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.

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.

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 consonants: b, c, d, f, g, к, l, m, n, p, q, r, s, t, v, x, z,
  • Cyrillic consonants: б, ц, д, ф, г, к, л, м, н, п, ?, р, с, т, в, х, з, ?
  • Greek consonants:
  • Other consonants: ð, ħ, ʒ (yogh), ł, ɱ, š, þ, ž
    • On the conlang list: ħ = jh, yogh = j, ł = lh, ɱ = mh, r = rh
  • Breve under or over to indicate labialization: ğ, ð̬
    • On the conlang list: labialization indicated by ü
  • Cedilla under or apostrophe over to indicate palatalization: ç, g̓
    • On the conlang list labialization indicated by ï
  • 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
    • On the conlang list double acute accent replaced with circumflex
  • Weak vowels: æ, ɶ, ı
    • On the conlang list ı = ï
  • No capitalization.


а б в г д е з и к л м н о п р с т у ф х ц ъ ы ь э ю я ё ђ є ѕ ї ј

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
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