Hail warugos! I have been working on and off on a pan-germanic personal language now named Dúvtung for the past few years, I am a huge classics and germanic languages nerd and am currently learning Latin and Attic Greek; I hope to learn German and Icelandic in the future. This is my first time on a forum so bear with me as I figure things out. My conlanging journey started when I got heavy into Esperanto, where I reached roughly B1/2 level, I also really loved the Toki Pona project and has shaped a lot of what I do as well.
I am incredibly busy IRL but I hope to finish off the last few bits of Dúvtung’s grammar and expand its vocabulary when I finally get some free time.
Additionally, I am a novice poet and writer and its one of the things I am making Dúvtung for. I hope to write folktales/epics and songs in it. Its not a very naturalistic language, by design, it’s in essence an IAL-style simplification of proto-germanic but with a lot of my own random things thrown into it.
Thank you for reading and I wish you a pleasant day!
The Toki Pona community feels very dynamic, though I do not follow it closely anymore I like to see the scripts people make for the language and the way new terms and words are coined.
hmmm interesting. the thing about word proposals and new scripts is that they almost never catch on outside of a limited social circle. like among my friends i say “apeja” from “lape a” as a calque of “eepy,” but that’s more of an inside joke than anything.
framing toki pona as an ongoing project rather than a living language strikes me as a little weird, but it’s not strictly incorrect
Is Dúvtung inspired by Latin or Greek ? I’ve always loved romlangs. I tried to make a Greek loglang before, but the language just does not want to fit into an SSM, and it has so many cases. It would be interesting to see what someone with more experience could do.
Dúvtung is based on proto-germanic, but grammatically I am leaning a lot on Latin and Greek as I am still quite unfamiliar with how exactly the ancient germanic languages worked syntactically.
I’m not quite aware of loglangs, what’s an SSM?
And also its derivations and stuff, like where the root ends and the suffixes start.
Basically: Can I give you a way to subdivide a sentence into all its separate meaning units without making you learn what those individual units actually mean?
For example, if I told you that every CV syllable marks the beginning of a root (and cannot appear anywhere but in the beginning of a root), and every CVV is a suffix
You’d know that kavrakaeroblehraseikipratle is divided into three words. the first word has a suffix, and the second word also has a suffix. you know exactly what the roots are, and you know exactly what the suffixes are, even if you have no clue what they mean.
Presenting the system without spaces isn’t necessary for SSM, I’ve just chosen to do that to present my point more strongly.
In loglangs, you usually want your language to be SSM both orthographically and phonologically
No, but I have actually started on a Germanic conlang properly, and gotten pretty far with it. It’s mainly based on West-Germanic languages, though I built it on Proto-Germanic. Have done most stuff except verbs.
