This page will contain all of the conlangs that I've made as well as a quick rundown of each one. I'll include links to word lists, grammar descriptions, lore, etc.

Nait

I made Nait as an amalgamation of some of the new sound systems I was learning about, namely Arabic, Icelandic, Japanese, and others. I also wanted it to be an ancient language because it was the only non-modern era whose grammars I was familiar with.

Another thing that I wanted to try out was having declension that wasn't governed by the noun's relation to a verb. However, I still included a prepositional case which usually implies the word is an indirect object. I tried to play around with some special rules for creating compound words, but I haven't decided on anything yet. So far I've created a basic grammar, a list of about 500 words, and 4 dialects.

In the following sections, I'll cover some of the things that I've spent more time on and I think are more interesting. Of course, I have detailed information on the entire language and culture here:

• Word list
• Grammar
• Dialects

Sounds

There are 22 consonants and 5 vowels with long and short variants. There are 4 nasal consonants which are consistently distinguished: [m], [n], [ɲ], and [ŋ]. These are always distinct unlike sometimes in English, where the in- prefix can turn into im- in the word input because it precedes a p.

There is a 2-way aspiration distinction made with the stops: [pʰ p] [tʰ t] [kʰ k] written as p b, t d, k g.

There are also a couple extra back fricatives and the alveolar and post-alveolar fricatives are further back than in English. The fricative inventory is: [f s̠ ɕ x ħ h].

And finally, there are 2 affricates, 1 trill, and 3 approximants: [ts tɕ r l j w].

As mentioned before, the vowel system is made up of 5 vowels with a short-long length distinction: [i u e̞ o̞ ä]. One thing to note though is that when the close vowels i and u become long, they tend to be more open, meaning they are pronounced more like the vowel in bid and good.

Dialects

Naitian dialects are split up into western and eastern branches. The western dialects tend to be more conservative and closer to the written standard, and the eastern dialects tend to be much more divergent.

The dialect that I've spent the most time developing so far is the Uunuef dialect, which has various unique features. Firstly, the long oo raises to be closer to uu, which then moves itself further forward to be pronounced as [yː]. The i vowel then advances so much that it becomes pronounced as [jː].

In addition, noun endings which were previously -(e)n turns into -in which becomes pronounced as [jin]. This ending moves to the front of the word and becomes a preposition, which simplifies the case system.

Furthermore, all of the back fricatives turn into stops, or in IPA: [x ħ h] turns into [k q ʔ].

Duasa

Duasa is a conlang that I'm in the beginning stages of working on, and I only really have a basic grammar in its earliest stage. I spent most of the time working on its sounds, which is supposed to be symmetrical(not as much anymore since I've evolved it a lot) and simple(at first glance). I also took it as an opportunity to work on a 4 vowel system. Currently, I'm taking it as an opportunity to see how far I can take allophony while still having a semblance of realism. In this respect, it's inspired by Pirahã.