The Art of Koiwriting - a tutorial for the constructed language, Tsevhu

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A tutorial for writing basic sentences using koiwrit for the conlang Tsevhu. We cover the basic steps to go through to get started:
- find a sentence to translate
- find the basic vocabulary
- start with the simplest version
- plan out the simple sentence
- find the ripples for the words
- draw out the ripples in their slots
- add any additional information.
dictionary link (sorry it's a bit messy, Tsevhu is a growing language and we're growing as a community. Our learning and resource material will get better as we go)
Tsevhu Dictionary for public viewing
docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...
For questions head to the discord server, we've got a great community there full of people beginning to learn.
/ discord
Check out all the cool stuff people have made on r/tsevhu

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@ordinaryextraordinary9484 29 күн бұрын

pov: i passed you a note in class but when you go to read it it's just a fucjing fish

@sleepycritical6950 21 күн бұрын

Surprise, when the fucking fish is translated it actually says “it’s just a fucking fish”.

@moose200 Ай бұрын

the fact that progressive verbs are considered the most basic forms is genius just like koi and water, it’s all ever-moving

@plopgoot5458 Ай бұрын

this is beutifu and would make for a very high effort rickroll hidden in art

@IndieIllustrates 26 күн бұрын

omg dont give me these ideas late at night

@machaiarcanum Ай бұрын

In all seriousness, it's great to see your conlang spreading its wings Koa. Congrats.

@tobirivera-garcia1692 Ай бұрын

seeing the conlang swimming with its fins?

@wigwagstudios2474 Ай бұрын

dude if only this existed back then in like ancient japan

@cheesesentience Ай бұрын

Maybe one could transliterate Japanese into Koiwrit

@-karma-2426 Ай бұрын

@@cheesesentience I was think doing about that!! Mostly with simple sentence cuz my Japanese isn't too good but yeah

@nande6471 Ай бұрын

But it's not a practical language

@-karma-2426 Ай бұрын

@@nande6471 it doesn't have to be practical, plus it's an art lang.

@owojohnson1115 Ай бұрын

IT'S ART! @@nande6471

@resolvanlemmy Ай бұрын

I swear, this language belongs in a science fiction cartoon, one where one of the characters is a koi fish. It would be insanely great.

@koavhukva6996 Ай бұрын

That'd be cool

@resolvanlemmy Ай бұрын

@@koavhukva6996 I figured science fiction is very well known for having fictional constructed languages, so this idea just seemingly crossed my mind once I heard about your gorgeous creation.

@koavhukva6996 Ай бұрын

@@resolvanlemmy I wish it were moreso known. It's getting more now especially in shows and stuff, but I know a lot of authors and say video game creators don't think it's worth the time and effort to flesh out a language even tho it does great things for audience engagement and lore.

@resolvanlemmy Ай бұрын

@@koavhukva6996 Really? I never knew that.

@qwertystop Ай бұрын

Aquatic Sagwa?

@anotparticularlynotableguy Ай бұрын

This language is beautiful in more ways than one. Koiwrit would be perfect for sending secret messages during times of war.

@koavhukva6996 Ай бұрын

That's actually a bit of the lore behind the language, with it being used as a code in a revolution against invading oppressors

@anotparticularlynotableguy Ай бұрын

@@koavhukva6996 I'd love to hear more about this! Do you have this lore written somewhere?

@koavhukva6996 Ай бұрын

@@anotparticularlynotableguy not particularly anywhere in any depth. That's something I do need to do at some point though.

@anotparticularlynotableguy Ай бұрын

@@koavhukva6996 maybe make a video about it! Id love to watch that

@owojohnson1115 Ай бұрын

@@koavhukva6996 interesting! Tell us more!

@thatoneotherboi Ай бұрын

Wait, your Tsevhu's creator?? Damn, i remember seeing it a few months back in r/conlangs and being amazed by how the script looked. Its wondeful to see Tsevhu is still "alive" lol.

@CasualGraph Ай бұрын

a lyric video in this script would be neat, like imagine the ripples forming on screen as they're sung out

@mastertofu Ай бұрын

This is so cute. I love the idea of modifying a fish to make a sentence and really want to learn this conlang to use myself for fun

@orioneon4458 12 күн бұрын

omg or the idea of people "reading" koi fish in ponds!!!

@ton_ak5119 Ай бұрын

Everything about this is simply astonishing. The idea for a writing system like this is already mind blowing, but what's really surprises me is how well such a difficult and complex concept turned out. I'm flabbergasted by the beauty of this conlang. Also the ripples for writing words, which I didn't understand watching the previous video from 3 years ago, are a unique feature that warks unbelievably well. This is truly a piece of art, please I need moor of this 😂 make more video, even something as simple as a few other examples sentences would be enough to cure my addiction to this artlang

@aaronstrager4247 Ай бұрын

I came across Tsevhu around 2020 on Reddit, and was blown away by how creative it was. Hearing that it now has a shorthand, dictionary, and community brought a huge smile to my face. Congrats!

@Leonardo-oq9yt Ай бұрын

Tsevhu is probably one of the most beautiful conlang I've ever seen and I'm really happy to know more about it! Edit: I really like the sentece "Tsevhu likes 'the sun is setting'"! It sounds like a really cute explenation for the way the conlang works!

@blue.goldfish Ай бұрын

Wow. This is a gorgeous language to learn. Poetry on so many levels. With the Koi being relative to the paper it makes me want to write a poem that can be read from both ways, much like Mozarts Duet for two violins called "Spiegelduett" or "Mirror Duet", where if you place the same sheet upside down and play "from the bottom", you get the complimentary second voice.

@booyahboogie3350 Ай бұрын

Tsevhu was my introduction to conlangs! It is SUCH a gorgeous language, i could stare at some pieces for hours. Thank you for making this video, I can’t get enough of this pretty language!

@keylime6 Ай бұрын

Conlanging and asmr, 2 of my favourite things in one video

@ardinhelme687 Ай бұрын

Ok, I cannot express how much I love this, both conceptually and in execution, this excellent, beautiful, whimsical, and I just can't even. I do note that there isn't any direction given on how to relate multiple sentences together, so if I may be so bold as to make a suggestion, I think that an outward expanding spiral would be appropriate and on theme for Koiwrit, with the beginning sentence fish being in the middle (probably marked in some way) and then the next fish would be south of the initial one with following sentences circling around it, thus things written in Koiwrit would be circular rather than blocks of text and you could call them Story Ponds. I also imagine Story Ponds being illustrated in the style of illuminated manuscripts, with the scribe taking time to lovingly detail each fish before perhaps gilding the ripples that are the actual text, it would look so beautiful.

@koavhukva6996 Ай бұрын

Fish do get read as a flow, going from the back of the school to the front. Since the tense of the sentence is tied to the direction of the fish, it'd be a bit hard to make it circle, but I do have an idea for how it could happen via orientation indicators using fish scales. I'm planning on explaining more on this in another video

@ardinhelme687 Ай бұрын

Yeah, I didn't notice the second fish in the example text until I went back to rewatch the video, and them being organized into schools just makes too much sense. To clarify, when I was talking about the fish being written in a spiral, I was only referring to the positioning of the fish in relation to each other. The facing of the individual fish would still follow the tense rules, just with the body of the fish lying on the spiral. In any case, writing them in schools makes altogether more sense as I assume it is more or less analogous to paragraphs of text. I can't wait to see more!

@gregormuller4598 Ай бұрын

Never heard of this before, but it is amazing! It feels so much like a real writing system used by some koi-monks

@momsaccount4033 12 күн бұрын

I want to imagine how this language was created in-universe. I can imagine some young noble in a freshly developing province looking into his koi pond and thinking to himself how beautiful the koi are, before coming to the conclusion that they are so perfect that surely they’re the means that deities use to communicate, so he began to passionately study the movement of the koi and rippling of the water, sharing his concepts with friends or wandering academics, some of whom would catch the idea and spread it across the province until it became a new dialect that was used to establish independence from the main nation (pick your poison as to the reason why they established independence)

@humanteneleven Ай бұрын

Wow this is awesome!!! Incredibly clear and intuitive explanation, very well done! I’m so glad more people are learning about Tsevhu :)

@conlanger Ай бұрын

How is nobody freaking out it is THE humanteneleven in the comment section of the video I am watching

@koavhukva6996 Ай бұрын

Thanks so much :)

@Thirikalee 24 күн бұрын

I have no idea about any of this and understand maybe a quarter of the explanations - but it sounds so cool and looks great! To imagine there’s a sentence „hidden“ in that beautiful drawing is magical!

@Nosion2 Ай бұрын

For the algorithm… also love this, already have a few characters that use tsevhu as their main language… not that I know much of it… need these to fix that, so thank you

@popmissymoo8947 Ай бұрын

The effort, thought and passion that has been put into this is incredible. Love it!

@chicken_nugs Ай бұрын

I'm going to try and write poems with this conlang, thank you for the tutorial :D

@electriclance3288 Ай бұрын

im so happy tsevhu is still going strong... during quarantine it was one of my major inspirations for my own conlang

@clockwise_sb4163 Ай бұрын

This is beautiful. Love seeing unique neographies like this

@notanalien1-xu2ge Ай бұрын

Discovered your conlang only a couple of weeks ago on reddit and instantly fell in love. This tutorial makes your skill and passion for it so clear. :D

@LeBeaBae Ай бұрын

anyone else think this looks like gallifreyan

@mwgiannini 19 күн бұрын

I have no idea how any of this works but this person has me entirely captivated.

@admiralpanda7065 22 күн бұрын

Conlangs are like magic to me, it's insane to me that one person can just... Make a language. Maybe it's less magic and more science once you know more about languages, but to me it still appears like magic! And I can't imagine the knowledge and effort that goes into creating magic...

@JustAShyGhost Ай бұрын

I am so amazed by this language! Every sentence truly is a piece of art with how carefully crafted they are. This makes me want to craft my own, personalised sentence and get it as a tattoo with the meaning just for myself :)

@omgfiredragon 29 күн бұрын

I first clicked because I misread the title and thought it was a tutorial on writing legends, but I stayed because this is such a beautiful conlang bursting with potential!

@eddie-roo Ай бұрын

I remember seeing this on r/conlanging (or whatever the sub is called) like 5 years ago and I immediately fell in love with it. Glad you’re explaining it further!

@connormabe-kropf9251 Ай бұрын

WAIT WAIT BRO Sorry- I just realized that this is what I should have been doing with one of my conlangs this whole time Thank you SO much!

@draco5991rep Ай бұрын

I would love to see a full manuscript of this (like one page describing a pond of fishs for example). Would be interesting to see how to read it then. Is it left to right, right to left, top to bottom,bottom to top or spiraling outwards or spiraling inwards. Very cool concept 👍🏼

@kiyasuihito Ай бұрын

I'm in love with this language. I have a koi tattoo. I love koi. This language is beautiful. 🎉🎉🎉❤❤❤

@user-kussikh Ай бұрын

This is actually the best concept for a writing system! Love it!

@teejaykaye4357 Ай бұрын

Thank you KZfaq for showing me this absolutely fantastic video. I adore constructed languages and this is one of the most unique and beautiful ideas I’ve ever seen and you present the video so soothingly, I could listen to your voice for hours

@noblenobull8484 Ай бұрын

Really glad this was made. I just found out about this several weeks ago and really wanted to get into it but with limited time during the week I was having difficulty sitting down and reading the documents that explain the learning process. It’s still going to take me some time to learn but this was concise and really well put together and easy to follow. Hope to see more videos in the future but many thanks for this!

@awholebee Ай бұрын

your voice is so nice for explaining things! very easy to listen to

@Amaiguri 24 күн бұрын

Yo, I was introduced to koiwriting by a KZfaq Short that wasn't you -- but I assumed it was from the way it was phrased? I'm glad I came to find the original and I hope you go as viral as that KZfaq short because YOU deserve the credit

@josefwolanczyk4866 Ай бұрын

Honestly? *Major* kudos. This is truly astounding work. You have a new subscriber!

@TherapistBoughtFromWish Ай бұрын

You don't know how long I've been waiting for a tutorial like this! Havatan!

@timothymonk1356 26 күн бұрын

Everything about this is absolutely beautiful.

@depressoespresso5904 12 күн бұрын

just wrote my first sentence and its an extremely simple sentence but its already so pretty tsevhu is just beautiful

@sillyswrdd 16 күн бұрын

This is so beautiful. I love it so much!

@theiabon Ай бұрын

Whoah, I literally just thought of coming up with my own conlang and this vid is the first thing that gets recommended to me

@karishmabora4609 25 күн бұрын

I came across tsevhu a few months back. Its really awesome.

@tsikli8444 Ай бұрын

After seeing so many of your beautiful posts on r/conlangs, it's so cool to see a tutorial on how to use it! Top-tier work!

@JoeyGirardin Ай бұрын

Truly beautiful work of art!!

@laml545 11 күн бұрын

This is actually beautiful!

@Zsamoff Ай бұрын

I have nothing to add. But commenting does help spreading the video.

@paranormalsoulz Ай бұрын

I’ve been so desperate for this thank you!

@bszemeg8228 Ай бұрын

I am so happy that the algorithm in its omnipotent glory has bestowed this video upon me You've created something great! I'm hoping to try and play around with Koiwrit and Tsehvu, and that you'll keep improving upon it!

@solarmoth4628 8 күн бұрын

This would add so much color and depth to a video game where you could see the writing move. I hope you get to make your own story around this language or meet an awesome partner who can do it with you.

@kitkattanimates Ай бұрын

This is actually such a cool conlang! Also, you have a really relaxing voice

@ThePomorimDourado 29 күн бұрын

Im glad you did this video, because the previous one didn't do justice to this beautiful language. But now I not only understand it but love it too.

@oceanusprocellarum6853 Ай бұрын

WOAH I remember seeing this a while ago on reddit! This is one of my favorite conlang projects rn, thanks for making a video about it!

@That_Russian_Cat Ай бұрын

I've always been interested in Koiwriting! This helped me so much. Thank you.

@LucaTeemant Ай бұрын

YAYY finally a long vid tutorial! Thank you so much!!

@AltiumYT Ай бұрын

Very beautiful Love the idea and execution of concentric ripples to make words, it's wonderful!

@KPpivot 21 күн бұрын

I re learned what prepositions are, thank you.

@Boiea 25 күн бұрын

I just arrived, this is pretty a well-constructed language. I love this so much.

@jimbrenneman2040 26 күн бұрын

Please release more videos explaining this language. It's gorgeous and I want to know how it works more

@silvrfenix Ай бұрын

I LOVE this!! So beautifully creative, not to mention aesthetic and soothing to listen to and watch. Bravo 👌🏻💜

@thomasthejetengine 27 күн бұрын

youtube recommendations have been giving me some absolute bangers lately this is so cool wtf

@julianreckmann4241 Ай бұрын

This is a great tutorial, thanks a lot for making it!

@Kamari333 28 күн бұрын

this is gorgeous! i love languages and this is so interesting and fun as a concept!

@Kotuuu_ 5 күн бұрын

This is really cool, inspired me for my own language stuff for my world project! TOO GOOD

@shoofle Ай бұрын

this is so cool! more circle based conlangs, yess!

@jasminreyes1278 23 күн бұрын

YOU MADE THIS UP!?!? THAT'S INSANE!!

@geckoram6286 Ай бұрын

a beautiful video for a beautiful conlang, it looks amazing.

@comfylang Ай бұрын

I still remember the pictures you shared of Tsevhu writing in a subreddit dedicated to conlangs. I am so happy to see how your language gets popular!!

@Jess-ds1dw 24 күн бұрын

This video was truly so lovely. I remember seeing the posts about it on /r/conlangs but even then I didn't comprehend just how beautifully detailed this language and system is. Thank you for a wonderful video! I truly hope you'll make more.

@lost.274 Ай бұрын

Awesome. Thank you!!!

@nimiugn Ай бұрын

heard of Tsevhu / Koi Conlang just a few months back. Thanks youtube for recommending this to me. More importantly thanks Koa for creating this beautiful art of Koiwriting!

@MasterofPuppets5D Ай бұрын

This video was an absolute BLESSING. I cannot emphasize how clearly and beautifully the message was conveyed . Please, do more videos like this! It was so relaxing and informative.

@ConnorLKnox Ай бұрын

Thank you, very helpful

@waddlesthepig6457 Ай бұрын

This is so useafull and well made, thank you so much!!!

@justaduck1664 28 күн бұрын

Your conlang inspired me to make my own conlang and your way of writing may have influinced mine a bit, I am greatfull for your creation and I hope that it stands the test of time and maybe just maybe somehow go mainstream

@Demon_Cat_With_Glowing_Eyes Ай бұрын

I have been waiting for this for so long

@MegaBeeYT Ай бұрын

Absolutely beautiful Conlang, I'd never thought of doing it like this. I've checked some of your other Conlangs and they're also great, I will certainly be keeping up on all this amazingness.

@hi4705 27 күн бұрын

this needs a Duolingo course like right now

@tabularasa_br Ай бұрын

This is simply genius!

@KooShnoo Ай бұрын

this is beautiful.

@jessica_adwwfs3523 Ай бұрын

someone needs to write a book with this ill defo read itt

@ArtemisGOTM-se5wm 21 күн бұрын

It would be awesome if you posted complete tutorials for people to actually learn how to speak Tsevhu and write the formal and informal forms! I know I'd be very interested in that!!

@federicoarrighi5459 Ай бұрын

Finally you came back with koiwriting! 'Hope you great succes in this. 😊

@Moonmoon-ws6jo 23 күн бұрын

this is making me want to make poem out of this and give it to my muse. it also helps me apply the things i am learning in my college courses as a linguistics student.

@jellydarling1008 25 күн бұрын

This is so mesmerizing

@cogsworth2634 17 күн бұрын

Thabk you so much for this video. Ive been trying translate some poems that i think suit this language. Struggling to wrap my head around it, bit ill get there! This is a beautiful thing youve mafe for the world!

@asderfly3915 Ай бұрын

I’ve always been interested in conlangs, even though I never participated in any community since I don’t have any special linguistic skills so I don’t know much about all of this. but what I can say for sure, is that this the most creatively elegant way of writing I’ve ever seen, and yet it also seems like something that could develop naturally in some civilisation...