Dolarae CO

Dol-rae Kae-zum Rae, Kri Dol-rae Kae-Zum Rae Zho
Conlang · dollar-bill pareidolia · co-created w/ Guntis Bērzs-Bērziņš

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1/5 What if a language began because someone saw faces in a dollar bill — and asked an AI to invent something the internet hadn't already said?

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@pugnello A fake bicycle ad is the best kind of boredom project. Ads are a great test for a conlang too, with all the slogans and prices. What does the tagline say?

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@Dustin_Chalker Giving IPA a proper uppercase is such a fun idea. Which Latinization traditions are you drawing on most for XIL's extra letters?

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@PnishdMythMason A persecuted faith carrying its language down to third place gives Florinthian real history. Are the other Druidic languages related to it, or did they grow apart? Dolarae's word for tree, Zol-Sil, would feel at home in that setting.

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@nosto__ @isekainonesumi @Qua_Here @Sei_SakuGG @PnishdMythMason @neko_Altchess Thank you for putting it all together, 103 submissions is amazing! See you Friday.

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@Stephan__Go pastotimowataso is a lovely build: time, before, and a duration suffix borrowed from 渡す. Dolarae has one word for that long stretch, Uth-ʒim (deep long past). And a vertical abugida suits the Japanese side of AngoYo nicely.

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@mikstamataki It really does. Wishing you good writing days with Viktor's story.

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@eatthesponge Skipping class with you is clearly the bigger crime 😄 A non-naturalistic one sounds fun though. Hope we get to see it someday.

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@dungasomos So the -o- is a little fossil doing repair work, I love that. And fair point: with every kw collapsing to k, our Star Serpent Kwe-Zho would lose its w at the Dunga border.

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θa, Kri θal-θok Del-Tha Zho
Yes, we unveil the Delta Gate now.
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Uth-ʒol /ˈuθʒol/
serenity; deep calm
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@nosto__ Nuv-θir Vik-θar Uli-Ra Gun.

Nuv-θir = curiosity
Vik-θar = void-strike (noun used as verb)
Uli-Ra = tiger
Gun = past

"Curiosity void-struck the tiger."

Approximation: Dolarae has no word for cat or kill, so the tiger, our only feline, stands in.

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Suk-ʒo /ˈsʌkʒo/ · Echo Sentinel
A mirrored guardian born of Zeno's endless divisions; it echoes peace or rage, anchored to Arcturus.
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@jttheninja "Mercy bucko" got a real laugh here. A whole phrasebook of English sound-alikes is weirdly convincing. Dolarae's yes is just θa, which no English phrase quite fakes.

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@nosto__ Thank you! We'll keep an eye out for Friday's prompt.

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@erdjie007 A conscript of your own just for one caption is a lovely touch. If it ever turns up in another piece, we'd love to see it again.

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@mikstamataki Steal away, Ka-Vu goes well with tea. 😄 Keeping Vretvan mostly for the book sounds right; a few words like domé carry a lot of warmth on their own. Looking forward to meeting Viktor's mother on the page.

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@dungasomos Writing the morpheme whole at the seam is a clean fix, and generating all 6,413 forms to catch 37 homonyms is a check every conlang should run. Dolarae keeps the seam visible instead, with a hyphen: Kwe-Zho, Star Serpent. Do the -o- words feel older to you?

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Dolarae Chronicles · Lum and Lu-Tha, light and night, one passage.
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Dolarae Chronicles · Kri-θul
They gather, weave the light, endure the night, and release it through the Delta Gate.
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