Conlang Recognition Chart

This article describes a variety of simple clues one can use to determine what conlang a document is written in with high accuracy.

Calénnawn

• Non-ASCII: áéíóú àèìòù ë ðñ and $ or š
• Unused ASCII: jk
• Diphthongs: aw, iw, ow, ay, ey, oy, uy
• Digraph: ii
• x and q are common
• Words starting with f- or s- (like f-qúba)
• Words of more than one syllable contain at least one acute accent
• Common one- and two-letter words: h, e, i, o, on, so, se, fh, el, en, iw, fa

Ebisédian

• ASCII orthography:

• Uses w, y, 3 and 0 as vowel letters
• Upper- and lowercase consonants are distinct (e. g., K vs. k)
• Use of double vowel letters to indicate length: 00, ww.
• Use of apostrophe after vowels to indicate stress: 00', yy'.

• LaTeX orthography:

• Use of ø and ɜ as vowel letters
• Multiple diacritics over single vowel letters, up to 4 (macron, acute, tear-drop accent, subscript tilde).
• Subscript tilde to indicate nasality.
• Tear-drop accent in vowel-initial words (looks like a superscript apostrophe)

• General:

• Common single-word sentences with i in the syllable.
• Common words: Ke, ve, ke, je, re (always clause-final), keve, tømø, tɜmɜ, timi, tama, tumu.

Qþyn|gài

• Non-ASCII: Þþ|ǂáíúýàìùỳ
• Unused ASCII: bpmfvweoczj
• Combinations: nq qþ rq ql tl hh nǂg n!g n||g ǂk ái áu úi íu ài àu ùi ìu
• All words start with a consonant and end with a vowel
• Very long words

Sasxsek

• 7-bit ASCII characters only.
• All upper case or all lower case letters, no mixed case.
• Unused punctuation symbols: ; " ? !
• Unused letters: C, Y.
• No doubled letters.
• Empenthetic X (=/@/) used to in compounds.
• Single bracket quotes: < >
• Apostrophe to break up numbers or long words to make them more readable: 1'000'000
• Colon used for abbreviations: k:m: (=kilxmitros)
• Proper name marker "li".

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Senjecas

• Latin consonants: b, c, d, f, g, j, l, m, n, p, q, r, s, t, v, x, z
• Other consonants: ð, ħ, ?, ɱ, š, þ, ž
• Breve under or over to indicate labialization: ğ, m̺
• Cedilla under or apostrophe over to indicate palatalization: ç,
• Vowels: i, e, a, ø, o, u; with acute accent: í, é, á, ǿ, ó, ú; with double acute accent: i̋, e̋, a̋, ø̋, ő, ű.
• Weak vowels: æ, ɶ, ?

Tatari Faran

• Uses subset of Latin alphabet: a, b, d, e, f, h, i, j, k, m, n, o, p, r, s, t, u.
• No capitalization, even in proper names.
• Glottal stop in words, indicated by apostrophe (')
• ts used as a digraph
• The only consonant clusters are double consonants beginning with m or n
• Common words: ka, kei, ko, sa, sei, so, na, nei, no, ei (never at the beginning of a sentence); e (never at the end of a sentence); da (always follows a word ending in -n).

Terzemian

• Non-ASCII: Åå Čč Ǧǧ Ňň Öö Šš Üü Žž
• Unused ASCII: Jj Qq (except in foreign names)
• Vowels Harmony groups:
  • Aa Ee Ii Öö Üü
  • Åå Oo Öö Uu Üü
  • Aa Åå Ee Oo Öö
• Sentences generally start with a word (the verb) beginning with a multi-consonant cluster
• Verb may have a, e, or ö prefixed to the initial cluster

Þrjótrunn

• Non-ASCII: ÁÐÉÍÓÚÝÞÆÖáðéíóúýþæö
• Unused ASCII: cqz
• Combinations: pp tt kk gj ggj kj kkj
• Frequent words: ún únn á í eð er þiss þissi þissa