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Conlangs

the early years:

Regonese The first language I ever created! Yea! Rather boring... sort of embarrassing... But I was only eleven.

Fordsmendrian Gaelic A short descriptions Fordsmendrian Gaelic.

indoeuropean a posteriori:

Cepperjòleddicg This was my baby throughout high school. I originally created it to explore what English would have been like had Latin and French not influenced the language. I was very interested in Celtic languages, and I imagined a fantastic influx of Celtic words. Eh. -- I really like my languages to be historically plausible, and bearing that in mind, Cepperjòleddicg is sort of an embarrassment. But I was in love with this project for so long that I can’t help but to remember it fondly.

Әmǽndərie Әmǽndərie represents a completely fiction subset of IndoEuropean. I liked this project a lot -- at the time, it had the most interesting grammatical features I had dared play with. I liked it a lot, but these days it feels kind of prosaic. The best part, in my humble opinion, is the orthography. It’s nuts :)

A present, only the dictionary (and a few texts? -- I’ll see what I can do) are available. I’m rewriting the grammar (have been for a while) and I still have no idea how long it’ll take. Keep ya posted.

Thiazic This is another fictional IndoEuropean language. I know, I know. They get boring after a while. That’s why I’m not putting much up about it. It didn’t turn out to be as original as I would have liked, anyway.

a priori:

Hillian The most progressive of the Arkan languages. And the official language of the United Conderation of Arkan Hill and Her Overseas Dependencies.

Arkan Standard For the longest time I used the term “Arkan Standard” to cover any project I was working on at the time. Now I’m using it to name a language closing related to Hillian.

Arkan Esoteric (Peto) An Arkan language. My favorite of the bunch.

Proto-Arkan Just a sketch I used to derive the other languages.

international auxiliary languages:

Tikasako A satire. (I don’t like IALs.)

group projects:

Bálabhádh The first group project I worked on. It’s really pretty and innovative. It’s a pity it died out. It was a project designed to discuss sexual and spiritual matters.

Akilo The second group project I worked on. I really got a lot of experience working with Akilo; I really learned a lot about the way languages work. It was fantastic insight into languages other than IndoEuropean ones, and I’m still really grateful I was a part of this.