Making a whistling language

Stickythestick9009

Starting up a whistling language

In our English pronunciation, it's called Din (if you substitute a whistle for a letter) I'm calling it Whistlang. The language relies entirely on nouns, with ways to transform those nouns into adjectives and verbs. Once I finish making the vocabulary (already have some grammar rules, conjunctions, pronouns etc ruled out), it should be available for testing and whatnot.
The word order is OSV (so ‘The wookie ate a cookie’ becomes ‘A cookie the wookie ate’).
I'm getting inspiration for the vocabulary from toki pona and Votgil.
Here's an example of current nouns as adjectives and adverbs:
colour > colourful > to colour/paint
heart > loving/lovingly > to love (someone)
smile > happy > to smile
hand > clever (at making things, skilled at making things) > to make
moon > lunar > to orbit
water > wet > to wash (with water)
fire > hot > to burn/to set on fire
Etc!
Any thoughts/opinions/word ideas anyone?

Last edited by Stickythestick9009 (April 22, 2014 02:34:39)

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Stickythestick9009 wrote:
Starting up a whistling language In our English pronunciation, it's called Din (if you substitute a whistle for a letter). The language relies entirely on nouns, with ways to transform those nouns into adjectives and verbs. Once I finish making the vocabulary (already have some grammar rules, conjunctions, pronouns etc ruled out), it should be available for testing and whatnot.
The word order is OSV (so ‘The wookie ate a cookie’ becomes ‘A cookie the wookie ate’).
I'm getting inspiration for the vocabulary from toki pona and Votgil.
Here's an example of current nouns as adjectives and adverbs:
colour > colourful > to colour/paint
heart > loving/lovingly > to love (someone)
smile > happy > to smile
hand > clever (at making things, skilled at making things) > to make
moon > lunar > to orbit
water > wet > to wash (with water)
fire > hot > to burn/to set on fire
Etc!
Any thoughts/opinions/word ideas anyone?

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Stickythestick9009

So basically, I'm making a language that you whistle instead of ‘speak’.
I've made a tumblr page for it at whistlang.tumblr.com.

Last edited by Stickythestick9009 (April 22, 2014 02:39:06)

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I've also made some conlangs

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Wouldn't heart's verb form become cardiac, while loving could be from love?

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How are the six tenses expressed?

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I wish you luck! I myself am working on a conlang (“Melviko Garso” – much like Latin). I've only got about 35 terms worked out, and it relies heavily on inflection (and I would imagine your language is heavily inflected, too).

My language is a lot less imaginative, though. Just vowels and consonants, no whistling.

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