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=== [[Omonkwi]] (ca. 2003) ===
=== [[Omonkwi]] (ca. 2003) ===
: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 ''Chimalmat''. 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 via a poorly pronounced (by my high-school teacher) version of deity names in the [[w:Popol Vuh|Popol Vuh]].


=== [[Českoen]] (ca. 2003) ===
=== [[Českoen]] (ca. 2003) ===

Revision as of 03:03, 16 December 2020

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 and Akkadian.

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!

My Frathwiki User page

Contact:

Twitter: @nicocampi

Instagram: @nicomcampi

In this userspace:

Pages working on currently

Languages: a priori

Alanûz (ca. 2003)

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 (ca. 2003)

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.

Českoen (ca. 2003)

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.

Kamatarna (ca. 2003)

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.

Shellud (ca. 2003)

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. It also uses triliteral roots and declensional cases. This would later be superseded by the creation of Karrakêsh.

Warthuz (ca. 2005)

A language of some Proto-Germanic inspiration, but very generally.
Sample:
Ducuz kuruz hrelunca, apu lūmí the nogū.
Caru inú naskut jaculac, apu inú the ōcoskum safāc.
Caru kwōnut tūcinōn, ewur uvarīc hīllut Nerut Ragatwa.
Ewur uvarīc ducut hīllut, ewur thasa ducīz nagaz bruntar ku thinnuc, un as gūnac rokkuntar...

Tulvan (2010)

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 (2010)

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.

Languages: a posteriori

Fingail

A Welshified version of the Finnish language.
Sample:
sín ragathan, mín ragathad?
I love you, do you love me?

Lam a-vrest/Brest

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.

Naruvano

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

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.

Sayelak

A supposed descendant of a proposed sister language to PIE.
Sample:
puHtus, sayel, mateš
father, star, mother

Tingwa

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.

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 Carcossa.

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)

Still in progress for a movie project. It is the language of extra-dimensional humans from a dimension called "Atlantis".

The Cramarian project

Wakensi

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.

Teutla

A Cramarian language with a faintly mixed Nahuatl/Mayan touch.

Tuscal

Tuscal is intended to have a mix of Latin/Etruscan feel to it.

Éothuth

Some inspiration taken from natlang Beothuk because of a coincidence in shape of some words, also Old English.

Pennyen

A Sino-Japanese derivate, that also has two descendants.

Hrashrzen

Weird inspiration.

The Proto-Okiwo project

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