A Personal Conlang, Pegakibo

[ConlangFan]

Isn't it another base system really hard? If you say there are 31 cats in pegakibo?, how do you know fast how many cats there are?

[Esperantanaso]

@ConlangFan Pegakibo is intended to be a-priori, meaning it does not originate from an existing language. That is why I chose a base 5 counting system.

31 in base 5 is 111, because it is 25 + 5 + 1.

[dEndiProductions]

@ConlangFan Translating the number between systems is difficult, but if you learn to recognize the size of base 5 numbers, you won't have to translate into base 10.

[sendiulo]

E.g. in "a-pe-ga-ki-bo-e the "a" and "e" at the end and the begining are not trailing a consonant. If you take two different vokals the you can use them like brackets "a"="(", "e"=")".

[sendiulo]

I would suggest to use vowels instead of the " signs: the " signs cannot be spoken, which results in a loss of information, doesnt it? As one knows that theres always consonant+vowel, if you adject another vowel to the beginning or end of a word it should be easy to recognize it as being differemt then the normal sheme.

[bizarewigga]

i hate the english r sound, please make it tapped r

[ArturoStojanoff]

ME SIT CHAIR ME EAT PASTA

like a cave man or an indian xDDD

LOL just kidding awesome language!!!

[MASTERULEZ]

you should write a book using this language, a small childrens book or a dictonary or novel or anything it would be cool and post it on youtube

[ALX11231]

I have a base five system in my first conlang, Kuurd (which I am slowly growing to despise, as I keep finding things I hate about it), as well. I like what your conlang ended up becoming, simple, but functional.

[Cheknov]

I have been on a language project for over 3 years now, its coming quite well. Also I enjoyed the video :)

Кустос етом! таша язика ентерасанта!

[queerpriestess]

Cool!

I love the alphabet. 

[joelflorew]

your characters seem like koreans characters

[traeus]

.Nim fa ré Y'tonji Amaya. ..Béna..

[IndigoPenguin64]

I'm just wondering, why did you make words like pasta?

[Esperantanaso]

@IndigoPenguin64 Pasta is my favorite food, how could I NOT make it? (OK, I could describe it as a hard wheat paste cooked in boiling water to become soft, but that takes too much time.)

[reviver96]

@Esperantanaso how did you decide on the vocab?

[Esperantanaso]

@reviver96 I sat down with a children's dictionary and flipped through each page, one at a time. I selected the words that I wanted.

[reviver96]

@Esperantanaso I'm sorry, I should've been more clear. I meant how did you decide what things would be called (i.e. gake = man; gige = chair)?

[Esperantanaso]

@reviver96 I generated a lonnnng list of unique words using the Pegakibo alphabet. Then I tried to make good matches between Pegakibo and English words. This meant making onomatopoeic relationships, size/vowel relationships, and compound Pegakibo words.

[mbrsart]

Three cheers for simplicity! One of my conlangs, Kuti, has similar subject-verb structure. And I commend you for base-five counting system. Any particular reason you came up with it?

[vfire27]

the sound ov the language is not so pretty

[MASTERULEZ]

i kind of didn't understand in your language with base ten counting

[darris321]

what about "I see a sunny cat"

wouldn't that be the same as "i see cat sun"

[Esperantanaso]

@darris321 Well in Pegakibo each word can only have 1 part of speech; "sun" can never be "sunny". To say that sentence, you could say "I see (subj)"cat is-like sun"" (I see a cat which is like the sun).

[MASTERULEZ]

hey i have a question you know i'm making a conlang i was thinking about ending every noun with an "e" should i do it would it save me more time would it be harder to learn can you please answer!!!!!!!!

[Esperantanaso]

@MASTERULEZ Esperanto does a similar thing; all Esperanto nouns end in -o. I really liked this property; it made understanding the language easy, and it added some flexibility through switching suffixes (Vivo = life, vivi = to live, vive = lively, etc). The only downside is that it makes speech longer. It's up to you!

[MASTERULEZ]

@Esperantanaso thanks dude now with that information i can finaly start making it thanks alot :D

[ALX11231]

@Esperantanaso Mi parolas esperanton.

[squizz222]

Never mind that last question, I didn't realize you had answered in the video.

[squizz222]

Nice, I love conlangs with few phonemes. Question, though: you said all verbs in Pegakibo are transitive. Does that mean they can be used intransitively, as well, as in English? Also, how would you express the meaning of melt as in "The ice melts"? Do you use some other voice, passive or mediopassive perhaps? I've made a language with only intransitive verbs before, but the idea of a transitive-only language is unheard of to me; sounds intruiging.

[IndigoPenguin64]

this reminds me of toki pona except this is less isolating

[AinukeDetsu]

Very good, but how do you express case?

[Esperantanaso]

@AinukeDetsu It is a word order based language, no need for endings and such.

[AinukeDetsu]

@Esperantanaso

I'd like to know how the word order does this: Because I've never heard of it being done totally with word order :D

[Esperantanaso]

@AinukeDetsu Spanish has no case endings for most nouns; you look at the position of a word relative to verbs and prepositions. If a noun is before a verb, the noun is "nominative"; if a noun is after a verb, the noun is "accusative".

[AinukeDetsu]

@Esperantanaso

Yes. They show case with prepositions. Which do YOU have?

[Esperantanaso]

@AinukeDetsu I have verbs like "to be inside of", "to be over", "to be about", etc. You can make a clause the subject of a verb (by creating a situation noun), so the verbs practically behave like prepositions.

[AinukeDetsu]

@Esperantanaso

Wow, nice and simple. Cool :D

[lXBlackWolfXl]

@Esperantanaso there is something similar to that that exists in natlangs, it's called a 'coverb', chinese uses alot of them. a coverb is a word that can be used as a verb or preposition. for example the chinese word for 'to go' is also the preposition for 'to'. my conlang (which coincidentally has a virtually identical grammar to your own) relies heavily on coverbs. sadly i've never made a dictionary bc i can never decide how i want the language to sound...

[bornforwater]

La nomo de via lingvo rememorigas min pri 'peekaboo', kiu estas infanludo. :p

The name of your language reminds me of 'peekaboo', which is a children's game.

I like the idea of stacking consonants and vowels together. Nice first language. :)

[Esperantanaso]

@bornforwater The funny thing is that I actually understood the Esperanto you wrote before I realized you provided a translation... XD Thanks for the feedback. I made a descendent of this language which I may post soon.

[justmyflawedlogic]

Kigepu ru "pira bikapo".

[Esperantanaso]

@justmyflawedlogic kigepu? D;

[justmyflawedlogic]

@Esperantanaso I don't understand... kigepu isn't a word in pegakibo...



[rickcube05]

i might try learning this. sounds fun. good ideas too.

[Lufttygger306]

@fuuseimei Read the description

[Grayfog]

This is very unlike English; you are good at constructing languages.

[daconmiked]

This video is so entertaning . I just love it . Great conlang , better video . peace .

[zantrua]

Epic language. Also, I love that you shared this. Thanks.

Is there any reason you decided to use base 5?

[Esperantanaso]

@zantrua I wanted to have a simpler counting system (ie: fewer digits to memorize), but I wanted conversions from base 10 to be relatively easy. Base 2 obviously has the fewest digits, but requires some time for conversions. I figured base 5 would be a nice compromise because it is easy to divide by 5 and get a remainder.

[xezton]

This is really interesting. :) I like how simple it is. How often do you find yourself using this? What inspired you to make it?

[Esperantanaso]

@xezton I'm still learning the language, I only know about 100 words. I hope to be much more fluent in the future. In the full guide I've translated 200 random sentences, so at least I know it will be usable. ;)

When I was in middle school, my goal was to make an international language. As I've matured, I've realized that this isn't quite feasible... so I have opted to use it for myself instead.