Balconian Ric – Shivallon's Conlanging Space

A New Family Tree (Part 4): Branching and Time Depth

December 22, 2023 Shivallon Comments 0 Comment

In the previous post, we had a look at some real world sound changes, namely those from Proto-Uralic to Hungarian. We now want to put this knowledge to use to derive Nyirvón, a conlang with Hungarian-like phonology, from Proto-Rykaic! But first, we have to think a bit about Nyirvón’s siblings… Aligning the birth of Asiul and the death of Old Ryka In the present state of my conlanging universe, where we still have two language families and one isolate (Quriil),…

Defining the characteristics of the Rykaic languages

December 30, 2022 Shivallon Comments 0 Comment

Now that I’m entertaining the idea to integrate Quriil into the Rykaic language family, I decided to write down the most characteristic linguistic features of the family and its members. These are mostly grammatical features, because I want Ryka and Quriil to look and sound totally unrelated on first sight, only revealing their strange similarities in rather exotic features on closer inspection. Features of the Rykaic family Some key features should apply to all members of the Rykaic family, even…

New script, new luck – designing a Balconian font

April 27, 2022 Shivallon Comments 0 Comment

After a longer break from active conlanging caused by my transition from university to working life, the first project I would like to tackle is yet another font – this time for a script with the working title “Balconian”. I originally created this script in 2017 for the Balconian Ric language (also a working title), a close relative to Ryka. Balconian Ric was supposed to be spoken on a group of water-based islands whose inhabitants continued to speak Ryka after…