Yeeee! >:D

You're good, things come up, I understand! :)

I've made a bunch of half-baked ones since I was younger, including Kuukuu luun-guuj, Zaquetzel-valian, and some more that were either really simple are terribly lacking. However, I most recently made one with the help of Hex, Flamarestii and Tsuki here on the CB called Central Sands Speak, or CSS for short (La Brakh'vat-na Makh-Khrani Shorafash or Brakh'vat-la is how you'd say it in CSS).

I really like a lot of parts of that one, but it is still fairly unpolished. :/

Also tenses. Ew. I struggle greatly with them...  But I do like the idea of creating words that don't really exist in other languages, especially of the descriptive sort!

Yeah! That'd be fun!!

Ahhh, this is so exciting!!!

I was indeed very inspired by Hindi, Hebrew, Arabic, and other languages I associate with the desert, since CSS/Brakh'vat-la (which basically means' big' or 'all'-languange, and is more commonly used that the longer name) was built primarily for a desert-dwelling civilization. I wanted to incorporate sounds that sounded like the shifting sands and arid climate itself, if you get what I mean!

To remember words/phrases, I have a notebook full of vocab (this especially helps if you have an alternate script, like Brakh'vat-la), where you include spelling, definition and pronunciation for each term. Then I try to make little learning exercises out of what I've made at the bottom or on a separate page, like you would in learning an actual language in a classroom: I write questions that I have to answer in the language, quiz myself of words/phrases and their uses/etc., work out grammar and sentences with what I have, practice spelling, and try using the terms in context or making new words based on the ideas and vocab that I already have. Furthermore, I also like to write stories, and I'll write a little snippet here and there, and then have a bunch of notes that add up to way longer than the passage itself detailing the nuances and stuff, similar to annotations you might do in an advanced literature class.

And yesss, it is so fun being able to talk in your own language!!! Conveying secrets or writing personal thoughts in it is so satisfying, since unless you teach someone and they spend all that time truly understanding it, nobody will ever be able to thoughtlessly read/understand like what might happen in your native tongue(s)! Also really love how I can express myself more fully, since the language is mine, and tailored to my needs and preferences. If I need a word or phrase that doesn't really exist in English, I have my own language, which you better believe has the words I need to say what I mean!  Plus, you can specifically craft a language that sounds so terribly beautiful to you in a way that organic languages may not be able to; I absolutely love it all so very much~

Watching something you've built work so fantastically, like a well-built and maintained machine is indeed such a gratifying experience!

As for you helping out with Brakh'vat-la, I would be absolutely honoured!! It would be great to get some extra insight from a fellow someone so passionate about languages, especially since I've hit a bit of a stand-still lately. I think it partly has to do with the world-building going on around the language and my uncertainty with that, which you can also get involved in if you like. :)

Please go on and discuss anything you'd like to do with CSS, and I'd also be happy to help out, or just become familiar with, your conlangs (that's the word for artificially created languages, like what we're doing) if you're comfortable!

I'll fill you in on more if you're still curious about CSS really soon in another post! <3 

Absolutely!! Silan for being so interested yourself!

Here's some basic vocab for CSS:

> K(h)rani: Ground, dirt, dust, sand, land(s), origin, foundation (Named after Khrani'nah Sakhraha (Earth Deity))

> Shorah: Water, a body of water, something to drink, life energy (Named after Shoraya Sakhraha (Water Deity))

> Fashi: Air, wind, voice/breath, sky, heavens, sometimes refers to clouds or weather (Named after Fashi'yani Sakhraha (Sky Diety)) 

Those ones are really important for spiritual/religious reasons to the CSC (central sands civilization) because they are/were the main 3 goddesses, and creators of all things. A lot of the language is also built with them in mind.

> La: means big/full, and I haven't figured out a proper system of grammar yet, so I have no pattern of where to put it in the sentence :/

> Sak(h)ikh-makhra: A form of greeting, similar to "the gods allow us to meet again" or "hello." If you're meeting someone for the first time or don't intend on being warm, you can just say "Sak(h)ikh" 

> Khli Grani'ngah: Thank you; grani means to thank or be grateful, khli is a neutral polite way of saying you, the nga suffix implies a transaction or "to." Basically it literally translates to "to you, gratefulness" if that makes sense?

> Khli sakhikh'ngah: Can mean either "you're welcome,"/"how lucky" or "that's too bad"(or "I'm sorry," as long as you didn't cause the thing in question to happen) depending on context; more literally means, "for you the gods have decided"

> Khud-makhra: It's like saying "goodbye;" literally "Let's meet again." Alternatively, you could say "khud-yakh makhra" (Let's not/never meet again) if you want to express your dislike towards someone, but it's considered very rude and childish

Just a note for pronunciation, 'kh' makes kind of curled sound somewhere between an h and k, 'r' sounds are always curled unless doubled, and 'ng' is a difficult sound to make in English but is possible (think about saying "singing a" quickly to produce the "nga" sound)