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