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Viktor77 · Gent Joined: 09 Mar 2008 Location: Kýví, Makavá

Speak? Read? Write? Understand?

At what kind of proficiency?

Do you know other's conlangs?

It's a given that we are all familiar with our conlangs, but it'd be interesting to know who can converse, or who is fluent in theirs.
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Primordial Soup · Šalea Joined: 26 Feb 2006 Location: Oberlin College

No.
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Zereskaoate · Endi Joined: 10 Dec 2007 Location: Virginia Beach!

Extremely fluent in my own. Almost as fluent as in English. That includes reading and writing. And understanding .I think. I've recorded audio notes in my lang, and easily followed them when reviewing them a couple days later. No one else speaks my language (well), so I can't really test myself.

It would be neat to learn someone else's conlang, and try to be fluent in it. Someone should write a Rosetta Stone-type program for conlangs Very Happy

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dinnae · Tšur Joined: 10 Jan 2007 Location: Elsewhere

Hell no.
I was proud of myself, yesterday, when I composed a very basic sentence without having to look up anything.

I can read and write my conscript without much trouble, though (the scribbly stuff in my signature). I transliterate English with it when I take notes in class, most of the time, though. When things are a bit slow.

(Well will you look at that... this made me a Tshur)

halyihev · Posted: Wed Mar 12, 2008 2:45 pm Post subject:

I can speak, read, write, and understand Alurhsa fairly well. I used to say I was fluent in it, but I've let it slip a bit over the last few months. I am working on getting that level of fluency back. I still write my journal in it and look up very, very few words, and I write it almost as fast as I write English. (Well, faster, since my English handwriting is appalling...).

I don't really know either of my other two active conlangs, Tariatta and Ku Tal, anywhere near that well.

I know Tsiasuk-Pron's Itlani fairly well. Not fluently, and I tend to still need a dictionary handy to really say much, but well enough that he and I can communicate by email, and to a lesser extent by spoken word in person.

Alurhsa version:
Móv sehene lrávsáme ñevâ, velâ, vílâ ddá vùzâ zh'Álurhsáxná. Díveláyû lhen ttòlrávsáme gnevâ dhón, he ñóráme mlevásváyû dhón gó zhë prenyáxná zenyáyóxná, ddá ávrejálÿ vneres yákrâ. Nyets móv kelyâ lháls-vílárenán ddá nelhâ hídhâ clá ñórá ñevón, ddá vílálÿ kìn sá qálsáme sá zh'Áñgëlsáxná. (Qálsává, kalesh, kálÿ gálezáme vílálÿ zh'Áñgëlsáxná víláráxná...)

Verhsáxne ñe gneválÿ kóráme lrávsáme ñeyën lháls-yáshëç sílá vreleksáç hályeç, zhë Váynsá ddá zhë Kútálsá.

Sehene lrávsáme gneválÿ zh'Ítlánsán Tsíásúk-Próná. Ñe ttòlrávsáme, ddá nelhélálÿ ñevárenán pólef dívâ órán, he sehene pólef el móvá gzárâ móshvá náskenáxná, ó zálenéme vùne wáláxna.

(And yes, I wrote that without looking up a single word...)
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Álurhsá Ólevár/Alurhsa Website: http://alurhsa.org
Sehályensá Víláren/Bilingual Blog: http://blog.alurhsa.org
Álurhsá Ásálqáren/Alurhsa Board: http://forum.alurhsa.org

Khvaragh · Gent Joined: 09 Oct 2006 Location: Binghamton, NY

I can pronounce most of my conlangs, and read/write the scripts I've created for them.
However, my most recent project (unnamed), which I posted in C&C quickies, has over 16 types of prenasalized consonants. I can not pronounce it, nor do I have much hope to. It was a lang created to explore some new subjects that I haven't explored in any other conlangs I've created.
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langover94 · Gent Joined: 24 Nov 2007 Location: USA

I am not really fluent in my conlang, but I can speak, read, write, and understand it fairly well. I seem to sort of memorize it as I go, as opposed to some people that I've talked to.
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Guitarplayer · Posted: Wed Mar 12, 2008 4:20 pm Post subject:

No. Constructing sentences grammar-wise is not very much of a problem, since I have been working on my conlang for the last 4 years (and still haven't got both a decent written grammar and any diacronics done!), but I have still only memorized few words apart from functional morphemes.
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Tsiasuk-Pron · Tšur Joined: 29 May 2005 Location: Long Island, NY, USA

Yes I am fluent in Itlani. I use it whenever I can. I try to think in it whenever I remember too. I keep a journal in it. I email in it (usually bilingually). I do have to occasionally look up a word in the Lexicon. Some words just don't seem to stick with me. I can read Itlani in both its square and cursive script. Easier for me in reading is the romanization though.

I know a few words of halyihev's Alurhsa but I really struggle with that.

Itlani:

Khay, kul-previzhe ta Itlanit sholova eypya makayaru. Djurova igüayaru ranti-vá makayaru. Djurilu talshya khiyefyaru ranti-vá idaova zhigutyaru. Djurilu aspalfereshova feryaru. Djurilu sotanyaru (ayfanalilu zarsholizhe). Haku-haku gadanova mampisya dini ta Gadansalan cheykopyaru. Sneha gadanú seti zhoyan depikyaru ra. Ta chenferilu vey ta yeniferilu ta Itlanit sholova makbashya makayaru. Aromanizhe zhoyese onyara ta romteynsimova igüaya.

Anuvit gadanovó ta Alurit shola halyiheva pilayaru ruzay seti idaan prakyaru khaá.
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cybrxkhan · Ur Joined: 09 Mar 2008

i am not fluent in my most developed conlang, Aidisese, but i have memorized some of its vocabulary and most of its grammar
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Parahq · Posted: Wed Mar 12, 2008 5:23 pm Post subject:

As of yet - i can barely make simple phrases out of Saiyan, much less speak it in sentences. Sad

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TomHChappell · Šalea Joined: 28 Dec 2005 Location: South-East Michigan

O hell no. Not even close. None of it.
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Zoris · Posted: Wed Mar 12, 2008 7:52 pm Post subject:

Ha ha ha. I speak Chinese better.
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Downtimer · Tšur Joined: 23 Aug 2005 Location: In a world of my own

How is it possible to make a conlang without learning it? The fact that I don't know is probably why I don't have a decent conlang of my own yet.
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Serali · Šalea Joined: 26 Feb 2006 Location: New York City

Keep working on it you'll get there. As for me yes. I can read it, speak it, write in it of course.

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andre · Mey Joined: 14 Jan 2007 Location: NY, NY

Arunaza · Tšur Joined: 16 Oct 2005 Location: Nouvelle Angleterre

I can speak, read, and write Carune to varying degrees, although I never have the opportunity to speak it (I soliloquize at times, but slowly, with pausing). This isn't saying much, though, as Carune is a borderline Italian-clone, and I already study French and Spanish. I need to look up words sometimes, but much of the time I can approximate from either of those languages. I imagine my listening comprehension, if I ever had the opportunity to test it, would be less than great.

In Carune:
Posson parlare, lere, e scrivire Carune a varì punti, mà che n'ho l'opportunità de parlarlo (soliloquizo dei tempi, mà lentamente, con fermate). N'è molto, aùn, per che Carune è un quasi-clono d'Italiano, e già stuzio il francese e il spagnolo. Dei tempi, s'falla che investighe paroli, mà in generale posson approssimare de queste lingue. Imaggino che mia comprensione auditoria, si aveva l'opportunità d'essaminarla, esserè mench'ottima.

It's not nearly as dramatic and cool as Itlani.
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Ilasir Maroa · Për Joined: 06 Feb 2008 Location: Mazerage

I can use and read the script, and know a few words and random sentences, as well as a majority of the grammar, but I would be hard pressed to do more than translate with assistance. I asked a similar question awhile ago, and I got many responses like this. You might need to rephrease your "given". Very Happy

I probaby know more of Tsiasuk's Itlani than of my own conlang.
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Zereskaoate · Endi Joined: 10 Dec 2007 Location: Virginia Beach!

lol, I didn't think you could know someone else's conlang better than your own.

Like langlover, I basically memorized it as I went along. I usually just talk to myself in it, to improve my conversing skills. I used to use "koi" alot (my languages version of "um..."), but now I don't as much.

Now I just need to get someone to talk to (other than myself).
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Ilasir Maroa · Për Joined: 06 Feb 2008 Location: Mazerage

Oh, but you can. I work on mine piecemeal. And it's much more complicated than Tsiasuk's.

[quote=downtimer]How is it possible to make a conlang without learning it? The fact that I don't know is probably why I don't have a decent conlang of my own yet.[/quote] Don't worry. I don't know mine very well yet, and certainy barely any words of it. It's much like many amateur poets (and probably professionals) know few of their poems. How often have you dealt with a complete conlang of yours on anything like a comprehensive basis? Much of my work on the grammar deals very much with abstrcts of the language; not conducive to learning at all.
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And the river of the mind runs free
Leaves nought in it's wake but serenity
From a silent spring of translucent sheen
Slip silver songs of crystal carved
By the hand of Water's queen

~Ilasir Maroa

Zoris · Posted: Wed Mar 12, 2008 10:15 pm Post subject:

Pyurio · Gent Joined: 08 Sep 2005 Location: Java - Indonesia

I can't speak two of my most worked on conlang simply because the language is not meant to be spoken by human.
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Tsiasuk-Pron · Tšur Joined: 29 May 2005 Location: Long Island, NY, USA

PTSnoop · Posted: Thu Mar 13, 2008 4:58 am Post subject:

Wow, there are a lot of Itlani-speakers on the ZBB. (BTW, what's the Itlani for "Itlani-speaker"? Just wondering.)

And I still need my pages of morphosyntax notes and a dictionary to write anything in any of my conlangs. Sad

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halyihev · Posted: Thu Mar 13, 2008 6:05 am Post subject: