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Probably the most boring language ever

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I'm writing a short story and while I'm working on the world and culture, I thought I'd create a language for this world too! I'm really excited to show you this language because it's probably one of the most boring languages you'll ever learn about.<br>Let me tell you the full history of the language:<br>This language has been around for a long time and a long time ago, it used to be a bit more complex than it is now. There were a few native dialects, but they are now extinct and mostly forgotten. The modern version of the language has simply been a modernization of the classic version, which replaced many sounds with simpler ones and made the grammar easier.<br>And that's it, there's no more history to this language. There have been no invasions, famines, migrations, or wars that influenced the language. Unfortunately, there is no evidence of any language interactions either, so we cannot say whether the language family of this language is related to any other language family.<br>Probably no one is interested in this language, so I will describe it briefly. If you are interested, just let me know and I'll give you a detailed description.<br>[As an aside, I'm currently in the process of learning how to speak this language, so bear with me if I make mistakes - I'm not a native speaker.]<br>**Phonology:**<br>This language has a total of 34 phonemes and 49 allophones. Those are a lot! You have 6 short vowels and 6 long vowels, so a total of 12 vowels. There are 18 consonants, 7 monophthongs, and 6 diphthongs. As you can see, this language is mostly based on vowels.<br>The great thing about this language is that each phoneme only has one allophone. There are no exceptions or variations. This means that the language is pronounced the same everywhere and you don't have to learn different pronunciations for different regions. Furthermore, each phoneme has exactly one grapheme, so you don't have to worry about memorizing the correct spelling because each letter always represents the correct sound!<br><br>**Orthography:**<br>The script consists of 62 letters. There are no capital letters, no punctuation, and no distinction between uppercase and lowercase letters. If you want to indicate that a sentence is a question, you can put a question mark at the end of the sentence. Since the language usesbasePathographemes, i.e. each grapheme represents exactly one phoneme, you don't have to learn the correct pronunciation and spelling. <br>In general, words in this language are quite long and always end in either *-ing*, *-ang*, or *-ung*. There are some exceptions where the word ends in a single consonant like *-k*, *-p*, or *-t*, but those are rare.<br>This language is written left to right and the lines proceed from top to bottom. There are no ligatures or connections between the letters and the letters are always written separately, one after the other.<br>If you want to indicate that something is spoken, you have to put the sentence in quotation marks. If you want to indicate that something is a quote, you have to put the sentence in quotation marks. You have to put everything in quotation mark, quotes, spoken language, everything. Thankfully, it's always pretty obvious from context what is meant and the language is simple enough that you can pretty quickly understand what is meant.<br>**Morphology:**<br>This language is an isolating language with no agglutination or fusion at all. There are roots and 1:1 correspondences (like "happy" into "happy-ness" or "walk" into "walk-ing".) with no shades of meaning, nuances, or anything like that. You don't have to learn any irregularities or memorize the correct version for each root.<br>Each word in this language consists of exactly two syllables. There are no exceptions to this and this also applies to loan words and modern words. <br>For example, the word *chocolate* becomes *chokalol*, and *pasta* is simply *pastu*.<br>The roots can be combined in different ways, and from these combinations you can simply derive the meaning of the word as well as the part of speech, because the language is a positional language.<br>For example, if you combine the roots *kamb* and *kung*, you get the word *kamkung*, which is derived from the position of the roots and can simply be translated with "newspaper". The word *kungkamb* has a different meaning, which you can quickly determine by the position of the two roots, and the meaning is simply "newspaperman".<br><br>**Syntax:**<br>The word order in this language is SVO (Subject-Verb-Object). There are no exceptions to this and the language follows this principle in every sentence. <br>The roots in this language can be combined in a completely free order and there is no language rule that dictates that certain roots should or must come first. You can freely combine all the words as you like and the meaning is derived only from the position of the roots.<br><br>**Vocabulary:**<br>The vocabulary currently consists of about 1300 roots, with only about 150 loanwords. There is a very active dictionary association that regularly adds new roots. This means that you can learn the entire language in a relatively short time and then just learn the new roots that are added each year. <br>Every word in this language has only one meaning. You simply have to look up the root in the dictionary and then translate the word according to the position of the roots. <br><br>#As you can see, this is probably the dullest language you'll ever learn, and that's a good thing because you don't have to worry about exceptions, memorization, or anything like that. You can simply learn the roots and then create new words and sentences.<br><br>If you're interested in more information about the language, feel free to ask. I'll give you a detailed description of the language, I just don't want to bore you with a long post.

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