32 | Gengo word generator has been retired and moved to 33 | Wrdz. 34 |

GenGo

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Change Log 2020

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May 12^th

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-Fixed a bug where affricates wouldn't display correctly

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May 11^th

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-Fixed a bug where IPA buttons would only add a character at the end of a text field. 29 |
-Fixed a bug where input fields would be too small while the IPA chart was open. 30 |
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-Added ability to comment out groups (//) and letter(s) (/) 32 |
-Added ability to use floating points as weights to make characters less likely to be picked 33 |

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May 10^th

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Public release.

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GenGo

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About

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GenGo is generator that makes words from different groups of characters. It is most often used for constructed languages and worldbuilding. It's good for anything from creating a lexicon for your conlang to names for your fictional population.

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Characters

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Characters are the letters or symbols that make up your words.

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Syntax

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The basic syntax for a character group is...

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X: sh å Д β タ語 음,

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A single character as a name for the pattern to recognize
A colon to seperate the group name and its characters
The characters that make up the group, seperated by spaces
A comma to seperate groups

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Character groups can be written on the same line or across several lines, as long as they are seperated by a comma.

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Weights

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You can assign weight to a character to make it more likely to be picked using an asterisk followed by a number.

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In this example...

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54 | C: p t k m n s w*5 l j 55 |

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...the letter 'w' is 5 times more likely to be picked than the rest of the characters individually.

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Since characters have a default weight of 1, you can use a decimal to make characters less likely to be picked...

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C: p t k m n s w*.25 l j

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Giving a character a weight of 0 still gives it a chance of being picked. If you don't want a character to be picked at all, you can comment it out. 60 | 61 |

Commenting

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Sometimes you might want to remove characters from a group without actually deleting them from the text field. To do this, you can use a slash to "comment" them out. 63 |

For example, this...

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C: p t k m n s /w l j

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Gets interpreted as this...

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C: p t k m n s l j

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To comment out a group entirely, just put the slash before the name of the group...

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/C: p t k m n s w l j

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Commenting out also works in rewrites, patterns, and filters.

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Patterns

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Patterns are the syllable structure of your words. If the pattern contains the name of a character group, the character will be replaced by one of the characters in its group at random. Multiple patterns can be used but need to be seperated by commas.

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For example, if you had the pattern 'CVC' and these character groups...

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C: p t k,
V: a i

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...each character in the pattern would be replaced with a random character within its group...

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C → k
V → a
C → t

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...and the final outputted word would be 'kat'.

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If a pattern contains a character that isn't the name of a group, the character itself is added to the word. For example, if you had the same characters from the above example, but instead had the pattern 'CVs'...

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C → k
V → a
s → s

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...'s' in the pattern isn't the name of a group so it is just added to the word 'kas'.

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Parentheses ( )

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Any part of a pattern within parantheses has a chance to be filtered out.

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The pattern 'CV(C)' can output...

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ka(t) → kat
ka(t) → ka

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Brackets [ ]

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Any part of a pattern within brackets picks from one of the choices seperated by spaces.

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The pattern 'CV[C s]' can output...

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ka[t s] → kat
ka[t s] → kas

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Brackets and parentheses can both be nested any amount of times...

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ka(t(s)) → kats
ka(t(s)) → kat
ka(t(s)) → ka

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ka([t d][s z]) → ka
ka([t d][s z]) → kads
ka([t d][s z]) → kats
ka([t d][s z]) → katz
ka([t d][s z]) → kadz

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Rewrites

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Sometimes there are certain combinations of characters that you don't want in your words. That's where rewrites come in.

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Syntax

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Rewrites are written very similarly to character groups...

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mn: m n,

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The characters to be replaced
A colon to seperate the cluster and its replacement characters
The characters that can replace the cluster, seperated by spaces
A comma to seperate rewrites

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For example, if you had the word 'samna' and the cluster rewrite from above...

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samna → sama
samna → sana

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Tips

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If you want the cluster to just be removed from the word, don't enter anything for the replacement characters. Make sure to still seperate it with a comma if there are multiple rewrites...

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sanma → saa

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(Not yet implemented) Rewrites and filters also accept group names. If we had the pattern 'CVVC' and this rewrite...

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saim → sim

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(Not yet implemented) If you wanted a character that is also a name of a character group, you can put it in double quotes...

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saim → sVm

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You can also use character weights in rewrites.

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Filters & Options

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Filters - If a word contains any of the characters or clusters, the whole word will be removed from the final word list.

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Words - Total number of words to be generated.

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Syllable min and max - The minimum and maximum number of patterns allowed in a word

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Duplicates - Removes any duplicates in the final word list. The more complicated your words can be, the less likely duplicates are to be generated

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List - Displays each word on a new line instead of a paragraph

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IPA - Stands for 'International Phonetic Alphabet', which you can learn more about here 174 |

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" 254 | } 255 | } 256 | 257 | // If number is greater than max number, set number to max 258 | const inputs = document.getElementsByTagName("input") 259 | const numbers = [] 260 | for (let input of inputs) { 261 | if (input.type === "number") { 262 | numbers.push(input) 263 | } 264 | } 265 | for (let number of numbers) { 266 | number.addEventListener("input", () => { 267 | let max = number.max 268 | if (Number(number.value) > Number(max)) { 269 | number.value = max 270 | } 271 | }) 272 | } 273 | 274 | // When symbol is clicked, add it to the current focused input 275 | const letters = document.getElementsByClassName("letter") 276 | for (let letter of letters) { 277 | letter.addEventListener("mousedown", () => { 278 | let active = document.activeElement 279 | if (active.id === "characters" || active.id === "rewrites" || active.id === "patterns" || active.id === "filters") { 280 | let start = active.selectionStart; 281 | let end = active.selectionEnd; 282 | if (start || start <= '0') { 283 | active.value = active.value.substring(0, start) 284 | + letter.innerHTML 285 | + active.value.substring(end, active.value.length); 286 | } 287 | let newStart = start + letter.innerHTML.length 288 | active.setSelectionRange(newStart, newStart) 289 | } 290 | event.preventDefault() 291 | }) 292 | } 293 | 294 | const puncts = document.getElementsByClassName("punct") 295 | for (let punct of puncts) { 296 | punct.addEventListener("mousedown", () => { 297 | let active = document.activeElement 298 | if (active.id === "characters" || active.id === "rewrites" || active.id === "patterns" || active.id === "filters") { 299 | let start = active.selectionStart; 300 | let end = active.selectionEnd; 301 | console.log(start) 302 | if (start || start <= '0') { 303 | active.value = active.value.substring(0, start) 304 | + punct.getAttribute("value") 305 | + active.value.substring(end, active.value.length); 306 | } 307 | active.setSelectionRange(start + 1, start + 1) 308 | } 309 | event.preventDefault() 310 | }) 311 | } 312 | 313 | // Fix input's position if scrolled too far down 314 | if (!onMobile) { 315 | function resetInputs () { 316 | document.getElementById("characters").style.position = "initial" 317 | document.getElementById("characters").style.minWidth = "initial" 318 | document.getElementById("characters").style.left = "initial" 319 | document.getElementById("characters").style.top = "initial" 320 | 321 | document.getElementById("rewrites").style.position = "initial" 322 | document.getElementById("rewrites").style.minWidth = "initial" 323 | document.getElementById("rewrites").style.left = "initial" 324 | document.getElementById("rewrites").style.top = "initial" 325 | 326 | document.getElementById("patterns").style.position = "initial" 327 | document.getElementById("patterns").style.minWidth = "initial" 328 | document.getElementById("patterns").style.maxWidth = "initial" 329 | document.getElementById("patterns").style.left = "initial" 330 | document.getElementById("patterns").style.top = "initial" 331 | 332 | document.getElementById("filters").style.position = "initial" 333 | document.getElementById("filters").style.minWidth = "initial" 334 | document.getElementById("filters").style.maxWidth = "initial" 335 | document.getElementById("filters").style.left = "initial" 336 | document.getElementById("filters").style.top = "initial" 337 | } 338 | 339 | function fixInput() { 340 | let active = document.activeElement 341 | if ( 342 | active.id === "characters" 343 | || active.id === "rewrites" 344 | || active.id === "patterns" 345 | || active.id === "filters" 346 | ) { 347 | if (document.getElementById("ipaChart").style.display === "block") { 348 | if (window.scrollY > 300 && window.scrollY < 1200) { 349 | active.style.position = "initial" 350 | let calculate = window.innerWidth/2 - (active.id === "rewrites" ? active.offsetWidth : active.innerWidth)/2 351 | active.style.left = calculate + 'px' 352 | active.style.top = "16px" 353 | active.style.minWidth = "480px" 354 | active.style.maxWidth = "480px" 355 | active.style.position = "fixed" 356 | } else { 357 | resetInputs() 358 | } 359 | } else { 360 | resetInputs() 361 | } 362 | } else { 363 | resetInputs() 364 | } 365 | } 366 | window.setInterval(fixInput, 250) 367 | } 368 | 369 | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------

32 | Gengo word generator has been retired and moved to 33 | Wrdz. 34 |

Change Log 2020

May 12th

May 11th

May 10th

About

Characters

Syntax

Weights

Commenting

Patterns

Parentheses ( )

Brackets [ ]

Rewrites

Syntax

Tips

Filters & Options

May 12^th

May 11^th

May 10^th