SUPER double WOW!ZedSed wrote:Hahaha. Wow! I just remembered my first conlang when I was about ten years old.
Actually it wasn't really a conlang. Just a cypher/language game. I had the idea to switch all the unvoiced plosives and fricatives with their voiced counterparts and vice versa. Also -r- and -l- were switched. I thought it was cool at the time, with kind of a russian feeling to it. Of course, I didn't know any actual russian back then.
Although I cannot remember exactly what
came first, I remember doing something very similar to what Zedsed said above. I think the language was called Muscan, and just for gaccas and giggles, in addition to making it more or less a subsitution cypher from (basolect: 
, pretty much) the words were backwards ! Freaky, I know.(hey, this is 1978~9, folks, no CGI involved in the making of this
). Muscan has its own funky silly alphabet (of course, relexed from those 26 Roman letters), which I actually changed some, and made the basis for the Hwa alphabet, of which some examples are floating around in the Conversation Thread, in mostly brown or maroon ink (blood?).Years later, some of these simple subsitutions became the basis for some of the sound changes from Rozwi to its sisterlang Kwijin. Even Gaelic like superlenition and debuccalization.
Another really early attempt of mine at conlanging was Wushnikaak, which was essentially an all-vowel language. Words were composed of smaller descriptive elements, so there were pronouns, nouns, adjectives, and maybe 5 verbs at most. So a concept like <river> would have been something like big long wet run . It had a simple alphabet, and really, really long words made up of monophthongs or diphthongs. The next step was the inclusion of a glottal stop and some kind of rhotic, though for some reason I didn't consider glides [j, w]. This language was meant to be sung or chanted or whatever, you know, to open up great stone doors, calm a storm, or summon the Great Conjunction, or what have you. When I started incorporating triphthongs, I figured I better stop, or I will
Talk about a big long wet run
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There were two other
that I made for this post-apocalyptic palinoneolithic culture (can you tell this is the Ronald Raygun 80's?+Morlocks+Planet of the Apes humanoids+ lordknowswhatelse). These langs where preposterously stereotypical gibberish of the "oonga boonga" sort, with some teenie influences from the Mangamani of Tarzan and language of Chaka from Land of the Lost.The cool thing was I was exploring the concept of dialects, so even more of what Zedsed mentioned earlier (voicing, devoicing, frication, rhotacism/lambdacism; vowel fronting/backing, rounding/unrounding) was in full play between the two. Both used a runic/oghmaic scrawly script of lines drawn purposefully badly with my left hand (not my normal writing-paw). Though the languages are, well, real 6th grade (linguistic) science-fair calibre, I was using them to explore dialect drift, mutual intelligibility, sound shifts among other things. Kewl.
I have also found use in them by mining them for some words to use in Rozwi. So these peoples actually existed in my
world Tirga, and perhaps could be the ancestors of the Klae-Ungans, or at least the great-uncles & aunties of the Klae-Ungans.
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