honestly I think my favorite thing about your language is the inclusion of emotive notations as a formal method of communication. It feels like something heavily overlooked in writing and communication when body language isn't available to give you those context clues of if someone is being playful or angry, and I particularly appreciate the option to use the emotive notes without need for words to pair with them- my default when texting with people I care about is, when a conversation is done and I have nothing to add, I send a last emoji that sums up a general tone, usually a smiley(cat smileys tbh) or a heart, just to stand in like how I would typically nod or give a thumbs up or shoulder bump or headbutt to finish a conversation in person. I think wordless communication or emotive communication is something that the world could really benefit from bringing into mainstream and professional settings, instead of restricting it to extremely casual and informal situations.
The emotional context element would be helpful for dialog. When writing, I often rush to add context to dialog with description as early as possible (and sometimes clarify the speaker). As a reader I know how annoying it is to have the tone of the dialog shift on me when the writer comes in with a descriptive element at the end of a paragraph.
The reason why /ð/ and /θ/ sound similar is because of voicing. They're a voiced & unvoiced pair. Also, I wouldn't call this a new language, since it's just writing, with the speaking being done in English. Just a cipher. Another thing would be the heart, which was this ❤️ shape. Chances are you wouldn't find that in anything of the sort in old texts from real life, but who knows, it could be a thing in the universe you're creating here. Regardless, I'm glad that you went the route of writing things as they're said, not how they're spelled in English.
Download link for the font: bit.ly/2HK89or Directions to use it: Font uses IPA phonetic characters, use service like tophonetics.com/ to convert American IPA Then need to find-replace these double-character letters for placeholder single-characters: eɪ = ɛ aɪ = 1 oʊ = 2 aʊ = 4 ɔɪ = 5 ɜ = ə
It is not really a language it is a writing system designed to be used with the english language. If you are interested in creating a new language you should look up conlanging.
Them : Yes I have a formal written language Also them : I have a "tongue" as a symbol Edit: Them is an anagram for HTME and thanks for 100 likes, I was just following a format I have seen others use.
At this speed , I thick that your great grand children will come to invent a computer. HTME civilization is behind every civilization . Yet the rate of growth is very fast.
ngl, I was hoping you'd make your own full language, not just an alphabet, but this is really cool too and probably a lot better when it comes to making a video about it. You did great and I can't wait to see how it develops!
For future videos, I suggest you guys to pronunce the phonemes with a ə after the consonants. It would be easier to understand when you say them and to associate them to the letters you invented.
This is so cool! I've actually been working on my own language for a while now. One of the notable key elements is double vowels to indicate tonic syllables.
@@dhayes5143 An actual language. I've made up only a few words so far. It kind of started when I heard someone comment about J.R.R. Tolkien making up a language based on Finnish and saying how hard it must be to make one up from scratch. My first word was one to describe the transition of a concept from knowledge to emotion.
I made a writing system once, but the characters were completely random. The letters would sorta connect together for each word, and i found it really easy to remember.
That's because you used them as mere placeholders, devoid of real meaning other than sounds. This is precisely what makes an alphabet work; an a is literally just a sound placeholder. Your brain is already wired to accept this thanks to English, so your rando language simply snapped to the same rules and lexicon.
As a linguist who enjoys your channel from time to time, I admit that I doubted you before watching, but you did an admirable job! Hitting all the key points... Like, the importance of a sound-based ABCs to have consistent relationships between sound and symbol; where silent letters come from; how punctuation works to give sound clues (and how emoji is an outgrowth of that); and the need to be practical (easy to write / easy to read)... kudos
This was very interesting! You did a great job! I think the punctuation innovations you came up with were stellar. I could imagine it making writing much more simple and organized. Keep up the great work, you never fail to impress.
You didn't create a language, you created a writing system. Still a good job though, I do like what you did with the punctuation and having the alphabet organised by letter frequency.
I made up an alphabet to write English with once, mainly so I could write personal stuff and not worry about others reading it. Some of the characters take too long to draw though, so I'm looking at re-creating it; this video is really helpful! To save on letters though, I'm planning to do something I've noticed with two other languages I've learned a little of (Spanish and Hawaiian) and give each vowel one sound: a like in "Pa", e like the first e in "melee", i like the second i in "miniature", o like in "motive", u like in "duty". Other vowel phonemes are then made by combining more than one vowel; "lei" in Hawaiian sounds like "lay" in English because of the way the e and i sounds combine.
This is a fun process. I’m a huge Star Wars nerd and I used to write my friends notes in Aurebesh characters. It was always fun to decipher and I eventually was able to read whole paragraphs.
Diego R. It really depends on _where_ you write it. If you write, say “woah man spoilers” under a comment on a video containing said spoilers, it’s usually gotten. (unless you’re me, cause that example was encountered by me and I took it seriously, I wasn’t an ass about it though, so it ended nicely.) but if you write, say “ham sucks ass and anyone who likes is it a hoe” under a video talking about the benefits of ham, it’s very hard to get and most will just take it seriously, and if you do that you’re bad at sarcasm and are more like a Schrödingers Douchebag than a practicer of sarcasm at that point.
@@It-Will-All-Be-Okay-I-Promise another thing that can be hard to convey is ironic joking as an example i tried it myself yet i am literally unable to say if you are doing the same.
definitely gonna need a follow up video to see how the language evolves on the discord! Also, actually making printing blocks for your language would be incredible!
In the middle, you kept saying 'phenoms' instead of 'phonemes' (and that's actually an insight into how spoken language evolves: one way for a word to change is that two vowels switch places) :)
while this is true unless you wanted to watch a video of him just making sounds for 15 minutes, then him making a writing system is the same thing, it's just visualized instead of just speaking. anyways this was more entertaining than a video of him looking into a camera for 15 minutes making sounds.
one of my friends literally made an entire language once, the most unique part of it is that the way you read it isnt from left to right, or right to left, it was a spiral that you read outwards. but the best part was, it didnt look like a spiral, it was just a multiple layered circle, idk what he did to make you know where to start, or to go to the next layer though.
So what’s this week’s new project? How to invent the bridge, how to invent the plane, how to invent hydro electricity? This Week: How to invent your own Language Uhh, I feel like I’m back in school again but for some reason I’m still having a good time
Obsessive Fanatic well he is going in order... it’s not going to be anything like airplanes for a very long time. Technology hasn’t advanced that far in his series yet.
That's awesome that you made your own writing system! Do you think you'll make your own completely separate language too or are you just going to keep using english with this writing system?
When I was in ninth grade, me and some other people at school got bored one day and decided to make our spare cardboard and art materials into weapons for fun. The eighth graders did the same after seeing what we did so we had this little cardboard war going on. It escalated into a situation where we formed 'kingdoms' that used cardboard technology where everyone had to figure out how to make more durable cardboard swords and armor. We would discover breakthroughs like how crossing the corrugations in sheets of cardboard boxes would make more durable tools or how coating weapons in tape completely would reduce their ability to tear from stress. At some point we wanted to be able to write war documents without letting the others know what the text meant. This necessity gave us the idea to create our own written language and teach the rest of our kingdom how to read it. This whole cardboard war became a thing that the whole highschool took part of. Those were fun days. Anyway, finding your channel started to remind me of it a lot. Thank you for doing what you do.
Please link the site you used to put your language on a computer, and the translator. I’ve been trying to do that with my own language for a while! Awesome vid by the way!
This a 100%, swedish, danish and norwegian is all so similar I can read, understand and hold a conversation where I understand at least 80% of everything without any problem. 10% i will get but it takes a second. 10% don’t understand at all. Reading is the absolute easiest. Spanish and Italian is also pretty similar. I learned Spanish, but can read and understand lots of Italian. French I can understand a little, but to a small degree.
One thing I'd add would be to simplify the characters by frequency of use... For instance, the most common phoneme "ə" I would reduce to a dot or a slash so it's quickest and shortest to write. That way, you're writing as efficiently as possible like in shorthand and conserving time and space on the carving block / papyrus. Fewer resources required (and faster). I'd probably also turn the most commonly used words like "and" and "the" into glyphs like a triangle or square.
I'm not really happy that you picked English out of all the languages in the world. You used to start with the basics, now you don't. You still get an upvote, because I'm nice ;-)
Well I’m fairly sure he doesn’t have the time to learn a foreign language, and then make a writing system from a foreign language; He most likely wouldn’t be completely fluent in said language, because it takes so long to get completely fluent in many languages.
This might be the first time I've seen a truly integrated ad. The sponsor isn't just relevant to the video, but crucial to it. And the video wasn't just made for the sponsor, it was a natural part of the ongoing series. Well done! I want more of this type of advertising on TH-cam, and less of those intrusive, out-of-nowhere ads. Not that this channel ever do them out of nowhere, you're always upfront about having sponsors and give ample warning before transitioning into the ad section of the video. I think I might even dare to say that this is the only channel I've ever seen an ethically performed RAID: Shadow Legends sponsorship on.
Ya I really wish he would stop referring to it as a new language and different to English. It is a cool project but it is just a new way to write English down.
Oh I love this topic. I mean, language is really complicated, but also very interesting. All the different ways they work in different cultures. Since I was a child I have kinda been obsessed with making my own language system. Never did it, but I'm excited to see what you came up with :))
Most oil we use today was formed long before dinosaurs appeared. It’s a myth that oil is made of dinosaurs. Oil is made from fossils- just not dinosaur ones...
I see this as more of a code rather than a language because the words are still the same as normal English words, to make this more like a different language you will have to make up unique words out of the letters but i under stand how much harder that would be.
This was so cool to watch! When I was younger I 'reinvented' the alphabet, I found it a fun task and learning to read again is an interesting experience 🤔
Short answer: No. Long answer: No, you can not. You most certainly are able, and do posses the necesairy power and skill, to do so but such action will inevitably lead you into the unpleasant state of being wrong.
yeah, this is creating a new writing system, not a new language. creating a new language would be a massive undertaking, just look at David Peterson and other conlangers/linguists (youtube as well, Bibloridian, Artexifan, Xidnaf, NativLang, Langfocus etc)
(16:20) 1. It's not a translator, it only changes English spelling to its phonemic values. 2. It's not a new language, it's only English with a different writing system. 3. Did you properly use the Unicode private use characters, or at least replaced the IPA characters? So you don't make "T" represent the /θ/ sound.
That just illustrates the terrible state of the education system. The teachers are already upset because of their wages, just wait till they find out they've been superceded by a TH-cam video.
Been keeping journals & commonplace books in a phonemic orthography for almost seven years now. The characters I use are super simplified & faster to write than Roman cursive, but easier to read back than actual shorthand systems.
15:52 a phonetic language, while spelling things like meet vs meat are the same, fixes things like read vs read or weight rhyming with ate but not height.
Plus the argument that some have any ambiguity makes no sense. If we drop the K from knight, it's not going to be an issue. You can tell them apart in spoken language. It's not like people say "I saw a K-night in shining armour"; and when someone says "I saw a night in shining armour", it's not like someone is going to complain that nights can't wear armour since it's just a time of day. We don't hear spelling differences in spoken language.
How cool :) We did something like this in my high school history class where we studied a bit of archaeology. We made our own cuneiform tablet to bury in the school's archaeology excavation pit.
Okay, the alphabet at the end scared the crap outta me, other than that this was really cool to see the process of you creating your own proto language!
We used to have that second letter as well, called thorn. I believe it was the invention, or importation, of printing presses from other places in Europe that did not have this letter that spelled its demise.
@@dhayes5143 Indeed. The printing press was invented in Germany, where the "th" sound (voiced and voiceless) didn't exist. German publishers who saw the letter Thorn didn't recognize it but thought it looked similar to Y, which is rarely used in German, so they replaced Thorn with Y-hence why "ye" as in "Ye Olde" exists.
@@reillywalker195 Since the name of the letter was thorn, and it represented a voiced dental fricative, does that imply we should pronounce the name of the letter with the same sound (ðorn or þorn, voiced) and not like the thorn that grows from a plant stem?
The most optimal way for most people (right-handed) to write is top to bottom, left to right. This leaves previous words easily visible, while also completely eliminating smudging. I find it incredibly fascinating that not a single language in all of human history (that I'm aware of) has used this style.
Awesome! My grandfather, who won national awards for poetry in the 1920s, and who was one of the smartest men I've ever met, said written language is the most important human invention!
@@harrysheppard3745 because I felt like watching a HTME video. I went to the list of videos and saw that one had been posten literally 2 seconds earlier.
If or when you do get to making a numbering system, I think it might be fun if you try switching up the bases. I made a base 6 counting system that's pretty fun to use but I also hear base twelve is pretty neat
King of hilarious having someone with as thick of a midwestern accent as Andy trying to reinvent English. The guy can't even say egg or dagger like a normal person.
the voicedness distinction of the sounds usually represented with "th" only really matter for... two pairs of words... ever, so combining them is a good idea.
You could reduce the number of letters by using accents to indicate if a sound is voiced or not. Like the two versions of Th, D and T could be combined, S and Z, B an P etc.
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How To Make Everything At 14:05 it says “My name is Andy” “and this is how to make everything” I solved it
Watch the htme language take over the world
The 8th "designatior" down on the list is a dick... 12:03 I guess that is your "thirst/desire" punctioation.
> combines /θ/ and /ð/
> pronounces them both /θ/ when trying to show the difference
Well... guess that explains why they chose to do that.
I guess you're not a native english speaker then?
@@ludvighoelstad326 I am a native speaker
@@CreedVI I had to go back and listen again to be sure and yeah I get your point now, I think I hear a difference but his "the" does sound wrong
@@ludvighoelstad326 I'm a native English speaker and I definitely heard him pronounce both of those at 9:49 as unvoiced th, not voiced.
@@PKMartin the difference between the and though is a slight tongue movement on the th sound is so easy to miss
well now we have Andy saying every phonetic sound. Time to put together some kind of voice bot
ytp time
Watch out Miku there is a new star on the horizon
How to make How To Make Everything
Every phonetic sound? :Laughs in isiXhosa:
Too bad he can't pronounce them.
"What's your favourite HTME video?"
WrittenLanguage Final1
i'd say WrittenLanguage FInal7 Modified (2) is my personal favourite
Good catch! YT glitch, but should be fixed now.
i like the part in WrittenLanguage Final1 when he references “cunee’ehform”
I was there too XD
Do y'all ever just like... Create your own language
Jizbe groux!
Yes.
Yes actually it was fun in school
conlanging
Yes... Meny
honestly I think my favorite thing about your language is the inclusion of emotive notations as a formal method of communication. It feels like something heavily overlooked in writing and communication when body language isn't available to give you those context clues of if someone is being playful or angry, and I particularly appreciate the option to use the emotive notes without need for words to pair with them- my default when texting with people I care about is, when a conversation is done and I have nothing to add, I send a last emoji that sums up a general tone, usually a smiley(cat smileys tbh) or a heart, just to stand in like how I would typically nod or give a thumbs up or shoulder bump or headbutt to finish a conversation in person. I think wordless communication or emotive communication is something that the world could really benefit from bringing into mainstream and professional settings, instead of restricting it to extremely casual and informal situations.
"his language" is just English with a different writing system. Please call it his script.
The emotional context element would be helpful for dialog. When writing, I often rush to add context to dialog with description as early as possible (and sometimes clarify the speaker). As a reader I know how annoying it is to have the tone of the dialog shift on me when the writer comes in with a descriptive element at the end of a paragraph.
The reason why /ð/ and /θ/ sound similar is because of voicing. They're a voiced & unvoiced pair.
Also, I wouldn't call this a new language, since it's just writing, with the speaking being done in English. Just a cipher. Another thing would be the heart, which was this ❤️ shape. Chances are you wouldn't find that in anything of the sort in old texts from real life, but who knows, it could be a thing in the universe you're creating here.
Regardless, I'm glad that you went the route of writing things as they're said, not how they're spelled in English.
Yep, something tells me HTME doesn’t have the most knowledge of Neography
Download link for the font: bit.ly/2HK89or
Directions to use it:
Font uses IPA phonetic characters, use service like tophonetics.com/ to convert American IPA
Then need to find-replace these double-character letters for placeholder single-characters:
eɪ = ɛ
aɪ = 1
oʊ = 2
aʊ = 4
ɔɪ = 5
ɜ = ə
[ðæt ɪz ɛn æɫfəbet dəmi]
I like how you used triangle brackets and coded icons to identify semantic meaning to a sentence.
It reminds me a lot of html.
I love this guy's videos! It really shows what humanity had to go through to get to where we're at right now, but in a shorter span of time.
nah his just a leftie prepping for the aftermath of what they are doing to our countries!
Everyone: Phoneme
HTME: Phenome
He made a few odd mispronounciations.
>phenome
*Linguists have left the chat*
*Biologists have joined the chat*
Glad i'm not the only one.
@@That_Guy42 like the Crillic alphabet haha
@@kori228 A phenome is the set of all phenotypes expressed by a .... word?
The emojis were pretty genius
except for the "tongue"
Up until the last one
🇪🇬🗣
At 14:05 it says “My name is Andy” “and this is how to make everything”
Edit: in the quotes he is supposed to be laughing or have that tone too
How long did it take to translate that
How long did it take to translate that
galactikkitty only 5 min
Real ones here when it was titled "WrittenLanguage Final1"
Giggity lmao it still is 55 minutes later
Yep
For the true fans! YT glitch, but should be fixed now.
i saw that too lol
Sad I missed it. Between being in Alaska time and having work only just got around to watching it.
"WrittenLanguage Final1". Great title
it needed a Final2
Imagine someone finding this language in 1000 years
holy shit yeah
Thinking its an used language for many people
It is not really a language it is a writing system designed to be used with the english language. If you are interested in creating a new language you should look up conlanging.
Imagine if they thought this was an unknown society lmao
Like the next Voynich Manuscript
Them : Yes I have a formal written language
Also them : I have a "tongue" as a symbol
Edit: Them is an anagram for HTME and thanks for 100 likes, I was just following a format I have seen others use.
Pp
I think the right acronyms is htme not them
Don't you mean THONG
@@itaicohen8625 I know
@@trulyidkman yes
It’s linguistics time bois
We Got Him
Time to stare English in the face and call it the unsatisfactory piece of nonsense that it is
I made one
@@marinary1326 English is three languages stacked in a trench coat pretending to be a language
Uh oh
At this speed , I thick that your great grand children will come to invent a computer. HTME civilization is behind every civilization . Yet the rate of growth is very fast.
He already built a camera and took a selfie. His child will build a quantum computer.
12:19 That's a good idea, let's just draw SpongeBob at the end of a sentence to indicate irony
ngl, I was hoping you'd make your own full language, not just an alphabet, but this is really cool too and probably a lot better when it comes to making a video about it. You did great and I can't wait to see how it develops!
For future videos, I suggest you guys to pronunce the phonemes with a ə after the consonants. It would be easier to understand when you say them and to associate them to the letters you invented.
This is so cool! I've actually been working on my own language for a while now. One of the notable key elements is double vowels to indicate tonic syllables.
That isn't new. Lol. Give em another letter
A language or a writing system?
@@dhayes5143 An actual language. I've made up only a few words so far. It kind of started when I heard someone comment about J.R.R. Tolkien making up a language based on Finnish and saying how hard it must be to make one up from scratch. My first word was one to describe the transition of a concept from knowledge to emotion.
4:37 Wait, what is this? Time travel?
Niko Saarinen I was looking if anyone else saw that
@@jacksonpascoe789 lol i was too
I made a writing system once, but the characters were completely random. The letters would sorta connect together for each word, and i found it really easy to remember.
That's because you used them as mere placeholders, devoid of real meaning other than sounds. This is precisely what makes an alphabet work; an a is literally just a sound placeholder. Your brain is already wired to accept this thanks to English, so your rando language simply snapped to the same rules and lexicon.
ijm trjng mij inglish in sam regular ruul, cudju riid it?
@@QuacGiaNgoVietCongHoa slowly, but yes!
@@QuacGiaNgoVietCongHoa ye
@@QuacGiaNgoVietCongHoa Gud job, Î dônt nô if û kan undœrstand mîn þô 🤣
As a linguist who enjoys your channel from time to time, I admit that I doubted you before watching, but you did an admirable job! Hitting all the key points...
Like, the importance of a sound-based ABCs to have consistent relationships between sound and symbol; where silent letters come from; how punctuation works to give sound clues (and how emoji is an outgrowth of that); and the need to be practical (easy to write / easy to read)...
kudos
imagine if in 2000 years someone found his writing and they wonder which civilization are they from
The Ohio Civilization xD
This was very interesting! You did a great job! I think the punctuation innovations you came up with were stellar. I could imagine it making writing much more simple and organized. Keep up the great work, you never fail to impress.
the clock in the background gave away some of the editing magic
Wow, you did such a good job with this! I’m a huge language nerd, and this was so cool to watch!!
You didn't create a language, you created a writing system. Still a good job though, I do like what you did with the punctuation and having the alphabet organised by letter frequency.
I made up an alphabet to write English with once, mainly so I could write personal stuff and not worry about others reading it. Some of the characters take too long to draw though, so I'm looking at re-creating it; this video is really helpful! To save on letters though, I'm planning to do something I've noticed with two other languages I've learned a little of (Spanish and Hawaiian) and give each vowel one sound: a like in "Pa", e like the first e in "melee", i like the second i in "miniature", o like in "motive", u like in "duty". Other vowel phonemes are then made by combining more than one vowel; "lei" in Hawaiian sounds like "lay" in English because of the way the e and i sounds combine.
“Strong desire for”
“Some people just like eggplants”
Hahahah XD
This is a fun process. I’m a huge Star Wars nerd and I used to write my friends notes in Aurebesh characters. It was always fun to decipher and I eventually was able to read whole paragraphs.
You _definitely_ can’t use sarcasm in just text or anything, it’s _totally_ impossible.
/s
I have no idea what you are saying. Are you really joking? I really honestly can't tell
I wouldn't go as far as to say its totally imposible, but some thick skulls might not get it
Diego R. It really depends on _where_ you write it. If you write, say “woah man spoilers” under a comment on a video containing said spoilers, it’s usually gotten. (unless you’re me, cause that example was encountered by me and I took it seriously, I wasn’t an ass about it though, so it ended nicely.) but if you write, say “ham sucks ass and anyone who likes is it a hoe” under a video talking about the benefits of ham, it’s very hard to get and most will just take it seriously, and if you do that you’re bad at sarcasm and are more like a Schrödingers Douchebag than a practicer of sarcasm at that point.
@@It-Will-All-Be-Okay-I-Promise another thing that can be hard to convey is ironic joking as an example i tried it myself yet i am literally unable to say if you are doing the same.
definitely gonna need a follow up video to see how the language evolves on the discord! Also, actually making printing blocks for your language would be incredible!
In the middle, you kept saying 'phenoms' instead of 'phonemes' (and that's actually an insight into how spoken language evolves: one way for a word to change is that two vowels switch places) :)
Wait is there actually vowel methathesis? Never seen it before
It was a deliberate easter-egg and a wink/nudge just for eagle-eared viewers like yourself ;)
Owl eared?
Love these new videos man. Very fascinating seeing what type of challenges humanity has had to overcome to get where we are today.
I thought we were going to get through a whole video without the word "Dayger." I was wrong.
Also glad i'm not the only one.
Wonder if he'll write about daggers using whichever letter he came up with for "ay"?
You did not invent a language - you just developed a writing system.
while this is true unless you wanted to watch a video of him just making sounds for 15 minutes, then him making a writing system is the same thing, it's just visualized instead of just speaking. anyways this was more entertaining than a video of him looking into a camera for 15 minutes making sounds.
@@brianzhang349 Inventing a language is far more than making sounds, the grammar and the vocabulary also need to be created.
Baptiste Faussat yeah, I’m just being sarcastic, (that and I totally forgot about that aspect)
5:30 HE WENT BACK IN TIME, NOT JUST BY REINVENTING WRITTEN LANGUAGE. HE WENT SO FAR THAT HE WENT FROM 4:30 TO 4:27!!!
one of my friends literally made an entire language once, the most unique part of it is that the way you read it isnt from left to right, or right to left, it was a spiral that you read outwards. but the best part was, it didnt look like a spiral, it was just a multiple layered circle, idk what he did to make you know where to start, or to go to the next layer though.
So what’s this week’s new project? How to invent the bridge, how to invent the plane, how to invent hydro electricity?
This Week: How to invent your own Language
Uhh, I feel like I’m back in school again but for some reason I’m still having a good time
Obsessive Fanatic well he is going in order... it’s not going to be anything like airplanes for a very long time. Technology hasn’t advanced that far in his series yet.
@@steelavocado1 r/wooosh
@@jamivirtanen474 ?!?!?
What you kept calling a language this entire video is actually a writing system. Apart from that, great video.
That's awesome that you made your own writing system! Do you think you'll make your own completely separate language too or are you just going to keep using english with this writing system?
Any language that has the same phonemes could be written with this alphabet. But the original symbols are still based on English words.
i’ve been waiting for the video for a week lol
always nice seeing a new video from How To Make Everything
When I was in ninth grade, me and some other people at school got bored one day and decided to make our spare cardboard and art materials into weapons for fun. The eighth graders did the same after seeing what we did so we had this little cardboard war going on. It escalated into a situation where we formed 'kingdoms' that used cardboard technology where everyone had to figure out how to make more durable cardboard swords and armor. We would discover breakthroughs like how crossing the corrugations in sheets of cardboard boxes would make more durable tools or how coating weapons in tape completely would reduce their ability to tear from stress. At some point we wanted to be able to write war documents without letting the others know what the text meant. This necessity gave us the idea to create our own written language and teach the rest of our kingdom how to read it. This whole cardboard war became a thing that the whole highschool took part of. Those were fun days.
Anyway, finding your channel started to remind me of it a lot. Thank you for doing what you do.
Your "tongue" was also a symbol used by Roman bakers. People were somewhat shocked when that was discovered at Pompey.
Please link the site you used to put your language on a computer, and the translator. I’ve been trying to do that with my own language for a while! Awesome vid by the way!
The archaeologists of TH-cam will know that this video was titled
WrittenLanguage Final1
"Language is a dialect with a strong navy."
Forgot who said this but it's pretty neat.
This a 100%, swedish, danish and norwegian is all so similar I can read, understand and hold a conversation where I understand at least 80% of everything without any problem. 10% i will get but it takes a second. 10% don’t understand at all.
Reading is the absolute easiest.
Spanish and Italian is also pretty similar. I learned Spanish, but can read and understand lots of Italian. French I can understand a little, but to a small degree.
Max Weinreich, the exact quote is "A language is a dialect with an army and navy
".
In some historical casss this is probably pretty literal.
12:03 He he I have a mind of a 12 year old.
Ah I see
was about to comment about that
I was about to comment about 12:03 too
I really like the intonation system you got for this. Kinda wish I'd incorporated something like that when making my languages
13:40
Yep it's definitely a tongue
hahahaha..but my mind is telling something else..hahaha
Its a hammer!
This is so cool! I've actually kind of wanted to conduct such an experiment myself, but I keep losing my round tooit. Keep us posted!
One thing I'd add would be to simplify the characters by frequency of use... For instance, the most common phoneme "ə" I would reduce to a dot or a slash so it's quickest and shortest to write. That way, you're writing as efficiently as possible like in shorthand and conserving time and space on the carving block / papyrus. Fewer resources required (and faster). I'd probably also turn the most commonly used words like "and" and "the" into glyphs like a triangle or square.
I'm not really happy that you picked English out of all the languages in the world. You used to start with the basics, now you don't. You still get an upvote, because I'm nice ;-)
Well I’m fairly sure he doesn’t have the time to learn a foreign language, and then make a writing system from a foreign language; He most likely wouldn’t be completely fluent in said language, because it takes so long to get completely fluent in many languages.
This might be the first time I've seen a truly integrated ad.
The sponsor isn't just relevant to the video, but crucial to it. And the video wasn't just made for the sponsor, it was a natural part of the ongoing series.
Well done! I want more of this type of advertising on TH-cam, and less of those intrusive, out-of-nowhere ads. Not that this channel ever do them out of nowhere, you're always upfront about having sponsors and give ample warning before transitioning into the ad section of the video.
I think I might even dare to say that this is the only channel I've ever seen an ethically performed RAID: Shadow Legends sponsorship on.
Good luck bruv
Conlangs are hard
tbh this is more like a cipher
@@francesatty7022 yah if he started from the ground up that would be more of a conlang
wasn't a conlang, just a writing system
Ya I really wish he would stop referring to it as a new language and different to English. It is a cool project but it is just a new way to write English down.
Oh I love this topic. I mean, language is really complicated, but also very interesting. All the different ways they work in different cultures. Since I was a child I have kinda been obsessed with making my own language system. Never did it, but I'm excited to see what you came up with :))
8:56 "ih, for ihgg"
as a hobbyist conlanger, this was much better than expected! most people just do a cipher for the 26 letters of our existing alphabet
Prove me wrong - oil is made from dinosaurs plastic is made of oil plastic dinosaurs are made of dinosaurs
Most oil we use today was formed long before dinosaurs appeared. It’s a myth that oil is made of dinosaurs. Oil is made from fossils- just not dinosaur ones...
Oil developed along with coal during the carbonferrous period 354-295 mya (the plants its made of that is)
@@ViewingChaos so plant toys are made of plants
forks and popsticles Well yeah..
smart boy
I see this as more of a code rather than a language because the words are still the same as normal English words, to make this more like a different language you will have to make up unique words out of the letters but i under stand how much harder that would be.
12:03 LOL
Do you know what I'm thinking with it?
This was so cool to watch! When I was younger I 'reinvented' the alphabet, I found it a fun task and learning to read again is an interesting experience 🤔
Can you call it a new "language" if it's a new phonetic writing system for American English as spoken where you come from?
Short answer: No.
Long answer:
No, you can not. You most certainly are able, and do posses the necesairy power and skill, to do so but such action will inevitably lead you into the unpleasant state of being wrong.
yeah, this is creating a new writing system, not a new language. creating a new language would be a massive undertaking, just look at David Peterson and other conlangers/linguists (youtube as well, Bibloridian, Artexifan, Xidnaf, NativLang, Langfocus etc)
Im glad to see Georgian Alphabet tower in your video. I find your videos very interesting and always watch them with joy. Good luck my friend.
if he was immortal, at some point he would make how to make a universe
(16:20) 1. It's not a translator, it only changes English spelling to its phonemic values.
2. It's not a new language, it's only English with a different writing system.
3. Did you properly use the Unicode private use characters, or at least replaced the IPA characters? So you don't make "T" represent the /θ/ sound.
This taught me more than my English class.
That just illustrates the terrible state of the education system. The teachers are already upset because of their wages, just wait till they find out they've been superceded by a TH-cam video.
The ending was the best part! That alphabet is catchy
Heck, I need to write down all of that.
Been keeping journals & commonplace books in a phonemic orthography for almost seven years now. The characters I use are super simplified & faster to write than Roman cursive, but easier to read back than actual shorthand systems.
Almost missed the final song, that would have been a big mistake 🤣🤣
15:52 a phonetic language, while spelling things like meet vs meat are the same, fixes things like read vs read or weight rhyming with ate but not height.
Plus the argument that some have any ambiguity makes no sense. If we drop the K from knight, it's not going to be an issue. You can tell them apart in spoken language. It's not like people say "I saw a K-night in shining armour"; and when someone says "I saw a night in shining armour", it's not like someone is going to complain that nights can't wear armour since it's just a time of day. We don't hear spelling differences in spoken language.
ch and tj make the exact same sound...
that being said anyone wanna eat some tjoklit with me?
j (/ʒ/) is voiced
How cool :) We did something like this in my high school history class where we studied a bit of archaeology. We made our own cuneiform tablet to bury in the school's archaeology excavation pit.
I CALL DIBS ON HIM FOR THE ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE!!!!!! 😐😶
As someone with a degree in linguistics this was a rollercoaster ride to watch, overall great video though!
Low key expected him to do something similar to chinese or japanese
Huh. I'm going to use that as a concept for teaching. I think that could be fun and useful. Thanks for entertaining me.
The end of the video was creepy
Okay, the alphabet at the end scared the crap outta me, other than that this was really cool to see the process of you creating your own proto language!
My first thought when seeing the title was “Oh great, I hope he makes different letters for the th sounds like in Icelandic (ð & þ)” But no..
We used to have that second letter as well, called thorn. I believe it was the invention, or importation, of printing presses from other places in Europe that did not have this letter that spelled its demise.
@@dhayes5143 Indeed. The printing press was invented in Germany, where the "th" sound (voiced and voiceless) didn't exist. German publishers who saw the letter Thorn didn't recognize it but thought it looked similar to Y, which is rarely used in German, so they replaced Thorn with Y-hence why "ye" as in "Ye Olde" exists.
@@reillywalker195 Since the name of the letter was thorn, and it represented a voiced dental fricative, does that imply we should pronounce the name of the letter with the same sound (ðorn or þorn, voiced) and not like the thorn that grows from a plant stem?
The most optimal way for most people (right-handed) to write is top to bottom, left to right. This leaves previous words easily visible, while also completely eliminating smudging. I find it incredibly fascinating that not a single language in all of human history (that I'm aware of) has used this style.
May as well have taken out /b/, /d/, /v/, /g/, /z/, and /ʒ/, too, if we're just letting people guess if a sound is voiced or unvoiced.
Awesome! My grandfather, who won national awards for poetry in the 1920s, and who was one of the smartest men I've ever met, said written language is the most important human invention!
good timing for a video!
Whys that?
@@harrysheppard3745 because I felt like watching a HTME video.
I went to the list of videos and saw that one had been posten literally 2 seconds earlier.
Ohh OK yes I agree! Well done getting a like from the man himself as well
Dude you’re first!
If or when you do get to making a numbering system, I think it might be fun if you try switching up the bases. I made a base 6 counting system that's pretty fun to use but I also hear base twelve is pretty neat
damn andy's clock must be drunk during the call
A point to make is that this is not really a new language yet, as it replaced the graphics of phonemes, but the grammar/syntax is still english's.
King of hilarious having someone with as thick of a midwestern accent as Andy trying to reinvent English. The guy can't even say egg or dagger like a normal person.
I came here to say this, but I knew in my heart it had already been said
the voicedness distinction of the sounds usually represented with "th" only really matter for... two pairs of words... ever, so combining them is a good idea.
We want an update !!!
Why was the ending so creepy lmao that’s gonna be in the background of all horror movies now
I want to know how to get this on my computer I would love to send emails in this lol.
You could reduce the number of letters by using accents to indicate if a sound is voiced or not. Like the two versions of Th, D and T could be combined, S and Z, B an P etc.
The title on my screen is "WrittenLanguage Final1"