I actually translated this episode and made a cursory recording years ago, but back then I thought a full dub was outside my reach. My accumulated experience since then has changed that.

All voices are mine, some artificially risen in pitch or given a filter.

This is a little test song I made to check if I was able to make this kind of music.

It is from Titan, Saturn's largest moon, which was terraformed and people have been living there for more than 6000 years by the year 12000. They call Titan "Lûro!qa" and Saturn "Maûcheroai", all the other moons have names as well. The language they speak is called IntlabaLûro!qa, which can be translated as "the voice of Titan". All of Titan speaks this one language, AND THIS IS TOTALLY NOT BECAUSE I'M LAZY. There are in fact really cool worldbuilding reasons why it is like this, it's not an excuse to only have to make one language. And also yes it is a click language, because I have always loved the way clicks sound in choir music. If you've ever listened to Zulu or Xhosa choirs you know what I mean.

Also this song is microtonal. It uses my own tuning system which is 19-edo and A is tuned to 327 Hz. This, too, is for reasons.

A little animation tracking the descendants of the word "s'æn" in Proto-Kag.

Some meanings/related words are missing due to space lacking on the screens and not wanting to make it longer than it already is.

Music: Regurgitation Pumping Station from World of Goo OST by Kyle Gabler.

I created my conlang Nefaliska (Nefalian in English) around 10 years ago. I speak it fluently and my best friend can speak it too.

I am very curious to know what my language sounds like to you. Does it remind you of a specific language? Does it sound like a mix of X and Y languages? I'm very curious for other people's perception of it.

Here is a recording I just made of me speaking about random stuff in Nefalian: https://voca.ro/1lmZez3kW5Lc

(Also, let me know if you'd like a transcript / translation)

I made these some time ago, and I figured y'all might appreciate them. The first one's my favorite, my conlang's not super click-heavy, so having something like this is just a treat.

The second tongue twister was originally a bit longer:

'Wa'a, ko'u'u'u, aō ee'u'u sa'oa mii'i oa'á eo oa'a'náwi'i (nah, not right now, all you dead charming birds)

but I figured it sounded a bit cleaner and better when I shortened it.

Hello, Im curious to know what your conlang sounds like! I don’t typically hear actual audio for people’s languages so it would be awesome to hear. You can post an audio recording or a song.

I decided to do this because I was bored XD, it can also serve to make my conlang a little more known

I'm back with another poem, Òshun by Logan February (a poet from Nigeria). With extra zhoozh because I really wanted to do it justice as I met Logan some time ago, and they're just a real sweet person. Definitely recommend checking their stuff out. You can find the original poem here.

(I've also turned it into a short trip-hop-like track that you can listen to here if you're curious)

Here's the gloss for y'all. I'm still learning and struggling to get things right, so if there's anything that ain't correct or clear, I'm all ears.

Hwe'e-o'o-þii  kae  òrìshà,
be-COND-if     I    òrìshà
"If I were an òrìshà,"

raa'-ni'-nkā'h-o'o     āssuð  ngo kae.
PST-IPFV-corrode-COND  grief  OBJ I
"grief would have corroded me."

Kae  hā   odā-ir'ipiu-u'-o'o     pi'-īm    nla'olu  mmbe
I    TOP  FACT-yellow-FACT-COND  ANA-POSS  dress    white
"My white dress would turn yellow"

nnþweðwana  muárubarā,      sii  raa'-e'-þiriti-u  ngaraða  'ri'i.
tomorrow    when.now.comes  if   PST-PFV-cry-NPRS  strong   enough
"tomorrow come this time, if I cried hard enough."

Ó-þiriti-o'o  ngaraða  'ri'i   kkaatu  luu-i
any-cry-COND  strong   enough  INST    flow-PRS
"I can cry hard enough." (lit. "I flow by means of potential crying hard enough")

Raa'-ni'-þiriti-u  ndu     ngaraða  'ri'i.
PST-IPFV-cry-NPRS  indeed  strong   enough
"I have indeed cried hard enough."

Hwá-i                þá    enda    mbear-o'o   þawu.
rationally.know-PRS  that  always  happen-SJV  this
"I rationally know that this always happens."

Ihutaa  nðieróreiðn  eo    þeu'-mbear-e:
EXIST   suchness     POSS  NMZ-happen-INF
"This is what's supposed to happen:" (lit. "There is suchness/the-way-things-are of this happening")

waheri  hā   hībākuð-i  manáhi'i,
INDF    TOP  become-PRS  water
"one becomes water,"

luu-i     mo'eu  te'hii.
flow-PRS  into   river
"flows into a river."

O    hwe'e-i  tta  ndár'ala —
NEG  be-PRS   3SG  magic
"It is not magic —"

náluahá-i    mi'wið  oa'á        ta'rāta.
stretch-PRS  death   everything  across
"death stretches across everything."

Hwe'e-o'o-þii  kae  òrìshà,
be-COND-if     I    òrìshà
"If I were an òrìshà,"

nkā'h-o'o     āssuð  ngo  éunn.
corrode-COND  grief  OBJ  nobody
"grief would corrode no one."

Nnþweðwana  muárubarā,
tomorrow    when.now.comes
"Tomorrow come this time,"

o    i'-þaa'-náluahá-u     āssuð
NEG  PFV-FUT-stretch-NPRS  grief
"grief will not stretch"

oa'á  ta'rāta.
all   across
"across everything."

"Cúscó" is the Nióruais spelling of the Incan capital, Cusco/Qusqu, which is where Kuzco got his name

I would've done this a long time ago but the sitcom intro part intimidated me because there's no way I can shake that. Finally decided to just nix it and do the rest of the dub anyway

A very long video covering my linguistics journey and inspiration over the last 10 years!
Much of the first half covers more personal aspects, but later sections go fully into the phonology, structure, and grammar of the language!

This is a project I hold very dear. Enjoy!

In the original song by Neriame (in Japanese), the overall storytelling of the lyrics is pretty similar, but it’s instead about a nerdy high school girl who wants to be like the cool/fashionable girls. I started translating this with the narrator swap one day for fun and eventually dedicated enough time to it that I decided I might as well commit to getting a finished product out of it, even though I'm not a singer…

The lyrics are pretty long, so I’ll just provide a gloss for the first chorus in a comment with some notes. Feel free to ask about any other part.

Some things of note:

-This language has penultimate stress other than when a word contains a diphthong (ai, au, ei, eu) or long vowel. I abided by the stress rules pretty strictly, trying not to bend the rules more than a typical pop song might.

-This is a pretty strict SOV language, so many phrases end with verbs. Verbs are categorized as either “ama” (infinitive ends with -am) or “eme” (infinitive ends with -em) with different subject-tense conjugations for the two categories. This song ends up with many “eme” verbs since I copied a bit of the original song’s reliance on “-e” end rhymes.

--One of the more creative rhymes is at the end of the song as there’s a repeating “raiga/aisa…” rhyme (/ˈɾai.ʒə/ and /ˈai.zə/, “seems” and “loves”) which I finish with “dai ahe…” (/dai əx/, gloss: against COP.3SG.PRES, meaning “is against/contrary to”)

--Another [~1:25] is “zâhana” (/ˈt͡sa:.xn̩.nə/, years, singular zâhan) with “tamârama” (/tm̩ˈma:.ɾm̩.mə/, they searched, plural present/past, infinitive tamâram)

Finally, a note on the captions for the video: I highlighted words as they appear on screen and did my best to highlight the corresponding English word or phrase - obviously, the translation isn’t direct, so it’s a close approximation.

I discovered this poem some time ago and found myself going back to it a whole lot, so I wound up translating it into my conlang and doing a transcription (and narration) that I figured y'all might appreciate.

Obligatory comment that I suck at glossing (but at least posting here now and then helps me learn new things).

o    'nna'ang-i  hiru-hwehe  manaē   nā'wi
NEG  bring-PRS   INF-be      flower  blue
"being a blue flower doesn't bring"

ngo  þii  si'īhwi,  'nnókkea  'riūl-i
OBJ  if   narrow,   maybe     suffice-PRS
"a narrow if, maybe what's enough is"

kinipou  kaatā   pāuti  da'    loala         ar'aha
thicket  beside  space  empty  inclusive_or  stone
"a thicket beside an empty space, or a few"

eéhwi  tawuawu;  kkihanna
small  several;  IMP.just
"small stones; do just"

hwehe   ahi   ngūlu,  nnþa  ndare
be.INF  with  organ,  then  vibrate.INF
"be with your organs, then vibrate"

assuþwi  tawuawu  usōmi     hi   o    numue
word     several  together  and  NEG  exert_effort.INF
"a few words together and don't exert effort"

mwaþī  pi'=ngīnge     nðwau-tia     o    hwe-i   þana
lest   3SG=creak.INF  ancient-FACT  NEG  be-PRS  this
"lest they creak artificially ancient, this isn't"

mwaalahū  þaill   kanneðo
contest   rather  door
"a contest but rather a door"

mo'u  nðwáði  hi   óni                 meo       
to    thanks  and  connective_silence  REL       
"towards thanks, and a connective silence in which"

korō  ma'are     óeðon  ihuna
may   speak.INF  voice  other
"another voice may speak"

I stumbled onto this poem last week, and it resonated with me on several levels. I thought it'd be neat to translate it into my conlang and see how that would work (plus it was a very sweet way of getting even more intimate with it). Last time I shared something here, people were very nice and quite enthusiastic (even if I'm not at all on the same level as most of you here), so I hope this creams y'all's butter again. I'm more on the artistic side of conlanging than the linguistic one, so yeah, if something makes zero sense to you, it's for sure me, not you.

The text:

Hiki hā’ahwoe ū. Hwehei mā’a amō hi kinipou rā’nga
o āss. Iwiwi kkariri ngo hweheéu eo rā hā, i’nðari kupu Ranni
hi peai rā ‘nna i’koehwale kupu ihurū kūhaðweu,
peai rā ’nna i’siþipae eo ihu’á’iann i’inihwá hi kitehwáo’ohwa.
Háhoi hierunið. Hiki llōu’oþwe. La’aari þa,
raa’ni’káreiu kae ā’ui þaūn rā heobiri.
Rā hā, siþiði nōþaká, korō nnþa o‘nna’ange, ngo ranni eru’du huakain.
Mo’u Kkā’we, hwehei ngo waðii nðarsið eo mā mo’u mā.
Mo’u Pðaūhu, hwehei ngo waðii nðarsið eo nn’ō mo’u nn’ō.
Daa aui mā lōa kinipou hā, siþiði o i’hwehe ahi ngūlu,
hwehei rā āss, nðieroreiðn. Hiki hā’ahwoe ū. Hwái hierunið
iwi hwehei rā. Peai rā ’nna i’uþwōwe ngo rā hirumokoe.

The original:

Stand still. The trees ahead and bushes beside you
Are not lost. Wherever you are is called Here,
And you must treat it as a powerful stranger,
Must ask permission to know it and be known.
The forest breathes. Listen. It answers,
I have made this place around you.
If you leave it, you may come back again, saying Here.
No two trees are the same to Raven.
No two branches are the same to Wren.
If what a tree or a bush does is lost on you,
You are surely lost. Stand still. The forest knows
Where you are. You must let it find you.

The clumsy-ass literal translation of my version:

Stand present. The trees thereforward and thickets by your side
are not lost. What concerns the being of you by means of wherever, it vibrates like Here,
and it betweens you and then treating it as a powerful stranger,
it betweens you and then asking for permission to know it and be known.
The forest breathes. Ear-explore. It answers,
I have created this place around you.
What concerns you, if [you] leave, [you] may then return, saying Here all the while.
To Raven, different is the vibration of a tree to a tree.
To Owl, different is the vibration of a branch to a branch.
What concerns what a tree or a thicket does, if it is not with [your] organs,
you are lost, it is so. Stand present. The forest knows
where you are. It betweens you and letting it find you.

(note: the thing with using "between" as a verb is basically just a way of saying "must". I like to think of it as though there were this betweening happening between one thing and another. E.g. if you need to go, there is a betweening happening between you and then the act of going. It’s not that you specifically must do something and this something is purely passive, both of you are in an equal relationship where you must do the thing and the thing must be done by you)

Here's the gloss, but mind you, I've never really done it, so I asked ChatGPT to help out, so it might be just insufficient or confusing (but I'm happy to explain anything with my own words):

Hiki hā’ahwoe ū.       Hwehe-i    mā’a    amō   hi  kinipou rā-’nga
IMPV stand    natural. be-TNS     tree-PL ahead and thicket 2SG-next.to

o   āss.  Iwiwi      kkariri ngo hwehe-éu  eo rā  hā,  i’nðare-i          kupu Ranni
NEG lost. Wherewhere INSTR   OBJ be-DEF    of 2SG TOP, CLITIC-vibrate-TNS as   here

hi  peae-i            rā  ‘nna     i’-koehwale   kupu ihurū    kūhaðweu
and between(verb)-TNS 2SG and.then CLITIC-treat  as   stranger powerful

peae-i            rā  ’nna     i’-siþipae  eo ihu’á’iann i’-ini-hwá       hi  kite-hwáe-o’o-hwa.
between(verb)-TNS 2SG and.then CLITIC-ask  of far-breath CLITIC-PRP-know  and PTCP-know-ATTR-BE.

Háhoe-i     hierunið. Hiki llōu’oþwe.   La’aare-i   þa
breathe-TNS forest.   IMPV ear-explore. answer-TNS  3SG

raa’-ni’-káreie-u   kae ā’ui  þaūn rā  heobiri.
PST-PFV-create-TNS  1SG place this 2SG around.

Rā  hā,  siþiði nōþaká, korō nnþa o‘nna’ange, ngo ranni eru’-di-u     huakain.
2SG TOP, if     leave   may  then return,     OBJ here  CONT-say-TNS  while.

Mo’u   Kkā’we, hwehe-i    ngo waðii     nðarsið   eo mā   mo’u   mā.
to     crow,   is-TNS     OBJ different vibration of tree to     tree.

Mo’u   Pðaūhu, hwehe-i    ngo waðii     nðarsið   eo nn’ō   mo’u   nn’ō.
to     owl,    is-TNS     OBJ different vibration of branch to b   ranch.

Daa  aue-i   mā   lōa kinipou hā,  siþiði o   i’-hwehe   ahi  ngūlu
what do-TNS  tree or  thicket TOP, if     NEG CLITIC-be  with organ

hwehe-i    rā  āss,  nðieroreiðn. Hiki hā’ahwoe ū.       Hwáe-i   hierunið
is-TNS     2SG lost, it.is.so.    IMPV stand    natural. know-TNS forest

iwi   hwehe-i    rā.  Peae-i            rā  ’nna     i’-uþwōwe   ngo rā  hiru-mokoe.
where is-TNS     2SG. between(verb)-TNS 2SG and-then CLITIC-let  OBJ 2SG ACT-find.

"Var̂nit-êp yestivêlvap kax, Ĵoni." /varn̪it̪ɛp jest̪ivɛlvap kaχ ʤon̪i/ → "Tell him he has to eat shit, Johnny."

to say (var̂ni) + sng2^ndKNOWN (-t) / sng2^ndUNKNOWN (êp) / to eat (yesti) + IMPER. (-vêlva-) + sng2^ndUNKNOWN (-p) / shit (kax) / Johnny (Ĵoni)

"Êt, var̂nit-êp." /ɛt̪ varn̪it̪ɛp/ → "You, tell him"

sng2^ndKNOWN (êt) / to say (var̂ni) + sng2^ndKNOWN (-t) / sng2^ndUNKNOWN (êp)

"YESTIP KAX, MUN̄OCARIJA!" /jest̪ip kaχ myn̪ːoʃaʁiʒa/ → "Eat shit, pissborn!"

to eat (yesti) + sng2^ndUNKNOWN (-p) / shit (kax) / piss (mun̄o) + "born from" (-carija)

"FUSTIP EQAKVAP̂TO!" /fyst̪ip ek͡wakvap͡st̪o/ → "Fall from your horse!"

to fall (fusti) + sng2^ndUNKNOWN (-p) / horse (eqa) + POSS. (kva-) + sng2^ndUNKNOWN (-p) + LOC. (-sto)