language
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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…
Stephen Escher 