What Language Does Santa Speak??? Santaa, the Voice in the Chimney

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[@peregrineperry]

gonna raise my child as a native ò̋̄hh ɋɋ ħɒ̋̋̋ ⱶ̄̋h ꜧɋɋ speaker

[@whizzerbrown1349]

Imagine the accent they’d have in English lmao

[@MalachiCo0]

This needs to be in the next Christmas themed horror film

[@dorkish]

Children: "OMG SANTA IS COMING!!: Santa: H̶o̶o̴o̸,̵ ̵H̸o̴a̷a̷!̶!̶,̴ ̸H̷o̴h̴h̶h̶h̵h̷

[@Слышьты-ф4ю]

Hwawhw, hwawhw, hwawhw!

[@devofficialchannel]

Anyone who wants a job as a Mall Santa must be fluent in this language.

[@efjay3183]

Bruh, you just made Danish. I understood every word

[@_worldbuilding]

lmao

[@Compass.the.Jackal]

Santa has a potato in his throat

[@brightblackhole2442]

i actually reflexively gasped when i saw the entire screen fill with that orthography

[@dorkish]

jingle bells, i love huuuooAAAA

[@nataliemreow]

hey I remember you from the celeste discord

[@haydend.maniac227]

I’m scared to know what the Easter Bunny speaks in

[@pentelegomenon1175]

The Easter Bunny (aka Khors, "the hairy one") communicates by using pysankas, which are groups of decorated eggs representing words. Obviously this script is logographic (a mute creature would have no use for phonemes) and synthetic (it would be difficult for such a language to have a fixed word order). It is currently lost, although it was known to the ancient Tripolye culture who communicated with Khors for some unknown purpose, and some of its symbols can still be seen in the traditional Ukrainian practice of Easter egg decoration, as well as the related Vinca script. It was also falsely believed by German pagans to be a magic language, thus inspiring the practice of rune-casting. It is unknown whether Khors creates pysankas manually, or organically (for example, if you surprised him would he spontaneously lay a pysanka that means"whoa" or "hey"?).

[@haydend.maniac227]

pentelegomenon hey is right Ngl I’ve been thinking of doing a “Easter lang” for the Easter bunny (I’ve been thinking a lot of non-human conlangs recently I could get into more detail but I don’t feel like it rn)

[@haydend.maniac227]

pentelegomenon thanks for the complicated reply I guess

[@pentelegomenon1175]

@@haydend.maniac227 your comment made me really curious about what an Easter Bunny language would be so I did a bunch of Wikipedia searches, and apparently traditional Ukrainian Easter eggs do actually have pagan symbols on them dating back thousands of years, also Vinca symbols actually were found in that area, the rest I mostly wrote off the top of my head while trying to make the Easter Bunny sound like an SCP.

[@haydend.maniac227]

pentelegomenon ok then If the mighty Toa Nguh does do a video about the Easter Bunny’s language he could do that or pull a C’ąąr (I don’t have the respective vowel diacritics on the vowels there) and do a human pronounceable form of it or do something else (even tho rabbits are mostly mute)

[@the_unforseen8224]

brilliant, now we must have a video on proto-Santaa

[@dorkish]

Designed by the ancient race of polar elves. It was made for the ethereal jolly fat man to help communicate in the harsh environment around them whilst making it terrifying to anyone who heard it. Keeping their location still secret to this day.

[@LxE9799]

Listening to the "song" on 2x speed is the best thing ever

[@AgmaSchwa]

dear lord, I haven’t tried that yet, hahaha

[@LxE9799]

@@AgmaSchwa post-Santaa

[@sunburnedshirts3724]

im so damng stoned why did i try this

[@Слышьты-ф4ю]

Reminds me of some childhood cartoons

[@atlassolid5946]

that's how it sounds when a fluent Santaa speaker talks

[@singletaxjax307]

Little known fact: being fluent in Santaa results in the knock on effect of becoming a throat goat

[@cherrycolareal]

WHY THE HELL DID YOU NEED TO SAY THAT

[@sajiwaji]

📝📝📝

[@lekoicy]

dang it, there goes my idea for a dentist's office conlang

[@jesusacuna309]

Here I was thinking a third century Turkish bishop spoke Greek

[@pentelegomenon1175]

although the Dutch people syncretized him with Germanic pagan deities, and this version of the character is what became popular in America and was disseminated across the world

[@arturnicaciodeandrade9861]

St. Nicolaus was greek not turkish

[@ytcollin]

Hypersantaa: Santaa and Gumsmaq creole that features milk and cookies

[@koda90]

you are a gift to humankind.

[@Xcyiterr]

I appreciate that the entire duration that the "song" is on, the entire slide is very slowly zooming in

[@hademvids]

Ingressives may be a little too shitposty for my taste, at least to this extent, maybe nasals would've worked better, but i trust the science behind this. All and all i love it. Good work

[@8-bitfox716]

After watching this video, I regret subscribing to you. You have a literal body pillow of one of my favorite Steven Universe characters. ☹️

[@dorkish]

dudes vocals did literal gymnastics

[@hanskotto8630]

And I love the ingressive egressive contrast. I had the idea for something like that a while ago but never bothered doing it in a conlang lol. Nice seeing it even if it’s not

[@hanskotto8630]

A totally serious conlang

[@mollof7893]

Idk if it sounds like an old karate movie or if Agmə get pegged real good...

[@hanskotto8630]

I’ve never feared Santa like this 🎅

[@Nehauon]

Then you knew not Santa, he is to be FEARED, and loved simultaneously

[@pentelegomenon1175]

I feel like in maybe ten years, the part from 19:15 to 24:12 will be clipped and posted to Everything Is Terrible.

[@SillyIdea]

The words for each number are SO good

[@gaxamillion_]

Santa Schwa

[@linguini1517]

This lang sounds like you turned a whale into a penguin and it had a seizure in front of all the SeaWorld guests

[@mikubrot]

this sounds kinda like the sound my chimney makes when it's super windy....... but i hear it all winter, and winter for me is in june!

[@unfixgaming1006]

I was not expecting that when clicking on this video

[@qantuum7567]

this needs to be shared with cyriak for a super cool song collab including spider santa music videos

[@henleeh2987]

Remind me not to break my throat next time that I attempt speaking a conlang

[@pentelegomenon1175]

How about a voiceless uvular trill, voiceless velar fricative, glottal fricative, glottal approximant, glottal stop, and aspirated glottal stop (I think that exists) as the consonants, every syllable is just a single consonant followed by a mid back rounded vowel, sentences have no spaces and always terminate with a single consonant to specify the speech act, then put a decent tonal system on that (let's say low, mid, high, low to mid, low to high, mid to high, high to mid, high to low, mid to low)? That's like 54 possible syllables, split that into two groups so one can be normal syllables and the other can be word-ending syllables (which would also function as monosyllabic words, and affixes on polysyllabic words), and you have a pretty good Santa laughing sound inventory. Just two syllables will produce about 700 possible words, and three syllables will produce about 20 thousand possible words. I would probably also make the word-ending syllables be the ones that end in a low tone, so the cadence will hopefully sound more natural; that's only a third of them, but this doesn't produce results much different than half-half. I can't think of a funny and appropriate script for this at the moment, maybe something like Ogham?

[@pentelegomenon1175]

Idea for the script: every character is the word "ho" drawn in a single uninterrupted line where you start doing an h from the top, and just before finishing the h you do a loop to the right representing the o. The tone is marked by little serifs at the beginning and end of the line (left = high, right = low, no serif = middle; beginning = starting tone, ending = ending tone), and the consonant is marked by different types of flourish at the angle where the first stroke ends. I call it "gelography" or "gelograms" (from a root meaning "laughter"). However I feel that this script should have normal Roman alphabet style punctuation, since this would make the script seem more insane and terrifying ("ho ho ho ho, ho. ho ho ho? ho, ho ho!").

[@siarhian10]

the joke is he can only say ho ho ho

[@Zethlynn]

Help I hear Santa in my chimney

[@haydend.maniac227]

What fresh hell have you made Turaga?!

[@benst6246]

Santa believers unite

[@AgmaSchwa]

Santa deniers be like "did you here all that SCIENCE in the chimney last night?"

[@benst6246]

The Santa rapture won’t be kind to them.

[@Nehauon]

How ELSE does everyone get gifts at the SAME night?!

[@drsuqi]

ah yes, h̥

[@kaw57_]

My favǝrite vowel

[@mollof7893]

Fr*nch Santa be like: Hõ hõ hœ

[@mrelephant2283]

The witch from L4D2 must be fluent in this thing

[@Tyxaar]

Oh good gods....

[@julian71509]

haha now make one for cupids by feb 14 (you are at gunpoint)

[@tymurtymur6319]

Wait, he doesn't speak suomi?

[@kaw57_]

I wouldn't þiŋk he speaks Finland, þat's a country

[@haydend.maniac227]

Eŋlisċ needs ǝ spelliŋ rǝform I think they meant Suomalainen

[@tymurtymur6319]

@@kaw57_ ð? I þink ð is better for words like «This»

[@aprillillyrose7272]

@@tymurtymur6319 i rekon y shyd be schwa, so ðy

[@Compass.the.Jackal]

He speaks iñupiatun

[@TheZetaKai]

Typo @ 17:59, 12AM should be midnight, not midday, I think. Regardless, there are 3 middays, and only one midnight, which is definitely off.

[@AgmaSchwa]

The summer one's supposed to be midnight, from Santa's perspective the midnight sun is all he gets during the summer, but he doesn't pay too much attention because he rarely awakens during hibernation

[@TheZetaKai]

@@AgmaSchwa So, all of the other three are midday?

[@siarhian10]

ah sweet, man-made horrors beyond my comprehension

[@wyntyrr]

Question: Does SCP-4666 also speak Santaa?

[@AgmaSchwa]

oh most definitely

[@DennisMcCoy-b2r]

This would be interesting to a moose

[@Zuorai]

this is a conlang you could teach a bird

[@TheZetaKai]

Thanks, I hate it!

[@OVXX666]

really awesome sweater shawty

[@Denneth_D.]

One day the EasterLang will happen

[@set3980]

And i thought i'm doing a somewhat cursed conlang.

[@PhoenixInanis]

I wanna see someone make a Santa character voice that only speaks Santaa

[@bobalife785]

so you made the minecraft zombie language????

[@tancredi7106]

Santa speaks koine greek

[@Compass.the.Jackal]

Oh god!!!!

[@jimboreee]

This language is so analytical and tonal that it would give mandarin a run for its money.

[@ZetaPrime77]

Bruh I got an orange for Christmas wtf is this

[@eednb4257]

this is respectably wildin

[@salumtheconlang2953]

ho ho ho

[@thegrimghoul]

I’m distracted by the lapis body pillow

[@rz2374]

djeppema vinarxau re? what does it mean? EDIT: i just scrolled through endless word lists to find out it means "you find a secret" (or maybe "find a secret" as an imperative?)

[@Dolph1nVR]

Im scared of santa now

[@ernwhatthesigma68]

Didn't know Santa's native language was Danish.

[@JosRocks410]

This is just crash bandicoot language

[@kajvanveen5302]

I think David J. Peterson made an elvish conlang for a Christmas movie once

[@kirilvelinov7774]

A(conlang) Sounds Vowel A Sample text AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

[@CubedSausagefromScarparius]

Tolkien had “Arktik Language” I like to pretend that there were Santa’s native in both languages

[@silasssss]

im screaming

[@bacicinvatteneaca]

Brb sending this to my crush

[@quackduck4090]

why no /x/ doe

[@AgmaSchwa]

xo xo xo

[@quackduck4090]

@@AgmaSchwa terrifying

[@doublespoonco]

2n + 4 is not multiples of 3 what??

[@MURDERPILLOW.]

14:03 **sigh** **moans**

[@kirilvelinov7774]

Easter language

[@astal3204]

False. He speaks Greek.

[@kirilvelinov7774]

My language Tons of phonemes Consonants k kk x xx t tt c cc p pp f ff m mp n nk r y w h q kh kkh qh qqh ph pph th tth Labialized:kw kkw xw xxw hw hhw qw qqw khw kkhw qhw qqhw Vowels a e i o u aa ee ii oo uu Tones: High(umlaut) Low(tilde) Falling(grave) Rising(acute) Mid(no diacritic) Whispered(cross)

[@greenkitty1]

What do all these refer to in the IPA and can we see some grammar?

[@LeDingueDeJeuxVideos]

Elaborate?