https://github.com/digiduncan/conlang
Unnamed WIP conlang, only here because I want to have a good place for this.
https://github.com/digiduncan/conlang
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Unnamed WIP conlang, only here because I want to have a good place for this.
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/digiduncan/conlang
- Owner: DigiDuncan
- Created: 2025-06-13T13:05:49.000Z (12 months ago)
- Default Branch: main
- Last Pushed: 2025-08-31T04:00:49.000Z (9 months ago)
- Last Synced: 2025-08-31T06:11:36.495Z (9 months ago)
- Size: 111 KB
- Stars: 0
- Watchers: 0
- Forks: 0
- Open Issues: 0
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- Readme: README.md
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# Conlang
> [!WARNING]
> This is an ***extremely under construction*** repository.
This is the working area for a currently-unnamed conlang.
Do *you* have any reason to be here? Likely not; if you're not the intended audience I'm not going to spend a lot of time explaining this, sadly.
I will however direct you to the [Wikipedia article on the subject](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constructed_language), the [Reddit community](https://www.reddit.com/r/conlangs/), and the [Language Creation Society](https://conlang.org/).
> [!IMPORTANT]
> Inside this repository is an Obsidian vault. It should be as simple as cloning the repo and opening the `vault` folder as a vault.
## Point Of This Conlang
There are many ideas and thoughts I have on a daily basis that I find difficult to express in the one language I know, English. I also have a lot of frustration with some of the shortcomings of English. I want to make something that lets me express myself more *correctly*, if not more coherently (due to my assumption that no one else will learn this language.) I'd say the mission statement is "allow me to communicate difficult ideas" but it's definitely going to branch away in some aspects as I just enjoy playing with language features.
Key ideas include:
- **Synthetic language**: forces you to describe a concept to speak about it, requiring introspection on the part of the speaker and revealing personal associations to the listener
- You probably know of German being an synthetic language, but the a more apt comparison to the *purpose* of this choice (if not the implementation) is [toki pona](https://tokipona.org/).
- **No gendered pronouns**: instead, different pronoun types exist for distinctions like animate/inanimate, and subject/object.
- **A base 16 counting system**: not only for ease of use with computers, but because of the humans brains natural ability to double/half something mentally.
- **Adjectives after nouns**: in order to allow the listener to "build the scene" in their head.
- **Way too many tenses**: *perpetual*, *certainty*, *retcon*... the list goes on.
- **Neutral-connotation adjectives**: in order to speak about concepts without imbuing them with a "stance;" affixes exist to modify this
- **Grammatical paranthesis**: to clear up confusion about when clauses begin/end
- **A grammatical way to speak about the complex number plane**: because frankly we don't have a good one
More will be added to this list as time goes on, but these are the points I've thought of over the last year or two.
I intend for the orthography to be easily readable and for a bespoke writing system to be made that emphasises the meaning of some of the features here.