Language Development



'''Written here is the actual process I have been through, and am still going through, to create the conlang. The following may be a long read for some people and it's not crucial so feel free to ignore it.'''

In reality something called Deminsekan was the first "actual" conlang of mine to emerge, which hasn't been touched since Spring 2020 and was entirely removed from canon in late February (27.02.2021 to be exact). The amount of words in Deminsekan only fill a small paragraph and it's not possible to convey anything meaningful. The name Deminsekan has no real meaning either, wanting to make an original sounding name I stuck random language sounds together. The "demin" part looks like the word denim got shuffled and the "seka" part may subconsciously be because of Japanese. Seka apparently means something like "wonderful", not a thing I knew at the time but a welcome surprise.

There were a few more beta test sort of dialects along the way where my main focus was to make a better alphabet. That was until I found there were lots of people making their own languages, the conlang community, this was a good route to learn linguistics. What triggered this discovery was a Tom Scott video with a funky looking title, the video was about a Canadian Inuit language called Inuktitut, it was mesmerising for whatever reason. Right then was when I began to put extra thought into the development process, this Inuktitut abugida being one of the main things to implement.

In late August I made the alphabet system and around a week later I began work on this new language completely from scratch, Fierran/Fierranlun. As of the 9th of October 2020 it had over 300 words. Rather complex sentences could be made with it and it was experiencing rapid development at this point.



8.11.2020: (8th of November): By this date it was apparent there were issues remembering all 7 sets of rotations/mirrors, so revisions had to be taken. From then on there would be individual vowel markings attached to each consonant instead of rotating the same symbol. Mirrored/reversed symbols still exist but these are used in a more efficient manner. The vowel "A" ('ar' sound) was added while the number system was reverted back to the usual decimal instead of base 12. Consonant sounds remain the same. Technically it had grown to 124~ characters rather than the previous 104 but it was plenty easier in practice. Seriously.

On 19.11.2020 (19th of Novermber) the graphics for the next layout were implemented. These would not be permanent though. 11.12.2020: (11th of December): Symbols were simplified yet were still designed in a phonetic manner. This action was done to clean up overly complicated characters in order to save time when writing. The order of the consonants was also changed to B, D, "CH"/C/Ч, K, F, V, "ZH"/Z/Ж, M, N, L, R, H rather than the previous B, D, K, M, N, R, V, F, ZH, H, CH, L. As for the language itself, at this point the amount of words had reached 442~ with another sudden growth in the amount of words being created. A dictionary page was made to display them all. Although it soon began to lag behind the true amount and form of words.

28.12.2020: Work began on a translator and the first custom keyboard version was created.

20.01.2021: (20th of January): New vowel added, "eh" sounding E. Not to be confused with the pre-existing schwa, which in romanisation is written as an actual schwa (ə) while the new E vowel is written as an "E/e". In addition, tʃ / (Ч) would be displayed simply as a "C" instead of "Ch". Specialised diphthong characters and more punctuation marks were also added. Along with 4 gender cases for nouns which include: Neuter, Masculine, Feminine, and Simultaneous.


 * Nouns starting in N, E, Ə, K, M  are Neuter.
 * Nouns starting in Z, U, H, R  are Masculine.
 * Nouns starting in B, A, L, F  are Feminine.
 * Nouns starting in C, I, V, D  are Simultaneous.

21.01.2021: First original Memrise courses released.

01.02.2021: Grammar and word order are starting to set in stone. SVO for all situations except possessive and Noun before Adjective when describing.

25.02.2021: Word count at this time: 476. "Z" consonant added, several letters have been redesigned plus a huge vocabulary overhaul began. All other existing Fierran resources declared as "semi-defunct" until the update is completed. Estimated date for completing the overhaul: Indefinite... On 27.02.2021 any last piece of Deminsekan was finally retired from canon.

Colour key:

 * 1) Sea green: Singular consonants - B, D, Ч, K, F, V, Z, Ʒ, M, N, L, R, H   (Anglicised: B, D, C, K, F, V, Z, S, M, N, L, R)
 * 2) Deep purple: Singular vowels - I, U, E, Ə, A   (Anglicised: I, U, E, O, A)
 * 3) Dark magenta: Diphthong characters in common usage - IU, UI, EI, ƏI, AU   (Anglicised: IU, UI, EI, OI, AU)
 * 4) Light purple: Possible characters for other diphthongs - IA, IƏ, IE, ƏU   (Anglicised: IA, IO, IE, OU)
 * 5) Dark grey: Punctuation
 * 6) Steel blue: Typical abugida characters.   (Example: BA)
 * 7) Brown?: Reversed abugida characters.   (Example: AB)


 * (Apologies, colour-blind people, I tried.)

Note(s): A few more iterations on how vowel marks are applied to base letters may be tested as well as a method for writing cursive or at least just physically writing even faster. That is all for now, thank you, the reader.

09.05.2021: The consonants "T" and "J" (as in the English word "jam") have been officially added. I created a new dictionary page for the new iteration, keeping the old one accessible but clearly marked as defunct. Work also began on a new translator. Fierran will now be written in 2 methods only, 1 being the Abugida seen in the graphics, and 2 being anglicised with the plain English alphabet using the now slightly tweaked method (which I can't demonstrate until the new graphic is complete.)

(Although I no longer have much time to conlang as I have been busy drawing every day; there should be some new graphics to display the updated consonants at some point.)

02.10.2021: Consonants "T" and "J" were implemented only for a short amount of time before being removed again. I mentioned updating the graphic but it's no longer necessary. Today I have gone over the entire Wiki updating lore and wording.