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#conlangnovember basic phrases in Ngoaqona. There is a plural form for everything listed, but all is singular here:

Naxettevuk /n̪̟aᵏǂeθ̟evuk/
1-to.greet-2
I greet you, “hello”

Naqaqavuk /n̪̟acacavuk/
1-to.leave-2
I leave you, “goodbye”

Nalingakho /n̪̟al̪̟iŋaɦo/
1-to.regret-DET
I regret that, “i’m sorry”

miwwdu sitsom (they/them) @miwwdu-sitsom.bsky.social · 16h

#ConlangNovember 20: What are some common expressions in your language? Hello, goodbye, please, thank you, you're welcome, sorry, yes, no. If I were traveling to a place that speaks your language, what expressions would I need to know?

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What are some common expressions in your language? Hello, goodbye, please, thank you, you're welcome, sorry, yes, no. If I were traveling to a place that speaks your language, what expressions would I need to know?

November 20, 2025 at 1:56 PM

TulipRoses

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#conlangnovember

As a direct-inverse, Ngoaqona has a hierarchy. There are ways to both raise the hierarchal status of the adressee and humble the speaker, based on formality. Aka: formality triggers the inverse

ex.
devukonaqukul
POL-you-to.speak.PST-INV-me
“I (humbly) finished talking to you”

miwwdu sitsom (they/them) @miwwdu-sitsom.bsky.social · 2d

#ConlangNovember 18: Today, we're talking about formality and registers. Are there different varieties of your language used in different situations or by people of different classes? When would you use them, and how are they perceived by society?

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Today, we're talking about formality and registers. Are there different varieties of your language used in different situations or by people of different social groups? For example, are there ways of speaking that are more formal or more casual than others, such as using a different set of pronouns? Is there a distinction between the ways of speaking of the working class and academics?

When would you use the various varieties, and how are they perceived by society?

November 18, 2025 at 4:36 PM

TulipRoses

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#conlangnovember

Ngoaqona has two forms of negation: -la (general negation) and -uat (verb phrase negation ig?)

ex.
Nalasaktakvuk
I-NEG-to.stand-to.be.behind-you
“I didn’t stand behind you”

Nasakuattakvuk
I-to.stand-NEG-to.be.behind-you
“I didn’t stand *behind* you (I stood somewhere else)”

miwwdu sitsom (they/them) @miwwdu-sitsom.bsky.social · 4d

#ConlangNovember 16: Questions, negations, orders. How does your language handle them? For questions, this includes both polar (yes/no) questions, as well as open questions.

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Questions, negations, orders. How does your language handle them? For questions, this includes both polar (yes/no) questions, as well as open questions.

November 16, 2025 at 4:30 PM

TulipRoses

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#conlangnovember

Ngoaqona is SVO, and complexly S(neg)V(T)O(MP) where
t is time, m is manner, and p is place. adjectives some after the noun in shape, quantity, size, origin order

Nalaonavuk
I-NEG-talk.PST-you
“I didn’t talk to you”

Naonajauvuk
I-talk.PST-yesterday-you
“I talked yesterday to you”

miwwdu sitsom (they/them) @miwwdu-sitsom.bsky.social · 5d

#ConlangNovember 14: Today, we're discussing word order. What order do the subject, object and verb appear in in a sentence? Does it vary? Do adjectives come before or after nouns, and adverbs before or after verbs? And so on.

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Today, we're discussing word order. What order do the subject, object and verb appear in in a sentence? Does it vary? Do adjectives come before or after nouns? Do adverbs come before or after verbs? Does your language prefer prepositions or postpositions, if it has them? Or anything else on the topic of word order you feel like discussing!

November 15, 2025 at 2:53 PM

TulipRoses

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#conlangnovember

a quote from Stephen King’s “The Stand”

lunaqdaidaman sangdaida talanonn

just-person-to.attempt thing.just PRSMP-to.be.mad

“People who try hard to do the right thing always seem mad” (more lit. “just / fair people attempting the just / fair thing appear mad”)

miwwdu sitsom (they/them) @miwwdu-sitsom.bsky.social · 6d

#ConlangNovember 14: This week's prompt is 'stand'. Your choice how to interpret. You could give the translation, use it in a sentence in your conlang, or just take it as a starting point for inspiration for something conlang-related to discuss.

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This week's prompt is 'stand'. It's your choice how to interpret this prompt. You could give the translation, use it in a sentence in your conlang, or just take it as a starting point for inspiration for something conlang-related to discuss.

November 14, 2025 at 4:10 PM

TulipRoses

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#conlangnovember

Ngoaqona has 5 cases that decline by suffixing: Genitive (of) Causal (because of), Ornative (with), Essesive (formerly), and Privative (without). There are two lexical cases: the possessed and possesive cases. Nouns can be incorporated.

ex.
Ngoaqona
mice + to-talk
“talking mice”

miwwdu sitsom (they/them) @miwwdu-sitsom.bsky.social · 7d

#ConlangNovember 13: Let's talk morphology. How does your language combine words, roots and affixes to form new words with a more complex meaning? Talk about how it forms compounds, introduce some derivational affixes or show us inflection tables!

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Let's talk morphology. How does your language combine words, roots and affixes to form new words with a more complex meaning?

We've seen the general strategy your language employs and how it conceives of time and nouns' roles in a phrase, but let's see the specifics.

Are there compound words? How are they formed? Are there derivational affixes, like English '-ness'? Mention them! Do nouns, verbs or adjectives inflect for things like case, number, tense or grammatical gender? What specific affixes or other mutations are used? Show us inflection tables if you got 'em!

If your language is fully isolating, I guess talk about what your language does instead!

November 13, 2025 at 11:31 PM

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#conlangnovember

Ngoaqona two tenses — past and non-past. Semelfactive verbs aren’t explicitly marked as past. These are mostly animal behavior verbs (chirped, squeeked, pounced, etc.)

past:
ex. Naonavuk
na-on-a-vuk
“I talked (to) you”

semelfactive:
ex. Naselvuk
na-sel-vuk
“I chirped (at) you”

miwwdu sitsom (they/them) @miwwdu-sitsom.bsky.social · 8d

#ConlangNovember 12: How does your language conceive of time? What tenses and aspects does your language distinguish?

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How does your language conceive of time? What tenses and aspects does your language distinguish?

Tenses refer to when an action happens. Past, present, future, timeless? Does your language always mark tense, or sometimes leave it implied? Does it distinguish recent and remote past or future?

Aspects refer to the extent of time over which an action happens, or to the particular part of the action being discussed. Momentary, habitual, ongoing, starting, ending?

November 12, 2025 at 5:58 PM

TulipRoses

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my view tonight 🥺 so blessed to be alive #photography

photo of the northern lights over a patch of flowers

November 12, 2025 at 3:15 AM

TulipRoses

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#conlangnovember

Ngoaqona has a direct-inverse alignment. The hierarchy is built on animacy, ie. direct: ngoaq > other animals; inverse other animals > ngoaq. it is not based on saliency. saliency however is grammatically important to the secondary proximate-obviate. 🐭

miwwdu sitsom (they/them) @miwwdu-sitsom.bsky.social · 9d

#ConlangNovember 11: Let's discuss morphosyntactic alignment. How does your language treat the agent and patient of a transitive verb compared to the sole argument of an intransitive verb? Also, what noun cases does your language distinguish?

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Let's discuss morphosyntactic alignment. How does your language treat the agent (A) and patient (P) of a transitive verb compared to the sole argument (S) of an intransitive verb?

With nominative–accusative alignment, A and S are treated the same way (the nominative case), while P is treated differently (the accusative case). E.g. in English, we use 'he' in both "he laughed" (S) and "he saw the girl" (A), but 'him' in "the girl saw him" (P).

With ergative–absolutive alignment, P and S are treated the same way (the absolutive case), while A is treated differently (the ergative case).

These are the most common alignments, but there are a few other possibilities, and it's also possible to mix and match.

If you want to go further, what noun cases does your language's grammar distinguish (whether or not they mark it using inflection)?

November 11, 2025 at 8:08 PM

TulipRoses

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#conlangnovember

I have so much variation in Ngoaq… this is one of my favorite parts of conlanging. 🧵 1/?

miwwdu sitsom (they/them) @miwwdu-sitsom.bsky.social · 11d

#ConlangNovember 9: What allophonic variation is there in your language? Are phonemes realised differently by speakers in different contexts? What about sandhi? Are words ever realised differently depending on the surrounding words?

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What allophonic variation is there in your language? Are phonemes realised differently by speakers in different contexts, despite the speakers still considering them fundamentally the same? Like how in English, the T in 'top' and the T in 'stop' are usually pronounced differently, even though most speakers don't realise this.

What about sandhi? Are words ever realised differently depending on the surrounding words? Think of how in English, you might pronounce "did you" as "didge you", or how we use 'an' before a vowel sound in the next word and 'a' otherwise.

November 9, 2025 at 2:36 PM

TulipRoses

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#conlangnovember the max syllable structure looks like:

(C)(L) V (V)(C)
C1= any consonant
L= l̪̟
V= any vowel or diphthong
V2= any vowel (hiatus)
C2: any pulmonic consonant, most often a plosive with exceptions

like all languages with clicks, a click can’t be in the coda nor end a word.

miwwdu sitsom (they/them) @miwwdu-sitsom.bsky.social · 12d

#ConlangNovember 8: Some people discussed this a bit already, but today's topic is phonotactics. What are the allowable arrangements of phonemes in your conlang? For example, must syllables start with a consonant, or end in a vowel?

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Today's topic is phonotactics. What are the allowable arrangements of phonemes in your conlang? For example, must syllables start with a consonant, or end in a vowel? Are there certain consonant clusters that are disallowed, or certain sounds that can never start a word?

November 8, 2025 at 2:22 PM

TulipRoses

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tw / arachnophobia

any #spider people know what type this is? jumping spider?

black and white/brown spider with what looks like a face on its butt

November 7, 2025 at 10:06 PM

TulipRoses

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#conlangnovember

Feathers, or tteliq (θ̟el.ic)

This is the faux-plumage on Ngoaq heads. This helps them camoflauge while hunting, appearing as a young harpy eagle to scare off other prey from food. The word for a bird’s feather is currently uncoined, but will be a different word.

November 7, 2025 at 1:56 PM

TulipRoses

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#conlangnovember

As Ngoaqona is solely a spoken language, instead of orthography, i’m going to talk semiotics (in the case of pheromomes). 🧵 1/4

miwwdu sitsom (they/them) @miwwdu-sitsom.bsky.social · 14d

#ConlangNovember 6: Let's talk orthography. This can be either a script used by the speakers, or a transcription you use that doesn't exist in world. If it's phonemic (alphabet, syllabary, etc.), tell us how the characters match with sounds!

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Let's talk orthography. There are two things you could talk about here. (And you can do both, if you want!)

1. You could discuss a script used by the speakers themselves. How do they record knowledge and messages for posterity, if at all? Clay, stone or wooden tablets? Parchment, papyrus or paper? Digitally?

2. You could discuss a transcription you use in your conlanging notes or in the story that doesn't exist in world.

In either case, does it use an alphabet, syllabary or logograms? And if you've developed it, what are the specific characters used? For phonemic writing systems, what phonemes do these characters correspond to? Is it one-to-one?

November 6, 2025 at 2:13 PM

TulipRoses

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#conlangnovember 5

1. no bilabials due to facial anatomy; mice have a split lip
2. “dentals” are interdental due to tongue and teeth size
3. mice have a longer jaw with more possible places of articulation, but i’m using authorial fiat in excluding that
4. glottal sounds evolved from squeeks

Two charts composing of IPA symbols (international Phonetic Alphabet). The label says “ignore how shit this chart is, I have the flu.” the following charts contain 30 IPA symbols of both consonants and vowels

November 5, 2025 at 1:31 PM

TulipRoses

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#conlangnovember 4 — Ngoaqona is a priori with light inspiration from Ticuna. While I still haven’t figured out how much contact Ngoaq have with humans (if any), when I want loan words, I loan them in from Ticuna, and North Junín Quechua. Avoiding Spanish, pq lo hablo y eso es demasiado fácil

miwwdu sitsom (they/them) @miwwdu-sitsom.bsky.social · 16d

#ConlangNovember 4: What sources of inspiration did you use to create this conlang? Is it a priori, like Dothraki, or a posteriori, like Atlantean from Atlantis: The Lost Empire?

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What sources of inspiration did you use to create this conlang? Is it a priori (with vocabulary and other features not directly based on existing languages), like Dothraki, or a posteriori (taking vocabulary and other elements from existing languages), like Atlantean from Atlantis: The Lost Empire?

November 4, 2025 at 1:50 PM

TulipRoses

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Ngoaqona is exclusively spoken by mice, for everyday talk. pheromones & body language are still used in hunting and for long distance communication (like across tree tops). The different forms of speech convey different things (danger, warnings etc. vs general conversation)

miwwdu sitsom (they/them) @miwwdu-sitsom.bsky.social · 18d

#ConlangNovember 2: What purpose does this language serve? Is it the everyday language used by the people? A lingua franca allowing peoples who speak different languages to communicate? Is it ceremonial? Or the language of magical incantations?

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What purpose does this language serve? Is it the everyday language used by the people? A lingua franca allowing peoples who speak different languages to communicate? Is it ceremonial, like Latin nowadays? Or the language of magical incantations?

November 2, 2025 at 7:57 PM

TulipRoses

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#ConlangNovember 1: i will be bad about updating this, but my current conlang is for a sentient, semi-arboreal mouse-like species. spoken on earth, in northern south america

miwwdu sitsom (they/them) @miwwdu-sitsom.bsky.social · 19d

#ConlangNovember 1: Let's start by introducing your conlang! Is it intended for real-world use, like Esperanto, or part of a fictional setting, like Klingon? If the latter, what setting? Where is it spoken, and who speaks it?

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Let's start by introducing your conlang! Is it intended for real-world use, like Esperanto, or part of a fictional setting, like Klingon? If the latter, what setting? Where is it spoken, and who speaks it?

November 1, 2025 at 5:54 PM

TulipRoses

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unamed #conlang
the exessive case is used to show a change in function / skill

ex.
alla qesffa
PL horse-EXESS
ˈaɬ.a ˈxˁes.ɸːa
“The retired work horses”

September 22, 2025 at 10:51 PM