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.

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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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