Welcome to Nicomega's user page on Linguifex!
Hello, I'm Nicomega, creating languages since 1999. First inspirations at that time came from learning English, French and some notions of Greek terminology and Latin (very vague). 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!
Languages
- Alanûz is a language inspired in Semitic languages and triliteral roots but completely a priori. It doesn't strictly follow a Semitic grammar though.
- Sample:
- hakelī qaviram lē-zīr
- the truth hides beneath the words.
- 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 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.
- Sample:
- ipāgnat šival gōkwili
- Mountains (are) the jaws of the Earth.
- 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 Jabba the Hutt's Huttese but with minimal class prefixes for noun and adjective, singular and plural.
- Sample:
- anta-čoga haska m’ onzo
- There seem to be spider-webs.
- 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.
- Sample:
- Kima dūma plo-kamatar?
- Who comes to our lands?
- An attempt to create a "dark language" whatever that may be. It draws some inspiration from Tolkien's Black Speech, but also from Akkadian. It also uses triliteral roots and declensional cases.
- Sample:
- dalluk-at ašpathûz
- I will show you darkness.
- 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.
- Sample:
- tulv kwam, kik ëv kem
- I think, therefore I am.
- 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 Japanese and Quechua, among others. It also uses some particles not unlike 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!