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Jonathan @levunalangs.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Here is the first text in my new #conlang Yémenu! It was revealed during a livestream on the LHAB channel today. You can go there (link below) to find out more details, but long story short: Ea-nāṣir-inspired yaoi. More on this text and language in the coming days! www.youtube.com/watch?v=iteU...

18 lines of text in an invented alphabet. It’s very curvy, with mostly narrow letters but the occasional big swoop above or below the rest.

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Jonathan @levunalangs.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

oh right, bluesky exists Join me tomorrow on youtube at 1PM EDT for the latest youtube conlang relay reveal! 10 participants’ videos will be premiering one after another, each about our own leg of the relay. Or watch the videos later, but it’ll be more fun this way! www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

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Script Ring | 2026 YouTube Conlang Relay - YouTube

This is the Script Ring of the YouTube Conlang Relay. Each of us will present our torch in an original writing system, which the next person must decipher be...

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Jonathan @levunalangs.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

I made a new video! It’s a Valya version of one of Aesop’s fables, which was first suggested for conlang translations (to me, at least) by Keras Saryan over on the Let’s Have a Bouba discord. If you followed along with Valya Lexember, you may recognize some words! www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGX3...

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Vabuba: The Two Frogs (Valya)

YouTube video by LevunaLangs

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Jonathan @levunalangs.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

It’s #Lexember 31st! We made it! Today’s Valya word is *nyagnga*, meaning “boil.” That’s /ɲaɡŋa/, which may look difficult, but I almost went with *gngi* /gŋi/. *Nyagnga* is only used for boiling food in liquid. To talk about boiling the liquid itself, see here: www.tumblr.com/levunalangs/...

A graphic showing the word “nyagnga” in the Valya script, as well as the translation “to boil.”

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Jonathan @levunalangs.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

The last Sdefa word for #Lexember this year is {B♭ A F C G}, meaning “cook.” If you listen to the Home Cooking podcast, it might sound familiar! Once again I am mad at Bluesky for not letting me post audio, but you can hear some music that uses this word here instead: www.tumblr.com/levunalangs/...

A graphic showing a Sdefa word in two different writing systems. Below that is music notation showing the notes B flat, A, F, C, G, and at the bottom is the English translation: “cook.”

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Jonathan @levunalangs.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

Today’s #Lexember word is *hngimbzi,* meaning “to bake.” This word was brought to you by @dedalvs.bsky.social recently saying he DEFINITELY didn’t want to make a new word starting with /ŋ̊/ in his conlang. Well, I did! You can read about some related Valya words here: www.tumblr.com/levunalangs/...

A graphic showing the word “hngimbzi” in the Valya script, as well as the translation, “bake.”

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Jonathan @levunalangs.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

Today’s #Lexember word is in Sdefa again! I thought I didn’t have a word for “food,” and I didn’t exactly, but it was possible to make with a derivational prefix. But now I have a root as well! But they aren’t quite synonyms. You can read about the distinction here: www.tumblr.com/levunalangs/...

A graphic showing a Sdefa word in two different writing systems. Below that is music notation showing the notes D, A, C, B, and at the bottom is the English translation: “food.”

A graphic showing a Sdefa word in two different writing systems. Below that is music notation showing the notes D, F, G, G, C, B, C, and at the bottom is the English translation: “food, fuel (something consumed).”

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Jonathan @levunalangs.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

I’m catching up on #Lexember again, so I have three terms related to snow in Valya! *Gamu-ftara* is “to shovel” (lit. “snow scoop”), “pwitri gamu” is “snow-white,” and “gamu kliku” is “to walk on snow”—literally, “snow-crush” or “snow-crunch.” You can find out more at www.tumblr.com/levunalangs/...

A graphic showing five Valya words and phrases. They are “gamu-ftara,” meaning “shovel” (as a verb); “gamu ksuftara,” meaning “shovel” as a noun; “pwitri gamu,” meaning “snow white”; “gamu kliku,” meaning “snow-crush” or “walk on snow”; and “kikliku gamu,” meaning “snow crunch,” the sound that snow makes underfoot.

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Jonathan @levunalangs.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

My #Lexember words for the 22nd-24th are all plant names in Valya: *tyagwa*, chestnut; *gingga*, beech; and *lyürazi*, rhododendron. You can read more about each of them here: www.tumblr.com/levunalangs/...

A graphic showing three Valya words and phrases with transliterations and translations. They are “tyagwa,” meaning “chestnut” or “chestnut tree;” “gingga,” meaning “beech” or “beech tree;” and “lyürazi,” meaning “rhododendron.”

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Jonathan @levunalangs.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

I once again forgot to share a #Lexember word—and then missed two days in a row! So this is the word from the 21st, in Sdefa: {D E D C B} is “ball” or “sphere. 5-note words in Sdefa sometimes have two written variants! You can see the other version here: www.tumblr.com/levunalangs/...

A graphic showing a Sdefa word in two different writing systems. Below that is music notation showing the notes E, D, E, C, B, and at the bottom is the English translation: “ball” or “sphere.”

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Jonathan @levunalangs.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

Today’s #Lexember word is *nguza*, meaning “climb” in Valya. The word *ksunguza* is derived from it, meaning “stairs” or “ladder.” There are various ways of distinguishing those if you need them! www.tumblr.com/levunalangs/...

A graphic showing the word “nguza” in the Valya script, as well as the translation “climb.”

A graphic showing four Valya words and phrases with transliterations and translations. They are “ksunguza,” meaning “ladder” or “stairs;” “ksunguza tarku,” meaning “stairs;” “ksunguza klafiri” and “ksunguza ksütüsu,” both meaning “ladder.”

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Jonathan @levunalangs.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Today’s #Lexember word is back to Sdefa: {F G C F} means “find” or “realize,” depending on context. You can hear an example sentence here, in the form of a short piano piece: www.tumblr.com/levunalangs/... It translates to “When I was walking in the woods, I found a beautiful, dark blue pond.”

A graphic showing a Sdefa word in two different writing systems. Below that is music notation showing the notes F, G, C, G and at the bottom is the English translation: “find.”

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Jonathan @levunalangs.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

I forgot to share yesterday’s #Lexember word! *Tarku* is the Valya word for “sure,” “steady,” “durable,” “sturdy,” ... a whole lot of meanings, basically. A common expression uses it to mean both “certain” and “stable,” equivalent to “Look before you leap.” www.tumblr.com/levunalangs/...

A graphic showing the word “tarku” in the Valya script, as well as the translation “sure,” “steady.”

A sentence in the Valya script, followed by a transliteration and translation.

The transliteration reads, “Hlu tarku pa zu sühwi tu dzu tarku.”

The translation reads, “Be certain that you walk on stable ground,” or “Look before you leap.”

Below that is another Valya sentence, transliterated as “Hlu tarku da dzu tarku.”

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Jonathan @levunalangs.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

Today’s #Lexember word is in my musical #conlang Sdefa again! This one means “visit,” and the short example sentence is a true story from yesterday: “I visited my friend, and we had fun!” You can hear it here, because Bluesky doesn’t let me attach audio files: www.tumblr.com/levunalangs/...

A graphic showing a Sdefa word in two different writing systems. Below that is music notation showing the notes D, C, G, D, C, and at the bottom is the English translation: “visit.”

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Jonathan @levunalangs.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

Today’s #Lexember word in my musical #conlang Sdefa is {A♭ B♭ A♭ F G}, meaning “fry.” I almost accidentally made it a homophone of “egg!” You can find out more and hear a short (16-second!) piece of music with both words in it here: www.tumblr.com/levunalangs/...

A graphic showing a Sdefa word in two different writing systems. Below that is music notation showing the notes A flat, B flat, A flat, F, G, and at the bottom is the English translation: “fry.”

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Jonathan @levunalangs.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

Today’s Valya word for #Lexember is *ndligi*, meaning “harvest,” “pick/pluck,” or “choose.” A derived expression is *Müshasi ndligi (pa)*, “The cards decided (that),” meaning something (usually something good) happened by chance! www.tumblr.com/levunalangs/...

A graphic showing the word “ndligi” in the Valya script, as well as the translation “harvest,” “choose.”

Two sentences in the Valya script, each followed by a transliteration and translation.

The first transliteration reads, “Müshasi ndligi pa ra fsi mumumwu ri tu danu kitni!”

The first translation reads, “I happened to find these cherries on the table today!”

The second transliteration reads, “Müshasi? Ra ndligi mu ba ra küldi mu tu danu!”

The second translation reads, “You happened to? I picked them and put them there!”

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Jonathan @levunalangs.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

I’ve got two #Lexember words today, since I missed yesterday! The Sdefa word {A B D B} means “animal,” which is a reference to a Simon and Garfunkel song! *Gwunda* in Valya means “watch (out).” Historically, it was “watch,” but is now more commonly “be careful.” www.tumblr.com/levunalangs/...

A graphic showing a Sdefa word in two different writing systems. Below that is music notation showing the notes A B D B, followed by the English translation “animal.”

Below that is the word “gwunda” in the Valya script, with the translation “watch,” “be careful.”

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Jonathan @levunalangs.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

Today’s #Lexember word in my #conlang Valya is *sfuru*, meaning both “deep” and “old.” You can read more about how it came to have both of those meanings here: www.tumblr.com/levunalangs/...

A graphic showing the word “sfuru” in the Valya script, as well as the translation “deep,” “old.”

A sentence in the Valya script, followed by a transliteration and translation.

The transliteration reads, “Fli lu ndu ba sfuru tlupura.”

The translation reads, “The ocean is large and very deep,” or “The ocean is large and very old.”

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Jonathan @levunalangs.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

Today’s #Lexember word is {F G E D}, meaning “kind.” You can read more here: www.tumblr.com/levunalangs/... Keep an eye out for another post with an example sentence for this word—all but one of my Sdefa words so far this Lexember have been made specifically for this upcoming translation!

A graphic showing a Sdefa word in two different writing systems. Below that is music notation showing the notes F G E D, and at the bottom is the English translation: “kind.”

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Jonathan @levunalangs.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

Today’s #Lexember word in my musical #conlang Sdefa is {A G A E D}, meaning “entangle.” Unlike most Sdefa words, it’s not a reference to a piece of music with a related meaning. Instead, it’s just a pun: those are the first five notes of Ravel’s string quartet! www.tumblr.com/levunalangs/...

A graphic showing a Sdefa word in two different writing systems. Below that is music notation showing the notes A G A E D, and at the bottom is the English translation: “entangle.”

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Jonathan @levunalangs.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

Today’s Valya word for #Lexember is *ksüvani*, meaning “well” or “spring.” It’s shortened from the phrase *duhra ksüvani,” literally “water-giver.” There are a few other terms for well in Valya, which you can read about here: www.tumblr.com/levunalangs/...

A graphic showing the word “ksüvani” in the Valya script, as well as the translation “well.”

A sentence in the Valya script, followed by a transliteration and translation.

The transliteration reads, “Zu sühwi tanu gvu duhra za ksüvani.”

The translation reads, “Go get some water at the well.” (Literally, “Go lift some water from the well.”)

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Jonathan @levunalangs.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

Today’s #Lexember word in my #conlang Valya is hirinyu, meaning “warmth” or “heat.” The actual new thing for today is the nominalizing prefix hiri-, which is only used for adjectives (as opposed to ki-, which nominalizes verbs and occasionally adjectives). www.tumblr.com/levunalangs/...

A graphic showing the word hirinyu in the Valya script, as well as the translation “heat, warmth.”

A sentence in the Valya script, followed by a transliteration and translation.

The transliteration reads, “Kihirinyu dyihlira ra. Mükrimwa kurta lu dru sabghu nguva mupya dru sabghu, nkivgani dru sabghu, ba gamu!”

The translation reads, “I don’t like the heat. The colder seasons are better, because they have better food, better clothing, and the snow!”

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Jonathan @levunalangs.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

Today’s Sdefa word for #Lexember is {E A F♯ A}, meaning “beautiful.” Check out the post to hear a short musical piece that uses it! www.tumblr.com/levunalangs/...

A graphic showing a Sdefa word in two different writing systems. Below that is music notation showing the notes E A F♯ A, and at the bottom is the English translation: “beautiful.”

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Jonathan @levunalangs.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Today’s Valya word for #Lexember is *dishu*, meaning “dry” or “dried.” When used as a noun by itself, it often refers to dried fruits. It’s also used to mean “thirsty,” though there are a few other ways to say that as well. You can find out about those other ways here: www.tumblr.com/levunalangs/...

The word “dishu,” meaning “dry” or “dried,” in the Valya script.

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Jonathan @levunalangs.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Today’s Sdefa word for #Lexember is C B C D C, meaning “lack” in a fundamental, permanent, or intrinsic way, not just missing something temporarily. You can read more about the story behind this word here: www.tumblr.com/levunalangs/...

A graphic showing a Sdefa word in two different writing systems. Below that is music notation showing the notes C, B, C, D, C, and at the bottom is the English translation: “lack.”

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Jonathan @levunalangs.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

Back to Valya for #Lexember 3rd! I had to make a new dissimilation rule for this word, because I could *not* deal with saying [ra.ra.ru]. So instead *radaru* means “pond,” diminutive of *radu* “lake,” itself originally the diminutive of “sky,” because reflections. www.tumblr.com/levunalangs/...

The word “radaru,” meaning “pond” or “pool” in the Valya script.

A sentence in the Valya script, followed by a transliteration and a translation: The children enjoy swimming and playing in the pond.

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Jonathan @levunalangs.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

I almost forgot to post today’s #Lexember word, which is a great sign this early in the month. This time it’s in my musical #conlang Sdefa: this word means “count” or “measure.” Sdefa has two orthographies, so you get both of those in addition to the music notation! www.tumblr.com/levunalangs/...

A graphic showing a Sdefa word in two different writing systems. Below that is music notation showing the notes G, A flat, B flat, A flat, G, and at the bottom is the English translation: “measure, count.”

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Jonathan @levunalangs.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

It’s #Lexember again! Just like last year, I’ll be posting new words in my #conlang Valya, with more detailed posts on Tumblr. Day one is *buba*, meaning “frog”! That is of course a very subtle reference to my friends at @letshaveabouba.bsky.social! www.tumblr.com/levunalangs/...

A graphic showing a word in the Valya script, followed by the transliteration “buba” and the English translation, “frog.”

A sentence in the Valya script, which is very curly and loopy, followed by a transliteration and translation.

The transliteration reads: Tüküra küra mbuba samünwintsa nggvala kimblu?

The translation reads: How do frogs jump and jump and not get tired?

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Jonathan @levunalangs.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

Today’s Valya word is hnuhnulu, meaning “bat!” www.tumblr.com/levunalangs/... Lba kibgha fu sika hnuhnulu nwi, ba tu kngiva tni mu nitya zaku. Hundreds of bats live under that bridge, and they fly out at sunset.

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Jonathan @levunalangs.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

Valya!? Again!!?? Yes, I am returning to working on a *spoken* conlang! Imagine that. I’m easing back into daily-ish Valya posts with a quick translation, which you can read more about at www.tumblr.com/levunalangs/...

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Jonathan @levunalangs.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

Guess what! It’s a new conlang! www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkKF... This is Amnenas, my new musical #conlang — and a submission for the Cursed Conlang Circus! I had a lot of fun with this video but it was also very confusing and (given the deadline) pretty stressful. I just made it in time! #CCC4

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Amnenas: A Cursed Musical Conlang

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Jonathan @levunalangs.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

After no conlang posts in over a month (!) here’s a new post for a new language! It’s a “cursed” musical conlang, involving harmonies strange enough that they’re basically unplayable on any instrument. As far as I know, anyway. www.tumblr.com/levunalangs/...

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Jonathan @levunalangs.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

youtu.be/I7eYZvX0_CI Here’s my latest youtube video! This one’s a musical translation of the poem from The Left Hand of Darkness into my #conlang Sdefa.

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The Left Hand of Darkness – Sdefa

YouTube video by LevunaLangs

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David J. Peterson @dedalvs.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

This month’s #FiatLingua is by @quothalinguist.bsky.social. Jessie has revisited her very first language experiment as a young child—mixing up the sounds of English—to see if she could start with a similar premise but create a full-fledged #conlang out of it. fiatlingua.org/2025/07/

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July 2025 – Fiat Lingua

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Jonathan @levunalangs.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

I’m starting a word-of-the-day series for Valya! (Maybe sometimes another language will sneak in.) Today’s word is ngumbahaza, “dandelion”—literally, “little sun-cloud.” You can read more, including an example sentence, at www.tumblr.com/levunalangs/...

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Jonathan @levunalangs.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

sometimes I like to translate random posts into my #conlang T’owal

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Let's Have a Bouba @letshaveabouba.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

More than five months later, we have a complete N'asibómmó version of this! If you're at all interested in the process of making these words check out the Solo Bouba streams on the channel.

A black-and-white drawing of a landscape, with various features labeled in a constructed language. In the foreground a river passes by a farm and a small village, and farther out are mountains, a city, and the ocean. In comparison with the original image there are stars in the sky, a couple of extra labels and a little fallen tree branch underneath a word pronounced za'agi which clashed with a tree.

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Jonathan @levunalangs.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6Ix... It’s a new, short Sdefa video! This one is a response/thank you to someone who sent me a very sweet message after watching the Introduction to Sdefa video from last month.

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A Message for Amy (in Sdefa)

YouTube video by LevunaLangs

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Jonathan @levunalangs.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

youtu.be/RKdb055lHPM?... This is a new video in my musical #conlang Sdefa: a translation of the “All that is gold” poem from The Lord of the Rings!

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All that is Gold

YouTube video by LevunaLangs

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Riverboatjack @riverboatjack.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

new gender neutral greeting just dropped

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Jonathan @levunalangs.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

Here’s my latest #conlang video: a reading of a Valya text, with some background worldbuilding and original background music! www.youtube.com/watch?v=ht8k...

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Kikwismu (The Journey)

YouTube video by LevunaLangs

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Jonathan @levunalangs.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

youtu.be/JET1PQYiW_Q This is a short video on my part of the LCC11 #conlang relay! It’s also included in the full relay presentation video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nV0...

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LCC11 Conlang Relay — Valya

YouTube video by LevunaLangs

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Jonathan @levunalangs.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

My first youtube video is up! Please check it out! www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9hH... #conlang

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Introduction to Sdefa

YouTube video by LevunaLangs

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Jonathan @levunalangs.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

This says “You’re hearing Sdefa, a musical #conlang that I made.” It’s not recorded yet so you can’t actually hear it, but I will do that soon—I’m starting to work on a short video introduction to the language! You can read more at levunalangs.tumblr.com/post/7793816...

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Jonathan @levunalangs.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

I set up a youtube account for conlang things! www.youtube.com/@levunalangs It’s still empty but not for long; there’ll be short video on my leg of the LCC11 relay, and I’m working on a longer Valya feature video! I’ve also got a few Sdefa videos ready to go, though I may do a bit of editing.

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Jonathan @levunalangs.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

This is a little sample of the conlang I’ve been working on lately! It’s purely graphical and nonlinear, and uses color to show the relationships between words. This translates to: “A person said, ‘Do you see a cat?’ I said, “I don’t see a cat.’” #conlang

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Jonathan @levunalangs.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Here’s a silly little text/piece of music in my #conlang Sdefa! It translates to “I’m very tired but I want to write in Sdefa, so I’m writing.” www.tumblr.com/mindutme/774...

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