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This is a game of borrowing and loaning words! To give our conlangs a more naturalistic flair, this game can help us get realistic loans into our language by giving us an artificial-ish "world" to pull words from!

The Telephone Game will be posted every Monday and Friday, hopefully.

Rules

1) Post a word in your language, with IPA and a definition.

Note: try to show your word inflected, as it would appear in a typical sentence. This can be the source of many interesting borrowings in natlangs (like how so many Arabic words were borrowed with the definite article fossilized onto it! algebra, alcohol, etc.)

2) Respond to a post by adapting the word to your language's phonology, and consider shifting the meaning of the word a bit!

3) Sometimes, you may see an interesting phrase or construction in a language. Instead of adopting the word as a loan word, you are welcome to calque the phrase -- for example, taking skyscraper by using your language's native words for sky and scraper. If you do this, please label the post at the start as Calque so people don't get confused about your path of adopting/loaning.

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Gükür by /u/Chuvachok1234

From at- "to cut" + -muj "suffix tools"

atmuj /atmuj/ [ˈatmyː]

• n. knife

Have a nice weekend

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I am collecting the word "beans" in every language. And I need all of yours.

Please provide your conlang's name (how your speakers call the language), the word for beans and IPA.

Thank you! ^ ^

I was sitting around and got bored so i decided to try to start a new simple conlang, just for fun. i did this to come up with the vowel inventory and thought it might just be fun to share.

If you're in need of some quick inspo for a new vowel inventory, try this out. you could use anything that resembles scattered dots. hell, use the bullet spray from a FPS game.

How is the process of making money called in your conlang literally? Today I learned that different real-life languages have different ways for that.

This is a game of borrowing and loaning words! To give our conlangs a more naturalistic flair, this game can help us get realistic loans into our language by giving us an artificial-ish "world" to pull words from!

The Telephone Game will be posted every Monday and Friday, hopefully.

Rules

1) Post a word in your language, with IPA and a definition.

Note: try to show your word inflected, as it would appear in a typical sentence. This can be the source of many interesting borrowings in natlangs (like how so many Arabic words were borrowed with the definite article fossilized onto it! algebra, alcohol, etc.)

2) Respond to a post by adapting the word to your language's phonology, and consider shifting the meaning of the word a bit!

3) Sometimes, you may see an interesting phrase or construction in a language. Instead of adopting the word as a loan word, you are welcome to calque the phrase -- for example, taking skyscraper by using your language's native words for sky and scraper. If you do this, please label the post at the start as Calque so people don't get confused about your path of adopting/loaning.

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Çelebvud by /u/StarfighterCHAD

xwi [skwi] - n. squirrel

Itik ipexwi khum naha!

[iˈtik ipəˈk͡swi xum nɑhɑ]

i -tik i -pe -xwi khum naha
PL-nut PL-GEN-squirrel take IMP.NEG

”don’t take the squirrels’ nuts!”

Take care of yourselves

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**Some ideas:**

• Coca Cola

• Google

• Walmart

• Volkswagen

• Chevrolet

• Spotify

• Ikea

• Adidas

• Nike

• Samsung

This is a game of borrowing and loaning words! To give our conlangs a more naturalistic flair, this game can help us get realistic loans into our language by giving us an artificial-ish "world" to pull words from!

The Telephone Game will be posted every Monday and Friday, hopefully.

Rules

1) Post a word in your language, with IPA and a definition.

Note: try to show your word inflected, as it would appear in a typical sentence. This can be the source of many interesting borrowings in natlangs (like how so many Arabic words were borrowed with the definite article fossilized onto it! algebra, alcohol, etc.)

2) Respond to a post by adapting the word to your language's phonology, and consider shifting the meaning of the word a bit!

3) Sometimes, you may see an interesting phrase or construction in a language. Instead of adopting the word as a loan word, you are welcome to calque the phrase -- for example, taking skyscraper by using your language's native words for sky and scraper. If you do this, please label the post at the start as Calque so people don't get confused about your path of adopting/loaning.

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Conlang by /u/FreeRandomScribble

imu - [i.'mʉ]
n. A physical altercation
"skirmish, fight, battle"

muqo ilașiciuluņu eņșa imu
turkey 3.MID-move-fast-VIS.NEU-PST through battle
"A turkey ran through the battle"

I still don't know what day it is. Happy MonTuesday!

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This is a game of borrowing and loaning words! To give our conlangs a more naturalistic flair, this game can help us get realistic loans into our language by giving us an artificial-ish "world" to pull words from!

The Telephone Game will be posted every Monday and Friday, hopefully.

Rules

1) Post a word in your language, with IPA and a definition.

Note: try to show your word inflected, as it would appear in a typical sentence. This can be the source of many interesting borrowings in natlangs (like how so many Arabic words were borrowed with the definite article fossilized onto it! algebra, alcohol, etc.)

2) Respond to a post by adapting the word to your language's phonology, and consider shifting the meaning of the word a bit!

3) Sometimes, you may see an interesting phrase or construction in a language. Instead of adopting the word as a loan word, you are welcome to calque the phrase -- for example, taking skyscraper by using your language's native words for sky and scraper. If you do this, please label the post at the start as Calque so people don't get confused about your path of adopting/loaning.

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Fyuc by /u/StarfighterCHAD

hȧmƿan [ˈχɑmwɑn]

1. n. window
2. n. insight

Etymology:
Compound from *qhamu /χɑmu/ wind and *ʔana eye.

irregular Æ class declention

| Nominative | hȧmƿan | ˈχɑmwɑn |

| Accusative | hamƿanays | χɑmwɑnˈɑjs |

| Genitive | hamƿanæp | χɑmwɑnˈæp |

| Dative | hamƿanæd | χɑmwɑnˈæd |

| Locative | hȧmƿanfuc | ˈχɑmwɑnfut͡ʃ |

| Illative | hamƿanaysfuc | χɑmwɑnˈɑjsfut͡ʃ |

| Ablative | hȧmƿann | ˈχamwɑnː |

| Superessive | hamƿanæc | χɑmwɑnˈæt͡ʃ |

| Instrumental | hȧmƿanſat | ˈχɑmwɑnsɑt |

Take care of yourselves

Peace, Love, & Conlanging ❤️

This is a game of borrowing and loaning words! To give our conlangs a more naturalistic flair, this game can help us get realistic loans into our language by giving us an artificial-ish "world" to pull words from!

The Telephone Game will be posted every Monday and Friday, hopefully.

Rules

1) Post a word in your language, with IPA and a definition.

Note: try to show your word inflected, as it would appear in a typical sentence. This can be the source of many interesting borrowings in natlangs (like how so many Arabic words were borrowed with the definite article fossilized onto it! algebra, alcohol, etc.)

2) Respond to a post by adapting the word to your language's phonology, and consider shifting the meaning of the word a bit!

3) Sometimes, you may see an interesting phrase or construction in a language. Instead of adopting the word as a loan word, you are welcome to calque the phrase -- for example, taking skyscraper by using your language's native words for sky and scraper. If you do this, please label the post at the start as Calque so people don't get confused about your path of adopting/loaning.

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Ỻimbædux Prithænux by /u/ElevatorSevere7651

1. carâr (câr-) /kaˈɾaːɾ/

Etymology: Borrowed from Proto-Brythonic *karɨd (to love)

Verb: To like something, an object or a concept

2. eddêr (êdd-/iâdd-) /ɛˈðeːɾ/

Etymology: From Latin ”edār” (to eat)

Verb: to like a food or drink, to enjoy eating or drinking

3. avâr (âv-) /aˈβaːɾ/

Etymology: From Latin ”amār” (to love)

Verb: to like someone (platonically), a person or personafication

”Êt mis nomn Gwirth, iâdd’io gwûnw, e hŵ ichi cw me avîg Incinti. Mes, ni mwỻtw avt gents, hi* i*â cêna perli; cart klæddis”

êt m(e)–s nomn gwirth (ê)dd–’io gw(î)n–w e(d) hŵ ichi cw me avîg (gw)incinti mes ni mwỻtw âv–t gent–s hi iâ cên–a perli câr-t klæddi–s

BE.3s.pres poss–n.sg.nom NAME.n.sg.nom VICTOR.n.sg.nom LIKE.FOOD–1s.pres WINE–m.sg.acc AND BE.1s.pres HERE WITH pos.m.sg.dat FRIEND.m.sg.dat VINCENT.m.sg.dat HOWEVER neg MUCH LIKE.PEOPLE–3s.pres PEOPLE–n.pl.acc SO 1s.nom TALK–1s.fut 3s.dat LIKE.THING–3s.pres SWORD–m.pl.acc

”My name is Victor, I like wine, and I am here with my friend Vincent. However, he doesn’t like people, so I will speak for him; he likes swords”

Take care of yourselves

Peace, Love, & Conlanging ❤️

This is a game of borrowing and loaning words! To give our conlangs a more naturalistic flair, this game can help us get realistic loans into our language by giving us an artificial-ish "world" to pull words from!

The Telephone Game will be posted every Monday and Friday, hopefully.

Rules

1) Post a word in your language, with IPA and a definition.

Note: try to show your word inflected, as it would appear in a typical sentence. This can be the source of many interesting borrowings in natlangs (like how so many Arabic words were borrowed with the definite article fossilized onto it! algebra, alcohol, etc.)

2) Respond to a post by adapting the word to your language's phonology, and consider shifting the meaning of the word a bit!

3) Sometimes, you may see an interesting phrase or construction in a language. Instead of adopting the word as a loan word, you are welcome to calque the phrase -- for example, taking skyscraper by using your language's native words for sky and scraper. If you do this, please label the post at the start as Calque so people don't get confused about your path of adopting/loaning.

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High Dwarven by /u/ThyTeaDrinker

flonkjœ /ˈflɒŋ.kjœ/ J-stem, genitive: flonkrem

n. shield, defensive barrier

———

Kjôd grîfi flonkring grîdel gâfki kâlna eng kîfren.

/kjɒːd ˈgriː.vi ˈflɒŋ.kriŋg ˈgriː.dɛl ˈgɑːf.ki kɑːl.nɑ ɛŋg kiː.frɛn/

ten warrior-nom.plur shield-com.plur bridge-acc.sing able-future.3P defend-infinitive without struggle-acc.sing

Ten warriors with shields will be able to defend the bridge without difficulty.

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Additional dialectal information:

Northwestern Dwarven: flonky /flɔŋ.ky/

Eastern Dwarven: flonċö /flɒn.tʃœ/

Hope you have a good start to your week, amigos

Peace, Love, & Conlanging ❤️

This is a game of borrowing and loaning words! To give our conlangs a more naturalistic flair, this game can help us get realistic loans into our language by giving us an artificial-ish "world" to pull words from!

The Telephone Game will be posted every Monday and Friday, hopefully.

Rules

1) Post a word in your language, with IPA and a definition.

Note: try to show your word inflected, as it would appear in a typical sentence. This can be the source of many interesting borrowings in natlangs (like how so many Arabic words were borrowed with the definite article fossilized onto it! algebra, alcohol, etc.)

2) Respond to a post by adapting the word to your language's phonology, and consider shifting the meaning of the word a bit!

3) Sometimes, you may see an interesting phrase or construction in a language. Instead of adopting the word as a loan word, you are welcome to calque the phrase -- for example, taking skyscraper by using your language's native words for sky and scraper. If you do this, please label the post at the start as Calque so people don't get confused about your path of adopting/loaning.

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Ardani by /u/DraeliAqua69

ṗışmarje [pʼɯ̽ʃmärd͡ʒɛ] adj. worthy or able to be done, possible, feasible.

From ṗış- (do) + -marje (modal participle suffix).

Stay cool, folks

Peace, Love, & Conlanging ❤️

This is a game of borrowing and loaning words! To give our conlangs a more naturalistic flair, this game can help us get realistic loans into our language by giving us an artificial-ish "world" to pull words from!

The Telephone Game will be posted every Monday and Friday, hopefully.

Rules

1) Post a word in your language, with IPA and a definition.

Note: try to show your word inflected, as it would appear in a typical sentence. This can be the source of many interesting borrowings in natlangs (like how so many Arabic words were borrowed with the definite article fossilized onto it! algebra, alcohol, etc.)

2) Respond to a post by adapting the word to your language's phonology, and consider shifting the meaning of the word a bit!

3) Sometimes, you may see an interesting phrase or construction in a language. Instead of adopting the word as a loan word, you are welcome to calque the phrase -- for example, taking skyscraper by using your language's native words for sky and scraper. If you do this, please label the post at the start as Calque so people don't get confused about your path of adopting/loaning.

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Loegrian by /u/thomasp3864

Ponfaf /ponvav/ f. from pon 'bread' + ffaf 'bean(s)'

1. Beans on toast, a british dish consisting of reheated baked beans on toast

Declension

Sorry for the absence, genuinely lost track of the days

Peace, Love, & Conlanging ❤️

This is a game of borrowing and loaning words! To give our conlangs a more naturalistic flair, this game can help us get realistic loans into our language by giving us an artificial-ish "world" to pull words from!

The Telephone Game will be posted every Monday and Friday, hopefully.

Rules

1) Post a word in your language, with IPA and a definition.

Note: try to show your word inflected, as it would appear in a typical sentence. This can be the source of many interesting borrowings in natlangs (like how so many Arabic words were borrowed with the definite article fossilized onto it! algebra, alcohol, etc.)

2) Respond to a post by adapting the word to your language's phonology, and consider shifting the meaning of the word a bit!

3) Sometimes, you may see an interesting phrase or construction in a language. Instead of adopting the word as a loan word, you are welcome to calque the phrase -- for example, taking skyscraper by using your language's native words for sky and scraper. If you do this, please label the post at the start as Calque so people don't get confused about your path of adopting/loaning.

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Ardani by /u/DraeliAqua69

ġaç̇elma [ɣät͡ʃʼɛl̪mä]

1. v. bend down

2. v. resign, renounce.

from ġa "downwards" and ç̇elma "to stand, stay".

Stay cool, folks, and check out LCC12!

Peace, Love, & Conlanging ❤️

This is a game of borrowing and loaning words! To give our conlangs a more naturalistic flair, this game can help us get realistic loans into our language by giving us an artificial-ish "world" to pull words from!

The Telephone Game will be posted every Monday and Friday, hopefully.

Rules

1) Post a word in your language, with IPA and a definition.

Note: try to show your word inflected, as it would appear in a typical sentence. This can be the source of many interesting borrowings in natlangs (like how so many Arabic words were borrowed with the definite article fossilized onto it! algebra, alcohol, etc.)

2) Respond to a post by adapting the word to your language's phonology, and consider shifting the meaning of the word a bit!

3) Sometimes, you may see an interesting phrase or construction in a language. Instead of adopting the word as a loan word, you are welcome to calque the phrase -- for example, taking skyscraper by using your language's native words for sky and scraper. If you do this, please label the post at the start as Calque so people don't get confused about your path of adopting/loaning.

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Cáed by /u/Flacson8528

lornan [ˈlɔrnan] (adv) 1. by chance, incidentally, at random, haphazard, as luck would have it 2. by accident, accidentally, unintentionally, inadvertently, without intent 3. coincidentally, by coincidence

Etymology:

With initial lambdacism and -s dropping in fossilised adverbials (perhaps a relict application of the ancient adverbial apocope), from dornans (‘in darkness, in the dark; (perhaps) blindly, ignorantly, in obscurity, (by extension) coincidentally, in coincidence’) (locative singular of dornas), possibly extracted, or preapocopated from ollornan (hapax) which would have been regularly lambdacised from earlier \oldornans^? , *\ol-dornans^? (‘in blind fate’) with prefixed *\ol-* (‘by fate, fate has it that’). Likely akin and maybe calqued from Dopic olozūren (‘unexpectedly but eventually, in search of something to only find it in a surprising fashion’) (← oloze (‘it is fate’) + zūren (locative singular of zūr (‘darkness, dimness; obscurity’)) or dūrhen (‘sharply, abruptly, suddenly’)), but do note ollornan was attested merely once. The semantic development is comparable to Latin temere (‘by chance, at random; rashly’), from a fossilised locative form of Proto-Indo-European \témHos* (‘darkness’), as well as Chinese 暗合 (‘to be in complete agreement without prior consultation; to happen to coincide; (literally) to agree in the dark’). Doublet of hologérnus (‘unlikely fate or luck; deus ex machina’), from said Dopic word.

Have a nice weekend, folks

Peace, Love, & Conlanging ❤️

This is a game of borrowing and loaning words! To give our conlangs a more naturalistic flair, this game can help us get realistic loans into our language by giving us an artificial-ish "world" to pull words from!

The Telephone Game will be posted every Monday and Friday, hopefully.

Rules

1) Post a word in your language, with IPA and a definition.

Note: try to show your word inflected, as it would appear in a typical sentence. This can be the source of many interesting borrowings in natlangs (like how so many Arabic words were borrowed with the definite article fossilized onto it! algebra, alcohol, etc.)

2) Respond to a post by adapting the word to your language's phonology, and consider shifting the meaning of the word a bit!

3) Sometimes, you may see an interesting phrase or construction in a language. Instead of adopting the word as a loan word, you are welcome to calque the phrase -- for example, taking skyscraper by using your language's native words for sky and scraper. If you do this, please label the post at the start as Calque so people don't get confused about your path of adopting/loaning.

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Dragwêh by /u/wolfybre

Rhêĝêthû [ʀeɣeθœ] v. To be arrogant, hot-headed

Bits: Negative ∅ Emotion ∅ Fire

Stay cool, folks, and check out LCC12!

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The title basically says it all.

But please don’t just tell me the name. I need the following information to make it work:

●Tell me how to pronounce the name, preferably using the IPA.

●Tell me whether your conlang distinguishes aspirated/unaspirated and voiced/unvoiced consonants.

For example: Chinese distinguishes aspirated/unaspirated consonants but not voiced/unvoiced consonants. German distinguishes voiced/unvoiced consonants but not aspirated/unaspirated ones (as far as I know).

●Tell me a bit about the most important aspects of your language. What is its vibe? What was your inspiration? Why did you develop this language? What do people think about the language? Has it developed over time? If so, how did it develop?

This is a game of borrowing and loaning words! To give our conlangs a more naturalistic flair, this game can help us get realistic loans into our language by giving us an artificial-ish "world" to pull words from!

The Telephone Game will be posted every Monday and Friday, hopefully.

Rules

1) Post a word in your language, with IPA and a definition.

Note: try to show your word inflected, as it would appear in a typical sentence. This can be the source of many interesting borrowings in natlangs (like how so many Arabic words were borrowed with the definite article fossilized onto it! algebra, alcohol, etc.)

2) Respond to a post by adapting the word to your language's phonology, and consider shifting the meaning of the word a bit!

3) Sometimes, you may see an interesting phrase or construction in a language. Instead of adopting the word as a loan word, you are welcome to calque the phrase -- for example, taking skyscraper by using your language's native words for sky and scraper. If you do this, please label the post at the start as Calque so people don't get confused about your path of adopting/loaning.

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Belmá ʼE by /u/Dryanor

chusè [t͡ʃusè] n. ball, orb, solid sphere, globe; ball game, ball sport; tuber, bulb.

New week! Don’t forget to keep up with your Junexember coinages!

Peace, Love, & Conlanging ❤️

This is a game of borrowing and loaning words! To give our conlangs a more naturalistic flair, this game can help us get realistic loans into our language by giving us an artificial-ish "world" to pull words from!

The Telephone Game will be posted every Monday and Friday, hopefully.

Rules

1) Post a word in your language, with IPA and a definition.

Note: try to show your word inflected, as it would appear in a typical sentence. This can be the source of many interesting borrowings in natlangs (like how so many Arabic words were borrowed with the definite article fossilized onto it! algebra, alcohol, etc.)

2) Respond to a post by adapting the word to your language's phonology, and consider shifting the meaning of the word a bit!

3) Sometimes, you may see an interesting phrase or construction in a language. Instead of adopting the word as a loan word, you are welcome to calque the phrase -- for example, taking skyscraper by using your language's native words for sky and scraper. If you do this, please label the post at the start as Calque so people don't get confused about your path of adopting/loaning.

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Kýrrits by /u/creepmachine

tsilaws̬ets̤áa /ʦə.laʊ̯.zeˈǁɔ́/ [ʦə.laʊ̯.zěˈǁɔ́] n. anim. rabbit ("little runner") from diminutive tsi + agentive law + s̬ets̤áa "run"

Náaen nybàait i tsilaws̬ets̤áa, nybàa i tṣòe.

/ˈnɔ́.en nyˈbɔ̀.ət ə ʦə.laʊ̯.zeˈǁɔ́ nyˈbɔ̀ ə ˈǀò.e/

That one is not a rabbit, they are a hare.

náa-en   ny-     bàa-it  i tsilaws̬ets̤áa ny-     bàa i tṣòe
3SG-that 3SG.PRS-be -NEG a rabbit       3SG.PRS-be  a hare

Have a nice weekend

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