langzamige

Langzamige is a constructed language (conlang) developed by an online community of language enthusiasts beginning in the early 2000s. It is designed to be lexically transparent and morphologically regular, supporting linguistic experimentation and artistic expression.

Phonology centers on a small, mostly phonemic inventory: five vowels (a, e, i, o, u) and about twenty consonants including p, b, t, d, k, g, m, n, s, l, r, f, v, j, w, h. Syllables are typically CV or CVC, and stress falls on the penultimate syllable of multisyllabic words. The language is not tonal.

Langzamige is primarily agglutinative, forming words through concatenation of roots with suffixes for tense, aspect, mood, and plurality. Nouns do not encode gender; case and determiner-like relations are expressed with postposed particles. Verbs mark aspect and mood with suffixes; tense is interpreted from context. The default word order is SVO, though flexible ordering is permitted for emphasis; modifiers generally follow the head noun. Pronouns are used as function words and can be attached to verbs or nouns as clitics in complex phrases.

The lexicon draws on a mix of roots from various languages and productive word-formation rules, with a preference for semantic transparency. The writing system uses the Latin alphabet with diacritics to mark stress and occasional phonemic distinctions; a simple orthography aims for close phonetic representation.

Langzamige remains a niche project with a small but active online community. It has learning resources including a public grammar outline, dictionaries, and sample texts. It is not an official language of any nation and has no native speakers; its use is primarily recreational, academic, and artistic.