Vecderg

Vecderg

@Vecderg

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I made a language!

EDIT: updated the images to match the current document in case anyone uses this as a reference

I've been working on a conlang in the background for a while and I finally feel happy about presenting it!

Kalibe is a language made up of only 42 words, and everything you need to know about it can fit on a two-sided sheet of paper.

Each of the 42 words can be put together for more complex words, with little restraints. Each letter in the alphabet can be written with 2 or less pencil strokes. Each letter was chosen to be easy to pronounce in any language.

I hope you enjoy and find a use for it!!

More info: vecderg.com/kalibe

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berg
@berg

this is super cool actually! i will def nerd out with this as soon as possible (which is now i guess)

  • what is the explanation for the name kalibe itself? I know you sorta explain it in the doc along with the literal translation ("concept-make-beside") but I'm not sure how they relate
  • ta, to, and bu being omitted: significant meaning or just because? (can i make a native speakers head explode by pronouncing these terrible words?)
  • I know you kept the language pretty close to English for simplicity but the rigidly defined consonant-vowel combinations remind me of the Korean script Hangul which combines them per-character (e.g. 기가, "ㄱ=g, ㅣ=e, ㅏ=a", "giga"). Makes me think of an alternate way of writing the script where each vowel symbol transforms, or is appended to, the consonant symbol it goes with, rather than be written right after. So kalibe would end up being 3 characters for 3 words. Preferably in a consistent way so its not more complicated than needed and can be figured out for all combinations once you know the first few
  • permission to make some spell incantations with this? for... nefarious uses
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Vecderg
@Vecderg

THANK

  1. oh i forgot to include it because it originally just meant "stacking" but i wasn't sure how directly it translated lol. it basically just means "shoving things next to each other" cuz that's how you make words
  2. LOL naw i just wanted 42 words once i realized i was there. i also had no need for other pronouns (the current ones + ne = them/you (plural)/us, and te can be used as "it"). if you want the forbidden pronouns you may use them and bu is probably the fourth dimension direction
  3. ooooo me likey, i used specific symbols so that the language could be easily typed tho, so that might only apply to the written version
  4. pffff you may!!
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berg
@berg
  1. Ahhh I was even going ahead with some spiritual explanation where language is the companion of the peoples or something but that makes sense
  2. mmm well actually bu sounds pretty useful for the concept of time? a bit weird to be a location word but less weird than any other category and if you think outside your three dimensional box it totally makes sense. make it mean something like "before", put a na before (heh) it for "after"??
  3. it would be like the german thing where you can type umlauts like ü as ue and its acceptable c:
  4. nefarious laughter
  5. AGH I FORGOT TO ASK THIS hows the number system work, there only being 5 number words? (is there a 'zero'?)
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Vecderg
@Vecderg

@ 1/3 pffff fair fair

  1. mayb! but wo is already the concept of time, though i have had a bit of trouble figuring out how it'd work to refer to stuff like before/after. the best i got was referring to time "below/above" instead of before/after which makes some amount of sense to me spatially

  2. good question!! i didn't fully iron it out at the time of writing out the doc but was discussing with some other peeps. you can get larger numbers by multiplying (e.g. munomi = 5-of-3 = 15), but i'm not sure yet if putting them together would add them or just put the digits together (mumi = 5+3 = 53 or 8?). i think it'd be more convenient if you could just put digits together, so i'll add that to the doc. also zero is nako (nothing)

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