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.

Ayeri

• Orthography: ptkbdgmnvshrly aāeēiīoōuū (older transcriptions use c for k)

• Non-ASCII: āēīōū (ạẹịọụ ạ̄ẹ̄ị̄ọ̄ụ̄ have also been used in older transcriptions)
• Unused ASCII: cfjqwxyz

• Dipthongs: au, ay, ey, oy (also uses 'iy' frequently, but that is no diphthong)
• Common words: ang, sira, eng, le, si, yam, ya
• Common morphemes: -ang, -aris, -reng, -ley, -yam, -ea, -iya, -ara, -in, -on
• Other common features: Words can get quite long due to its agglutinativeness.

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: a, e, i, h, 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 opening left single quote)

• General:

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

Germanech

• Non-ASCII: Ää Öö Üü Éé
• Digraphs: ch cj dj gj tj tz
• Common words: a de ez ést héz il la las los

Minza

• Non-ASCII: ċ č ł ŋ ö ř š ż ž
• Unused ASCII: q w x
• Digraphs: ch, gh
• Combinations: ië, yö, uö, öy, -h after vowels, łř, nř
• Common words: ai, ba, ċi, die, en, fi, ida, ja, kam, keh, ła, łu, min, nu, öych, ři, šei, šö, vö, yn, zmi

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

Regimonti

Regimonti is a Romance language with vocabulary based on classical Latin rather than Vulgar Latin.

• Its name is "Rumanşa" in Regimonti
• Latin Alphabet with three additional characters: è, ņ, ş which make the following sounds: /E/ /J/ /S/ respectively.
• Diphthongs: ai, au, oi, ua
• common words: unu, una, lu, la. First person singular pronoun: O
• Listen to the Babel Text in mp3 format

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".

http://www.nutter.net/sasxsek

Senjecas

Latin script

• Non-ASCII consonants: ɱ; þ; ð; ł; ß; к; ħ; ʒ (yogh)
  • Until yogh is made available on Wiki, I am using ʒ ezh.
  • к = Kalaallisut (Greenlandic) kra
  • On the conlang list: ɱ = mh, ł = lh, ß = dz, к = k, ħ = jh, yogh = j, r = rh
• Breve under or over to indicate labialization: ğ, ð̬
  • On the conlang list labialization is indicated by ü
• Cedilla under or apostrophe over to indicate palatalization: ç, g̓
  • On the conlang list palatalization is indicated by ï
• Non-ASCII vowel: ø; all vowels with acute accent: í, é, á, ǿ, ó, ú; all vowels with double acute accent: i̋, e̋, a̋, ø̋, ő, ű
  • On the conlang list the double acute accent is replaced with a circumflex
• Non-ASCII weak vowels: ı, ɶ, æ
  • On the conlang list ı = ï

Cyrillic script

• Non-Russian consonants:
  • My own invention: м̀
  • Serbian: ђ
  • Macedonian: љ; s; j
  • Tajik: ғ
• Obsolete Russian consonant: o̴
  • o̴ is the old Cyrillic letter fita, an "o" with a tilde through it, derived from the Greek θ.[1] On the conlang list θ will be used.
• Breve under or over to indicate labialization: г̆, б̬
• Obsolete Russian vowel: ѫ; with acute accent: и́, é, á, ѫ́, ó, ý; with double acute accent: и̋, e̋, a̋, ѫ̋, ő, y̋
  • On the conlang list the double acute accent is replaced with a circumflex.
  • On the conlang list ø will be used for ѫ yus.
• Palatalization is indicated with the iotacized vowels: i, є, я, ё, ю (Palatalization does not occur before ѫ. This is not a rule, it just so happens.).
• Weak vowels:
  • Russian: ь
  • Belarusian: ў
  • BulgarianL ъ

Greek script

• Non-Greek consonants: b; μ̀; ð; ?λ; ts; dz; q; ħ; j
• Greek Vowels: ι, η, α, o, ω, υ; with acute accent: ί, ή, ά, ό, ώ, ύ; with double acute accent: ι̋, η̋, α̋, ο̋, ω̋, υ̋
  • On the conlang list the double acute accent is replaced with a circumflex
• Weak vowels: ϊ, ϋ, ε

y α β γ δ ε ζ η θ ι κ λ μ ν ξ ο π ρ ς σ τ υ φ χ ψ ω ϊ ϋ ό ύ ώ

Other Scripts

The Armenian, Devanagari, Georgian, Hebrew and Tengwar alphabets have also been adapted for Senjecas.

Tatari Faran

• Uses subset of Latin alphabet: a, b, d, e, f, h, i, j, k, m, n, o, p, r, s, t, u.
• Unused letters: c, g, l, q, v, w, x, y, z.
• No capitalization, not even in proper names.
• Glottal stop in words, indicated by apostrophe (').
• ts used as a digraph.
• d is always word-initial, and r is always medial.
• 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

Latin script

• Non-ASCII: Åå Čč Ǧǧ Ňň Öö Šš Üü Žž
• Unused ASCII: Jj Qq (except in foreign names)
• Vowel 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

Cyrillic script

• Non-Russian: Ғғ Ңң Өө Ўў Үү Һһ Ωω
• Unused Russian: Ее Щщ Ъъ Ыы Ьь Юю Яя (Ыы sometimes used for non-harmonic or non-Terzemian vowels in foreign words)
• Foreign names not originally written in Cyrillic may occur in Latin orthography
• Vowel Harmony groups:
  • Аа Ээ Ии Өө Үү
  • Ωω Оо Өө Уу Үү
  • Аа Ωω Ээ Оо Өө
• Sentences generally start with a word (the verb) beginning with a multi-consonant cluster
• Verb may have а, э, or ө prefixed to the initial cluster

Arabic script

• Not in Standard Arabic: اً څ چ اِ گ ڽ اَ اَِ هَِ ۆ ژ
• Standard but not used: ة ث ج ح ذ ص ض ط ظ ع ق ى
• Vowel Harmony groups:
  • ا اِ هِ اَِ هَِ
  • اً اَ هَ هَِ
  • ا اً اِ اَ اَِ
• Sentences generally start with a word (the verb) beginning with a multi-consonant cluster
• Verb may have اِِ ,ا, or اَِ 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