Those of us who enjoy inventing languages, post a sample and a translation of your language.
If you have an alphabet, too, take a picture of your sample written in your alphabet and post it.

The following sentences will serve as samples (you can also make up your own, longer piece of text):

My name is _insert name here_ and this is my language, _insert name of language_.
The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog.
Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.

Mine:
Ye nomeh ii Athena ma owep ii ye lyriiaj, Aviita.
Ma taka maro kitsu utsede uratu ma siiza rufe.
Vu ii ma klo luar ah ben mantii o pen o ma quar lo ma avii.

My extra sample:
Qinda mii na te o ma ker
Ye nos ii fuende sol ma kaze
Mii na sa Dendra alletak miien
Mii noro lo penta ran

Mii na sa Laguin te ma lan
So noro sa noro lo pleitak an
So noro kiiem pleitak sol ro ta
Mii noro lo penta ran

Te ma mara, aru ma she
Miien sa sengal vatak rak lo yaj
So tsu mii fo zou joyiiya
Mii noro lo penta ran


Translation:
When I look into the trees
My hair is ruffled by the breeze
I see a Dryad walking there
I dream of coming along

I see a Dragon in the sky
And dream a dream of flying high
And dream your flying by my side
I dream of coming along

In the ocean, beneath the sea
There's a mermaid swimming ahead of me
And though I wave back merrily
I dream of coming along


A bit of a theme song for the story this language goes with.
Currently I'm trying to come up with a better grammar for my language, something that is different from English grammar, as it is, currently, a cipher for English (basically).  Hopefully making this language better will be easier after I take a college linguistics course next year...  (btw, I'm in 9th grade)

I don't really share my languages most of the time, but here's one of my scripts, sans translation for the moment:



I find people's reactions very entertaining when they rudely read over my shoulder and demand to know what language I'm writing in, to which I invariably truthfully reply, "English."  xD  They never seem to ask what script or alphabet I'm writing in.

Airánðís heltain ðepyan.
Pain felenpenairaflíramis daina díbyámdes, dain enpyeðramdaina 'ekdes, pain felenpenairaflíramis te'ek daina díbyámdes.
Sômen apdainipain, "Apakeðôn tíenbavekmôris enípiyíp dímôr." sômor.
Apainihelta tenpainanûmôr sômen, "Lar heltinat sô'enza lar felaheltat ðe'a lar enpyeðramlara eneha'ek aplarkôn 'Apakeðôn enípiyíp dímôr.' hehamôrdes." sômôr.
Pain tendainmôra, "Bavekan apaket dômitelanis ðemen gagarðekun ðebyen." sômôr
Hehahíramitin.

A woman minds a child.
She could put him into their yurt, or he could have his fun, then she could put him into their yurt because of what he had done.
And then she would ask him "What is the explanation for the trouble that you caused in front of everybody?"
He would say to her (because of what she had asked), "Ever since I was a little baby, and even now that I am a youth, every time I have fun you say 'What is the explanation for what happened in front of everybody?'"
She would reply, "Because this trouble makes my heart ache and causes me turmoil."
And so it goes again and again.

I did one for a fantasy novel I was writing. Here's an example.

:shock: Akhrese mek. Iikiako ka murhi deshra ka ashekhrese. Aphapa Yntiomoot phi lankoni d'Yuphreenic amek. Misecka iimushozha yren ka murhi aaphakhrese. Karhi phi-maphi yerengko aaphruk.

:wink: These are my origins. I came into being at the beginning of the Renewal, just after the Great Quake. My father was Yuphreenic, the Mountain at the Centre of the Universe, and after a single violent coupling, I was spewed from his belly in a blaze of orange flame.

(I guess it's a little difficult to take out of context.)

quote < The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog> quote

Sorry to be pedantic but the whole idea of this piece of English is that it's supposed to use every letter in the English language. This means it should be 'jumps' instead of jumped. Otherwise you'll miss out the letter 's' completely.

Ah...  I just stole it from the handwriting thread, I didn't know that's what it was designed for.  oops.

I wanted to post my script, but I haven't got any way to get pictures of it online...  

[quote]I wanted to post my script, but I haven't got any way to get pictures of it online...  

Is it not possible to just type it in? I say that because you say 'script' so I think of wrting.

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I wanted to post my script, but I haven't got any way to get pictures of it online...  

Is it not possible to just type it in? I say that because you say 'script' so I think of wrting.

The person will have to use a typeface design package and then scan an example or scan a hand-written example of it.  You and I are currently using "Latin" script, for example.  If it's a unique script there is no way at all to "just type it in".

Inventing languages is fun. =D Like you, I base my words off of Latin and Greek.

For example:

The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog.
hect-antechron: civerto fulverto vulpren; supreit: inersuto cainren.

Direct translation:

jump-past time: fast brown fox; over: lazy dog.

The grammar of this language is very, very simple. A verb is stated, and the colon connects it to the noun acting out the verb. YOu can end the sentence there if you want, but a semicolon starts the next part of the sentence, and connects the idea together. The second colon means that fox is jumping over the dog.

I usually recycle this simple language as an alien language in my stories, and I'm planning on developing this enough to use it to speak in code to my friends for fun.

The biggest problem I have in conlanging is introducing irregularity.  Real languages are irregular, and it's tough to be systematically irregular.

One way to try is to start by writing short passages and translating them into your invented language. As language irregularities essentially arise from "mistakes" made over a period of time, I find that they tend to introduce themselves.

Of course, this doesn't work for everyone. I just find it a useful starting place.

It's like, if you are drawing an imaginary map and you use your opposite hand (in my case, my right) then you can get the jagged coastline much more easily.

Anyway, I had a lexicon and I thought I'd lost it. But I didn't, so here's some I did today.

Magorho aanecke. Iishiy borakhete amek; yibushoor iu y'azhorli yikhrene aa-orak. Karhi phi-aunazh aanecke yat, ai gereshe luaah makishiy, d'pia phori-ia yemek. Ai Naikol bushoor criphikei tishik. Raisha aameshe ebushoor. Aa phrardihe mek - Shaina aamek.

Oh dear, I don't have any of this talent - still it looks interesting.

WOW!! THANK YOU SO MUCH!

I've been trying to draw maps of my fictional worlds, but I could never seem to get the jagged coastlines right. I'm a rather simple and smooth artist.

I am left handed, too. Lefties unite!!!

I used to have a language, but I don't remember some of it.  It was like:

Original:
Cya guun das verta gen das verticies in'coronont sAspies, yn gula.

Pronunciation:
Kyuh goon daz vurtuh jin daz vurteeceez ink-ronot Aspies, n gooluh?

Translation:
I am an Aspies and proud enough not to change, are you?

Dialect:
I am proud to be a non-changing Aspie, are you?

The reason why there is an 's' by Aspie is because it indicates a noun.

Cool. I like.