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''Welcome to Nicomega's user page on Linguifex!''
Hello, I'm '''Nicholas''', creating languages since 1998~1999 from [[w:Buenos Aires|Buenos Aires]], [[w:Argentina|Argentina]]. First inspirations at that time came from learning English, French and some notions of Greek terminology and Latin (very vague). Later on other influences were [[w:Tolkien|Tolkien]]'s Elvish languages, [[w:Old English|Old English]], [[w:Old Norse|Old Norse]] among others. Some languages I've studied to a higher degree include English, French, German, Japanese, Chinese, Russian and Croatian. Also I've studied [[w:Classical Languages|Classical Languages]] at the university ([[w:Latin|Latin]], [[w:Ancient Greek|Ancient Greek]], [[w:Sanskrit|Sanskrit]]) and some Ancient languages like [[w:Sumerian|Sumerian]], [[w:Akkadian|Akkadian]]. I'm more into ''[[a priori]]'' naturalistic languages, but I've dabbled in ''[[a posteriori]]'' too, and of course, some experiments as well!


==About me==
I began my conlanging experience just before the 2000's, during boring high-school classes (you can see a list of these first ones in ''[[User:Nicomega/Historical conlangs|Historical conlangs]]''). At first I had started developing two a priori artlangs, called '''Baladi''' and '''Debilen''', which were supposed to be related. The first was supposed to have a Graeco-Roman feel to it, and the Debilen would be the prototypical "barbarians". After that I also included a language called '''Gin'amed''', another a priori artlang supposed to feel like a mix of reconstructed Egyptian hieroglyphic pronunciation and Semitic languages with triliteral roots. Afterwards I decided to start anew with another a priori language but this time to really go deep into creating words that I could relate to their meanings, called '''Senshra'''. After those I created many many more conlangs, even a couple where I tried to convince a friend to join in, to no real success. If we could term the Baladi and Debilen languages my Phase I, then Gin'amed and Senshra would be Phase II. I've played quite a lot with those special first languages, closest to my heart, but also started developing a ton of new ones. Phase III had a lot of new directions, '''Manketzal''', '''Shelud''', '''Xoršid''', '''Kežtuzakil''' and many more. Most of those listed here belong to Phase IV by that count, and there's even a Phase V (e.g. '''Warthuz''') and beyond ('''Lassakirthi''', '''Tulvan''', '''Kareyku''').


Hello, I'm '''Nicholas''', creating languages since 1998~1999 from Buenos Aires, Argentina. First inspirations at that time came from learning English, French and some notions of Greek terminology and Latin (very vague). Later on other influences were Tolkien's Elvish languages, Old English, Old Norse among others. I'm more into ''a priori'' naturalistic languages, but I've dabbled in ''a posteriori'' too, often trying to create divergent and hard to categorize romlangs et alia, and of course, some experiments too!
'''[http://www.frathwiki.com/User:Esploranto My Frathwiki User page]'''


'''[http://www.frathwiki.com/User:Esploranto My Frathwiki User page]'''
'''Contact''':


==Contact me==
'''Twitter''': @nicocampi
'''Twitter''': @nicocampi


'''Instagram''': @nicomcampi
'''Instagram''': @nicomcampi
{{List subpages}}


== Pages working on currently ==
== Pages working on currently ==
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* [[Wakensi]]
* [[Wakensi]]
* [[Teutla]]
* [[Teutla]]
* [[Kareyku]]


==Languages: a priori ==
== Languages ==
=== [[Alanûz]] ===
===A priori ===
;[[User:Nicomega/Alanûz|Alanûz]]
:Alanûz is a language inspired in [[w:Semitic languages|Semitic languages]] and [[w:triliteral roots|triliteral roots]] but completely ''a priori''. It doesn't strictly follow a Semitic grammar though.
:Alanûz is a language inspired in [[w:Semitic languages|Semitic languages]] and [[w:triliteral roots|triliteral roots]] but completely ''a priori''. It doesn't strictly follow a Semitic grammar though.
::Sample:
:'''{{d|hakelī|hakelī}} {{d|qaviram|qaviram}} {{d|lē-|lē-}}{{d|zīr|zīr}}'''
:''the truth hides beneath the words.''


=== [[Omonkwi]] ===
;[[Omonkwi]]
:Omonkwi started as an early attempt to capture the sounds I liked from mesoamerican indigenous languages via a poorly pronounced (by my high-school teacher) version of deity names in the [[w:Popol Vuh|Popol Vuh]]. Names such as ''Vucub Caquix, Cabrakán, Zipacná'' and ''Chilmamat''. It can be viewed as a weird kind of homage, trying to create a language out respect for it but not having the materials to know more about it, something common before the rise of the internet as we know it.
:Omonkwi started as an early attempt to capture the sounds I liked from mesoamerican indigenous languages.
::Sample:
 
:'''[[Contionary:ipāgnat|ipāgnat]] [[Contionary:šival|šival]] [[Contionary:gōkwili|gōkwili]]'''
;[[User:Nicomega/Českoen|Českoen]]
:''Mountains (are) the jaws of the Earth.''
:Českoen is more of a semi-spooflang, parodying notions of "better languages" or "complex = good".
=== [[Českoen]] ===
 
:Českoen is more of a semi-spooflang, in the sense that it was created with a whole history behind it. It was supposed to be very simple and analytic, but with a tradition that claimed it was indeed quite complex and a "school" trying to revive awareness of its complexity, I had fun parodying notions of "better languages" or "complex = good". In its backstory the ''Ezgizo Ezgeskoinama'' school fought the ''Azgizu'' school for control over the teaching of the language. The idea was a language that sounded pretty much like [[w:Huttese|Jabba the Hutt's Huttese]] but with minimal class prefixes for noun and adjective, singular and plural.
;[[Kamatarna]]
::Sample:
: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.
:'''anta čoga haska m’ onzo'''
 
:''There seem to be spider-webs.''
;[[Shellud]]
:My first attempt to create a "dark language" whatever that may be. It draws some inspiration from Tolkien's [[w:Black Speech|Black Speech]], but also from [[w:Akkadian|Akkadian]].
 
;[[Warthuz]]
:A language of some [[w:Proto-Germanic|Proto-Germanic]] inspiration, but very generally.


=== [[Kamatarna]] ===
;[[Tulvan]]
: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. The language is pretty CVCV and marks cases with prefixes rather than suffixes.
:Tulvan is an attempt at a more futuristic language, supposedly more evolved historically.
::Sample:
:'''Kima dūma plo-kamatar?'''
:''Who comes to our lands?''
=== [[Shellud]] ===
:My first attempt to create a "dark language" whatever that may be. It draws some inspiration from Tolkien's [[w:Black Speech|Black Speech]], but also from [[w:Akkadian|Akkadian]]. It also uses triliteral roots and declensional cases. This would later be superseded by the creation of [[Karrakêsh]].
::Sample:
:'''ašpathûz dallukât'''
:''I will show you darkness.''


=== [[Tulvan]] ===
;[[Kareyku]]
:Tulvan is an attempt at a more futuristic language, supposedly more evolved historically "Tulvan" comes from the word "tulv" 'mind', and the Tulvans enjoy pointing that out, although it is heavily implied the name may come from a region that used to be called ''Tuluan'' or ''Tuluanna'', a word of unknown origin or meaning to the people in the setting. I wanted to test the idea that modern languages start trying to differentiate terms more and more over minutia.
: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.
::Sample:
:'''[[Contionary:tulv|tulv]] [[Contionary:kwam|kwam]], [[Contionary:kik|kik]] [[Contionary:ëv|ëv]] [[Contionary:kem|kem]]'''
:''I think, therefore I am.''


=== [[Kareyku]] ===
;[[Lassakirthi]]
:Kareyku is a case-heavy language with 11 cases and 6 evidentials. Here I was trying a new concept using more evidentials than verb-heavy morphology and being influenced from [[w:Japanese language|Japanese]] and [[w:Quechua language|Quechua]], among others. It also uses some particles not unlike [[w:Chinese language|Chinese]]. Mostly the idea was to create a language where a lot of meaning could be conveyed as shortly as possible and using suffixes that convey a who-to-who relationship rather than personal suffixes.
::Sample:
:'''qappakas pilelcha'''
:''Of course I'm eating fish!''


=== [[Adhrarintha|Atlantean]] ===
;[[Esyar/Eshan]]
:A hypothetical language that could have been used in Atlantis as described by Plato.
::Sample:
:'''alkariskaya humen thuop'''
:''The king has the orichalcos''


==Languages: a posteriori ==
===A posteriori ===
=== [[Finnail]] ===
;[[Fingail]]
:A Welshified version of the Finnish language.
:A Welshified version of the Finnish language.
::Sample:
:'''sín ragathan, mín ragathad?'''
:''I love you, do you love me?''


=== [[Brest|Lam a-vrest/Brest]] ===
;[[User:Nicomega/Brest|Brest]]
:A very weird mixture of germanic, with substrate of brittonic.
:A very weird mixture of germanic, with substrate of brittonic.
::Sample:
:'''Y-lof vin, vy lof min? | both-vir myn lof darst.'''
:''I love you, do you love me? | without you my love perishes.''


=== [[Noaramano]] ===
;[[Untitled Romlang]]
:Giving a pseudo-daco-romanian spin to it.
:Giving a pseudo-daco-romanian spin to it.
::Sample:
:'''Chęan viana di'n cęalo? | Chęan viana di'n tęara? | Chęan viana di'n ruta? | lo noavo nuá di sęar malo.'''
:''Who comes from heaven? | Who comes from earth? | Who comes from the road? | The new mustn't be bad.''


=== [[Liugtlich]] ===
;[[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.
: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.
::Sample:
:'''flian, flian efr mich | mich ciundl sai liugtlich | sciuda tich gannen bis | mich wirelciundl tu is.'''
:''fly, fly over me | my candle so light | in shadows since your going | my world-candle you are.''
=== [[Sister-PIE]] ===
:A supposed descendant of a proposed sister language to PIE.
::Sample:
:'''puHtus, sayel, mateš'''
:''father, star, mother''
=== [[Tengwa]] ===
:A theoretical descendant of PIE made to resemble Quenya.
::Sample:
:'''aina, atya, tir, quattya, pinque, saxa, sapsë, ohta, nauna, tencë.'''
:''one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten.''
=== [[Germanic-Mapuzugun]] ===
:What if Mapuzugun were a germanic language? Ridiculous, yes, but funny for some words.
::Sample:
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Mapuzugun !! IPA !! English !! Germanic origin
|-
| zugun || θuŋun || voice, language || *tungǭ > *θuŋgu
|-
| mapu || mapu || earth || *makʷos > *mapos (Celtic) > *mapu
|-
| che || t͡ʃe || people || *þeudō > *tjóð > *t͡ʃew
|}


=== [[Teodiskō]] ===
=== Commissioned Conlangs ===
:An attempt at a kind of romanized? Greekized germlang?
;[[Bamzooki]] (2017)
::Sample:
:'''teodō, teodiskō, tungõ teodiskō'''
:''people, of the people, language of the people''
:'''Eka teodiskas em.'''
:''I am of the people.''
 
== Professional Conlangs ==
=== [[Bamzooki]] ===
: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.
: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.
=== [[Karrakêsh|Aklo]] ===
:Created for the Argentine movie '''''Necronomicón: El Libro del Infierno''''', inspired in the literature of [[w:H. P. Lovecraft|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 [[w:Carcossa|Carcossa]].
::Sample:
:'''[[Contionary:anshamdarra|Anshamdarra]] [[Contionary:burgatu|burgatu]], Burki [[Contionary:abkâz|abkâz]]'''
:''Such rashness is sin, brother Burki.''


=== [[Djinn language]] ===
;[[Karrakêsh|Aklo]] (2018)
:Still ''in progress'' for a series of books, it is to be the language spoken by a race identified with the arabic tradition of [[w:Djinn|Djinns]].
:Created for the Argentine movie '''''Necronomicón: El Libro del Infierno''''', inspired in the literature of [[w:H. P. Lovecraft|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 [[w:Carcosa|Carcosa]].
::Sample:
:'''Nakue-en galem imma-gib dub-anna-ge-en. Galgal, ulum naru, ulum kume; kur mara ki zar dana.'''
:/Naku̯eʔen gaˈlem immaˈgib dubanˈnageʔen. ˈGalgal, ˈulum ˈnaru, ˈulum ˈkume; kur ˈmara ki zar ˈdana./


:''That is one of the deserts I've searched in order to find you. Very hot, no water, no shade; only the sun and soft sand.''
;[[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 [[w:Djinn|Djinns]].


== The Cramarian project ==
;Atlantean (Atilanan dresh) (2020)
=== [[Wakensi]] ===
:Conlang job for a movie project. It is the language of extra-dimensional humans from a dimension called "Atlantis".
:Wakensi is a language belonging to the Cramarian family of languages. It has some oddities and peculiarities that set it apart from even more closely related Cramarian languages. One such is the use of an introductory particle at the beginning of sentences which marks whether it is a question or a statement. Also it relies in heavy prefixing rather than suffixing. Apart from this, the Cramarian morphology is pretty transparent.
::Sample:
:'''[[Contionary:wau|wau]][[Contionary:-'i|'i]] [[Contionary:wo-|wo]][[Contionary:gaba|gaba]], [[Contionary:so|so]][[Contionary:-'i|'i]] [[Contionary:wo-|wo]][[Contionary:so|so]][[Contionary:-'i|'i]]'''
:''eyes of my father, flesh of my flesh''


=== [[Teutla]] ===
=== Cramarian project ===
:A Cramarian language with a faintly mixed Nahuatl/Mayan touch.
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.
::Sample:
:'''shetash huaccan | chacnech ijopnej īxnen.'''
:''All men are big |  A lot of ashes cover his feet''


=== [[Tuscal]] ===
;Phase I
:Tuscal is intended to have a mix of Latin/Etruscan feel to it.
* [[Wakensi]]†
* [[Teutla]]† > Coalen
* [[User:Nicomega/Daxeom|Daxeom]] <!-- (greek dial)-->
* Éothuth
* Tuscal† > Caunē


=== [[Éothuth]] ===
;Phase II
:Some inspiration taken from natlang [[w:Beothuk (language)|Beothuk]] because of a coincidence in shape of some words, also Old English.
* (Muzhag) <!-- (PIE)-->
* (Nuxan) <!-- (toba)-->
* (Bexe)† <!-- (basque)-->
* (Këmı-fasım)† <!-- (turkic)-->


=== [[Pennyen]] ===
;Phase III
:A Sino-Japanese derivate, that also has two descendants.
* (Tañja) <!-- (sanskrit)-->
* Pennyen† > Hībarashī
* (Miska) <!-- (miskito)-->
* Hrashrzen


=== [[Hrashrzen]] ===
;Phase IV
:Weird inspiration.
* (ʂopr joː) <!-- (selknam)-->
* Coalen, ''a revision of Teutla''
* (Fitjá) <!-- (old norse)-->
* (Caunē), ''a revision of Tuscal'' <!-- (more consistent old latin, latin, PIE)-->
* (Hībarashī) <!-- (japanese from Sino-tibetan)-->


== The Proto-Okiwo project ==
=== Okiwo project ===
* [[User:Nicomega/Proto-Okiwo|Proto-Okiwo]]
* [[User:Nicomega/Proto-Okiwo|Proto-Okiwo]]


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Latest revision as of 18:50, 25 September 2021

Hello, I'm Nicholas, creating languages since 1998~1999 from Buenos Aires, Argentina. First inspirations at that time came from learning English, French and some notions of Greek terminology and Latin (very vague). Later on other influences were Tolkien's Elvish languages, Old English, Old Norse among others. Some languages I've studied to a higher degree include English, French, German, Japanese, Chinese, Russian and Croatian. Also I've studied Classical Languages at the university (Latin, Ancient Greek, Sanskrit) and some Ancient languages like Sumerian, Akkadian. I'm more into a priori naturalistic languages, but I've dabbled in a posteriori too, and of course, some experiments as well!

I began my conlanging experience just before the 2000's, during boring high-school classes (you can see a list of these first ones in Historical conlangs). At first I had started developing two a priori artlangs, called Baladi and Debilen, which were supposed to be related. The first was supposed to have a Graeco-Roman feel to it, and the Debilen would be the prototypical "barbarians". After that I also included a language called Gin'amed, another a priori artlang supposed to feel like a mix of reconstructed Egyptian hieroglyphic pronunciation and Semitic languages with triliteral roots. Afterwards I decided to start anew with another a priori language but this time to really go deep into creating words that I could relate to their meanings, called Senshra. After those I created many many more conlangs, even a couple where I tried to convince a friend to join in, to no real success. If we could term the Baladi and Debilen languages my Phase I, then Gin'amed and Senshra would be Phase II. I've played quite a lot with those special first languages, closest to my heart, but also started developing a ton of new ones. Phase III had a lot of new directions, Manketzal, Shelud, Xoršid, Kežtuzakil and many more. Most of those listed here belong to Phase IV by that count, and there's even a Phase V (e.g. Warthuz) and beyond (Lassakirthi, Tulvan, Kareyku).

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Contact:

Twitter: @nicocampi

Instagram: @nicomcampi

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Pages working on currently

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".

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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