Nicomega

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+Hello, I’m Nicholas, a language creator from Buenos Aires, Argentina, active since 1997. My earliest inspirations came from learning English and French, with scattered exposure to Greek and Latin terminology. Later influences included Tolkien’s Elvish languages, Old English, and Old Norse. I have studied several modern languages in depth—English, French, German, Japanese, Chinese, Russian, and Croatian—and pursued Classical Languages at university (Latin, Ancient Greek, Sanskrit), along with ancient languages such as Sumerian and Akkadian. My main interest lies in [[a priori]] naturalistic languages, though I have also explored [[a posteriori]] projects and experimental approaches.
+I began conlanging around July 1997 during high school. [[User:Nicomega/Historical conlangs|My first projects]] were two related a priori languages: '''Baladi''', intended to evoke a Graeco-Roman atmosphere, and '''Dellos''', conceived as the speech of “barbarians.” I then created '''Gin’amed''', inspired by reconstructed Egyptian pronunciation and Semitic triliteral systems, followed by '''Senshra''', a deeper attempt to build vocabulary with strong personal semantic associations. These early works form what I consider Phase I (Baladi and Debilen) and Phase II (Gin’amed and Senshra).
+Phase III expanded into new directions with languages such as '''Manketzal''', '''Shelud''', '''Xoršid''', and '''Kežtuzakil''', leading to Phase IV and later projects including Phase V (e.g., '''Warthuz''') and subsequent creations like '''Lassakirthi''', '''[[Tulvan]]''', and '''Kareyku'''.
+'''[http://www.frathwiki.com/User:Esploranto My Frathwiki User page]'''
+'''Contact''':
+'''Twitter''': @nicocampi
+'''Instagram''': @nicomcampi
+{{List subpages}}
+== Pages working on currently ==
+* [[Karrakêsh|Aklo]]
+* [[Tulvan]]
+* [[Omonkwi]]
+* [[Wakensi]]
+* [[Teutla]]
+== Languages ==
+===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.
+;[[Omonkwi]]
+:Omonkwi started as an early attempt to capture the sounds I liked from mesoamerican indigenous languages.
+;[[User:Nicomega/Českoen|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 [[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.
+;[[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.
+;[[User:Nicomega/Brest|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.
+;[[Karrakêsh|Aklo]] (2018)
+: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]].
+;[[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]].
+;Atlantean (Atilanan dresh) (2020)
+:Conlang job for a movie project. It is the language of extra-dimensional humans from a dimension called "Atlantis".
+;Conlang Hungarian-inspired (2023)
+;Reworking of client's conlang (2024)
+=== 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
+* [[Wakensi]]†
+* [[Teutla]]† > Coalen
+* [[User:Nicomega/Daxeom|Daxeom]] <!-- (greek dial)-->
+* Éothuth
+* Tuscal† > Caunē
+;Phase II
+* (Muzhag) <!-- (PIE)-->
+* (Nuxan) <!-- (toba)-->
+* (Bexe)† <!-- (basque)-->
+* (Këmı-fasım)† <!-- (turkic)-->
+;Phase III
+* (Tañja) <!-- (sanskrit)-->
+* Pennyen† > Hībarashī
+* (Miska) <!-- (miskito)-->
+* Hrashrzen
+;Phase IV
+* (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)-->
+=== Okiwo project ===
+* [[User:Nicomega/Proto-Okiwo|Proto-Okiwo]]
+== Language Templates ==
+{{Special:Prefixindex/Template:Tulv}}{{Special:Prefixindex/Template:Tun}}{{Special:Prefixindex/Template:Tu-}}
+<includeonly>[[Category:User:Nicomega]]</includeonly>
+== Subpages ==
+<splist />