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Rílin – A Conlang Review
This is a review of Rílin, an artlang created by Margaret Ransdell-Green for her personal worldbuilding project Aenith. I’ve decided to review this conlang partly because I know Margaret quite well from the conlanging community on twitter, but also because I’m huge fan of her worldbuilding project Aenith. If you…
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Lexember 2021
This is an archive of my Lexember 2021 posts, originally posted on my Twitter and Tumblr accounts. The conlang was Bèshus and the theme was music.
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The Bèshus Language: Nouns, Pronouns and Particles
This section describes the inflectional morphology of nouns and pronouns in Bèshus. Determiners and conjunctions will also be listed here. Verbs and postpositions will be covered in a separate section, please see the introduction for a menu. Noun Declensions Nouns are marked mainly for gender and case. Plurality can be…
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The Bèshus Language: Derivational Morphology
This section describes how derivation works in Bèshus. All Bèshus words in this section are written in the orthography described in the Phonology section. Morphophonological Rules When adding affixes or creating compounds, the following rules must be applied: Sometimes a suffix may cause a monophthong a to become an e…
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The Bèshus Language: Phonology
This is a summary of the pronunciation of the Bèshus language, focusing on the standard language. Bèshus is a mora-timed language with pitch-accent. The phonemic inventory comprises 21 consonants and five vowels. An introduction to the language can be found here. Consonants Broad transcription IPA is given in // where…
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The Bèshus Language: An Introduction
Bèshus is a daughter language of Nìmpyèshiu primarily spoken in the nation of Bèrangus on the Bèdan continent. It evolved from a dialect of western Nìmpyèshiu spoken by the founders of Bèrangus in 423 NC. It is classified as being part of the ‘Èshustic’ branch of the Nìmpyèrànic language family…
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A Land of Words – A Conlanger’s Word List
This will be the first post of a new format I’m trying for this blog. It’s simply a collection of words with a common theme, and commentary that should help inspire you to add words to your conlang’s lexicon. Today’s theme is about words for different kinds of land and…
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Lortho – A Conlang Review
A critical analysis of Brain B. Bourque’s Lortho that even a nuphi can understand!
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Phonaesthetics in Conlanging
Many conlangers (including myself) focus on linguistics when creating our conlangs. But while learning linguistics is very useful, we shouldn’t forget there is a creative side that needs to be considered. One way in which you can express creativity is through how the conlang ‘sounds’, i.e. its phonaesthetics. This is…
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Nìmpyèyìa – The Traditional Belief System of the Nìmpyèràn
The following text is an extract from the book ‘An Introduction to the Nìmpyèràn: History, Culture and Language – 3rd Edition’ published by The Ékreik Vérpom Society – Cultural Studies Department 1121 NC. Please enjoy your free sample – The full book can be purchased from your local Ékreik Vérpom…
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Worldbuilding, Conlanging and Other Stuff
Stephen Escher 