This troper is currently inventing a language. It's not that radical; many features seem very Indo-European-ish, and there are lots of (intentionally mangled) borrowings from European languages, but it's not a cipher either; it has its own phonology, grammar, alphabet and everything. Here's a sample of it: #QUOTE# Berm e dolsem am thui grasoi am rindoi thes dumes, andi #QUOTE# albes. Thu alb e esh und. ::It says, "A person is sitting on the grass outside his house next to a tree. The tree is very big."

This troper once took the route of "create the world first, then write the stories" approach to writing. Due to ultimate procrastination, 20 years later there's little to show for it besides "appendix" material, including several half-baked conlangs. In college, a roommate walked in on me speaking in one of them, but by that point was probably used to ignoring crazy stuff I did.

This troper first discovered constructed languages in the 9th grade when discovered JRR Tolkien's work and began taking Spanish. He began working on his own, stopped, started again, stopped, and just recently managed to get his current language into something resembling plausibility. It is left-branching with SOV word order, and some agglutinative and isolating features. Nouns are (regrettably) inflected for more or less the same cases as Latin, but not number. Verbs are inflected for mood and tense only. Adjectives are only inflected for anything besides mood in formal speech and then only for gender. Notably, topic, independent, and dependent clauses are marked by particles. He isn't too sure about his phonology. Forin sube yo gomoriçai nis! (There's so much fucking work! Lit: Works fucking TOPIC overwhelmingly exist).

This troper invented the Tybydymic language when she was ten. Now she is working to recreate it from memory, since all her written Tybydymic sources are lost. She even translated ''Jabberwocky'' to Tybydymic. Here it goes. -> Hij bryllsesod. Cuz mintuz tofz -> Jureod a gymblod ny waber -> A tenod alm cuz borogovs -> Oczue cuz muemziz ugnnygraber. -> -> O, taimo Dzhaebb-Kraekkod, fisiz! -> Dzhubdzhub bys murfis a kadimo, -> A ny bumbli dagos cuc briz, -> Cuc Brandershnactzius frumimo! -> -> Ri zaeks shvoertczow a ficutow, -> Slo kynder niimo a vagano, -> Ni bumbliow gos trak riow -> Mi Tumtum butoow gigano. -> -> Ri sytsode ug butoet -> Ri dijsod, ryba roc groaksod, -> Taimlo Dzhaebb-Kraekk fols himied -> A gaget fyrios ugaksed! -> -> Mo-ksi! Mo-ksi! Gaglos hysi! -> Coc vorbo shvoertcz tus shniker-shnaker! -> Uzi! Uzi! A kowusi -> Barabardos ug plydzer naker! -> -> O, lumikslo u iw issiz, -> Bi wunisod ny antzel mutzel! -> O gerogomlo gyldiiz, -> Iw muzo u bi u gon huetzel! -> -> Hij bryllsesod. Cuz mintuz tofz -> Jureod a gymblod ny waber -> A tenod alm cuz borogovs -> Oczue cuz muemziz ugnnygraber. And the translation... well, everyone knows the original poem, am I right?

This Troper invented one in middle school, and continued using it off and on through high school (I went to a WEIRD high school, and nobody thought that was weird. Most of them thought it was pretty cool). It had a complex grammar and alphabet, but was a bit lacking in vocabulary. I still use the alphabet for both secrecy (I never taught it to anyone else) and to write pronunciation (it was a strictly one-grapheme-one-phoneme alphabet), but I don't use the language itself anymore.

This Troper still remembers what first got her into conlanging: a book she had mentioned Esperanto and Ido offhand, and her reaction was: "So you can just ''make up'' languages? That's so cool! I wanna do that!"

This Troper was thirteen when she read a short story with aliens by Mildred Clingerman, which was the inspiration for her next (unwritten) ''Mega Man'' fic. For that she created the "language" of Calric (was that what it was called?)—i.e., created an alphabet, various words, and how to pronounce them. Over time, she modified it a little, so that now the "th" sounds, for example, are underlined to indicate that they're pronounced as one. She'd show you a sample of Calric transliterated into English, but unfortunately, while one of the accents she made up for the letter "u"—the dot above—does exist, it's never used for this letter, so she can't. She can write English words in a Calric-based transliteration, however—to wit: "Shi cyn reyt Ynglysh wørdz leyk thys (the "ey"s are underlined once, and the "th" twice, to represent a hard "th"). Later on, in eighth grade, she "created" a language containing as many sounds as she could think of, but it was really just the IPA (the French version, no less, since she didn't know how to write in the English one) used to write made-up words. If it helps any, the story in question involved (if she recalls correctly, which she may not) survivors from different countries living in a cave somewhere, so a "universal" alphabet wasn't that unreasonable. And remember how she said that the language was supposed to contain every pronounceable sound? Well, it didn't—in fact, it only contained sixty- or seventy-ish sounds—not even half of all possible sounds. And that's not counting single sounds which can be pronounced two different ways—for example, the "t" in "cat" isn't the same "t" as in "tall". Moral of the story? Research, people—or, at the very least, ''think''—lest you get DanBrowned.

For over 25 years this editor has dabbled in creating languages to flesh out his fantasy role-playing campaign world (and an abandoned high-fantasy novel). His efforts have resulted in Sidhaisin, the language of his campaign's elves, which has been described as sounding like a cross between Welsh and (and which was used in his wedding ceremony), and Kazandar, a still-embryonic dwarven language based on Semitic language structures.

...you used a conlang in your ''wedding ceremony''? That's so cool! :D

Thank you. We thought so. Better yet, we actually invoked three of the campaign pantheon's gods. In the middle of a Catholic service. (Thanks to the "American tradition" of the candle-lighting ceremony, which isn't strictly a part of the wedding mass, and can thus be customized as the participants see fit. I don't think anyone but the folks in the campaign even realized what we had done, or that we were using a conlang.)

This troper, a wannabe linguist and writer, has a deep interest in conlangs. She has made an attempt or two before at creating one, but has only recently decided to really work on it, grammar and whatnot. It's turning out to be full of fricatives, because she wanted something that sounded kind of hissing. She's also planning on a naming language for dwarves in the near future. On another note, when she was 11-12 she used to use the Tengwar script as a code for secret things and vengeful little notes. Ah, youth.

This troper made a Conlang based off a simple alphabet system, consisting of 24 letters. It's what my name is in(albeit with the roman alphabet), and it's pronounced "eeh-lay-ohs". Giving a translation for this would be useless, however, as it would be 50% loanwords.

This troper is currently developing a language based on latin and spanish vocabulary while basing the grammar on spanish with elements of other languages. -> spesi ce termi loem, peri, caveati ce non-fa`ci

This troper invented a writing system and language to go with it at age ten, and still uses it. Admittedly, the writing system is used more, but that's because said troper sometimes uses it as a form of shorthand. Said troper also sometimes tends to switch into said conlang when she's speaking Spanish (which is fairly often). The fact that the conlang is a historically-based ofshoot of Latin (Lost city sort of thing for backstory) makes it rather easy to codeswitch on accident. It's also useful for insults.

This troper is currently working on a language called Halvaslian. It's pretty much an IndoEuropeanAlienLanguage, but it has some decidedly non IE features, like VSO word order, heavy use of verb particles, adverbs agreeing with verbs, heavy agglutination, separate passive voice conjugations, and optional evidential markers. It also distinguishes between two kinds of reflexivity and puts definite articles in front of nouns but indefinite ones after them.

This Troper is in the process of inventing what will probably become almost twenty languages for a planned graphic novel series. It started out as only intending to invent one, then the objective of one became six, six became fourteen, fourteen became…more than fourteen…

Creating languages is really hard! I've created... three, now? The first was Shadite, the second was Elseworld, and the third (my current one) is Alboretan. All of them are really, really confusing. As an example: In Shadite, if you change a vowel in a word, you get a tangentially similar word. Elseworld has a special script that can't be made very easily on a computer. And Alboretan, being a language of magic, is designed (or is being designed) to be incredibly complicated. (In that society, magic is defined by a simple rule: The more detailed the spell, the better it will function.) Anways, a hint to you all: the hardest part of making a language is getting enough of a vocabulary for it to be usable. Most importantly is probably stuff like prepositions and simple verbs like to be and to do. If you don't set those, you can't say anything.

I'm currently working on a language (so far it is unnamed). It features SOV order, a system for modifying words' meanings, and some interesting grammatical rules. Some random features:

A system of titles appended to names is used (like in Japanese). However, instead of an agreed-upon list of titles, the title is based upon either a descriptor of the person, or how you currently feel about the person. For example, you can insult or praise someone simply with their own name attached to an appropriate descriptor.

Rules for using tense are a bit different, with emphasis on the present tense of things. Unless an event is specifically in the past, it is spoken of in present tense. For example, if I met a woman on the bus, I say that she ''has'' green eyes, instead of ''had''. You never say "I knew someone," unless they are dead, etc.

There is a set of root words that are not words in and of themselves, making the language feel as though it is related to another.

Many words, especially etiquette-related ones, are translations of things that would take a full sentence to say in English. For example, one word used for interrupting someone comes out (very roughly) to "I am sorry to interrupt, but what I have to say is much more important."

Many words can be altered in some way with some syllable attached to them. This mainly replaces adverbs and some adjectives.

Some word alterations allow words to be more definite than in English. For example, different plurals can be used for different amounts or things ('ke, 'je, and 'ze refer to different numbers of objects. I could even say there are no objects with the suffix 'setke).

The number system is Base 4.

The most interesting part of language building for me is making it feel as though it developed naturally. There are some words that are tough to translate to or from the language. Some words have multiple, unrelated meanings. Also, it's fun to make up colloquialisms that make no sense in English.

Finally, some translation. Here's -5 in my language:

This troper has currently created a conlang called "The Artificial Language" (boring, right?) with about 400 words (after a month of work). It is based off English and Spanish, with a bit of Japanese thrown in, and is spelled with a 30-letter alphabet- basically the Latin alphabet with only very seldom use of k with the addition of ç, œ, æ, and ø. (é and á are used, but are not letters.)

Açi tropaçµ afi preiçin constri uni conslingua néme "Catalinençe" (tzénem, laa?) alonsi pertæ quatriçehiaçi aiçila (ahoc uni møntiçu çæ tølteç). Açi afir pleçaireçe uçin Engelçi und Espanensi, alonsi uni straiscri Japanesçe sorçe cavea, und afir meitlei alonsi uni treçedeçe-unçcon ælievet- ilgaça t'ha ælievet Latinençe alonsi solaç advanta çæ k alonsi t'ha adiçiao çæ ç, œ, æ, und ø. (é und á afir advante, bet ne afir lieli unçcon.)

This troper (Tropers/{{Belfagor}}) is working on a conlang named "Comspeak". Its grammatical structure is basically Indo-European, with words originating (through many variations) from Slavic, Germanic and Neolatin languages. The alphabeth contains 28 letters, plus some accents and so-called semi-characters, and can easily be translitterated into the Latin one.

Yeste tropner (Belphagor) es rabotende pro en qonslang pronōmen "Qomyaziq". Sva grammatiqalna struqtur es basiqilný Indo-Evropeišqa, s slovog istvorends (qvoz šumas variaciyas) iz Slavišyan, Germanišyan i Neolatinišyan langvadžex. Alphabeth soderchev dvanzetoct letters, výs něqts acents i ethdywots semi-charaqters, i moč artvilný translitteren er in Latino-jedno.

OVERTUR QOMUNISTIS MANIPHESTIS (OUVERTURE OF THE COMMUNIST MANIFESTO) #QUOTE# En speqtr struvch Evropa — speqtr qomunismis. Vsas močstvos qrosě Evropě seid sebšryntázden in en svatha alleanciya pro yesto speqtro exorciser: Pap i Car, Metternich i Guizot, fransqs radiqals i germansqs spiyes. Qox es partiya in oposiciyan qte nes veršvarcen byt qa qomunistiš qur svyan in-močstvoy oponentex? Qox es oposition qte ne ath vrhnaten marqendo naqátho qomunismis, protiv výs advancenog oposiciě partiyog, ethqaw protiv svog reaqtionarog adversarog?

DIALOGIS EXEMPLE (DIALOGUE EXAMPLE) #QUOTE# '''Homer:''' Yesto es tve vliq-šudz Čet! Čet, povod svoi qath te phág. (''Homer: This is your great uncle Chet! Go ahead Chet tell her what you do.'') #QUOTE# '''Čet:''' A qarav en epychthlosna qravetqov qompaniya. (''Chet: I run an unsuccessful shrimp company.'') #QUOTE# '''Homer:''' Oh. Se te qarav id, sprav? (''Homer: Oh... But you run it right?'') #QUOTE# '''Čet:''' Oh, iä. (''Chet: Oh, yeah.'')

This troper is in the process of creating a language (name pending) which is designed to be fairly simple. He's already created the alphabet, but still needs to work on vocabulary. Some of the words are derived from Spanish roots, whereas others are created from ideographs formed from the shapes of the letters themselves. There are only 17 base letters, other sounds being formed by outfitting existing letters with one of 3 accents. Verbs have conjugations, however they only become necessary if the subject of a sentence is omitted. First ten lines of Genesis, in this language:

En axanda Iwei formatka Saimim m Kerra. Mim Kerra hei ten'k horem, m w'kaos; mim oskuran itk en da ka'n'ta. mim walu hor Iwei lluma en da lulu. Mim Iwei D'tka, "Lumina i, formaril'": m lumina i. Iwei tka da vu lumina, m tka bau. mim Iwei kjimtka lumina m oskuran. Lumina, Iwei niemtka Dia, m oskuran niematka natka. m xarda m xdia itka Dia da axanda. Mim Iwei d'tka, "Skei iril en da lulu, kjimril lulu m lulu". Iwei formatka skei, mim kjimtka lulu xe besed skei de lulu xe wrisa skei: mim i i. mim skei,Iwei neimtka Saimim. mim xarda m xdia itka Dia da dum. Iwei D'tka, "Lulu xe besed Saimim minil en un wakeiton, m kerrada heilu veiperil": mim i i. Kerrada heilu Iwei neimtka Kerra; m la da min da lulu neimtka merlu: m tka da vu i i bau.

This Troper started hers in junior year of high school, for an alien race in a story she planned to write. The story has long since died, but she recently re-discovered the conlang and began to work on it again. Since she's not a linguist, it's probably rather bad, but still fun to work on. Notable features include VSO sentence order, boatloads of apostrophes (but they represent actual contractions, she promises!), and formal and informal versions of each tense. It's called Eritani. A sample dialogue, paraphrased from {{Firefly}}:

Cindranty: Vinsryae-glas Ryn, Mal, nement pylaran’yn glas ghistar! ''(Saffron: Come on, Mal, you have to give me a ride!)''

Mal: Tecrat. ''(Mal: Not my problem.)''

C: Eslent’c brymis’cyn glas in as-tegac An! Sed ma’rae Ryn… ''(S: You can't leave me on this piece-of-crap moon! I'll die...)''