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''Welcome to Nicomega's user page on Linguifex!''
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.


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!
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).


'''[http://www.frathwiki.com/User:Esploranto Frathwiki]'''
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'''.


==Languages==
'''[http://www.frathwiki.com/User:Esploranto My Frathwiki User page]'''
*'''[[Alanûz]]'''
 
'''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.
: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.
::Sample:
 
:'''hakelī qaviram lē-zīr'''
;[[Omonkwi]]
:''the truth hides beneath the words.''
:Omonkwi started as an early attempt to capture the sounds I liked from mesoamerican indigenous languages.
*'''[[Omonkwi]]'''
 
: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.
;[[User:Nicomega/Českoen|Českoen]]
::Sample:
:Českoen is more of a semi-spooflang, parodying notions of "better languages" or "complex = good".
:'''ipāgnat šival gōkwili'''
 
:''Mountains (are) the jaws of the Earth.''
;[[Kamatarna]]
*'''[[Českoen]]'''
: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.
: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 fought the Azgizu 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.
 
::Sample:
;[[Shellud]]
:'''anta-čoga haska m’ onzo'''
: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]].
:''There seem to be spider-webs.''
 
*'''[[Kamatarna]]'''
;[[Warthuz]]
: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.
:A language of some [[w:Proto-Germanic|Proto-Germanic]] inspiration, but very generally.
::Sample:
 
:'''Kima dūma plo-kamatar?'''
;[[Tulvan]]
:''Who comes to our lands?''
:Tulvan is an attempt at a more futuristic language, supposedly more evolved historically.
*'''[[Shellud]]'''
 
: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.
;[[Kareyku]]
::Sample:
: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.
:'''dalluk-at ašpathûz'''
 
:''I will show you darkness.''
;[[Lassakirthi]]
*'''[[Tulvan]]'''
 
: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.
;[[Esyar/Eshan]]
::Sample:
 
:'''tulv kwam, kik ëv kem'''
===A posteriori ===
:''I think, therefore I am.''
;[[Fingail]]
*'''[[Kareyku]]'''
:A Welshified version of the Finnish language.
: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:
;[[User:Nicomega/Brest|Brest]]
:'''qappakas pilelcha'''
:A very weird mixture of germanic, with substrate of brittonic.
:''Of course I'm eating fish!''
 
;[[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 ==
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