toki!
Welcome to the third weekly c/conlangs post!
First of all sorry for the delay between the last post and this one, I have been pretty busy last week so I kind of just… forgot. Sorry!
Also, if you have suggestions for a conlang and linguistic feature of the week, please send them to me! I only know so many, so I’m always happy to learn about more, so I can include them in these posts!
Conlang of the week
This week’s conlang of the week is: toki pona! This language was made by linguist Sonja Lang, at first to see how having an extremely small vocabulary would influence the way speakers view things. But the language has quickly grown to have a large community, and even lots of speakers (for a conlang) due to it’s cute nature and ease of learning.
What do you think of toki pona? Do you speak it? Do you think it changes the way speakers will look at things? Tell us about your thoughts in the thread!
Linguistic feature of the week
This week’s linguistic feature is more of a linguistic curiosity. Keeping with the theme of toki pona, we are looking at how your conlangs might influence the way its speakers think and act!
When German and French speakers were asked to imagine a key and describe its characteristics, they had vastly different answers. People speculate this is because of the grammatical gender that both languages have, one having a key be masculine, the other feminine.
And in toki pona, because you only have very little words to describe things it often forces speakers to break things down to the core of what they want to say, which might actually help them get their point across better too!
In what way might the features of your conlang influence its speakers? Or what things within a language do you think would influence the way people think the most? Please share it with us in the comments!
Post of the week
This week the post of the week is this great post by @Erika3sis@hexbear.com about how people seperate words in speech! Go check it out! https://hexbear.net/post/3003566
Happy conlanging everyone and thanks for being apart of the c/conlangs community!
o musi a!