this would mean "nnn" is a valid syllable

* ponders * What would happen if I try to cluster all three trill sounds... * nearly drowns in own saliva * Bad idea...

The „minimalist inside you” must love Japanese.

Challenge: Do a whole video in your language. (w/ captions)

7:26 You actually can pronounce [r]! Such an amazing allophone.

I wrote a Python script that generates words for my alien conlang by selecting random syllables based on their frequency of occurence, constructing syllables, and chaining syllables together. At the time, I was not aware of any of this conlang stuff you've been covering, but its been really interesting. Perhaps when I have the time, I'll update the program to include all these new language rules.

Time to wait another 10 years for a conlang video

Behold my language. Only nasals are permitted at the nucleus, and both the onset and coda must comprise of only plosives. Kpntb qtŋg tɢɱc n, to you, my good sir.

3:00 English allows /n/ and /l/ to be nuclei, as in “eat​ *en* ” and “batt *le* “

"To take a step away from English, I am going to allow n as a syllabic consonant." Laughs in Alabama accent.

Oh my. How interesting. I didn't realise constructing a language was so complicated.

oh jeez this feels like the syntax and semantics course in computer science all over again

Ah wonderful! I am enjoying following along and slowly devising my own conlang, but as someone else who has no formal linguistics training, I find it much to difficult to find information on what comes next myself. I applaud your dedication here, these videos are the best.

Hey Artifexian, I subbed recently when I found this series of videos, and they're good: you definitely have an intuitive sense of natural-ness. I do have a suggestion before you move too far on, though: don't forget that phonotactics isn't just what sounds can/cannot appear next to each other, but also what happens when sounds get put close enough to be illegal: when an unexpected affix is added to a word, when two syllables unexpectedly end up inside the same word, or when words unexpectedly end up next to each other in a sentence (not all languages care much about his last one, which is called sandhi). For example, what happens if a speaker combines the words 'nav' and 'sat' into a compound? /vs/ is an illegal cluster (maybe, see later), so nav + sat = navat? navvat? nassat? napsat? navisat? Or maybe /vs/ is totally legal, but only across a syllable boundary, so it really is just navsat? (It's not as important, but also remember that you have to decide on inter-syllable clusters, not just intra-syllable ones, which in your lang could be up to four consonants--yikes--but don't go making a giant four-dimensional chart just yet :P ). Honestly, the way I tend to deal with this is to make the same stuff you presented, but then not treat those charts as a finished product. Once I'm looking at a chart, I try to pick up on the general rules that might be there. For example, it's not just glottal stop and wh that don't cluster, it's also v, z, x, h (with exceptions for liquid + v in the coda). If it were my language--which it isn't, but--my rule #6 might be something along the lines of "glottals and voiced fricatives don't form clusters, x patterns as h for these purposes, and /f/ > /v/ after sonorants". That would eliminate your /fr, fl, fn/ clusters, though, but that's part of the fun, because you're negotiating your wants against the language itself. First I make charts I want, but then the language wants simple explanatory rules, so I revise the charts to follow the rules, and it goes on like that until I'm happy. I find out if I'm happy when I stick religiously to the rules, but still come up with the kinds of words I want to hear. This technique also helps with more complex clusters, for example: under the rule I proposed, kung + fu = kungvu, which I had absolutely no idea would happen when I made that rule! That's where you can say definitively that a language takes on a life of its own. Hope this helps, and have fun!

Hopefully by the end of the Conlang series i can design my own for my scifi story. woo. excited.

"Angst" was borrowed from German fairly recently, so it may not be the best example. "Strengths"?

I've given up on conlanging but this is still pretty interesting.

This episode was hard for me to follow. I zoned out at the end. I'll need to re-watch this later.

Just so you know, /n/ is syllabic in most English dialects: "button" has a syllabic N in it. /l/ and (in rhotic accents) /r/ are also syllabic: "sidle" has a syllabic L in it, and Americans pronounce "center" with a syllabic R. (Similarly, the French R is syllabic in words like "centre" and L is syllabic in some Alpine German dialects, which can be seen in names like Ischgl, Austria.)

It's so funny that Artifexian moved r to ʀ because he can't pronounce r, but he even pronounces ʀ as ʁǃ

Although my understanding is limited, my fascination is infinite. Great vid.

I made up a language and I'm nearly fluent in it! Yay

5:31 in my language (bulgarian in question) we kinda have that /kva/. It appears like the shortened female of "What". The normal form is /Kakva/, but we-Bulgarians - drop the /ak/ when we are in an unofficial condition. it ends up something like /kva e tazi iabalka/ instead of /kakva e tazi iabalka/

i'm so glad you've finally uploaded another conlanging video! i like how well you organise your work, it really makes me want to go back to conlanging myself xd

I'm worldbuilding and outlining and overall planning a novel for nanowrimo, and I can't put into words how much your channel has helped me so far! You, along with Mark Rosenfelder's Planet and Language Construction Kits, have been my go-to place for worldbuilding purposes!

hello, Artefexian! I have been making my conlang in about an entire day, the language's excel sheet is somewhat messy(sorry for that this is my first full-fledged conlang!), I used your tutorial on how to make words and different vowels and consonants sound good together. I also used the tutorial from biblaridion. You guys have taught me a lot about making conlangs and for a 14-year-old it's a lot to take in. I showed what I had already gotten done the four hours I worked before coming to school. I had pretty much the basic concept of the language itself, but I didn't finish some of the subject pronouns. Which I quickly finished in Spanish class. I made sure that the language started in a proto stage, where the [tʃ] sound was written tch, [dʒ] was dzh, [x] didn't exist, [ɲ] didn't exist, and the only diacritic I had was for the schwa. The language was extremely hard to read and pronounce, was of my words being ngadzh /ŋadʒ/, eventually, I thought to myself and said... this is too hard to read and pronounce, so I took all of the long vowels I had made and gave them the appropriate diacritic(macron) and then introduced some new sounds, [x] and [ɲ] these ideas in my head sparked from the languages Swedish(i think) and Spanish as I am currently learning Spanish and pretty much everyone can pronounce those sounds, so ngadzh changed into, ñaj /ɲadʒ/ the changes I made to the language made it so much clearer to read and pronounce and I wanted to thank you for the great knowledge you have given me. The language's name is klauī btw! Heres the Google Drive link for the excel spreadsheet, in wondrous colors: docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1YrC-s4bOqsqhhn9eoGUAPO1G8U7PlasWlVngHFEt9cc/edit?usp=sharing

Thank you for spending the time on this. I appreciate your videos and what they cover.

great timing! I've just started working through on my conlang again, focused on vowel harmony and inherent iambic meter. Just finished selecting the consonants this weekend, to find this gem in the subscription box! Keep up the good work mate!

Môhru: Artifexian, tibe tê ingonýama ânįp! English: Artifexian, great job on the video!

For my ConLang I used a strange CVV' style *at the coda you CAN actually use a glottal stop but you can't use a letter or my ConLang's case symbol

Hope things get better on the irl side of things. Your channel is awesome and this conlang series is honestly one of the best resources for language constructing I,ve ever found. Anyways, good luck wit yo bad self!

What about stress? Single phoneme rules? Simplifications? This language needs more

pnt can be hole in your language (thumbnail)

Artifexian on languages: "I'm a minimalist! My conlang only has 4 vowels." Artifexian on cartography: "... and this pixel riiight here is part of that 27.65-cubic-meter copper deposit. Remember, you can approximate the size of it by taking the atomic mass of copper, 63.55, then divide that by the altitude of the river here in tens of meters: we're at 11.47m here, so that's 1.147. Lastly, don't forget to divide once more by half the number of vowels spoken in the language of the natives who live here, which should always be 4."

Wow, you came out with this yesterday. I found this series' first video yesterday. Can't wait for more! Though, I'll have to wrap my head around this whole C V thing before I can move on anyway...

I love these videos! Dunno why I haven't subscribed until now, but here you go, another subscriber :) One of my favorite things about these is that they often remind me of things I've either forgotten or never thought of considering when worldbuilding/conlanging. For my conlangs in development, I haven't really thought in depth about phonotactics, instead just going by what sounds like it fits in the language instead of being more methodical about it. Perhaps I should change my habits if I want consistency.

When he mentioned Minecraft, I was actually playing Minecraft and watching this in the background.

Love your videos, I'd love to learn more! Can you include a compendium video on why you chose these options? Maybe provide other options for us at home to try too

You should keep up with this. Upload more examples of our language! This is super interesting and a very useful guide

Very cool stuff Edgar. Your knowledge is very good with conlang ing. The explanations great.

By any chance could you upload a sample spreadsheet like the one shown in the video? It looks really helpful for organizing.

Do you think there will be a time when you could teach us your language when you've finished creating it?

Awesome, I've been waiting for this for a while now. This video was a great help. It helps to clearify and outline phonotacitcs. I learned a lot here. Thank you. :)

"death by clustering" will always be an iconic phrase in conlanging

Japanese be like: (C)V(N) anybody?

My internet is as slow as hell, but I'm early, and that's what matters!

all your vids are gems! way to go,pal.

Oh man. The video was great and I love what you did as always, but it all went way over my head lol. So much more than I ever want to bother with, any time in the near future, at least.

I think I won't be able to pronounce any of this. I still have trouble when speaking English... xD

Over time, /sj/ & /zj/ would probably morph into /ʃ/ & /ʒ/, like in Swedish.

The word for "disagree" should be nʔn 😁 I keep coming back to this video every now and then, the spreadsheet approach is extremely useful.

Great to see this video set again!!!

So, when are we going to hear you speak your new language? :)

Honestly I love the idea of an initial velar nasal. It just sounds nice to me and its not the most common of sounds, so it'll give the language a certain feel to it.

This is mental man, great work! :D

My brain always stops working halfway through these video, making me have to re-watch certain parts, but I don't mind it lol. Your accent (dialect?) is cool to listen to

English does allow for an /n/ in the nucleus, as in mission /mɪʃn̩/. (/l/, /m/, and /r/ are also allowed in the nucleus)

I wonder, how does one go about with making a Lexicon though?

I think this video are very useful for who loves creating languages (like me). I think this video in particular is very good. Well done!!

This is super helpful and illstrative. It's even sort of an obscure topic for linguistics itself.

My conlang is a (C)(C)V(C)launguage

This channel needs More suscribers....

this is awesome! keep up the good work!

Just last week someone told me that a word like the German "Angstschweiß" would not exist in many other languages because of all the consonants clustering together.

Will you make your own symbols for the alphabet or use Latin alphabet?

Pretty neat part of language, that I had never heard of before .-. huge help if I ever decided to make my own conlang But now what matters most is one thing... 7:26 what's that sound you just pronounced just there. Explam

"I found these sounds really hard to easily and consistently pronounce" - Proceeds to pronounce both sounds at the end of syllables perfectly

Much more thought out than my phonotactics. :D I love it man, I might take some pages out of your notebook Edgar. Please, PLEASE keep making these videos. It's really helpful to see how other people tackle these systems and systematic approaches to what I'm sporadically and lazily attempting. You should check out CWS and it's PhoMo system and try putting your language through it. It's an online program that catalogs and tests your languages. If you like it, maybe make some videos on how to use it for scrubs like myself, I'm currently brute-forcing my way through it, rather ineffectively. lol, keep up the good work and Don't Forget To Be Awesome Edgar! :D

I was a big fan of your phonological inventory (although, personally, I like when I can have fun with large inventories), and I understand the choices you made as to what was in for the phonotactics, I was just wondering if only adding [n] as a syllable nucleus wasn't a but restrictive, 'cause my brain can't help thinking "why no other nasal syllable nuclei?" (haven't heard of any language with only one or two consonant syllable nuclei allowed), but you know, why not? Also, are you planning on making your language evolve to add some complexity to it? I know it'd completely mess up all the minimalist efforts you've put into it so far, but I just love the idiosyncrasies of natural(istic) languages, which the reason they're so awesome!

"fine shaft"

This is way more involved and thought out than any conlang I've ever made. Then again, my conlangs tend to be pretty phonologically/phonotactically simple.

Amazing channel, subscribed!

Stargate reference! YAAAAAAAAAASSS!

"check it out: i-in-mine, a-aft-craft *MINECRAFT*"

I think that this might just be too advanced for me. A conlang may be more than I can do, except in a limited, amateurish way. I'm not thrilled about that, but there it is. And I was having such fun with ideas like "words can begin with R but not with L; R's which wind up in the middle of words become L's." I had a character introduce herself as "Rillakishoi! Ree Rah Kee Shoi, Rillakishoi!" She pronounced a little boy's name as either "Ahnd-thlay" or "Ahn-duh Ray."

'Onset, nucleus, coda' are just really fancy words for beginning middle and end

... I'm going to pretend i understood all of that... I mean, it was interesting but my brain was a bit WTF? during it...

Can somone explain to me what he exactly means that the glotal stop and "w" can never cluster.

This is pretty exciting. I haven't even thought of the things you did, I didn't even know about them.

button, rhythm, bottle, turn. all of these have consonants in the nucleus

I've been making a (C)V language without diphthongs or consecutive vowels, and I feel offended by you thinking that is overly simplistic. /s Good video though. If I ever decide to do some non-stupid conlanging I might use this method. Tudibon!

anyone have an excel chart of ipa that they could send to me?

Thank you for the video. I wonder if you can tell more about how and on base of what you arranged sounds in your spreadsheets to make sample combinations.

This is the first video that came out since I subscribed. Cool.

Are you going with the Latin alphabet? Or are you going to make up an alphabet.

More xidnaf

I recently found my notes from when I tried conlanging when I was 15 and knew nothing of phonetics (or any other subject in linguistics, really). I should dust them off and start again. The only thing I remember from the language is that it was VSO (like Irish), did not conjugate for person (like Irish), had a set of verb endings each of which inflected differently (like French), and used the prefix "og" on a verb to indicate conditionals. And that it had largely English phonetics, of course. TRiG.

been waiting for every for this

There's a /k/ in angsts? I certainly don't say it. Then again, I don't pronounce the /p/ in empty.

I created my lenguage put in the comment what you think it is "Mi Qierantte Kömať Fretto Avëшоkæño"

you and I Mr. artifexian would get along with greatly

My language is one with consonantal roots and thus I found that I would run into consonant clusters all over the place when altering the patterns of consonants and vowels for various grammatical purposes. I chose a (C)(C)V(C)(C) sequence as well and would use schwas to separate either a consonant of the onset or of the coda of any (C)(C)(C)V(C)(C)(C) patterns that formed (the placement of the schwa is dependent on the positions of vowels and their lengths). Only if a pronounceable affricative cluster in my language was formed would the three consonants stay together, and that's extremely rare. Only a few loan words from other languages have three consonant clusters.

The Ancient Greek "φωνή" is pronounced as pʰɔːne in Ancient Greek, not like the modern English phone. I'm sorry, but that just made me cringe. I can deal with the aspirated consonants in τακτικός, but not that horrendous pronunciation when the word shouldn't be difficult at all for an English speaker to pronounce, except for the tone on the η. I don't expect anyone to do tones without knowing a tonal language.

Great Videos, good Design but two bits of advice: A) Avoid using Arial, use Helevetica or even Avenir instead B) DO NOT. AT ALL. EVER. USE. COMIC SANS (Please)

This video helped me a lot! I am currently working on a conlang for my book, and I decided to make it CCCCVVCCCC, except all the letters have paranthesis

very helpful video!

Xidnaf is clearly pronounced ecks-id-naff

I'm vegan.

*IQ insufficient* *error: complexity levels dangerously high*

Artifexian and the Bamboozled Space Linguists is a great band name.