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I’m here to post about my conlangs and read about yours! You can also find me at https://levunalangs.tumblr.com/ and https://youtube.com/@levunalangs
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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!

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Vabuba: The Two Frogs (Valya)
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January 4, 2026 at 4:13 PM
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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:

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A graphic showing the word “nyagnga” in the Valya script, as well as the translation “to boil.”
December 31, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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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/...
A graphic showing a Sdefa word in two different writing systems. Below that is music notation showing the notes B flat, A, F, C, G, and at the bottom is the English translation: “cook.”
December 31, 2025 at 3:43 AM
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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/...
A graphic showing the word “hngimbzi” in the Valya script, as well as the translation, “bake.”
December 29, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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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/...
A graphic showing a Sdefa word in two different writing systems. Below that is music notation showing the notes D, A, C, B, and at the bottom is the English translation: “food.” A graphic showing a Sdefa word in two different writing systems. Below that is music notation showing the notes D, F, G, G, C, B, C, and at the bottom is the English translation: “food, fuel (something consumed).”
December 28, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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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.”

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A graphic showing five Valya words and phrases. They are “gamu-ftara,” meaning “shovel” (as a verb); “gamu ksuftara,” meaning “shovel” as a noun; “pwitri gamu,” meaning “snow white”; “gamu kliku,” meaning “snow-crush” or “walk on snow”; and “kikliku gamu,” meaning “snow crunch,” the sound that snow makes underfoot.
December 27, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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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:

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A graphic showing three Valya words and phrases with transliterations and translations. They are “tyagwa,” meaning “chestnut” or “chestnut tree;” “gingga,” meaning “beech” or “beech tree;” and “lyürazi,” meaning “rhododendron.”
December 24, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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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:

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A graphic showing a Sdefa word in two different writing systems. Below that is music notation showing the notes E, D, E, C, B, and at the bottom is the English translation: “ball” or “sphere.”
December 24, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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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!

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A graphic showing the word “nguza” in the Valya script, as well as the translation “climb.” A graphic showing four Valya words and phrases with transliterations and translations. They are “ksunguza,” meaning “ladder” or “stairs;” “ksunguza tarku,” meaning “stairs;” “ksunguza klafiri” and “ksunguza ksütüsu,” both meaning “ladder.”
December 20, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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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.”
A graphic showing a Sdefa word in two different writing systems. Below that is music notation showing the notes F, G, C, G and at the bottom is the English translation: “find.”
December 19, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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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.”

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A graphic showing the word “tarku” in the Valya script, as well as the translation “sure,” “steady.” A sentence in the Valya script, followed by a transliteration and translation. The transliteration reads, “Hlu tarku pa zu sühwi tu dzu tarku.” The translation reads, “Be certain that you walk on stable ground,” or “Look before you leap.” Below that is another Valya sentence, transliterated as “Hlu tarku da dzu tarku.”
December 19, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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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/...
A graphic showing a Sdefa word in two different writing systems. Below that is music notation showing the notes D, C, G, D, C, and at the bottom is the English translation: “visit.”
December 17, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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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/...
A graphic showing a Sdefa word in two different writing systems. Below that is music notation showing the notes A flat, B flat, A flat, F, G, and at the bottom is the English translation: “fry.”
December 16, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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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!

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A graphic showing the word “ndligi” in the Valya script, as well as the translation “harvest,” “choose.” Two sentences in the Valya script, each followed by a transliteration and translation. The first transliteration reads, “Müshasi ndligi pa ra fsi mumumwu ri tu danu kitni!” The first translation reads, “I happened to find these cherries on the table today!” The second transliteration reads, “Müshasi? Ra ndligi mu ba ra küldi mu tu danu!” The second translation reads, “You happened to? I picked them and put them there!”
December 15, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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I’m posting this in the middle of a rehearsal so it’s just a link for today’s #Lexember post!

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💬 0  🔁 0  ❤️ 2 · Lexember 14: {G F E♭ D C} · Today’s Sdefa word is {G F E♭ D C}, meaning “bridge.” I decided to continue with the Simon & Garfunkel theme from yesterday’s Sdefa word, since they’re…
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December 14, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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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.”

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A graphic showing a Sdefa word in two different writing systems. Below that is music notation showing the notes A B D B, followed by the English translation “animal.” Below that is the word “gwunda” in the Valya script, with the translation “watch,” “be careful.”
December 13, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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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/...
A graphic showing the word “sfuru” in the Valya script, as well as the translation “deep,” “old.” A sentence in the Valya script, followed by a transliteration and translation. The transliteration reads, “Fli lu ndu ba sfuru tlupura.” The translation reads, “The ocean is large and very deep,” or “The ocean is large and very old.”
December 12, 2025 at 2:33 AM
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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!
A graphic showing a Sdefa word in two different writing systems. Below that is music notation showing the notes F G E D, and at the bottom is the English translation: “kind.”
December 10, 2025 at 11:21 PM
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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!

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A graphic showing a Sdefa word in two different writing systems. Below that is music notation showing the notes A G A E D, and at the bottom is the English translation: “entangle.”
December 9, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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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:

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A graphic showing the word “ksüvani” in the Valya script, as well as the translation “well.” A sentence in the Valya script, followed by a transliteration and translation. The transliteration reads, “Zu sühwi tanu gvu duhra za ksüvani.” The translation reads, “Go get some water at the well.” (Literally, “Go lift some water from the well.”)
December 9, 2025 at 2:06 AM
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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).

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A graphic showing the word hirinyu in the Valya script, as well as the translation “heat, warmth.” A sentence in the Valya script, followed by a transliteration and translation. The transliteration reads, “Kihirinyu dyihlira ra. Mükrimwa kurta lu dru sabghu nguva mupya dru sabghu, nkivgani dru sabghu, ba gamu!” The translation reads, “I don’t like the heat. The colder seasons are better, because they have better food, better clothing, and the snow!”
December 7, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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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!

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A graphic showing a Sdefa word in two different writing systems. Below that is music notation showing the notes E A F♯ A, and at the bottom is the English translation: “beautiful.”
December 7, 2025 at 12:53 AM
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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/...
The word “dishu,” meaning “dry” or “dried,” in the Valya script.
December 5, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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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/...
A graphic showing a Sdefa word in two different writing systems. Below that is music notation showing the notes C, B, C, D, C, and at the bottom is the English translation: “lack.”
December 4, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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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.

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The word “radaru,” meaning “pond” or “pool” in the Valya script. A sentence in the Valya script, followed by a transliteration and a translation: The children enjoy swimming and playing in the pond.
December 3, 2025 at 7:56 PM