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kodeskoconlang:

To any experienced conlangers who might be reading this, I just thought I’d let you know that I took a few moments to explain some things in case some less-knowledgeable beginners might be reading this. I know some of the more experienced lot don’t like to read explanations on stuff they already know, so I just felt like giving you a heads-up.

Kodesko is a company (constructed language), but more than that it’s my personal conlang, meaning I created it for me to use in the real world, not for some fictional culture.

Now, just because I created it for myself doesn’t mean I want to discourage anyone from trying to learn it. In fact, I think it’d be pretty cool for someone to learn it besides myself.

Now on to the basic information.

Kodesko is generally an SVO (subject-object-verb) language. Its vocabulary is about 200-odd words strong at this point (it’s only about a month old, so obviously anybody learning it would have to do so as it develops, but I hope that doesn’t deter anyone), and is almost entirely a posteriori (based on extant languages rather than made up out of thin air), with the majority of the vocab coming from either romance languages (French and Spanish) or German, a fair bit from English and Japanese, and a few words here and there from Russian and from Tokipona (nice conlang, you should check it out). As of this post it also has one elvish loanword, “melon” from “melon.” It has four cases – nominative, accusative, dative, and genitive – but they only show up in the personal pronouns.
It also has grammatical gender – masculine, feminine, and neuter. One more peculiarity I can think of is that it has 4th person for obviation (when there’s multiple people, and you want to say something like “I gave him five dollars, but I gave *him* (obviate) ten dollars.”)

I’ll think up a few examples to show you what it looks like, then I might go ahead and make a post detailing the verb conjugations.

I eat a grape.
Mi madju an vinbira.

Mi: I (nom, neut)
Madjuru: To Eat/Drink/Breathe
Madju: Present Indicative form (eat(s),drink(s),breathe(s)
An: One, A(n)
Vinbira: Grape
Vin: Wine
Bira: Berry, Small Fruit

My hovercraft is full of eels.
Mion planikar gedesu follute voth las slangapeskas.

Mion: My (gen, masc)
Planikar: Hovercraft
Planuru: To Hover/Float
Kar: Car/Vehicle
Gedesu: To be caused to be
Ge- : Prefix giving the meaning of being caused to perform the verb to which it’s attached
Folluru: To fill
Follute: Plain past tense (filled)
Voth: With/Using
Slangapeskas: Eels
Slanga: Snake
Peska: Fish
-s: Plain plural ending

Who let the dogs out?
Hwo frayute los kanos?

Hwo: Who(m)
Frayuru: To Free/Release
Frayute: Plain Past tense (freed/released)
Los: The (masc, pl)
Kanos: Dogs

May I have your liver?
Mia indesu permisute avuru Tion haro ma?

Mia: I (nom, fem)
Indesu: (lit) To Be In,At,On,some other locative word ; generally used to describe being in a location, but also used to describe being in a state (eg Mi indesu min doma “I’m in my home” , Mi indesu iri “I’m angry”), in this case the state being that of being permitted
Permisuru: To Permit/Allow
Permisute: Plain Past tense (permitted/allowed)
Avuru: To Have
Tion: Your (gen, masc) (note: Personal Pronouns are always capitalized)
Haro: Liver
Ma: Interrogative Particle

Where is the bathroom?
Lo vater/La laveria indesu hwer?

Lo: The (masc, sing)
Vater: Toilet
La: The (fem, sing)
Laveria: Bathroom
Lavuru: To Wash
-eria: Place of…
Indesu: See above description
Hwer: Where

Well, I think that about does it for now. I hope you like it. If you have any questions or comments, feel free to message me.