Oa the Conlang

The Conlang Oa Itself

Now, here is the conlang itself. Here are a few videos that actually involve Edgar setting down the elements of his language, either by himself or with help from conlang pros.

I guess you could say that Xidnaf was "forced" to help Edgar, but I hope that Edgar has treated him as an equal, despite his desires to leave. Yet, to me, I think that conlang experts oughta be good Samaritans and help out the rookies. I might consider dubbing Xidnaf an honorary conlanger in some way because of the following video.

There goes Xidnaf as all the sounds have been chosen. Now for the phonotactics.

With the phonotactics established, it is now time to add more. Edgar has looked at videos by a viewer of him now known as Sarky Canadian and taken a trip to South Korea.

This would inspire him to create glyphs for his language, which he would then dub Oa.

The glyphs have officially been established. Now to construct some words.

From this moment onwards, words and phrases like "O aʍai ŋoza"(I gotta run.), taʔi, meat, and the much like would be formed. And later on, a conlang pro known as Biblaridion would join in on the development of Oa, and help with the addition of tense, aspect, and mood.

And then, promised updates came along, with the first video I've ever seen by Edgar. This video featured seximal(senary) admirer conlang expert Mitch or Jan Misali, having some involvement in the development. Counting in twelve could be more worth counting in sixes, especially if six has the exact same amount of factors as ten, is similar to it with both becoming prime numbers via division by two. So twelve, sixteen, twenty, and sixty might be more worth counting in. Yet, hexadecimal is the counting system for Oa.

During the argument, Edgar knew that he should make base-12 his system, and sees it as the most elegant, while Mitch admires base-6, but doesn't know why Edgar suggested 12. Still, if more edits should be made to any of the glyphs, it could be 0 and 1, so that no one could confuse 0 for /o/, 1 for /i/(rotated 90 degrees).

Now, it could be unknown for what numbers from 257-511 could be called, I could expect 512 to be ɹoaɹ, 768 to be ŋoloɹ or ŋolaɹ, 1024 to be saɹ, 1280 to be lilaɹ, 1536 to be oɹoɹ or oɹaɹ, 1792 to be hiŋoɹ or hiŋaɹ, 2048 to be xaɹ, 2304 to be omaɹ, 2560 to be jaraɹ, 2816 to be kojoɹ or kojaɹ, 3072 to be kiɹ or kaɹ, 3328 to be haʔaɹ, 3584 to be laʔiɹ or laʔaɹ, and 3840 to be ɹoɹoɹ or ɹoɹaɹ. Dunno about 4096 and beyond though. Now, this video here shows each and every number from Oa from 0 to 256 in every one of the four chosen sets of number words.

Now then, two more collaborations between Edgar and Mitch become a thing.

Recently, Biblaridion returned to work with Edgar on Oa's word order patterns.

For some weird reason, Edgar has been including a lot of references to goats and samdwiches in his conlang videos recently. Now, I might consider coming up with my own conlang someday, though I will need help with selecting some good sounds for it. Would any of you guys consider helping me out? And what do you think of Edgar's conlang Oa? Please comment down below. I'll see you in the next chapter where I talk about my own conlang(s) and ideas. Rao.