synthetic as this talish offspring of its, which is named Ultrafrench.

I hate how much this makes sense

[@thesolartermsarethebest7062]

🇲🇫🥐🇲🇫 T'hebhau Raúl 🇲🇫🥐🇲🇫

[@thesolartermsarethebest7062]

(Not French, just like T'hebhau Raúl)

[@misterhydra7285]

This is dreadful, I absolutely love it

[@gambe96]

"en faire tout un fromage" doesn't mean "to make everything into cheese", it means "to make it into a whole cheese"

[@nicolasglemot6760]

More accurately, "to make a whole cheese out of it".

[@gambe96]

@@nicolasglemot6760 ouais si tu veux

[@neopalm2050]

@@nicolasglemot6760 shhh... if you say it like that, it almost sounds like the french and the brits have something... _in common._

[@SHRUGGiExyz]

Idk how to tell you this but Québecois French sounds just like this to France French speakers... _and vise versa_

[@eddisakillergnome]

well, well, well... now, I want an entire series...

[@BFC77]

Who knew navajo and ultra french are the same language

[@С.Н₀]

Now I wonder how Old French "Oui" transforms in Ultra French.

[@JDWatkins-ws4jt]

It would transform into

[@kornsuwin]

Although the Rávér does talk about a 'yes', *y’í does not seem to appear in the dictionary. Closest I could find were dahaúr (sure, okay), rêd’hes (of course), and kinda baú (to be good, to be correct). There's also three words for 'no' (asý’ýa for the indicative/sá for the subjunctive/t’hé for the optative), if you wanted to know.

[@captainyulef5845]

Somehow I like this more, because it ironically sounds like someone has cotton balls in their mouth instead of unironically.

[@volvagianintendo6465]

Man, this is soothly a masterpiece! I love it all!

[@malegria9641]

I thought my cursed conlang was bad but this just hurt my to my cœur

[@RadioactivFly]

The next evolution of Ultra French: It becomes tonal

[@juliansaav]

this is SO funny and great!!!🤣

[@GG69BLIN]

❤❤❤loooove it, again

[@Chrnan6710]

Can't wait for you to review Douleur

[@MURDERPILLOW.]

That was made for him

[@tfairfield42]

These videos keep my complete and entire attention because the jokes on the computer screen. Brilliant strategy good sir

[@GG69BLIN]

😂The background memes really got me

[@kornsuwin]

this is therapy

[@decepticonne]

as a french speaker the consonants are a sick read

[@xX_wiLLiam_Xx]

4:25 where does this souns effect come from

[@tlatai]

this would make a good villager language ŋgl

[@fabulouschild2005]

NOT LENITIONS 😭😭😭 (I've been learning Scottish Gaelic for like 9 months)

[@AndreaColombo-fx1wh]

One of my conglangs will have a lot of lenitions and a massive phonology. It's gonna be so cursed.

[@mm552]

We cannot go down this timeline, I repeat: WE CANNOT GO DOWN THIS TIMELINE WE CAN- v'iva l'Recõlûçįœnaaaaa

[@hFactorial]

How do you translate "ô me-l'ette du phreau-m'âge" in ultrafrench?

[@robinstrand772]

So THAT's the language Minecraft villagers speak!

[@mollof7893]

Very ŋəice!

[@plexusGD]

I completely agree with that statement NGL

[@funimonki4803]

I’m making a language and it’s called “Maчöiska” (machoiska) and I have finished its alphabet, grammar, 1/500 of the vocabulary. It’s really hard to implement all of the existing vocabulary, does anyone have tips?

[@friesgaming487]

swadesh lists?

[@abarette_]

as a French native speaker, the weirdest part of the whole video is /y/ actually being orthographied as 'y' instead of 'u'

[@AgmaSchwa]

hehehe, this was not an accident

[@aro4cinglife]

this feels like the E1back there benjamin version of French if yk what I mean

[@donovantownshend8783]

I'd still rather learn this than French

[@gabrielcollstefoni7765]

why im crying

[@dyld921]

My guy really made a 38-page document just for a couple thousand views

[@aro4cinglife]

putain c'est compliqué ça.

[@cupcakkeisaslayqueen]

I actually tried using devoiced vowels in conlangs. it sucked

[@Denneth_D.]

ULTRAFRENCH… ULTRAFRENCH IS REAAAL!!! *inserts the French version of Dark Fantasy*

[@sampsonlee2]

I wonder what in modern French is the name T'heb'haú Raúl derive from? Edit: I found the answer in the reference grammar. It is "jeter l'éponge parole".

[@dylanpowers8282]

Thank goodness the old French still exists. I can't imagine this becoming a global language

[@user-jz7vp7kg1u]

Every time I watch anything to do with linguistics I start feeling so stupid and uneducated because I have no idea, what half of the words mean. On a different note: it is 3:18 a.m.; why am I not sleeping?

[@С.Н₀]

Commenting the video BEFORE it is out is cursed btw.

[@qantuum7567]

just wait until you see one of the contest's contenders, also loosely based on french

[@smallpoppies0]

2:55, 5:55

[@BryanLu0]

French spelling just as bad as English spelling frfr

[@dimitrosskrippka2154]

4:57 sounds of Sheol

[@devofficialchannel]

When you out-Frenched the French.

[@Alexandre-yp1uy]

2:34 oh hey a velar trill

[@lukesmith8896]

Holy cow it's real!

[@marym7104]

Within 7 days!

[@mortimer687]

hypertagalog cloŋ with austronesian alignment i beg

[@carlosma79-rj3fi]

Pretty ballsy move to say that french will ever update it's orthography

[@avtomaticeskijrazdatcikgus2713]

OK, but how do you say "they peel us" in Ultrafrench?

[@Desolationmachine]

Gvprskvni is you peel us

[@AndreaColombo-fx1wh]

Gvprtskhvni

[@kornsuwin]

assuming the word for "to peel" is debhúy’ẹ́ (from dépoullier)... roughly 'Laúdebhúy’é.' [ɮ̃ɔ̃.de.bʰũˈɥẽˑ]

[@avtomaticeskijrazdatcikgus2713]

@@kornsuwin Huh. That's almost not so bad.

[@kornsuwin]

@@avtomaticeskijrazdatcikgus2713 i might be able to construct a more treacherous form if i were to study the Rávér more, but 3m.s.act-1.p.pass-to.peel is good enough as a bare minimum

[@Zane-It]

Ultra french looks kinda like old breton

[@AlbySilly]

So this is the language the large nosed mushroom speaks in hollow knight

[@kylezdancewicz7346]

What about ultra Hungarian or Finnish. We need a language with more noun cases than Ithkuil

[@Denneth_D.]

Quebec French is objectively more petrifying I don’t want to sound controversial but Am I not the only one that thinks Nasal vowels are gross (why even have a distinction it just makes any one speaking sound like their having a head cold) Agma you better not make a Copypasta out of this ;3

[@NoverMaC]

i too dislike nasal vowels

[@Denneth_D.]

@@NoverMaCsame braincell ‘Innit.

[@captainyulef5845]

I kinda do, though I'm less opposed to it than I used to.

[@abarette_]

nasal vowels are cool :D

[@vaiyt]

Guarany makes it work

[@thebonkera1221]

its french but with a goidelic twist

[@marym7104]

4,895th viewer of this video!

[@Sanguinello0s]

Is it because its the half day of april fools day today????

[@Denneth_D.]

Several redditors must be creaming themselves seeing that Ultrafrench is finally a reality

[@artifactU]

ŋu

[@filipinojalapeno1527]

so close! its ŋə

[@avtomaticeskijrazdatcikgus2713]

@@filipinojalapeno1527 Ŋë.

[@noahnaugler7611]

ow

[@flatline-timer]

FINALLY ULTRAFRENCH IS REAL

[@argh523]

U L T R A F R E N C H

[@trentonyoder7623]

"bruh" -me

[@pixel9753]

I promise not to tell the secret 😊

[@SketchyTigers]

who hurt you

[@afz902k]

Better but not good, what the heck does that even mean?!

[@JungleLibrary]

For example, if I were eating moldy bread, it's better than eating cow dung, but it is not good.

[@dj_longinus]

🥐🥐🥐

[@qantuum7567]

look how they massacred my boy 😢

[@afs.akhter8274]

If you don't make a new video...

[@Dr._Geno]

ok but at least dollar amounts are written and pronounced the same in french, UNLIKE ENGLISH!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@munchnEl]

thanks i hate it

[@phillipsiebold8351]

The orthography leaves a lot missing. You need rapacious amounts of elision to be going on. So you might have those dots, but I rather see something monstrous. Phonology and grammar doesn't change (or stays as you have made it). You just have a lot of garbage words that don't get enunciated but must be written down.

[@k.umquat8604]

It's all *on purpose*

[@alexciorita8402]

background music annoying af

[@paintingperson5319]

Didnt find it cursed enough, too many plosives and too little voiced glottal fricative colored uvular trills

[@vaiyt]

That's what douleur is for

[@rovio278]

FIRST

[@nanoswagger]

I don't want someone making ruhh ruhh hurr hurr sounds at me (not racism at all)

[@bacicinvatteneaca]

Why exactly did you pronounce [ʒa.ˈdɔʁ] as [ʒä.ʁ̞ə̃]? That's pretty weird... Inb4 J'adore Malakian