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? Jipí der saz ûf eime steine
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quoting Nortaneous:
Arve is p. easy because English — I don't think I recorded that more than once or twice. V'eng took a few minutes to get used to, but it's not that hard. Amqoli is impossible to pronounce and I probably recorded it fifty times.

Mkay, so I’m not the only person who has to do multiple recordings to get things right …
? Nesescosac Verborum qaghatun
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quoting Jipí:
Mkay, so I’m not the only person who has to do multiple recordings to get things right …

By no means. Hell, I have trouble sometimes making recordings in English.
? Matrix Chronicler of the Myriad
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? Hallow XIII Primordial Crab
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Kangshi

Iʐâtsi ke ɯŋɯ̀ kbǽi. Qɤtɤ oʁzɯ̂a tqàma qɤtbéʐuŋo qɤkisúoxo. Okmnâɯ qɤtbéʐu qɤkisúo tɤ oqsò ʁmtí. Tɤtɤ oqʁâ mèmtíso idbɤ̂ iktsi ke aŋa kspɤ̂ ɯŋɯ̀, tɤ oqʁâ kisúoso èŋzáni ŋdû qɤkixqǽ qɤtxáɯ qɤdextsæ̀, tbéʐuba èŋzáni ŋdû qɤmkiʁzdâ qɤmkisxpé qɤmkibzdu, qɤtɤ ɯŋɯ̀ ʁɤmŋzába kiŋtô ʁmtíso mèmqʁâtsi ektè.

Tɤtɤ opabʁæ̀ mèmtí, tɤ oqʁâ mkizʁási ŋdû ɯʁŋɯ tɤ okʂɯ́a ɯktsi imæ̀ini da, tɤ oʂxâɯ mbʐatŋe ozo mbʐaktsi ɯʁŋɯzó ʁmi qnu tɤtɤ okʂɯ́a mèmtíso mbʐaktsi mkiʁzdâtsi da ozo kinúo ɯʁŋɯni ke ŋɯ́i. Mæŋæ ŋɯʁzú msɤktsi, tɤ oqʁâ msɤktsiba dextsæ̀ni ŋdû mɯqdæ̂, tɤ obzʁá isqé mɯktsiŋo kisqǽsi ʁæ, qɤqæxtsé txáɯsi ʁæ, qɤtɤ obzʁá imì mɯktsiŋo kisúosi ʁæ ozo msɤktsi ŋæʐdi. Tɤ ɯkni mèmtí zæ iqani ʁbèste, tɤ ɯŋɯ̀ iŋsɯ̂.

Xe okmnâɯ ŋaŋa nste qɤtbéʐu qɤkisúo tɤ oqsò ʁmtí msɤmzo, tɤtɤ oxʂô mèmtí ɯʁŋɯni da ŋsɤ̀. Tɤ oʁzɤ́ msɤtkaba mètbê ixsí, tɤ oʁzɤ́ mèmtí ɯstí, tɤ oʁŋbɯ̂a ʐmò msɤtkaba mèmtí ʁmtísi tsæ. Tɤtɤ ɯxtsɤ́ miqani ʁbèste mizo kenani qáɯ, tɤ oqsò qɤmsɤtkaba qɤmsɤqmæ̂qo kena ʁmtí, qɤtɤ ɯkni kena ɯʁŋɯni da.
? Rhetorica Your Writing System Sucks
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That's really fluid too! I'm pretty impressed, H13.

quoting Matrix:
How do you think these languages of mine sound?

Sumptlondonsk is definitely Dano-Norsk. Your cadences on Nahakhontl and Hurga ker Maja go straight into the giggle-zone and inspire imagery of vanting to suck blad. I might suggest trying to massage that a little, unless you were trying to engineer the trendy accent of a pretentious merchant or something.
? Matrix Chronicler of the Myriad
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As for Nahakhontl, I was using the original iambic stress system (every second syllable in the sentence is stressed). I have since decided that this is only a higher register, while your average person is going to simply have stress on the second syllable of a word. Sometimes it amounts to the same thing, sometimes it doesn't.

My Maja there is horrible, to be honest. I kept mixing up the length allophony. All orthographically monophthongal vowels except /i/ are supposed to lengthen before /r/, regardless of whether or not that vowel is stressed. But length seems to really like stress, because I kept either stressing r-lengthened vowels, or lengthening stressed vowels not before /r/.
? Hallow XIII Primordial Crab
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Mostly b/c in English length and stress are the same feature.
? Matrix Chronicler of the Myriad
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Goddamnit, English.
? Rhetorica Your Writing System Sucks
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It's okay. I did the same thing in Lilitika for every dialect except one. That one dialect is a pain in the butt. Word-final unstressed /ɛː/. I feel like an exasperated Midwesterner.
? kodé man of few words
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quoting Hallow XIII:
Mostly b/c in English length and stress are the same feature.

Weeeeeeeeell... technically not, since stress has other phonetic correlates (intensity, pitch), and stressed vowels need not be long if they're in closed syllables. But, it is definitely true that almost all long vowels in English are stressed, and most stressed vowels in open syllables are long. [/douchebag]

? Nessari ?????? ?????? ????????
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, Illúbequía, Seattle, Cascadia
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*bounces around Kodé on a rubber ball*
? Hallow XIII Primordial Crab
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So, I once wrote a song in this when I was challenged to produce a silly love song, and I was today reminded that it exists. This possessed me to make a terrible recording and post it here. Have fun.

LYRICS (w/ bad translation):

Bad TibetanEnglish
M dap ng zi gei long i
I sing sing pras gyaang ki
I dim gaang kyei
Wik sep saang blei
Ng long zi os hong mei

I sing wo dai hong mei
I sing wo dai hong mei
I sing wo dai hong mei wai laa
I sing wo dai hong mei

I sing ng hyap gyul zi gyou
Tu bek hoi, nga tep zi mou
Zi los sing wo
Zi paang droi so
Ng hyep zi nga hong mei

I sing wo dai hong mei
I sing wo dai hong mei
I sing wo dai hong mei wai laa
I sing wo dai hong mei

I sing hai dap ngleng hong wai
Tuk ng luk zi long him dyai
Ng nga long zi mou
I sing rei nou
Gyap ho zi pras hong mei

I sing wo dai hong mei
I sing wo dai hong mei
I sing wo dai hong mei wai laa
I sing wo dai hong mei

I sing wo dai hong mei
I sing wo dai hong mei
I sing wo dai hong mei wai laa
I sing wo dai hong mei
There was a day I saw a ship
A ship red like a poppy flower
A small, bright, beautiful ship
I wished to sail with it
When I saw it sail away from me

The red ship sails down the river
The red ship sails down the river
The red ship sails down the river, far away
The red ship sails down the river

The red ship is on my mind
I will not forget it in my life
When it sails down the river in the evening
Its shine can still be seen above
I wish it had never sailed away

The red ship sails down the river
The red ship sails down the river
The red ship sails down the river, far away
The red ship sails down the river

The red ship has sailed for many a long day
But I still see its light
I will not see it again
The red ship like a spirit
Like the moon it sinks beneath the river

The red ship sails down the river
The red ship sails down the river
The red ship sails down the river, far away
The red ship sails down the river

The red ship sails down the river
The red ship sails down the river
The red ship sails down the river, far away
The red ship sails down the river
? twabs fair maiden
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It sounds very nice!
? hwhatting posts: 105
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I sing wo dai hong mei means both "There was a day I saw a ship" and "The red ship sails down the river"? Interesting polysemy.
But it's a nice little song!
? Izambri Left of the middle
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Beautiful voice. Marry me.
? Hallow XIII Primordial Crab
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quoting hwhatting, Disinterest, Array:
I sing wo dai hong mei means both "There was a day I saw a ship" and "The red ship sails down the river"? Interesting polysemy.
But it's a nice little song!

Nope, that was just a mistake ^^"
? Hallow XIII Primordial Crab
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A short dialogue in Jalvaan



>Recording<

This dialogue is a short exchange between two adult males who are reasonably close friends.

A: Arē, iššeš halen nyuraš ā?
arelder.brother-VOC iššeštoday halenwhat.ACC.SG nya-2S>3S-urdo-aš-2S āQ
A: Big brother, what are you doing today?

B: Moi nihē, ningē jō kašdaraht jākohyōre nyasōreš!
moiEXCL nihyounger.brother-VOC ninggarden-LOC 1S.POSS kašdweed-ar-PL-aht-ACC jā-1>3P-kohyōrrip.out-e-SBJ nya-2S>3S-sōreknow-2S
B: Ey, little brother, you know that I have to clear the weeds in my garden!

Like in many natural languages, it is common to address unrelated people with kinship terms. In this case, aran and nihan are used, implying a closer relationship: a complete stranger might be addressed as mānyar uncle or doman cousin. The use of a vocative here is interesting insofar that very few nouns have one; for these two, it is identical to the genitive, but examination of other nouns in other declensions (like ašil elder sister, gen. ašerat, voc. ašerē), reveals that it is uniformly .

B: Hoika aku ilim tōg‌āš ningē virērat āōšdayōš!
hoikaEXPL akunow ilithat.CLS-m-NOM tōg‌thing-āš-CLS.NOM ninggarden-LOC virēratall.over ā-3P-ōšdagrow.over-yōš-PST.IPFV
B: Shit, these things have already grown over everything!

Hoika is a mild expletive (although still considered unsuitable for use in mixed company) that is often used jocularly. It is unlikely that the man's garden has actually been left in such a state, since the crops usually grown in such a garden are a rather important part of a common family's diet.

A: Ambat, tisā gorā!
ambagood-t-ADV tisgrain.shed-DAT gorfull-DAT
A: Well then, good luck!

The expression translated here as good luck, tisā gorā, might be more literally rendered as (may you have) a full granary. It is a general expression of encouragement.

A: Mārar šō kalat ā?
mārwife-ar-PL šō2S.POSS kalathow āQ
A: How are your wife and children doing?

This phrase is not otherwise interesting, but demonstrates the use of the Jalvaan associative plural: your wife and children is rendered literally as your wives. The general structure of what A says might seem strange to English speakers, but to a Jalvaan speaker, this is a perfectly normal way of switching the topic.

B: Ambar yor.
ambawell-r-PL yor3P
B: They are well.

B: Bošan ek kohōen itaruvat, magā ō ōron kumbeš.
bošanson ekone kohōenyesterday i-3S-taruget.sick-va-PST.PFV-t-3S magābut ōNEG ōronlarge kumbešsickness
B: One of my sons got sick yesterday, but it was no big thing.

B: Kahtā sāryā, onnēn nifayī.
kahtluck-DAT.SG sārybad.luck-DAT.SG onnnothing-ēn-ACC.SG ni-2S-faysayī-IMP
B: Say nothing of good or bad luck!

This is an idiom that means, approximately, "don't worry about minor problems; don't get excited about minor boons".

A: Yalen faihō.
yalentrue faihōword
A: Well said.

A: Darvoi onnoi nyabirgavaš?
darvDarven-oi-GEN onnnothing-oi-GEN nya-2S>3S-birgahear.about-va-PST.PFV-2S
A: Have you heard anything of Darven?

Onnen, glossed here as nothing, means anything in questions and nothing in declarative sentences. To get the same meaning as English "have you heard nothing?", one would have to say onnoi ō.

B: Ō yo, šayirē ‌māhirē idarjūt.
ōNEG yoEXCL šayday-ir-CLS-DATmāhweek-ir-CLS-DAT i3S-darjūlabor-t-3S
B: Aiyo, nothing! He's away for days and weeks!

This sentence exhibits one of the peculiarities of the language: it's fourth grammatical number. While the singular and dual are relatively uncontroversial, there have been debates about whether to call the other two terms of the system "plural" and "classive", or "paucal" and "plural", or something else. We will use the first option in these glosses. The exact uses and distribution of these categories are hard to pin down, but here the classive expresses that the man is away for a continuous stretch of time.

B: Māran tō minirat i ō bikassovat, nyaberī ikīvat yo!
māranwife 3S.POSS mininews-r-PL-at-GEN i3S ōNEG bi-1S-kattell-so-IRR-va-PST.PFV-t-3S nya-2S>3S-bersee-IMP i-3S-die-va-PST.PFV-t-3S yoEXCL
B: If his wife didn't have news of him, you see that he'd died!

Darven is a rather common male name among the Jalvaan. Presumably this man is a fisher or laborer who stays away from home for times felt to be uncomfortably long. Nyaberī, you see!, is used to express likelihood or expectation.

A: Māran halen yurat ā?
māranwife halenwhat.ACC.SG y-3S-urado-t-3S āQ
A: What is his wife doing?

B: Oi, šayirē šayirē.
oiEXCL šayday-ir-CLS-DAT šayday-ir-CLS-DAT
B: Oh, the usual.

The usual = day for day.

B: Darven ō yāš, etta ilē ekmārat bohūn akunjūrā yāš.
darvenDarven ōNEG yāšbe.at.3S ettaCONSEQ ilthatē-DAT ekonemārwomanat-ADV bohwork-ūn-ACC.SG a-3S.O-kunjūdo.work-rā-INF yāšbe.at.3S
B: Darven isn't there, so she has to do all the work herself.

B: Baivō tō, ambān faihōht kāndivarā yāšanar ā?
baifather-vō-DL.NOM 3S.POSS ambgood-ān-ACC.SG faihōidea-ht-ACC kāndithink.up-va-PST.PFV-rā-INF ya-3.NSG-a-3S.O-šanfeel-ar-3P āQ
B: Do you think her parents feel they've made a good choice?

Again, an associative number is used to express the notion of parents, literally father in the dual. Note that while the noun is in the dual, the verb shows plural agreement. This, too, is a rather common pattern: while nouns can inflect for four numbers, in almost all dialects verbs contrast a maximum of three, and in the third person, as is the case here, the dual-plural distinction is often collapsed as well. "Making a good choice", here, refers to the marriage arrangement.

A: Oi, okenarat bīhturā, ō ōron mahkeš yo.
oiEXCL okenother-ar-PL-at-GEN bīhtucompare-rā-INF ōNEG ōronlarge mahkešsuffering yoEXCL
A: Oi, if you compare it with what happens to others, it's no large suffering.

This parallels the ō ōron kumbeš yo used before by B, referring to his son's sickness. This is a rather common structure, and can also be used to play down positive things: ō ōron tahtō yo, it's no big victory.

A: Torut, bimire. Amban nitarī.
torutEXCL bi-1S-mirgo-e-SBJ ambanwell ni-2S-tarstay-IMP
A: Well, I need to go. Stay well.

B: Amban nyondeyi.
ambanwell ny-2S-ondewalk-yi-IMP
B: Go well.
? kusuri posts: 37
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I like how Jalvaan sounds, and I appreciate all the tidbits. That post is like a little work of art.
? Hallow XIII Primordial Crab
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*one month later*

Hello, I would like to reply to your ancient post, even though I did not wish to do so for the past 23 days.

But did you ever see this? Yng's stuff is a p big inspiration for this style of conlang presentation for me.
? kusuri posts: 37
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No, I didn't, that is cool stuff! I'm so making an Yngy post now. Or a month from now.