Does your nation speak a language you created?

by **Regica** » Thu Nov 20, 2014 11:39 pm

Yes. Around 70% of Regica speaks Regican (jãzëk rzékczi), the last surviving language of the Chelitic group.
(OOC: It's a mix of Kashubian and Polish, if you wanted to know

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Here's a link to the language's factbook: https://www.nationstates.net/nation=reg ... /id=323361

by **Stetterland** » Thu Nov 20, 2014 11:40 pm

Yes! In fact I started a language before I logged on to NS!

Stettic (Stettezi) I made to be an independent and phonologically conservative branch of the Indo-European language family. I applied a couple sound-change laws, creating new consonant and vowel sounds.

Here's some cognates:

genja (woman), queen
zúl (sun), Sol
ecäna (to ride), equine
cor (heart), heart, core
laḳ (pond), lake
peru (far from), far
ġor (horror, fear), horror
nic (death), murder
alvi (white), albino

by **Abaja** » Sat Nov 22, 2014 10:17 am

Cool languages guys!

by **Smig** » Sat Nov 22, 2014 10:31 am

No. English

by **New Kvenland** » Sat Nov 22, 2014 10:35 am

Yes; in fact it speaks two of them. There's Kven (based on a combination of Swedish and Estonian) and Nuqivik (based on Iñupiaq).

by **Handora** » Sat Nov 22, 2014 11:43 am

The official language of Handora has been standardized by the Bill of Communication in 1844. The Bill proclaims that every person in Handora must know fluent English in order to function as a member of society, however there are over 300 language in Handora, ranging from Celtic dialects to German and Italian.

by **The United Soviet Federation** » Sat Nov 22, 2014 7:32 pm

Russo-Chinese or Neo-Rossiyana is the official language. The language is a mix between Chinese and Russian language but has a Eastern European touch. There are also the Siberian Native language used by people in Kamchatka or Yakutsk, then there is Bunjabi and Ahrusjik. Bunjabi is a mix between Indian and South East Asian languages and is rarely used in major cities. Ahrusjik is used by people in Central Asia or around the Black Sea and is also used in many Middle Eastern countries. There are also many minor languages that will hopefully soon form into one language because of their unimportance and confusing similarities.

by **Iwashima** » Sat Nov 22, 2014 7:34 pm

A mix of Japanese and Russian, Russo-Japanese

by **Corunia and Mironor** » Sat Nov 22, 2014 7:36 pm

Corunian (modified English) and Mironorese (isolate) are both languages I made up, and are two of the three official languages of Corunia and Mironor. The third official language is English.

by **Trefeqia** » Sat Nov 22, 2014 8:46 pm

OOC: Yes, Trefeqia speaks a conlang called Trefeqian (Trêféqel). Trefeqian is influenced by English, Spanish, French, and German (I chose this four because I'm fluent in Spanish and English and I'm currently learning French [I'm in my second year] and German [first year]). It's also based on Tredish (a romance language), another conlang.

IC: Trefeqia speaks Trefeqian, a Romantic-Germanic language. The vowels are pronounced just they are in Spanish. "A" is pronounced like the "A" in "Cat". E is pronounced like the "E" in "Pet". I is pronounce as "ee". "O" is pronounced as the "O" in "hold". "U" is pronounced as "oo".

by **Tyrandel** » Sat Nov 22, 2014 9:08 pm

No.

'Neo-Akkadian', Tyrandel's Latin equivalent, is basically just Akkadian from this translator modified to make it easier to type and with a few meaning shifts when something was close to but not exactly the term I was looking for. For example, Enu means High Priest and Sartennum means High Judge. I needed a term for the highest ranking Judge, but with a moral rather than legal association. So I used Enusartennum, which is not quite correct in actual Akkadian but still works good enough for fiction.

by **Auzkhia** » Sat Nov 22, 2014 10:01 pm

No, I just use real world languages.

by **Trevor Phillip Enterprises** » Sat Nov 22, 2014 10:18 pm

An overwhelming amount of citizens communicate in a tongue called 'Methspeak', which Trevor made up when he saw people high on all the drugs he sells and copied down what they said.

by **Abaja** » Thu Nov 27, 2014 8:03 am

Awesome!

by **National Socialist Korea** » Thu Nov 27, 2014 8:06 am

Yes.

Ugurian is, for all reasons and purposes, Chinese if it went through Romanization at the hands of Swahili speakers in the 1800s.

by **Bunkeranlage** » Thu Nov 27, 2014 8:06 am

We have two national languages: Cyrillic Bunkerian and Nordic Bunkerian. Cyrillic Bunkerian follows the Russian alphabet, while Nordic Bunkerian follows the Icelandic one.

An example:

English: Dragon
I. B. : Drágör
C. B. : Драхонь

by **Astrolinium** » Thu Nov 27, 2014 8:16 am

OOC: Aelian is a romlang, or constructed Romance language, so yes. A modified form of Latin is also used as a gubernatorial language.

Ver', l'Astrolìnicos li ditto Eliano fare solion, co de li ditto Latino perreni e pertod l'arciblaco contto Eliano fador. (Yes, the Astrolinicans are accustomed to speak the Aelian language, which came from the Latin language and is spoken in all the Aelian archipelago.)

by **Skinia** » Thu Nov 27, 2014 10:54 am

Nah, English does the job just fine for us Skins.

by **Bears Armed** » Thu Nov 27, 2014 11:48 am

The majority language in Bears Armed is Ursine. However I still need to do a LOT of work on developing this.

Ursine: “Hwhay, brillig’o-drih, irr-barra gruh-blaer?”
English: “(I) Ask, woods’the-in a bear do-shit?”

by **Abaja** » Fri Nov 28, 2014 12:10 pm

Bears Armed wrote:The majority language in Bears Armed is Ursine. However I still need to do a LOT of work on developing this.

Ursine: “Hwhay, brillig’o-drih, irr-barra gruh-blaer?”
English: “(I) Ask, woods’the-in a bear do-shit?”

Lol I like yours

by **Bears Armed** » Sat Dec 06, 2014 9:03 am

Abaja wrote:
Bears Armed wrote:The majority language in Bears Armed is Ursine. However I still need to do a LOT of work on developing this.

Ursine: “Hwhay, brillig’o-drih, irr-barra gruh-blaer?”
English: “(I) Ask, woods’the-in a bear do-shit?”

Lol I like yours

Thank you.
There are some more useful[?] phrases translated at viewtopic.php?p=22695299#p22695299.

by **Land vom Saaterhalter** » Sat Dec 06, 2014 9:06 pm

Si, da Land vom Saaterhalter sprocht çoinnon. C'ite Sproch söl régime reconnument.
Yes, the Land of the Saaterhold speaks Coinnon. This is the only state-recognised language.

by **Abaja** » Tue Feb 10, 2015 6:17 pm

Just created another language called Abají !

by **Galmarch** » Wed Feb 11, 2015 4:14 am

That was my intention but cant be bothered.
Instead Galmarch speak French and German, roughly split 50/50 of the population speaks either as their first language.

by **Zarodia** » Wed Feb 11, 2015 12:29 pm

Yes, both of the languages used in the Empire (Atalisan, the language of the origin-species and Zarodii, the IC constructed language that is basically an oversimplified version of the former with some English grammatical rules) have been created by myself during periods of extreme boredom. While I've been lazy with creating a comprehensive dictionary, Atalisan is a fairly well-formed language with enough words for effective communication and grammatical rules fairly well fleshed out. Zarodii is slightly less polished, and besides basic grammatical rules and its alphabet there is not much to it.

A passage of written Atalisan:

Zarodia wrote:The phrase "The boy plays with his friend in the house. It is a beautiful day. I see my mother and I say hello to her. I saw her yesterday also. I am very happy today. I speak in my beautiful language. You should speak with me also. We are all speaking here and they listen. Thank You." Roughly translates in meaning to this set of sentences in Atalisan:

"Ilen shiena tanie bea veonsa lories seonkon one kasale. One azana tha anashanel. Ru arisa rusa hajin i ru kori shidana. Eaza ru arisa veon i dane. Ru tha tainarel datore one azana. Ru kori shia rusa anashanel uridai*. Rai kano kori ebea ru. Nei kori nolen i sei hanasa. Sanorai**."

Translated back into English, this reads: "Male Child is playing with its friend inside this house. This day is beautiful. I am seeing my mother*** and I speak "shidana"****. Yesterday I am seeing that one also happened. I am extremely happy this day. I am speaking with my beautiful language. You should speaking with me also*****. We are speaking here and they are listening. You deserve gratitude."

**This is the less formal/serious version of this idea/word, if instead for some reason in this situation a more formal or respectful version is required "sanokanarailin" would be used instead, however the meanings are roughly the same.
***the word "hajin" technically refers to the submissive parent and not necessarily the mother, but as in partnerships where there is a female said female is usually the submissive partner this is a workable translation.
****There isn't a way to translate "shidana" that isn't absurdly long within the sentence yet still retains coherence in English, as the word is more an expression of acknowledgement towards someone with significant difference in rank rather than a direct greeting, the latter of which being something that our language lacks entirely.
*****The "also" is implied, not officially stated.

*OOC: The last two letters in this word, "ai" is actually one syllable, similar in pronunciation to the long "i" sound, but as I am both unintelligent and lazy I have no idea how to denote this with the fancy letters the rest of you guys seem to be using.

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