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...

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/...

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/...

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/...

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/...

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/...

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/...

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/...

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/...

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.”

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/...

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/...

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/...

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/...

I’m posting this in the middle of a rehearsal so it’s just a link for today’s #Lexember post! www.tumblr.com/levunalangs/...

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/...

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/...

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!

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/...

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/...

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/...

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/...

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/...

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/...

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/...

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/...

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/...

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.

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/...

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

My book is coming out in a month!! #conlang www.cambridge.org/highereducat...

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/...

Happy sleepy #caturday from Levuna!

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.

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/

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/...

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

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.

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.

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!

new gender neutral greeting just dropped

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...

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...

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

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...

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.

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

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...

Here’s the longest Valya text so far! It’s a fictional child’s journal, so I decided to write it out on paper as if a child had written it. Only some of the mistakes were intentional! You can find a full transliteration and translation here: www.tumblr.com/mindutme/774... #conlang #neography

Here is the Sdefa translation I previewed earlier—it’s a translation of the titular poem from The Left Hand of Darkness! I can’t post the video here because it’s longer than a minute, so a link will have to do. There’s a lot more info in the tumblr post! www.tumblr.com/mindutme/772... #conlang