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Nicomega

Joined 6 July 2014

Hello, I’m Nicholas, a language creator from Buenos Aires, Argentina, active since 1997. My earliest inspirations came from learning English and French, with scattered exposure to Greek and Latin terminology. Later influences included Tolkien’s Elvish languages, Old English, and Old Norse. I have studied several modern languages in depth—English, French, German, Japanese, Chinese, Russian, and Croatian—and pursued Classical Languages at university (Latin, Ancient Greek, Sanskrit), along with ancient languages such as Sumerian and Akkadian. My main interest lies in a priori naturalistic languages, though I have also explored a posteriori projects and experimental approaches.

I began conlanging around July 1997 during high school. My first projects were two related a priori languages: Baladi, intended to evoke a Graeco-Roman atmosphere, and Dellos, conceived as the speech of “barbarians.” I then created Gin’amed, inspired by reconstructed Egyptian pronunciation and Semitic triliteral systems, followed by Senshra, a deeper attempt to build vocabulary with strong personal semantic associations. These early works form what I consider Phase I (Baladi and Debilen) and Phase II (Gin’amed and Senshra).

Phase III expanded into new directions with languages such as Manketzal, Shelud, Xoršid, and Kežtuzakil, leading to Phase IV and later projects including Phase V (e.g., Warthuz) and subsequent creations like Lassakirthi, Tulvan, and Kareyku.

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Twitter: @nicocampi

Instagram: @nicomcampi

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Languages

A priori

Alanûz
Alanûz is a language inspired in Semitic languages and triliteral roots but completely a priori. It doesn't strictly follow a Semitic grammar though.
Omonkwi
Omonkwi started as an early attempt to capture the sounds I liked from mesoamerican indigenous languages.
Českoen
Českoen is more of a semi-spooflang, parodying notions of "better languages" or "complex = good".
Kamatarna
This language was sparked by a mention in Tolkien's The Monsters and the Critics about how he overheard a man deciding he would "mark the accusative with a prefix", so I ran with the idea.
Shellud
My first attempt to create a "dark language" whatever that may be. It draws some inspiration from Tolkien's Black Speech, but also from Akkadian.
Warthuz
A language of some Proto-Germanic inspiration, but very generally.
Tulvan
Tulvan is an attempt at a more futuristic language, supposedly more evolved historically.
Kareyku
Kareyku is a case-heavy language with 11 cases and 7 evidentials. Here I was trying a new concept using more evidentials than verb-heavy morphology.
Lassakirthi
Esyar/Eshan

A posteriori

Fingail
A Welshified version of the Finnish language.
Brest
A very weird mixture of germanic, with substrate of brittonic.
Untitled Romlang
Giving a pseudo-daco-romanian spin to it.
Untitled Germlang
Another thought that popped into my head. And I think I wanted an excuse to use a modern cognate of "woruldceondl", a kenning for the sun.

Commissioned Conlangs

Bamzooki (2017)
A language created for a projected animated TV-series and open-world videogame for the London BBC. It includes its own writing system that combines abugida with ideograms.
Aklo (2018)
Created for the Argentine movie Necronomicón: El Libro del Infierno, inspired in the literature of H. P. Lovecraft. The language was created to serve as the on-screen secret language of an order of cultists custodians of the Necronomicon and its secrets, claiming to have come from Carcosa.
Djinn language (2019)
A conlang commissioned for a series of books, it is to be the language spoken by a race identified with the arabic tradition of Djinns.
Atlantean (Atilanan dresh) (2020)
Conlang job for a movie project. It is the language of extra-dimensional humans from a dimension called "Atlantis".
Conlang Hungarian-inspired (2023)
Reworking of client's conlang (2024)

Cramarian project

Since the start of the project I've been going back again to it at different times with each time making a couple new derivations. For ease I've termed those as "phases". These could be years of months appart. Those with † are discarded languages or those that were superseded by a new version, those in parenthesis () are only provisional names.

Phase I
Phase II
  • (Muzhag)
  • (Nuxan)
  • (Bexe)†
  • (Këmı-fasım)†
Phase III
  • (Tañja)
  • Pennyen† > Hībarashī
  • (Miska)
  • Hrashrzen
Phase IV
  • (ʂopr joː)
  • Coalen, a revision of Teutla
  • (Fitjá)
  • (Caunē), a revision of Tuscal
  • (Hībarashī)

Okiwo project

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