Nicomega

==Languages: a priori ==

: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.

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:''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 [[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.

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:'''[[Contionary:ipāgnat|ipāgnat]] [[Contionary:šival|šival]] [[Contionary:gōkwili|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 [[w:Huttese|Jabba the Hutt's Huttese]] but with minimal class prefixes for noun and adjective, singular and plural.

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:''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.

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:'''Kima dūma plo-kamatar?'''

:''Who comes to our lands?''

: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 This would later be superseded by the creation of [[Karrakêsh]].

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:''I will show you darkness.''

:A language of some [[w:Proto-Germanic|Proto-Germanic]] inspiration, but very generally.

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:'''Ewur uvarīc ducut hīllut, ewur thasa ducīz nagaz bruntar ku thinnuc, un as gūnac rokkuntar...'''

: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.

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* [[:Category:Tulvan lemmas|Tulvan Vocabulary page]]

: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.

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