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Jonathan @levunalangs.bsky.social · 18h

Guess what! It’s a new conlang!

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This is Amnenas, my new musical #conlang — and a submission for the Cursed Conlang Circus! I had a lot of fun with this video but it was also very confusing and (given the deadline) pretty stressful. I just made it in time!

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Amnenas: A Cursed Musical Conlang

YouTube video by LevunaLangs

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Jessie Peterson @quothalinguist.bsky.social · Sep 3

My book is coming out in a month!! #conlang

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Discover How to Create a Language, 1st Edition, Jessie Peterson, HB ISBN: 9781108834070 on Cambridge Aspire website

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Jonathan @levunalangs.bsky.social · Aug 26

After no conlang posts in over a month (!) here’s a new post for a new language! It’s a “cursed” musical conlang, involving harmonies strange enough that they’re basically unplayable on any instrument. As far as I know, anyway.

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Jonathan @levunalangs.bsky.social · Jul 26

Happy sleepy #caturday from Levuna!

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Jonathan @levunalangs.bsky.social · Jul 21

I’m taking a break from the word of the day posts for a bit! They will be back sometime soon, but in the meantime I’ve got some other conlang stuff to work on.

Jonathan @levunalangs.bsky.social · Jul 19

Today’s Valya word is pyapra, meaning ‘party’ or ‘festival.’ It comes from pya, ‘meal,’ plus the (brand new) augmentative suffix -pra. Because the augmentative conveys significance more than literal size, it’s occasionally combined with the diminutive!

Read more here: www.tumblr.com/levunalangs/...

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Jonathan @levunalangs.bsky.social · Jul 19

Today’s Valya word is dghalwu, ‘oak.’ Since gvu is both ‘leaf’ and ‘piece,’ gvu dghalwu is ambiguous.

Prepositions might clear it up (da is ‘of’ and hru is ‘made of,’ more or less) but it could still be unclear. I’m sure there’s a way to disambiguate that the Valya speakers haven’t taught me yet.

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Jonathan @levunalangs.bsky.social · Jul 18

Today’s Valya word is ‘nuna,’ meaning ‘circle’ or ‘loop.’ ‘Nunarwa,’ lit. ‘loop-make,’ is ‘repeat’ or ‘return.’ ‘Tnuna,’ from ‘the loop,’ is ‘year,’ so ‘the year’ is ‘kitnuna,’ etymologically ‘the the year.’ A more poetic way to say ‘year’ is ‘kihngüli krimwa,’ ‘the wheel of seasons.’

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Jonathan @levunalangs.bsky.social · Jul 18

Yesterday’s word (oops!) was ‘hngüli’ /ŋ̊y.li/, meaning ‘wheel.’ It’s related to ‘hngu’ ‘turn’ (intrans.), ‘hündi’ ‘turn’ (trans.), and ‘hunggla’ ‘spin.’

You can find out just how those words are all related here: www.tumblr.com/levunalangs/...

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Jonathan @levunalangs.bsky.social · Jul 14

Today’s Valya word is ‘hlabu,’ meaning ‘gay’ or ‘nonbinary.’ You can read more here: www.tumblr.com/levunalangs/...

Today’s word is in honor of International Non-Binary People’s Day!

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Jonathan @levunalangs.bsky.social · Jul 13

Today’s Valya word is ‘krimwa,’ meaning ‘time’ or ‘season.’ ‘Time’ in this case is (generally) a longer period, as opposed to ‘sivi,’ a moment. The seasons’ names (or at least one set of them) are ‘krimwa’ with various colors: green for spring/summer, red/orange/brown for fall, and white for winter.

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Jonathan @levunalangs.bsky.social · Jul 12

Two Valya words today, since I missed yesterday: ‘ngaba,’ ‘light,’ and ‘gvihwa,’ ‘fire.’ The latter is the nominalization of ‘bihwa,’ ‘to burn.’

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Jonathan @levunalangs.bsky.social · Jul 10

Today’s Valya word is ‘tüsu,’ ‘to stand.’ To make ‘stand up,’ the inchoative suffix -ntsa is used.

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Jonathan @levunalangs.bsky.social · Jul 9

For context on that example sentence, see the full post here: www.tumblr.com/levunalangs/...

Jonathan @levunalangs.bsky.social · Jul 9

Today’s Valya word is ‘basha,’ meaning ‘right.’ When used as an adverb (to the right, turning right, turning clockwise, etc.) you add the preposition ‘di,’ ‘with,’ even though ‘basha’ isn’t a noun. This is due to analogy with ‘di lwika’ from yesterday, as well as the cardinal directions!

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Jonathan @levunalangs.bsky.social · Jul 8

Today’s Valya word is ‘lwika,‘ ‘heart.‘ From it are derived ‘di lwika,‘ ‘left‘ (lit. ‘with the heart‘) and ‘mpi lwika,‘ ‘left side.‘

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Jonathan @levunalangs.bsky.social · Jul 8

Today’s Valya word is ‘riha,’ ‘to smell.’ The nominalized form ‘kriha’ is used to describe what things smell like.

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Jonathan @levunalangs.bsky.social · Jul 7

Okay so I just realized I forgot to actually translate this example sentence:

Tünitya tüka müfwirdu rwa kimazi “pa,” ba tüdli tsivünga mu rwa kimazi “du.”
Geese fly away in a V-shape and come back in a Ʌ-shape.

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Jonathan @levunalangs.bsky.social · Jul 7

Today’s Valya word is ‘mirgngi’ /mirɡ.ŋi/, meaning ‘wren’ (usually, the Carolina wren specifically). I found out after writing the example sentences that only male Carolina wrens sing, so it turns out these birds are gay!

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Jonathan @levunalangs.bsky.social · Jul 5

Today’s Valya word is ‘dli,’ meaning ‘come.’ When paired with ‘tsivünga’ ‘again,’ it means ‘come back.’

In the example below, the last glyphs on each line are ‘pa’ and ‘du,’ used here to refer to their shapes (“kimazi pa” is “the shape of ‘pa’”).

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Jonathan @levunalangs.bsky.social · Jul 5

I forgot to share yesterday’s word here! It was ‘rüni,’ meaning ‘thing’ or ‘tool,’ derived from ‘rwa,’ ‘to make.’ It can refer to any sort of thing but mostly to human-made things, while ‘lki’ is even more general, including naturally-occurring objects.

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Jonathan @levunalangs.bsky.social · Jul 4

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Here’s my latest youtube video! This one’s a musical translation of the poem from The Left Hand of Darkness into my #conlang Sdefa.

The Left Hand of Darkness – Sdefa

YouTube video by LevunaLangs

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Jonathan @levunalangs.bsky.social · Jul 4

Today’s Valya word is ‘fwirdu,’ meaning ‘goose.’ This is the source of one of two words for south: ‘difwirdu,’ ‘with (the) goose,’ referring to their migration away from the island. The other is the more general ‘ditya,’ ‘with (the) bird.’

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Jonathan @levunalangs.bsky.social · Jul 2

Today’s Valya word is ‘mihwa,’ meaning ‘alcohol.’ It can be combined with various words to specify different kinds, or be used alone if there’s enough context. ‘Rigisha,’ ‘nasünu,’ ‘dghi,’ and ‘sudgha’ are wheat, honey, grape, and potato respectively.

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David J. Peterson @dedalvs.bsky.social · Jul 1

This month’s #FiatLingua is by @quothalinguist.bsky.social. Jessie has revisited her very first language experiment as a young child—mixing up the sounds of English—to see if she could start with a similar premise but create a full-fledged #conlang out of it. fiatlingua.org/2025/07/

July 2025 – Fiat Lingua

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