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This week, we have Jim Henry on the show to talk about his long-term labor of love, the “engelangy artlang” gjâ-zym-byn. But first we talk in great detail about noun phrases and many of the things you can do with them.
Top of Show Greeting: Qakwan
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Featured Conlang: gjâ-zym-byn
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After a discussion of George’s recent consumption of bear meat, we get to talking about designing your sound system, a topic we meant to talk about in episode 29 but somehow didn’t end up saying much about. After a long discussion about that topic, we feature perhaps the second most famous auxlang in history, which goes by the terrible name of Volapük.
Top of Show Greeting: Quenya (translation by Roman Rausch)
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Featured Conlang: Volapük (“Handbook”, Wikipedia, Volapük.com)
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Today we talk about something we wish more conlangers would think about creating — isolating and analytic languages. It seems that virtually everyone wants some polysynthetic madness or at least a complex verb paradigm, but there are ways to make isolation and analytic syntax interesting, we promise! Also, Taila
Top of Show Greeting: Hra’anh
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Featured Conlang: Taila
As happens every so often, we’re scraping the bottom of the barrel on conlangs as of late, so I thought I would appeal to the audience to help us find some gems to feature on the show. We’re looking for linguistically sophisticated conlangs with good documentation. It doesn’t have to be a whole book, of course … just enough content for us to talk for about 20 minutes about. You can consult our episode list to see what conlangs have been featured previously and email suggestions to conlangery@gmail.com.
Also, I am out of top-of-show greetings — another common occurrence. You can find out how to submit those on our contribute page.
Thanks!
UPDATE: A viewer has convinced me to accept translations of the top-of-show greeting into natlangs, given that those translations come from native speakers. So, if your native language is something other than English, feel free to contribute a translation. So far we have a German one which will be used for the next episode (#46).
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This week we talk about the many peculiarities of how questions can be handled in your language. Join us as we explore not only polar and content questions, but also talk about rhetorical and conjectural ones as well, with some insight on how different languages handle them. We also have a natlang featured today, one that I’m sure many people will be familiar with.
Top of Show Greeting: Wateu
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Featured NATLANG: Welsh (Early and Middle)
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In lieu of a regular feedback, we read some of our iTunes reviews. Unfortunately, I cannot copy-paste from iTunes and really don’t want to retype them, but I will link to Literal Minded’s blog post where he linked to us — you should have a look see at that guy.
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Today, we spend a ridiculous amount of time talking about adpositions, creating an hour-long discussion out of something William thought would be short. We also have an extra special featured conlang today — one hand crafted specifically for this podcast!
Top of Show Greeting: Opaki Aŋkuati
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Featured Conlang: Junen Rhá
Hey Guys,
Here’s my try at the caseless conlang exercise. Sorry it’s a little
late in coming, but I was busy the last few weeks and am only now
catching up with the podcast. 🙂
It’s been a good many years since I sketched out more than a phoneme
inventory for a conlang, so I apologize for it being a little rough.
Cheers,
Bryn
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We introduce you to a new host: Mike Lentine. Then we cover the different ways you can get rid of adjectives or at least fuzz the distinctions between them and other word classes. Also, we try to figure out what Lojban is all about.
Top of Show Greeting: Esperanto (translation by William)
Featured Conlang: Lojban
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Ok, this is absolutely, positively the FINAL version of the new Conlangery album art. I have tinkered with this thing enough and I’m afraid that if I do anything more to it I will simply screw it up beyond repair. Unless I decide again to completely change the aesthetic a year from now, or I get a professional artist to put a few touches to it, this is what the album art will look like from here on in. You can see the earlier iterations here. So, now for a run down of the languages depicted, from left-to right, top to bottom:
- Itlani: sitsholenú (construct-language-thing-plural)
- Ayeri: Narānacan (literally na-rā-na-tya-n) /naˈraːnaʧan/ narān (‘language’ + -ati ‘AGTZ’ + -an ‘NMLZ’)
- Kamakawi: kalaka’ala’ile (“making language live”)
- Himmaswa: Kangwauswa’iap /kaŋ.wɔ̰.swa.iə̯p̚/
- Ancaron: Sidanaspotcor[ʃɪˈdanasˈpotkoɚ] si-create-language (“Related to conlangs”)
- South Eresian: p’eloniryos (“abstract quality of creating languages”)
- Sindarin (translated by Roman Rausch): lamgar (lam “language” + car “do, make”)
- Klai: [pˡəːsa̰ː ɟlĩək̚ sʉð̞]
That’s it, no more fiddling with the damn album art. I’m done with it. You can still submit your scripts (translate “Conlangery”, interpretively or phonetically, and send a black-and-white image to conlangery@gmail.com), but all additional scripts I recieve will appear in the random header you see at the top (if you refresh a few times, you’ll see you get a different conlang every time). I will see if I can work up a page or something to tell people what languages all those headers are sometime in the future. In the meantime, I need a nap. Thank you to everyone who contributed!
— George
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