Conlangs

Adare

It has been made as the wisest tongue in its world, a language of the High Culture of Northern Vissar, a language commonly used for literature and spiritual beliefs, magic and so on. It is developed on the basis of the common parts of Finnish, Basque, Japanese, Latin and Quenya, but being a complete homogeneous language, with its own caracteristics in syntax,declension, phonetics and vocabulary. [Asier G.]

Ahlimite

[John Whatmough]

Alarian

Like a few other real world languages, some of its word forms come from a description of an object rather than an object having a name. Such as "hand" is written has "body gives" or "body writes". The language is also very rhythmic. [Noby Nobriga]

Alphistian

[Tony Skags]

Ambarnic

Ambarnic has a unique system of vowel ablaut that is utilized in forming noun plurals and verb tenses. It also uses frequent palatalization. [Jordan Lavender]

Amman-Iar

If you have ever longed to see one of Tolkien's languages brought to completion, you will love Amman-Iar, created in the spirit of Sindarin and Quenya and set in a new continent of Middle Earth. Originally inspired by Elvish, Amman-Iar has grown into something quite different, with a unique flavor of its own and a richly realized grammar. Amman-Iar is one of the few constructed languages on the Web with a detailed fictional history of word derivation. [David Bell]

Archeía

It's a richly inflected language and maybe the conlang with the most irregular verbs (ca. 35). It also has a rich set of derivational affixes. With a few borrowings, it might even be turned into a working modern language. One other uniqueness is that several Greek letters are used. [Anselm Huppenbauer]

Arkian

Arkian is the official language of the micro-community Ark. Besides its unique set of source languages (pick another constructed language with words drawn primarily from Turkish, Finnish, Chinese and Czech!), Arkian has a unique script and unique grammatical features like indefinite animate gender and frame clause construction. Unfortunately for English speakers, the 1500-word Arkian dictionary is in Czech. [Jan Havlis]

Aronian

Aronian is unique for several reasons. It has a complex case system with about fifteen cases, much like Finnish. Another peculiarity with relation to the Uralic family is that it inflects its verbs for 13 moods, many moods which eliminate the function of certain verbs in English. Its verb system is split up into four different groups which each have different methods of inflection: transitive, intransitive, bitransitive, and reflexive. The verbs do not inflect for tense, however there are separate auxiliary verbs used for tense. There is only one irregular verb - the pro-verb, which functions in much the same way as the English pro-verb: to do. What really makes the language unique is its verb system. It has three numbers - singular, dual, and plural, and even more unique is that it has four persons, the fourth being hypothetical along with other uses. [Dillon Shaw]

Arvorec

Arvorec is (in Ill Bethisad) virtually unique, the only surviving P-Celtic language. [Deiniol Jones]

Ascenderati

[John Whatmough]

Asha'ille

[Arthaey Angosii]

Atlan (Atlantean)

Atlan ("Atlantean" in English) is one of the languages spoken in the Atlantean Empire, supposedly discovered in an alternate world. The history of the Empire is told in great detail, along with most of its languages. Atlan is one of four descendants of the Juralic group of languages, and its historical development, grammar and vocabulary are all described, and more is being added all the time. [Graham Mabey]

aw'ingiwa

A descendent of kingiwa 'awiwasa, and a second-generation descendent of kingifa, aw'ingiwa has a much more complex verb morphology, and three noun classes - obligatorily possessed, inalienably possessed and alienably possessed. [Apollo Hogan]

Axunashin

Axunashin may have the most elaborately developed syntax of any artlang, with the syntax represented as a series of transformations. Axunashin is the language of Axunai, the ancient empire of southern Ereláe in Verduria. It is the ancestor of Xurnás and Teôshi; it is related to related Cadinor and Cuêzi. Wede:i, Jeori, Old Skourene, Tzhuro and Mei have all influenced Axunashin. Proto-Eastern's nominative and accusative noun declension has, in Axunashin, evolved into a unique system of honorifics. [Mark Rosenfelder]

Barakhinei

Barakhinei is a sister language of Verdurian, spoken in the mountain lands of Barakhún, Mútkün, and Hroth. Verdurians think it sounds harsh and primitive... of course, the Barakhinei consider the Verdurians to be spineless degenerates. Barakhinei has its own alphabet, and perhaps its most notable feature is the important sex differences: in effect, there are separate male and female dialects. [Mark Rosenfelder]

Breathanach

Breathanach is the first constructed language inspired by Q-Celtic on the Web. It is the "Q" to Brithenig's "P": what might have happened if Latin had been filtered through a Gaelic phonology. The site features a grammar and sample texts. [Geoff Eddy]

Brithenig

One of the best of the fictional languages on the web. Brithenig is the language of an alternate history, being the Romance language that might have evolved if Latin speakers had displaced Celtic speakers in Britain. Brithenig has undergone sound changes similar to those of Welsh, and has borrowed from Old Celtic and from Old, Middle and Modern English. [Andrew Smith]

Cadhinor

Cadhinor is the ancestor languages of many of Mark's other languages, including Barakhinei, Ismain and Verdurian. Cadhinor is itself descended from Proto-Eastern. The grammar is written as if it were a native grammar of the language: "I've decided to post a translation of Pere aluatas i Cadhinor, by the Verdurian scholar Shm Fatandor Revouse, published in 3417, and intended for avisar (secondary school) students. It should not be taken as the best Verdurians can do; that would be the scholarly, three-volume Aluatas Shriftanáei Cadhinei (University Grammar of Cadhinor). I've chosen Revouse because it's popular and typical of Verdurian attitudes toward languages-- it's like a Verdurian Teach Yourself." [Mark Rosenfelder]

Chovur

Chovur is the ancestral tongue of a group of nomads living in the northern steppes of a fictional world. [J. Fatula]

Coeniathen

Coeniathen is designed to be slightly Celtic-like. Some distinct features are the "Darkening" of all short vowels (e.g. [a] > [O], [o] > [U] 'w'), the "Vowel-Breaking" after former aspirates and the oblique case that covers genitive and accusative. [Anselm Huppenbauer]

Danarib

Danarib is a language designed with a deliberate emphasis on euphony and alliteration. It uses prefixes to designate noun, pronoun and adjective declensions, while suffixes are used to conjugate verbs and adverbs. Words come from a basic root which can be modified to form any part of speech. [Gary Wann]

Demonic/Alorian

I abused one major universal. I have eight vowels, all back vowels, and all with '_e' (pharyngealized) to make them sound angry. The language has seven aspects, 28 cases and 24 moods, and so is inflectional to the extreme! My 'odd' gender system, and my "purposeful" choice of consonants to make the language harsh and ugly makes Black Speech sound like Finnish ;). [Kevin Urbanczyk]

Dermensin

Dermensin (De*rmënsin) is a language that sounds primitive but that is very complex and developed. It's a language that is used for literature and scientific books in my conworld. Its uniqueness is the euphonic use of /k/. The six types of accents are really good too. [Eugenio M. Vigo]

Dha-Patu

Dha-Patu is completely analytical; it has only two parts of speech, radicals and particles; it has sets of particles that form noun and verb phrases, classify the nouns and define the functions of the verbs; it has an artificial core vocabulary, expanded by loans from natural languages (mainly Greek and Latin). The grammar was conceived entirely on a priori logical principles, and the core vocabulary was generated by random combinations of the given letters. The site features a dictionary of over 1,250 words, a grammar and sample texts. [Karl Jahn]

Diudisk

It's morphologically simple like English, lexically Germanic and phonetically really easy. [Raginvard Flut]

Doriathrin

The native tongue of Lúthien Tinúviel, the elf-maid who loved a mortal. Possible dialect of Ilkorin. [J.R.R. Tolkien]

Draconic

This is the language used by only Dragons and beings with dragon lineage, and a handful of those who the dragon felt deserving of its knowledge. A great many magic spells were based on this most ancient language. No language even remotely resembles its structure, as only the most powerful of beings who speak it. [Bryant]

E Dashul

VSO word order, a combined particle-article system of organization, cursive script, simple usage of lax/tense vowels for word functionality. [Anthony Raymond Bullard]

Eastern

A cousin to Watakassí, Eastern is phonetically far more complex, with more phonemes and more complex syllables. It also has less agglutination, and more isolation and fusion, using auxillary verbs to replace several inflections of Watakassí and its ancestor, and using prepositions to replace some of the cases. [Nik Taylor]

Egren

Egren, or the Common Fantasy Tongue, is one of my best projects with computer-generated lexicon (it works!). The grammar is rather Indo-European, and I'm intending to evolve some other languages from this one. [Tuomo Sipola]

Elatoi

[John Whatmough]

Elkaril

"Each CVC syllable in Elkarîl is drawn in the form of a face-- taking advantage of the hominid brain's ability to perceive faces quickly and easily as a gestalt." "Elkarîl is the language of the elcari... It is the best-known non-human language of Ereláe... elkar is literally `the making people'. I write elcar, plural elcari, because this is the form of the word in Verdurian. I avoid the translation `dwarf' since it imports too many associations from terrestrial legends." [Mark Rosenfelder]

Elvish

Elvish is the common term for the family of languages created by J.R.R. Tolkien in The Lord of the Rings and other works. The movies and books primarily feature Quenya and Sindarin. Other Elvish languages include Avarin, Doriathrin, Ilkorin, Nandorin, Primitive Elvish, Qenya (precursor to Quenya), Telerin and Valarin. [J.R.R. Tolkien]

Emterz

Emterz is a language which is a version of Emterezka which is simpler. Unlike English, Emterz uses 7 vowels: AE, A, E, I, O, U, and ('[a sound like UH]). When some consonants are next to another (H, L, R, W, and Y), they form a vowel sound. [Edgar c.]

Fergiartisch

High developed grammar. It does not only list sounds and forms, but also usages, syntax, etc. [Johannes Hufnagel]

Flestrin

[What's unique about Flestrin?] Of course its story and ambient world. (Warning) The site is only in Italian, and will be completed when it will be incorporated with the site of the language's surrounding world. [Maurizio Rovatti]

Forendar

David Bell writes, "Forendar is descended from the same protolanguage (Vulanayal) as Amman Iar. Forendar will be basically agglutinative like Amman Iar, but unlike Amman Iar almost exclusively suffixing. The unmarked word order will continue to be SV/AOV, but considerable deviation will be possible in forendar. There will be clearly defined classes of noun, adjective, locational and temporal qualifiers, speech-act pronouns, deictic, verb, adverb, particle and interjection. Definite deictics which also will have some of the functions of 3rd person pronouns, will not vary for number but will involve a 3-term spatial system, proximal, distal and indefinite." [David Bell]

Fortunatian

The vowel changes and mergers are (I think) unique among Romance languages. The neuter case survives, and a retroflex series existed at an earlier stage. Elision has had great effects on the original Latin. [Marcus Miles]

Gaelish

[John Whatmough]

Gothic

Alas, no Eastern Germanic language survives in our world, but Perrotin has created an alternate history where Wulfilan Gothic survives. Gutisk, as its speakers call it, is grammatically simpler than its ancestor, if yet richer in inflexions than modern European languages. The site has sample texts, a reference grammar and rich graphics. [Damien Erwan Perrotin]

Gutisk

What the Gothic tongue had become if it had survived. A what if language [Damien Erwan Perrotin]

Hattic

The Hattic language (zõjuk Chader) constitutes a separate branch of the Indo-European family. It can be classified as a kentum language, somewhere between Tocharian and the Germanic languages. Both vocabulary and grammar are systematically derived from PIE roots according to fixed phonological rules. Characteristic is the frequent use of nasal vowels and spirants. (It should be noted that Hattic has nothing in common with the ancient, non-IE language of the same name, spoken in Anatolia long ago.) Currently, Hattic has only one sister language, Askaic; this number, however, is likely to grow with the years. [Jan van Steenbergen]

Hystudian

This language, which is meant to be spoken be people living on an island of the coast of France, is surprisingly not related to any terrestial language. It is Indo-European in looks and sounds and has a uniquely simple phonetic structure, which allows the learner to focus more on the somewhat complex grammar. [Daniel Jewell]

Ibran

A Romance language which on paper looks much like French or Provencal, but whose pronunciation deviates even more from Latin than either. [Muke Tever]

Iljanore

Iljanore is a highly inflecting language presented here chronologically: first as the continuum of dialects derived from the ancient form of the language; then comes the classical form, spoken and written during the Classical Period of its speaker's history; and then as the little known and obscure language in which it evolved later on. Extensive information about the people who speak the language should also be included. For now however, the tales that have arisen around the language have become more important than the language itself! So I'm not so sure about the immediate future of the true content of the web site. For now, a small part of the mythology is available to read. [Jeff Smith]

inif Xeuivteles

Influenced by three very different languages: German, Latin, and D'ni. Also it will be included in a novel that I am trying to write. [B. Morgan White]

Ïnlici

[ACZ]

Ïpetas

Ïpetas is the language spoken in the Western Empire as opposed to the Mesar countries. Ïpetas is a language of inflection and has nice, soft phonology. With an effective derivational morphology it is one of the best languages I've ever made. [Tuomo Sipola]

Ismain

A sister language of Verdurian, Ismain is derived in a regular process (with historically plausible quirks) from Cadhinor, complete with borrowings from Verdurian and Kebreni. Besides a grammar and sample texts, a 1500-word lexicon, with etymologies, is available. [Mark Rosenfelder]

Itlani

Itlani is an alien language of a people with possible Terran connections. It has a rich vocabulary of 11,000 words [not online yet], its own script [not online yet], and an internal history of over 30,000 years. It is vaguely Indo-Uralic in structure. [James E. Hopkins]

Jameld

Jameld has over 4,000 words, derived from German, French, Dutch, Frisian and Esperanto. The author sums it up best, "Jameld is a constructed language, with an organic heart and an imaginary history. It is smooth and chocolatey on the outside, with a lovely fluffy centre, and it won't fill you up. Oh, and it looks like this: Te missa eri jist eskrïri int Jameld. Oquo na possmä zë vorvor ohn t'Internet!" Campbell has published Jameld translations in Zolid Matters, his e-journal. [James Campbell]

Jaueqao myys

Jaueqao myys has a rich consonant system, spanning twelve points of articulation. It marks tense on the pronouns, and Definite/Remote & Aspect on the noun. [Zak Keene]

Jovian

Jovian is a fresh new romlang (constructed Romance language) concept starting from the venerable and plentiful resources of the High Latin language and taking it where no romlang has gone before. Its phonology is quite unusual for a romlang, and includes a few well-behaved mutation patterns. [Christian Thalmann]

Kardasi

The language of the Cardassians of Star Trek: Deep Space 9, used by some Cardassian roleplayers. The vocabulary is entirely invented, and the grammar is primarily Russian/Slavic, with a little Hebrew thrown in. The lexicon has over 3,500 words, and the site features sample texts and a unique script. [Esther Schrager]

Karklak

I developed my first constructed language in 1982 when I was 13, and I called it Karklak, the Gnome Tongue. It was the language of the gnomes of the land of Wundrian. The impetus for inventing the language was reading an article in Dragon magazine that discussed inventing a Dwarvish dialect. [Jeffrey Henning]

Kaupelanese

It has been created to be the language of the Kingdom of Kaupelan and to seem as 'natural' as possible, although strange and exotic. Its grammar was based on Austronesian languages and its vocabulary was created from a basic kernel with different influences from fictional or natural languages. Many loanwords were added to this basis, from Asiatic (Indonesian, Sanskrit) and European languages (Portuguese, English). [Paulo Eduardo França Padilha]

Kebreni

Kebreni is the language of Kebri, which is near Verduria on the planet of Almea. Its grammar is designed to differ from that of English in nearly every way possible: for instance, the verbal system depends on categories like aspect, politeness, desire, and volitional impact, and not at all on person, number, or tense, and conjugation depends on metathesis and vowel change rather than inflection. Kebreni's ancestor language Methaiun is worked out as well, and Kebreni derives from it in a historically plausible way. The site lists a 1400-word dictionary with etymologies, a grammar and sample texts. [Mark Rosenfelder]

Kerno

Padraic Brown writes, "Kerno is one of the principal historical languages of Rheon Kemr (the Kingdom of Cambria), descended from the Vulgar Latin spoken by the Romano-British of the 1st through 4th centuries AD. Specifically, it is a continuum of dialects of the West British branch of the Romance language family. Its historical boundaries are the Severn Valley in the north, the Avon in the east (in the regions of Sorbadunon) and the Loire Valley in the southeast." [Padraic Brown]

Khikeng

A third-generation descendent of Kingifa via Kingfa and Kinfa, Khikeng is an isolating, tonal language with gramaticalized etiquette. [Apollo Hogan]

Kimva

A second-generation descendant of Kingifa via Kingfa, Kingifa has an interesting agglutinating morphology, including case circumfixes. [Pete Bleackley]

kimwa lilyeho

Part of the ConlangEvolutionExperiment. A third-generation descendent of Kingiga, via Kingfa and Kimva, kimwa lilyeho is beginning to show signs of fusion in its morphology. [Alex Fink]

Kinfa

Kinfa is a second-generation descendant of Kingifa, via Kingfa. It is the first second-generation language in the Conlang Evolution Experiment. [Sven Lotz]

Kingfa

The first descendent of Kingifa to be published, Kingfa is part of a conlang evolution experiment. [Apollo Hogan]

Kingifa

Kingifa is the starting point of a conlang evolution experiment. It is intended as the common ancestor from which a family of languages will be derived. [Pete Bleackley]

Kingiwa 'Awiwasa

A first-generation descendent of Kingifa, kingiwa 'awiwasa introduces some clitics and affixes to the mainly isolating morphology. [Alex Fink]

Kinsi Rorotan

Almost every word is irregular. [Robert Wilson]

Kirumb

An ancient Indo-European conlang quite different from its peer natlangs in its brutal palatalization/fricativization of most all original PIE sounds. [Muke Tever]

Kor'ekhani

Kor'ekhani was designed to be strangely familiar and yet at the same time completely foreign. [J. Matthew Saunders]

Kronokayjin

It has a simple and logical inflected grammar and interesting system for dirivitives. [Tyler Hogan]

Kyran

Kyran has developed with its culture; however, likewise, its culture has developed with the language. Kyran has gained a 'now' tense. It has also adapted itself differently for lyrical speech (formal and written) and regular speech. [Kian]

Lamquenen

Lamquenen doesn't allow B or D to stand alone and G is not allowed at the beginning of the word. Because it is based off Finnish, the only permissible word endings are either a vowel, or one of the letters L, N, R, S or T. B and D exist only in the clusters MB and ND. [Brandon Schwartz]

Larua

Larua combines the analytic grammar of Mandarin Chinese with a strict VSO constituent order (constructed as a mirror image of Japanese and Ainu SOV order) and a phonology more typical of European languages. [Darrell Manrique]

Liotan

Liotan is the name of the family to which most of my constructed languages belong, not of a particular language; it's analogous to 'Romance'. Liotan began as a low-key linguistic project, but got rather out of hand. All I originally wanted was a consistent and distinctive system of nomenclature for a book I'm writing; I now have ten related languages, three further unrelated ones, and a major source of linguistic headaches - but a great deal of satisfaction nevertheless. [Geoff Eddy]

Ludycian

Ludycian (formerly Varklev) is the modern language of the Veresians, unique but with a European-like flair. Unlike a number of other conlangs, it has a pleasant, roll-of-the-tongue sound to it. Note that this language is now considered archaic. [Alex Beaverstone]

Malknarh

[Maknas]

Mekhael

Mekhael is a classical language with several daughters, contrasts /r/, /r\/, and /4/, and uses an abjad as its script. [Maknas]

Melani

This is a very Tolkien-esque language that I originally made as a few words for a story that I wrote. Later, I liked it so much that I decided to make a complete language. I did not realize at the time just how hard that would be, but I've gotten pretty far. I've finally forced my computer to upload a wordlist and will work on it diligently. [Michael Mechmann]

Mêriale Nunérim

Mêriale Nunérim is the oldest mermaid language of Imaginativa. This language was developed from Nuneriáhmen, the human language, because of the growing contact between both races. Mêriale Nunérim will be the base for the development of Mêriate et Darae. Its uniqueness is that, although it was created as a transition language between Nuneriáhmen and Mêriate et Darae, it evolved into a high-precision (but simple) and euphonic language. [Eugenio M. Vigo]

Mêriate et Darae

To be a language that has lots of irregularities. This makes Mêriate more natural than other conlangs. [Eugenio M. Vigo]

Minhyan

Minhyan has a lexicon of almost 15,000 words, many carefully derived from roots using a system of 57 infixes. Minhyan is a VSO inflexional language that grammaticalizes two aspects and seven moods in its verbal conjugation and grammaticalizes definiteness and seven cases in its noun declension, which is active-stative rather than nominative-accusative. [Jeffrey Henning]

Møkobi

Møkobi, like Poþi, is decended from the language known as Zuunishii, which was spoken on the world "Nut" as we call it. It is older than Poþi by a number of centuries [Joseph W. Mynhier]

ñakiw pym wifiw kingewhàwwas

A second generation descendent of Kingifa, via kingiwa 'awiwasa, ñakiw pym wifiw kingewhàwwas has an interesting and unusual case system. [Pete Bleackley]

Nassian

Nassian or Nasisk Enzük belongs to the fictional family of North Slavonic languages along with Sievrosku and Vozgian, for example. [Jan Havlis]

New Avaeran

It derives from Avaeran and other languages of the same language group. The naming elements resemble those of Avaeran.

Newahon

[John Whatmough]

Ngolopalnec

[John Whatmough]

Nimyad

Very little. Possibly the design principles (see below) are a little unusual. [Thomas Thurman]

Northern Griffin Script

It has a beautiful system of cursive writing, if I ever get my scanner working I'll post some samples on my webpage, which does post a TrueType font. It has a lot of little words, but it sometimes turns out longer than English because you have to link the words together. It's a descendent of a root language from when I was 11 or so, but only the writing remains of that, and I can only classify a few of the characters, which means I only know 2 sound characters from the old one. And it has several sister languages, the details of which are written down, but not on my computer yet. [Zylom]

Nóyatûkâh

Nóyatûkâh is a large, long-term work-in-progress. Begun 1995; Grammar written 2003. The grammar is being compiled from hundreds of pages of sketches and notes written over the last eight years. This is slow-going, and it may be months before the language assumes semi-final form. Until then, most details are subject to change (especially the exact forms of words). The PDF will be updated regularly; right now, it ends abruptly and includes references to sections that have not been written yet. I welcome comments and questions. ("Nóyatûkâh" is the Web-friendly spelling; the circumflex, which here indicates vowel devoicing, is more properly a dot above. It is so represented in the grammar.) [J. S. Burke]

Nunihongo

What would Japanese look like if half of its vocabulary were derived from English, as opposed to just 13% today? [Jeffrey Henning]

õ’ingææ

A descendent of aw'ingiwa, and a third-generation descendent of Kingifa, õ’ingææ has an eleborate noun class system which can be used for derivation. [Alex Fink]

Old Rashurish

This language is analogous to Ancient Egyptian, and tries to mimic it in some ways. It is a very young language, and has some pidgin-like features, though the 'slice' here is more mature and has lost most of them. It is the first tongue of Men, and is to have a detailed history. [Ikkakujyu]

Old Sindarin

Primitive Quendian begat Common Eldarin. Common Eldarin begat Common Lindarin. Common Lindarin begat Old Sindarin. Old Sindarin begat (Classical) Sindarin. Helge writes, "Old Sindarin preserves the general sound of archaic Elvish much better than Sindarin does. There are quite a few cases of Old Sindarin words being identical to Quenya words." [J.R.R. Tolkien]

Otg

Inspired by Celtic and Turkic languages, Otg (pronounced /o-ti/) has word-initial case markers, vowel contrast and harmony for grammatical function, and - as you may have gathered - contorted pronunciation of the Latin orthography. The language is mainly agglutinative, with the inflected nouns allowing free word order. The author has coined over 16,000 words, not all yet on the web site. [Galivad]

Primitive Elvish

Begun as Proto-Elfin in 1915 by J.R.R. Tolkien, Primitive Elvish is the language that over time (in his fictional world) evolved into his many other Elvish languages. Primitive Elvish is divided into two stages: Primitive Quendian and Common Eldarin (the language of the Eldar as distinct from the Avari). [J.R.R. Tolkien]

Proto-Drem

A few oddities, like having 17 cases (ideas from Finnish and Russian). Another fun one is what I did with adjectives and adverbs... the suffix is dependent on gender (Animate vs. Inanimate) and case (so that the word meaning "bloody" is really 'blood+[adjective particle]'). Another fun idea was Intensification and Comparisons of Degree. As for my "Flip morpheme", this little gem takes an adjective and turns it into an adverb and vice versa: not in a standard way, mind you, since an adjective is still a noun, but I can now bury a noun phrase in a verb phrase, and say the whole sentence (word) is just a verb phrase… ... to get the full idea of these neat modifiers, you'll have to look and see :). Sentences such as Lìề.ĝiş.ýè.ĝâgd.id.l.pep are popular for the haiku-like poetry of Proto-Drem. [Kevin Urbanczyk]

Proto-Eastern

Proto-Eastern is the proto-ancestor of many Almean languages, most prominently Cadhinor. [Mark Rosenfelder]

Proto-Liotan

[Geoff Eddy]

Qenya

In 1915, Tolkien began his first attempt at a High-Elven language: Qenya. It is almost an entirely different language than Quenya as used in The Lord of the Rings (which, after all, was not published until almost 40 years later). [J.R.R. Tolkien]

Qhalite

[John Whatmough]

Rachovian

There isn't anything particularly unique about Rachovian, aside from the vocabulary. [Geoff Eddy]

Reman

Reman is not just another romlang. It takes the Romance language to a direction that has never been taken before, even by other Romance conlangs. From Latin, it has lost grammatical genders, lost agreement between nouns and adjectives, lost most of the conjugations, merged prepositions and conjunctions as well as adjectives and adverbs, and created a subjunctive future tense from the Latin future participle! :) Moreover, its conjunctions/prepositions must be followed by the indirect form of pronouns, even when those are the subject of a verb (when the particles are used as conjunctions), a little like it happens with some Arabic particles. [Christophe Grandsire]

Saiwosh

Saiwosh is a language derived from Chinook Jargon, a Native American trading pidgin of North West America. Saiwosh is what Chinook Jargon could have evolved into, if it had been the everyday language of a modern, monolingual community. [Frank Legros]

Shaelic

Shaelic uses what it calls "elucidatives" to indicate thought progression and sentence meaning. It is also the primary honorific in the language. The lexicon has over 3,000 words. [Scott Hutton]

Sinampaiton

Sinampaiton breaks (or bends) at least one of Joseph H. Greenberg's universals of grammar. Most notably, its split-ergative system is (syntactically) nominative/accusative in nouns but (morphologically) ergative/absolutive in pronouns. [Paul Hoffman]

Slezan

Slezan is a Slavo-Romance language, which originally came into being as a satellite project of Wenedyk but then emerged into a separate language rather than a dialect). It is spoken in Silesia in the alternate timeline of Ill Bethisad. Wenedyk's phonology and orthography are entirely based on Polish; Slezan does something similar with Czech, but in a far more liberal way. Its grammar is much more "Romance" and much less "Slavic" (for example, unlike Wenedyk, it has only two cases). [Jan van Steenbergen]

Slvanjec

Slvanjec ['sl=van_jEts] means "Language of the forest dwellers". [Benct Philip Jonsson]

Sorgalo

[Carlos Cervera]

Swa-di

Swa_di uses cases, although it is still a beautiful language, and it uses a tense system of prefixes with conjugation by suffixes. Unlike European tongues, Swa_di uses all cases, including progressive. [Bradford Morgan White]

Ta Pémish Shprochna

Pémish is a language in alternate world Ill Bethisad spoken in the Bohemian Kingdom. It is a language as it could be out of Czech, if no Czech national renaissance would appear late in the 18th century and the language will change to dialect of German with only a Czech superstrate. [Jan Havlis]

Tharan

Tharan is derived from Indo-European roots, but can also trace many words to Staerïth, a fictional language spoken by the deities of Tharan (Tharïth) mythology. It is my first real attempt at conlanging. [Dan Cole]

Thiazic

Four of the five major Indo-European family classifications has a close "cousin" family: Celtic and Italic, Baltic and Slavic. The Proto-Mimmanic roots are the basis of a language family which shall be a "cousin" to the Germanic family. [Chris Paull (Zeke Fordsmender)]

Tho-Kyi

Five-way contrast in stops, liquids, and sibilant; combined nominative/ergative case system; genitive case combined with other cases; possession is marked on the thing possessed, not the possessor; multiple distinctive demonstrative and tense markers. [Karl Jahn]

Thosk

1. Developed systematically from Indo-European roots following its own set of phonetic laws. 2. Vocabulary of 2000+ words. 3. Naturalistic in appearance and grammar. [Dean Easton]

Tiemish

[Stephen Mulraney]

Toaliralolo languages

[Jim Henry]

Tsolyáni

Tsolyáni is one of the languages of Tekumel, the world of M.A.R. Barker's fantasy role-playing game Empire of the Petal Throne and novels (Man of Gold, Flamesong). Though all these works are out of print, Tekumel, Tsolyani and the other Tekumelani languages have a loyal following. Tsolyani was inspired by Urdu, Pushti and Mayan; a ULD lexicon is available. [Muhammad Abd-el-Rahman Barker]

Tundrian

Tundrian is a Romance language spoken in the imaginary country of Tundria, which lies to the west of France in the Atlantic Ocean. The country is imagined as if it was part of the real world, i.e. if there was really such an island, it could conceivably be as it is imagined. The language is based on Latin, and it underwent the kinds of phonetic, morphologic and other changes similar to those that have led to other (real) Romance languages. Among its characteristics are the preservation of the nominative/accusative cases in the definite article, nouns and adjectives, and the preservation of intervocalic voiceless stops (as in 'sapeir' [to know], 'fata' [fairy], 'pacar' [to pay]). [Gábor Sándi]

Ungil

A "deformative" conlang derived from a source -- in this case, Latin -- while looking nothing like it. VSO syntax. [Dean Easton]

Vardhastani

Vardhastani is the northern sister language of the more well known artlang Archeía. It contains some features of the Sanskrit phonology as palatals and aspirates, but I tried to "dissolve" the words by reducing nearly all unstressed vowels to 'a' [a]/[6] so much that the result sounds very homogenous and flowing, not to say monotonous - by means of a mostly agglutinative morphology. [Anselm Huppenbauer]

Vayaun

[Andrew Smith]

Veltsin

One uniquity is that almost all nouns, verbs, and adjectives are single syllables, usually in the format consonant+vowel+consonant. Also unique are the very strict rules of syntax formation. [T. A. Wiebe]

Verdurian

Not only does it have a large vocabulary (over 5,500 words) and a linguistically informed grammar, Verdurian also has a fully worked-out family tree, going back two levels: to its ancestor, Cadhinor, and to its ultimate origin, Proto-Eastern, with sister languages at both levels. It is naturalistic, with irregularities, sound changes, dialect differences, and interesting etymologies, giving it great appeal to others. And it's only one part of a complex created world, with its own biology, history, and belief systems. [Mark Rosenfelder]

Vozgian

Vozgian is my answer to the question: what would a fictional North-Slavonic language family have looked like? The result is a language derived directly from Common Slavic, but deeply influenced by the Uralic languages, notably Finnish and Komi (for example, it has no less than 12 cases). Vozgian is the name-giving language of the (fictional) Vozgian Republic, a constituent of the Russian Federation in Ill Bethisad. It is written in Cyrillic script with a few modifications. Along with two sister languages (Motyak and Slopik), Vozgian was started in 1996. However, the current version of the language has little in common with either of them; in fact, it was redone from scratch in 2003. [Jan van Steenbergen]

Watakassí

It is agglutinative, with a gender system, and a redundant pluralization pattern (in both the gender-prefix, and in a suffix on the noun). It is verb initial, but otherwise has free word order, with many cases and a fairly elaborate system of aspects. [Nik Taylor]

Wede:i

An ancient language of Almea (the world Verduria is on), Wede:i is agglutinative, with no strict division into parts of speech, meaning a single Wede:i word can express quite a lot of English verbiage. Other unusual aspects, for a constructed language, include its logographic writing system and its base 6 number system. Finally, it fits into the history of Almea; its writing system became that of Axunashin, a distant relative of Verdurian, when the speakers of Axunashin conquered the Xengi valley; their language was also influenced phonologically and lexically by Wede:i. The lexicon lists over 600 words, with etymologies; a grammar, sample texts and description of the writing system are available. [Mark Rosenfelder]

Wenedyk

Wenedyk (in English: Venedic) is a Slavo-Romance language. Officially, it is a descendent from Vulgar Latin with a strong Slavic admixture, based on the premise that the Roman Empire incorporated the ancestors of Poles in their territory. Unofficially, Wenedyk just tries to show what Polish would have looked like if it had been a Romance instead of a Slavic language. Wenedyk is one of the languages of the Republic of the Two Crowns in Ill Bethisad, where it replaces Polish. [Jan van Steenbergen]

Wessisc

Wessisc, inspired by Brithenig, started from a question I asked myself: What sort of language would people speak if the language of the Anglo-Saxon invaders had merged with that of native Celtic speakers in Wessex, 1500 years ago? Wessisc is my attempt to answer this question. Also, in the conculture, Wessisc died out approx. 3-500 years ago, so I am also attempting to reconstruct Wessisc, thus mirroring the culture on the reconstructed natlang Cornish. It is currently in the early stages of creation. The website was down for a long time, but will shortly be relaunched. [Damon M. Lord]

Xianese

[John Whatmough]

Xliponian

Xliponian (the letter x is pronounced like a sh) is an Indo-European language spoken almost exclusively in the Kingdom of Xliponia. It is derived from the vulgar Latin of the Roman imperial conquerors who occupied the region in the early centuries of the Common Era. The main feature that distinguishes Xliponian from other Romance languages is the soundshift suffered very early by some consonantal sounds. [Ronald Kyrmse]

Yivrian

Yivríndil is a historically rigorous a priori conlang, with a fair degree of completeness. It's sonorous and fluid, with a preference to open syllables and few consonant clusters. There are several related languages that have been designed, but are much less complete. [Jesse Bangs]

Ziotaki

It's a cross between English and Japanese, with some extra features thrown in for fun. Ziotaki pronouns have an obligatory ingroup-outgroup distinction and pronouns can carry a suffix to indicate which referent in a sequence they refer to. [Shihali Ramichu]

Zoggian

This is a fully isolating language, where there are no word classes, no declensions, no conjugations, just an ordering of words in sentence makes the meaning. [Jan Havliš]

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Updated on January 10, 2005 at 3:36 PM (GMT-5).