Etymology – Shivallon's Conlanging Space

A New Family Tree (Part 2): Deriving Ryka

June 30, 2023 Shivallon Comments 0 Comment

It’s time to apply some sound changes to our new proto language and see if we can derive Ryka! For Ryka, I already have a lot of vocabulary in place and it’s important that most of it can be derived from the proto language via plausible sound changes. We will first introduce some sound changes to arrive at Proto-Ryka-Quriil, the basis that we will also use in the next part when having a look at Quriil. From this intermediate language,…

Quriil as a Rykaic language?

December 29, 2022 Shivallon Comments 0 Comment

As it stands now, there are three language families on the Llof: The Rykaic family, consisting of (Capital) Ryka, Balconian Ric, and whatever dialects I have played around with (Black Ryka, White Ryka, etc.), all descendants of Old Ryka, the code language invented by the Asiuluiam to free themselves from Dakiuzen rule. Then the Konoic family, consisting of Asiul, Nyirvón and Siidde (or Underground Nyirvón), descendants of the auxiliary language Kono developed by the Yelluam to replace Ryka. Finally: The…