So yeah making up a whole fictional language is fun! We're now able to make full paragraphs and have a very unique system of pronouns and modifiers and it's just...boy it's dense!

Here's a little excerpt.

“Epil es gentan. Es epkres lepil goda trak. Es legil anvitarve et legil nitam anwerne antakane. Ortamfet lepil anismervne: es Skaroselis gatan. Upalas Rakinti deulentan, nit deulentan dreblen. Ansotelve...”

Will I translate it for you? No that's spoilers!

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Has anyone ever done a conlang workup of Ponish? It doesn't have to be GOOD but I could really use some idea what it might sound like to a non-Ponish speaker. I'm a novice conlanger and I COULD go down that rabbit hole, but it's probably not an effective use of my time.

It's an effective use of someone else's time, tho.

Any help is appreciated.

A companion to "Observations" by my friend Remedy! Recommended to understand several things throughout the story, STRONGLY recommended to understand the chapter entitled "Zekizfet".

Feel free to ask questions, I cannot guarantee straightforward answers. :3

Nouns:

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To branch off a musing on Lavender Unicorn Syndrome,

Another solution is conlang, inventing pronouns per race-sex combo. I haven't seen it, but with the historic and present xenophobia in ponies, along with the way it's built into the language (nopony, anypony, somepony) it doesn't feel unthinkable… just hard to read.

Dhe/dhim/dhis/dhis

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...even if it would make life simpler since I already have the words to hand, I will not translate "cutie mark" into Eldraeic as trakveth láril (lit. "butt sigil").

...no, not even if it would let me formalize the science of "hindquarter sygaldry", which is probably the best phrase I've coined this week.

I've been conlanging some more, and since some of the words this time are of Advancedverse relevance, thought I'd drop a pointer here.

My first blog post on FiMfiction was about how Amphicoelias had started an Esperanto translation of The Library of Discord.

I'm pleased to announce that he finished that translation!

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I mentioned in my author's note for Rakadi & Ahe'eyo: The Language Barrier that I created two entire languages for use exclusively in my story. I figured I'd put out there exactly how the two languages function (or, at least, how the bits of it function that were relevant to the story).

Rakadi's Language: Yamnaic

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