r/conlangs • u/Jayyburdd • 6h ago
Overview Japanese vs. Yuekyu : Comparing between a real and a constructed Japonic language (#2)
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r/conlangs • u/mareck_ • 7h ago
gos hedék and bziuxi - Hello all!
My annual speedlang allotment. Welcome to the twenty-eighth semiännual speedlang. It will run from Friday, September 4ᵗʰ, 2026, to Monday, September 21ˢᵗ, 2026.
Official speedlang prompt PDF.
Feel free to post questions and comments here or elsewhere.
Send submissions to me via PMs or Discord (@marumarback) or at maru.mareck(at)aol.com.
ga nàrem maré and cway cway dany - Good luck! 😹
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r/conlangs • u/LectureRich4080 • 10h ago
MASSIVE DISCLAIMER
I absolutely do not invite any political debate here. Although the original song is meant for socialist internationalism, I just want to do this for funsies and worldbuilding. Do NOT derail any comment or comment thread off of conlanging. Keep it related to conlanging, because even though you are welcome to adapt your chosen lyrics to your conworld's socialist or communist factions, that does NOT mean you're welcome to do it yourselves. I don't want to start any revolutions, I swear.
So, I saw this video of the Internationale, but with like, almost every language on earth (very nice job Picks, cool video), then I suddenly had an idea: why not do the same thing, but instead use almost every conlang on Reddit?
Thus I fell down a massive rabbit hole preparing the lyrics and the rules.
So, now, I present to you, the greatest activity I will ever host in 2026;
The International Constructed Internationale.
My goal here? To have the entirety of the r/conlangs community translate the entirely of "L'Internationale" line by line. When everything's translated like the Tower of Babel, I'll sing it all woven together. Including subtitles! Just 4.99¢ off! (joking).
Anyways, with 52 - 8 = 44 lines for you to translate, you have to:
If your conlang is used by any nation, socialist party, or movement in your worldbuilding, feel free to link an image of that party/nation/movement's flag or emblem. Otherwise, you can just use the flag of your conlang, if you don't have, you can just use the standard Red Banner.
Oh, also, if you want to, you can also record and link an audio clip of you singing the lyric yourself to either ensure perfect pronunciation or just help me finish this faster. This is optional, but thanks!
The template for use is:
["The Internationale", translated into your conlang]
[Your language name, Native Endonym and Anglic Exonym]
What I Dibs: [insert the English line you want]
Translation: [translate said English line you want]
IPA Pronunciation: [Full IPA guide so I don't embarrass your ancestors on stage]
Native Script (Optional): [If the script can be typed digitally using Unicode, go ahead. If not, use a transparent PNG. Please ensure your handwriting or fonts are clean AND legible]
No need for the Leipzig gloss!
Here are the lyrics you can pick from. Look for a clean line. If it's crossed out, it's taken. Except for the chorus, two languages can take the same line because the chorus is sang twice.
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Arise, wretched of the earth ("Debout, le damné de la terre", French)
Arise, convicts of hunger ("Seyo, pu atok kilansan!" Samatian)
Reason thunders in its crater ("Staub bisht oketo bodobrok" Geb Dezaang)
Let us fight for the truth! ("Wir wısıyās ey’aðe è!" Däl)
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Of the past let us wipe the slate clean
Slave masses, arise, arise ("Zsenti mùnyèví, míri, míri" Mershan)
The world is about to change its foundation
We are nothing, let us be everything
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𝄆 This is the final struggle ("Ето яс ца готої блая" Zykroje, ___)
Let us gather together, and tomorrow
The Internationale (الينتدناشونالَ" Tajrstanikroje, ___)
Will be the human kind. 𝄇 (_____, "Gisa lôr amo ongod'sam" Mogahgo)
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There are no supreme saviors
Neither God, nor Caesar, nor hero. ("Ni dioz, ni Sezar, ni iro" Wesmerican)
Producers, let us save ourselves, "Heirônô fujeohik, ohan' zj"we /勞農兵 互幫힌、保하ᇿ 朕丷" Zansekkian)
Decree on the common welfare
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That the thief return his plunder,
That the spirit be pulled from its prison
Let us fan the forge ourselves
Strike the iron while it is hot
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𝄆 This is the final struggle
Let us gather together, and tomorrow
The Internationale
Will be the human kind. 𝄇
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The state represses and the law cheats
The tax bleeds the unfortunate
No duty is imposed on the rich
"Rights of the poor" is a hollow phrase
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Enough languishing in custody
Equality wants other laws:
No rights without obligations, it says,
And as well, no obligations without rights
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𝄆 This is the final struggle
Let us gather together, and tomorrow
The Internationale
Will be the human kind. 𝄇
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Hideous in their self-deification
Kings of the mine and rail ("Ŋotqanan valal kthosan toyont" Konjajal*)*
Have they ever done anything other
Than steal work?
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Into the coffers of that lot,
What work creates has melted
In demanding that they give it back
The people wants only its due.
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𝄆 This is the final struggle
Let us gather together, and tomorrow
The Internationale
Will be the human kind. 𝄇
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The kings intoxicate us with gunsmoke,
Peace among ourselves, war to the tyrants! ("Raffri gåssan køngurrar dejji" Nordish)
Let the armies go on strike,
Guns in the air, and break ranks
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If these cannibals insist ("Дf єƌever kљȝrдɂ komρƿŵдƌ" Memphratician)
In making heroes of us,
Soon they will know our bullets
Are for our own generals
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𝄆 This is the final struggle
Let us gather together, and tomorrow
The Internationale
Will be the human kind. 𝄇
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Laborers, peasants, we are
The great party of workers ("Le grand partit des laborators" Carren)
The earth belongs only to men ("Aldeit'a gę xai pra ku", Mbox Ail)
The idle will go reside elsewhere
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How much of our flesh they feed on*,* ("Gqaharthha ahe qiean fassanneuleit," Vissic Theulen)
But if the ravens and vultures
Disappear one of these days
The sun will shine always ("xa tùfáz afino" Aguapalka)
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𝄆 This is the final struggle
Let us gather together, and tomorrow ("Яу славша, и гатов" Ařyktoraskii', "Юа галу, и нлүден" Zykroje)
The Internationale ("Ца Үнтернашонале" Zykroje, "Ғла Интернатїонаал" Ařyktoraskii')
Will be the human kind. 𝄇 (___, "Sera le genre humain." French)
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r/conlangs • u/TechbearSeattle • 11h ago
My current conlang, Pa’inatsabeh, is reaching state where I can use it, and I have some literature I want to translate: myths told as chanted hymns.
The language is polysynthetic, with incorporated pronouns for subject and object, possible incorporation of the direct object, and lengthy list of other affixes. To give an idea of the size of resulting words, the language name literally means "We all speak it." Another example is to’anatongupika’etsi, "I am about to go hunting for fish (i.e. fishing)." I don't think words of this size are amenable to rhymes, which has led me down an interesting rabbit hole of how other languages manage poetry.
Japanese uses morae, the number of "beats" a syllable has. Latin uses vowel length, which English adapted to become meter. Hebrew uses couplets based on idea, with the second line clarifying, contrasting, or expanding on the first one. Old English uses beats, breaks, and alliteration. Many languages rely on kennings, metaphors that replace common words in order to fit them into the expected patterns.
This language was inspired by the Uto-Aztecan family, so I will probably start with Nahuatl forms of poetry and work out from there. I'm interest to know what others have done in this arena: does your language have a genre of poetry or hymnody? If so, what forms did you chose that best fit?
r/conlangs • u/AuricArchivist • 3h ago
I already posted this in r/neography though I'm not sure if this is an appropriate post here....I'll take my post down if it causes any problems.
So I made a prototype font for my conlang. If it wasn't obvious, major inspiration from Elder Futhark runes, and the conlang itself draws major inspiration from Germanic languages. The ligatures don't look like anything I want, but this'll do for now.
I currently don't have enough grammar and vocabulary developed in my conlang to write something substantial. The only thing I can write so far is a short "My name is" sentence and "I am here" as an exercise for conjugating the to be infinitive verb (1st person - hau)
Heill, ik hau Aurelius.
Tak hau Ansuz wiða.
Ik hau hera.
Hail, I am Aurelius.
This is the language of the Ansis.
I am here.
https://reddit.com/link/1w6x7el/video/fg07a6qwdgnh1/player
At the moment I like to write Old Norse poems in my conlang's script and pretend I have a fully fledged and fleshed out conlang. Transliterating poems from Old Norse or Latin into my conlang font sort of motivates me more to work on my conlang so that I can eventually write something of my own.
Here's Grógaldr ("Groa's Spell") stanzas 6~14 with my conlang font.
https://reddit.com/link/1w6x7el/video/ovd366p3egnh1/player
And here's me transcripting a Latin transliteration of the Lord's Prayer in Gothic, with my conlang font.
https://reddit.com/link/1w6x7el/video/7vanx778egnh1/player
I hope to flesh out my conlang properly and post about it some day!
r/conlangs • u/AuricArchivist • 1h ago
Let's bring the zoo over. Maybe you'll find some animals that you don't have a word/name for in your conlang! Also feel free to take this list as a template to come up with words for animals in your conlang.
You're free to leave out the ones you don't have.
Happy conlanging, folks!
r/conlangs • u/platypusbjorn • 15h ago
So basically I wanted to hear what people had to say on the subject of making a conlang based on Paleo European languages. These languages are basically any non PIE languages from Europe that predate PIE entering Europe. Examples would be Etruscan, Basque, Iberian, Lemnian, Minoan, and so on. First of all, does anyone know of any semi interesting attempts at making one? Second, how would you go about doing it? Strategies you would use? Third, what would you like to see in a conlang based on this idea? Feel free to add anything else you feel important in your response. And yes: I am aware that there is little to no information on these languages. I was just curious to see what people would say.
r/conlangs • u/Natanieloss • 16h ago
Like the title suggests, how does your conlang mark the past tense? For my conlangs if they have nasal vowels I usually mark the past tense by nasaling the vowels in the usual person suffix but what about yours?
edit: changed "nouns" to "vowels" due to mistake
r/conlangs • u/CaptKonami • 22h ago
Welcome to the r/conlangs Official Checkpoint. You have been selected for a random check of your language. Please translate one or more of the following phrases and sentences:
"You do not recongnise the bodies in the water."
"It is a Polaroid photograph, circa 1976. It depicts several unidentified teenagers, and is believed to have been taken in the summer of that year."
"We've had a great year, haven't we?"
"Don't worry about waiting for the reunion, I'm sure we'll see each other soon enough."
"Lots of love, from all of your best friends."
"Stop!"
If you have any ideas for interesting phrases or sentences for the next checkpoint, let me know in a DM! This activity will be posted on Tuesdays and Thursdays. The highest upvoted "Stop!" will be included in the next checkpoint's title!
r/conlangs • u/Nyshimori • 21h ago
I've made that change years ago, when I was more a newbie in conlanging.
Thinking with my today knowledge, maybe it could happen more like this:
- CʰV → CʰV̤ → CV̤ → CV̤ˑ → CV̤{h, ɦ}
But, you know, this lengthen the syllable from no where, maybe this breathy vowel could make this happen, but dunno.
Looking at the evolution of *phụ́ khídụ (IPA: /pʰý kʰídỳ/, mean.: "that person"):
I feel it could work, but I'm also feeling I'm forcing it to happen and I found no records of something like that happening.
What do you think?
r/conlangs • u/benixidza • 7h ago
Ever felt lost trying to ask a simple question in a new language? Today, we're diving into the classic interrogatives of Zapotec and clearing up some common confusions! Do you know the difference between asking 'how many' for bananas versus asking 'how much' for a kilo of beans in Zapotec? It's trickier than you think! You might think you know how to ask 'how much,' but in Zapotec, there are two ways, and using the wrong one can lead to some funny misunderstandings. Let's break it down! Imagine a split screen showing someone counting bananas on one side and a confused person looking at a price tag on the other, with text like "Zapotec Questions: The Two Ways to Ask 'How Much'!
This video introduces essential Zapotec interrogative words like "Bix" (who), "Gakax" (how), "Batax" (when), and "Gax" (where). It explains the difference between "Balax" and "Gákax" for asking "how much," with "Balash" used for countable items and "Gákax" for uncountable ones.
Examples are provided to illustrate the usage of "Balax" for countable things like "Balax Bunatxi" (how many people) and "balax wi" (how many bananas). The video touches on the nuance of "Gákax" for uncountable quantities, using the example of asking the price of beans. It also discusses optional omissions of certain sounds or letters in Zapotec words, like "Bix" sometimes being shortened to "Bi" and provides examples like "Bix gudagu?" (What did you eat?). Here is a summary of the video:
Video Overview:
This lesson focuses on forming questions in Zapotec language, covering fundamental interrogative words, tone nuances, and special question auxiliaries that add context or emotion to inquiries.
Key Concepts Covered:
* Bix / Bix kw: What / Why.
* Nush: Who.
* Batash: When.
* Gash: Where.
* Balash: Used for countable nouns such as people or discrete items (e.g., apples, bananas) [00:37].
* Gakash: Used for uncountable quantities (e.g., sugar, salt, weight-based items).
* Pricing Exception: Gákax is also used when asking for prices or the total cost of goods.
* Tonal Variations: Subtle pitch shifts on gákax change the meaning between asking "how" versus "how much".
* In informal speech, certain ending sounds (such as -xh) or prefixes are frequently dropped (e.g., Bix becoming Bi).
Zapotec uses specific auxiliary particles to modify the tone and meaning of questions:
* ba: Initiates questions about actions (similar to "did you...?" or "have you...?").
* Txi: Indicates completed status, functioning like "already" (ya).
* waka: Expresses capability or possibility ("can we...?").
* bën: Adds drama, emphasis, or mild exaggeration to a question.
* I: Used for seeking confirmation or expressing mild surprise.
* ka: Placed at the end of questions to prompt a response or add conversational emphasis.
* Combining Auxiliaries: Multiple particles can be combined (e.g., ba txi, bën ka run, i waka) to convey layered nuances in a single sentence.
r/conlangs • u/thatshygirl06 • 17h ago
Edit: the title is supposed to say conscript 😭😭 stupid autocorrect
I have a new conalng im working on called Dovallenéá, which means "our language". It's a language made by witch youths, and it's inspired by english and vaguely a bit of Spanish and korean.
Witches also age slowly in this world, so age hierarchy will have some influence on the language. It's also matriarchal
Im still working on it, but i want it to be an alphabetic syllabary like hangul. I have only a handful of words and only a few grammar rules.
I have 5 grammatical gender endings:
Plural endings for nouns:
What my witches are called:
First person:
Second person:
Casual: 1. Ka - you 2. Kaz - yall 3. Kan - all yall
Family casual:
Polite:
Respectful:
Very Respectful:
Third person singular:
Animals: Pets/familars:
Other animals:
Inanimate:
Third person plural:
Dovallenéá has 5 levels of social address: Casual, family-casual, polite, respectful, and very respectful. The level depends on age, relationships, authority, status, and preference.
You can be casual if agreed upon to people up to 12 years older and 12 years younger. If someone is 13 years or more younger, you can be casual without permission, though polite is common upon meeting. 13 years or more older and if they were born within the same century then youre polite unless given permission otherwise.
Up to 3 centuries above and youre respectful. If it's over 3 centuries, then youre very respectful. And very respectful doesnt have to be just for age. If youre meetings a leader of a country or a witch group(national level, not smaller governments).
Family casual is used for extended family. Witches have clans which tend to be large because witches can live up to 2,000 years.
Titles that are used:
Parents:
Siblings: 1. Néssa - older sister 2. Sella - Younger sister 3. Breno - older brother 4. Luan - Younger brother
Mother's siblings: 1. Masé - older sister 2. Llera - Younger sister 3. Énon - older brother 4. Aven - Younger brother
Father's siblings: 1. Mica - older sister 2. Laka - Younger sister 3. Ékol - older brother 4. Vaté - Younger brother
Grandparents: 1. Mena - Mother's mother 2. Tato - Mother's father 3. Néma - Father's mother 4. Dado - Father's father
Great aunt and uncle: 1. Elora - great aunt 2. Eran - great uncle
Cousins:
Older Cousins: 1. Orena - female 2. - meren - male
Same generation cousins: 1. René - female 2. Ruon - male
Younger cousins: 1. Neli - female 2. Kemo - male
General age title:
Older - same century: 1. Tasoné - female 2. Tasamó - male
Same generation: 1. Nomihu - female 2. Kelanul - male
Younger: 1. Llunsé - female 2. Derib - male
Elders - previous centuries 1. Ģollamun - female 2. Gallanak - male
r/conlangs • u/Due-Beginning8863 • 17h ago
some words are just placeholders for now
anything else I should add (grammar wise)?
r/conlangs • u/Prox1maB • 19h ago
Let‘s talk about the dialects of Amerikaans.
The first dialect is “Kusdialek” or “Coastal Dialect”. This dialect is spoken in the Northern regions of Suriname and follows the standard orthography and phonology of my original post (Amerikaans Reconstructed), but differs slightly in that /æ/ can be an allophone of /ɛ/, typically amongst white speakers, and ‘j’ is often pronounced as /dʒ/, typically amongst non-white speakers. It also often retains the pronoun “ik” and uses “im” instead of the pronouns “ek” and “em”. This dialect also features verbs “gaat”, “doet”, and “siet” as alternatives to “ga”, “doe”, and “sie“.
However, there are other dialects called “Bosdialek” / ”Grensdialek” or “Jungle Dialect” / “Border Dialect”. These dialects also follow the standard orthography and phonology of my original post (Amerikaans Reconstructed), but they differ slightly in that they pronounce ‘d’ as /dʒ/ before the sound /i/ and ‘t‘ as /tʃ/ before the sound /i/ making the word “bitie” meaning “a bit” sound like /bitʃi/ in the south. Also, the Bosdialek preserves the grapheme <ae> for the long ‘a’ sound instead of using the grapheme <aa>, and the Grensdialek features nasalization of vowels before nasal consonants.
You may even run into lexical differences between the dialects (or even local differences within the dialects themselves) with examples being the word used for ”banana” being either “banana” or “bakova” or the word used for “pineapple” being either “ananas” or “abakashi”.
I’d also like to note here that I wanted to include the /ɐ/ sound in the language, but I imagine that regardless of speaker/dialect, it would most likely realistically be merged into the schwa /ə/ sound.
r/conlangs • u/realcomitabrailens • 1h ago
And like the phrases aren't just words, like they are whole ideas
r/conlangs • u/humblevladimirthegr8 • 17h ago
My language's phonotactics is regular and simple enough (generally CV) that it is easy for software to derive the IPA from the text. However, I haven't found an easy software way of going from IPA to speech without sounding unbearably robotic. I've tried one of the neural model approaches but those are trained on natural languages and so you get vowel-reductions and timing patterns from the source language that are undesirable. I'm tempted to take the Diphone approach of recording all possible CV/VC combinations and letting software glue them together but that's a fair amount of effort on my part. Has anyone else tried TTS, and what approach have you used?
My phonology in case that's relevant: https://main.d2xds94zsgwptg.amplifyapp.com/grammar/phonology.html
r/conlangs • u/LieInternational9088 • 10h ago
its a language zewei made or smth
r/conlangs • u/Inconstant_Moo • 1d ago
This is for two little projects I'm doing, so your help will be doubly helpful. You will see them both when they're done.
Suppose like a beginner computer programmer we want to say "Hello world!" in your native language, or one you're idiomatically familiar with. Feel free to mention your conlang too because they're lovely, but please carefully distinguish them because I am trying to gather real-world data.
Question 0 is the most important one, you don't need to attempt any or all of the others, but they're interesting, and numbers 4 and 5 would help one of the project.
(0) How do you in fact say "Hello world!"? Can I see it in the proper script through the magic of Unicode or otherwise?
(1) Re the orthography, do the equivalent of capital letters exist in your language for the "Hello", and are they also used for "World" as they would be in e.g. German? Do exclamation marks or the equivalent exist in the script, and if so are they idiomatic to use for a greeting?
(2) What does the "Hello" word literally mean? Or is it just basically a noise like "hello" is (we might as well bark like dogs)? (That seems to be comparatively rare and the fault of Alexander Graham Bell.)
(3) Are there different ways of saying the "Hello", and do they have different degrees of formality or familiarity or affection? (I presume in question 0 you used whatever the suitable register is for the world and maybe you'd like to look back and think about how you knew what that was.)
(4) Among the accepted idioms, are there one that involve the time of day, like "Good morning world!", "Good evening, world!"? What times do they cover, approximately?
(5) Are there missing elements of the time series? (E.g. in English "Good night world!" can't be a greeting.)
(6) Can some of the "Hello" words double as "goodbyes"?
(7) I put "Hello world!" because I want to see how you greet someone whose name you know. Does this make it completely different from saying "Hello" to someone whose name you don't know, or would you just leave the name off and it still works: "Hello Fred!" -> "Hello!"
(8) Does the "world" word take a vocative particle or case-ending or something-or-other?
(9) You will know interesting things I haven't even thought to ask. Please tell me them!
Thank you!
r/conlangs • u/FedeConlangerITA • 1d ago
Hi everybody, Fede here!
I am an italian conlanger and I am looking for other creators from Italy/that live in Italy and/or that know Italian very well.
It appears to me that there is no Italian Conlanging Community or group on the web, so I would to gather the people above in order to create one.
Se volete palesarvi e avete idee su come riunirci tutti, scrivete! :)
r/conlangs • u/arcticwolf9347 • 1d ago
Welcome to Word Wednesdays
For this activity you can pick any word you want whether it be a verb, noun, or adjective, and conjugate/inflect in all possible ways*, for tense, case, plurality, perspective, etc.
The purpose of this is to learn about cases and how words are slightly or vastly different under different cases, tenses, or perspectives. In many natural languages verbs or nouns are often changed because of the words around them. In other languages, the reader has to figure out number and perspective based on context. Who knows, maybe you can take inspiration from someone else's conlang!
How does your conlang handle cases? Do you have any unique ones that don't exist in natural languages? What are some irregular verbs or inflections that exist? How did they evolve? Do you think that the cases would hold up or fade away in future evolutions? Do any of your words when inflected have another meaning? What languages inspired you to add these cases?
*If you have way too many conjugations/inflections, you can share the simplest ones or the ones you find the most interesting. If you don't have any conjugation,
Have fun conlanging!
r/conlangs • u/AlarmingStructure562 • 18h ago
Here are a few examples of the letters and numerals used in the Tgorovani language I created.please visit my page:https://www.youtube.com/@nolaveniten
r/conlangs • u/Denek207 • 1d ago
I don't know why I like so much this idea maybe because I want to something similar (in my point of view) to /f/ that is pronounced more often than /ɸ/ despite that /ɸ/ seems to be easier than /f/ to prounance. Also this idea is slightly inspirated on rare articulation of /l/ in english between teeth /l̪͆/.
r/conlangs • u/kmconlng983 • 1d ago
So far I've just come up with the social settong leading to its arising, which is the most important thing in such languages, and a basic sketch lf its grammatical structure.
So far phonology and phonotactics are the same of WY, wich can be found at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guugu_Yimithirr_language
I am open to every feedback and please be brutally honest.
In addition I wanted to say I'm posting this bc I want to spread light on mixed languages and other contact languages in general since i think they are an underrated kind of language which I almlst never see on this sub.