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Speedlang 6 Writeup

The Speedlang Challenge 6 featured five complete submissions of constructed languages, including Teqe, Dveze, Seoina, Gutian, and Batuj, along with two additional submissions that did not fully meet the requirements. Participants were tasked with creating languages that included specific phonological and grammatical features, as well as translating example sentences and explaining kinship terms. Extra credit was offered for incorporating a narrative element in the new conlang related to a tablet theme.

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Speedlang 6 Writeup

The Speedlang Challenge 6 featured five complete submissions of constructed languages, including Teqe, Dveze, Seoina, Gutian, and Batuj, along with two additional submissions that did not fully meet the requirements. Participants were tasked with creating languages that included specific phonological and grammatical features, as well as translating example sentences and explaining kinship terms. Extra credit was offered for incorporating a narrative element in the new conlang related to a tablet theme.

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Speedlang Challenge 6

Miacomet (a.k.a. u/roipoiboy)


April 6 – April 20, 2020

For the sixth Speedlang challenge, there were five complete, on-time submissions. Click on
each language name to view the document submitted:

• Teqe by Priscianic

• Dveze by Akam Chinjir

• Seoina by Miacomet

• Gutian by Formor

• Batuj by Náhvalr

One person who just got a boring old tablet instead of an undiscovered language:

• Akkadian by Zethar

And one submission that doesn’t quite meet the requirements:

• This Untitled Document by Omar

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Phonology
Your language’s phonology must include:

• Neutralization of some phonemes in certain environments. Bonus points if you can use a
morphological test to figure out which of the neutralized phonemes is present in a particular
word!

• A productive morphophonological process involving suprasegmental features like stress or


tone.

• Sound symbolism or sound iconicity of some sort.

Grammar
Your language’s grammar must:

• Show some kind of unusual agreement phenomenon.

• Clearly distinguish factive and non-factive complement clauses, either syntactically or


morphologically.

• Incorporate noun classifiers or measure words in some construction.

Tasks
1. Document and showcase your language, explaining and demonstrating how it meets all of
the elements of the challenge.

2. Translate and gloss five example sentences. You can either get “syntax test sentences” by
asking Leo “=stest”, in which case note down which number sentences you get, or you can
pick from recent ‘Just Used 5 Minutes of your Day’ challenges posted by u/mareck_ on
r/conlangs, in which case note which number 5moyds you do.

3. Explain your conlang’s kinship terms and how they’re used.

4. (Extra credit) What was the tablet about? Write part of the text in your new conlang!

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