Do you speak humanish?

Ever since I created the Breehah alphabet I’ve wanted to make this shirt. In English it says ‘Do you speak Earthish?” which in the breehah language would be ‘Hais horpe kahpoohorgah?’  Buy yours now while they last!

Koplushian Language, Etc.

I recently decided to ressurect a language project that I first created about 35 years ago. It’s the Koplushian language.  I feel the need to work on it because it influenced some aspects of he Breehah language, especially where high technology comes into play. GThe problem is that over time my tweakings of Koplushian have altered the language to the point where some older texts may not be legible.  Hmm. Talk about real world philology in conlangs. Don’t worry, I’ll figure it out.

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Diru Tion…

Tell that to Kanjiklub.

Learn Breehah Culture: hi’JOsi

Josi

The josi is a ‘Chicken’-like reptilian animal, domesticated for the eggs it produces.It has been bred into subspecies that can thrive in almost any climate on the planet Silonar. Aside from their eggs, josis are best known for the loud screech they make while laying eggs.

rEEKi!, [urEEki!] the sound a josi makes.

A josi joke in breehah and English:

TOku TOku
knock knock

BOke nos?
Who is it?

BOOlah JOsi
Rude Chicken-like creature

BOOlah JO…
Rude chick…

rEEki!

dek du parsekoj?

Birds Speak Breehah

The Eruithairkan Language

Below is some information which survived the demise of the much lamented Koplushia wiki website that mysteriously evaporated some years ago. I made this language up in a whim at the time, but thought you might like a delightful break from studying breehah.

There will not be a Tiny Cards deck for this one. If you want to know what this language in reference to, look up my short story ‘Terra Incognita,’ available in English [link] or Esperanto! [link]

The Eruithairkan language is ‘spoken’ while inhaling through the mouth and putting one’s toungue in certain places in your mouth. The skilled linguist just might be able to duplicate the sounds the Eruithairkans make, but you really neeed to be immersed with the Eruithairk to get it right. Being as that’s quite unlikely, this remains a fun exercise for anyone interested.

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An Eruithairkan musician

I have used letters of the Latin alphabet to indicate the different positions of the tongue.  Some sounds of the Eruithairkan language are made by exhaling and these are also indicated.

The Sounds

Remember to inhale when following these, with the lips parted.

F – indicates the tongue  forward in the mouth, just touching behind the top teeth.

M – indicates the tongue pulled back from F, the front part of the tongue, but not the tip is on the pallate.

B – indicates the tongue is pulled back further than M, at this point the lower edges of the toungue may flap.  This is the desired effect.

R – indicates the F position with the right side of the mouth opened a bit. You should get a sound similar to that you hear at the Dentist office when that suction thing suddenly finds saliva. You may also use the left side if your right side gets tired.

S – close your lips make the F position, suck and then open the right side several times. You should get a sort of stuttering sound.

U – make a ‘g’ sound, but swallow the sound instead of saying it.  This should sound somewhat like an ‘uhg.’

G – exhaling, make a guh guh guh sound. In this explanation, each G indicates one ‘guh’.

O – this indicates making the F position, but exhaling.

H – This indicates a throad clearing sound, like a gutteral frickative of, (for example) hebrew.)

P – make a ‘pop’ noise with your lips. Multiple ‘P’s means that many ‘pop’s

A hyphen ‘-‘ following a letter indicates stress on that sound. Simply double the length the sound is made.

Ex. FPPPBBR-USG = Leave the area imediately!

In written form, each repeated letter indicates a stop and beginning. During non repeated letters, just slide the tongue around to each position.

The language is idiomatic in the extreme. Each phrase is unique and any pattern seems to be by chance.

You can actually do this, why you’d want to, I don’t know.  Have Fun. The Eruithairk are our closest neighbors.

 

Learn Breehah Numbers

Lesson 3

haiTAHke SREEmidi

Some numbers. The original breehah numbering system was base 8 because they have two hands with four fingers on each hand. After contact with the Koplushians was established, a base ten system was introduced, greatly influenced by the Koplushian language. The base 10 system is now used over the whole planet of Silonar, but some of the traditional number names survive in poetry and as archaisms used mainly by affected intellectuals.

Learn Breehah – Lesson 1

Lesson 1
haiTAHke midi

Call this first lesson more of an introduction to some basics in the language. While I truly don’t expect anyone to try and master this intelectual exercise, I’m going to at least cover all the points of grammar and then introduce at least as much vocabulary as necesary. It may go beyond that–eventually. If anyone ever approached me and started speaking breehah to me, I doubt I’d understand very much myself.