Language Profile: Kélojùù

Name: Kélojùù
Alternative Names: The Language of Kelo, Nilo-Saharan lang :p
Family: "Southern Family", highly diverse and spoken to the southeast of Ākoṇṭemāṟuttōm
Location: In the highlands of the southern continent, quite far from Kikxotian influence
History: The kélomèlo have been in their valley for as long as people can remember and are considered the indigenous inhabitants. I really don't have much else about them. They like to farm
Writing System: Not a written language, they use Amt for writing purposes
Typological information:

• Word order: SOV
• Alignment: Nominative-Accusative
• Morphological: Somewhere between agglutinating and fusional

Notable Features:

• Tones!
• Lots of non-concatenative stuff
• Hearty derivational morphology
• Construct State
• Productive semantic gender alternations
• Singulative system
• Some stuff with ergative verbs and antipassives

Some morphological markings:

• Verbs
• Subject
• Tense/Aspect
• "Extensions"
• Mood
• Polarity
• "Voices"
• Passive
• Reflexsive
• Causative
• Antipassive
• Reciprocal
• Nouns
• Case
• Nominative
• Oblique
• Genitive
• Number
•  Singular/singulative
• Plural/pluralitive/collective
• State 
• Absolute
• Construct
• Gender
• Male
• Female

Origins: July 2017.
History: I wanted to do another 2 hour challenge, so I looked at the old "african" languages one and chose to do Nilo-Saharan. Of course, that's not really a valid grouping (probably) and it gives a whole lot to work with, but here we are! Here's the original post
Status: In-development. I haven't touched it in a while, but I've gotten back to it after learning more about antipassives. Definitely planning some cool things with those and agentive nouns
What I'm doing with it and why: I'm doing a lots of things with like tones and
Other Notes:

4/26/18- Probably enough for now. One day I'll get a CALS page and other stuff on it (as I always say and then never do)

Language Profile: Knənʔtəəʔ

Name:Knənʔtəəʔ
Alternative Names: Toúījāb Shbīmut, The fishermen's language
Family: Kntic (also known as Gulf Islands), in the Central Islands branch.  Probably distantly related to the now-extinct languages of the West Bay. This is in turn has been linked to the hypothetical Gulf family, which includes the Neaso family and sometimes Towwu Pũ Saho. Closely related to the inland languages on their island
Location: On the north coast of the largest island between TbKt land and Uxlots.
History: They have lived in villages on the island for thousands of years. Recently a large Kikxotian outpost was founded on their island. Knənʔtəəʔ has become the largest and most prominent of its family from this, and is now a common third language throughout the Gulf islands.
Writing System: Not a written language, they use TbKt for writing purposes
Typological information:

• Word order: SVO, with VSO (sort of) in some intransitive clauses
• Alignment: Split ergative
• Morphological:Analytic with some agglutinative features

Notable Features:

• Incopyfixation
• Reduplication in general
• Minor syllables
• Crazy vowels
• 2 lengths
• 3 phonations (modal, creaky, and breathy)
• 9 qualities
• Relatively analytic (so I get the best of both worlds)
• Many derivational patterns
• Overly specific lexical items
• Expressionals (maybe eventually)

Some morphological markings:

• Verbs
• Subject (sometimes)
• Aspect
• Voice-ish
• Pluractionality
• Nouns

Origins: June 2017. I had recently learned about Aslian languages and wanted to do something like that
History: I was gonna do it for a two hour (and did do it eventually, though I never posted it) but then a new one was posted, so I did a two hour challenge on my own after doing Akm. Then like I week later I posted the outcome
Status: In-development. I often do translates in it, including in a relay. It's a pretty fun one to work with
What I'm doing with it and why:
Other Notes: I like to look through my birding books and turn the bird calls into words. Another source of vocabulary is typos on the internet

9/7/17- Probably enough for now. One day I'll get a CALS page and other stuff on i
4/21/18- Remembered to update morphosyntactic alignment to "split-ergative" from nom-acc

Language Profile: Ākoṇṭemāṟuttōm

Name: Ākoṇṭemāṟuttōm
Alternative Names: Dravidlang
Family:The Maruttom languages spoken in the north and interior of the Southern Continent. Might in turn be related to the heavily dependent marking and phonologically similar languages of the West Coast and interior, but that has not be proven yet.
Location:Along the North Coast of the Southern Continent and used as a lingua franca throughout the region. Despite their relatively close locations, it is firmly out of the TbKt sphere of influence.
History: I haven't really fleshed out their history at all except that they are the Kikxotians democractic rivals to the south
Writing system: Have a local alphabet
Typological information:

• Word order: SOV
• Alignment:Nominative-Accusative
• Morphological: Agglutinative

Notable Features:

• Lots of non-finite verbs
• No relative clauses
• Case system that is sort of European-like but also not
• Phonology stuff
• No phonemic fricatives
• Lots of sandhi
• Many point of articulation
• Many suppletive verb forms for marking moods

Some morphological markings:

• Verbs
• Participial endings 
• Directional
• Other derivationals
• Voice
• Tense
• Aspect
• Subject
• Mood (sometimes)
• Evidentials
• Nouns
• Gender
• Case
• Other postpositional clitics

Origins: June 2017 for a two hour challenge.
History: I was gonna do the previous two hour challenge with an Austroasiatic lang and then this one got posted so I did it.
Status: In-development. I often do translates in it. The verb system still needs a ton of work, and nouns can definitely be expanded on. Also I want to make it more unique (which I think is already happening since I haven't really looked at Dravidian grammars while working on it (for this reason) since the challenge)
What I'm doing with it and why:
Other Notes:

9/7/17- Probably enough for now. One day I'll get a CALS page and other stuff on it

Language Profile: Towwu Pũ Saho

Name: Towwu Pũ Saho
Alternative Names: The Language of the Mountain Peoples, Toúījāb Vīggo Kmurīt
Family: Isolate. Some (TbKt) linguists feel that it is a distant relative of TbKt and therefore an isolate branch of the Western Plains family. Others have tried to link them to the Kntic languages or even the hypothetical Gulf family, but the evidence is mostly typological in nature. Some also hypothesize that there are relatives living in the rainshadow desert, however this area is mostly unexplored and uninhabited.
Location: In the mountains and plateaus north of the Kikxotian plains. Basically, their villages start popping up as the hills start appearing. Many of them living alongside the cliffs, or even have villages built into the cliffs (think Dogon or Pueblo peoples sort of thing).
History: As far as anyone is aware, they have always lived in their area. They might once have been more spread out before being absorbed by the Kikxotians in the lowlands, however people are pretty sure that the coasts were once inhabited relatives of the Kntic languages, not of Towwu Pũ Saho
Writing System: Not a written language, they use TbKt for writing purposes
Typological information:

• Word order: SOV (but based on animacy and definiteness as well)
• Alignment: Direct-Inverse (strangely enough)
• Morphological: Analytic

Notable Features:

•  Many many (TAM) particles
• Well, sort of. They are particles that mark TAM but they also have many other functions depending on the POS they precede or follow
• Nasal harmony
• Contentive POS (not that I knew this word or classification when I started the language)
• Strong analytic tendencies (but allows compounding and some derivation)
• Direct-inverse alignment and definiteness of arguments marked with a portmanteau particle
• Detailed animacy hierarchy
• Complicated deixis/demonstrative system
• Visible vs invisible
• Proximal vs Medial vs Distal
• Above vs same level vs below

Some morphological markings:

• It's isolating so they are more of particle markings!
• Verbs
• Aspect (preposition)
• Modality (preposition)
•  Causative (reduplication)
• Nouns

Origins: Late 2016 after I decided to start conlanging again. A lot of the initial work was done in a hotel room in Cairo after being stranded there an extra day due to flight stuff
History: I wanted to do something new and had never done an analytic language before and I wanted to try my hand at a real Austronesian-alligned language. I don't remember if I had an idea for this language before the hotel room, but that's definitely where I started sketching it out. I honestly can't say what influenced it most. Obviously I was looking at Guarani for nasal harmony (I didn't know about Gê languages until later) and in world building I was definitely thinking of the Dogon. I know (at least) some Dogon languages are isolating, but I don't think that was an influence on this language, because I couldn't find any good information on them. I was reading a lot about austronesian alignment too. The direct inverse system came from me reanalyzing my attempt at an Austronesian alignment when I realized that what I had didn't really work as an austronesian system but with a couple tweaks it was (mostly like) direct-inverse.

Status: In-development. I work on it fairly often, since it is different than a lot of my other languages. Plus it just looks weird, which is great for showing to other people
What I'm doing with it and why: Sitting on it mostly :p . One day I'll figure out more uses for it.
CALS link:
Other Notes: I love getting people to say what languages it reminds them of. I once posted a story of it on facebook and got some good results.

9/2/17- Probably enough for now. One day I'll get a CALS page and other stuff on it

Language Profile: Neaso Uxlotsuz

Name: Neaso Uxlotsuz
Alternative Names: The Language of the Sea Peoples, Toúījāb Vīggo Gfutīt
Family: Neaso family (which might be part of a broader hypothetical Gulf family, though the links are shaky at best, especially with most of the family being extinct)
Location: In the city of Uxlots on the big delta of the big river on the northeast part of the bay and it's surrounding areas. Also serves as lingua franca in the eastern bay area. In reality, it forms a dialect continuum with other Neaso languages, which are spoken up and down the coast (to the mountains at least), along the rivers and more southernly plains and basically all over the eastern side of the bay.
History: While always an important trading center, the last couple of hundred years have boosted Uxlots importance and gave it more political power in the region, hence the choice of its language to showcase the broader features of its family.
Writing System: Modified version of the Kikxotian logography, mostly used as an alphabet with some logographs.
Typological information:

• Word order:VSO with secondary SVO
• Alignment:Active-Stative (mostly split-S but it has some fluid elements)
• Morphological: Fusional

Notable Features:

• Active stative alignment, of course
• Only stative verbs, no adjectives
• Umlaut
• Fusionality (since I've never really done that before)
• European(ish) case system
• Marked definiteness 
• Multiple declensions
• Finite vs non-finite verbs
• Lots of constructions are made with an auxillary + non-finite form
• Strong division between Parts of Speech, especially nouns and verbs 
• Limited compounding
• Willingness to loan

Some morphological markings:

• Verbs
• Agreement (one suffix)
• Tense
• Aspect
• Subject Person
• Subject Number
• Non-finitity (suffix)
•  Infinitive
• Stative
• General non-finite
• Nouns (all on one suffix)
• Definiteness
• Case
• Number

Origins: Mid to late 2015, in Indonesia while on my mission and after writing up a letter on TbKt and realizing how much I missed conlanging.
History: As mentioned, after I wrote my first letter about TbKt, I was having so much fun so I decided to make another language, to be a neighbor of TbKt that was really different than it. I wanted to do things with loan words and try out fusionality. And weird verbal things for some reason. Also a vaguely germanic feel? In retrospect, it's almost like it was meant to be a Germlang but also not at all a Germlang. Well I stopped conlanging before I sent the letter with this one so (I still have all the materials and) my friend has no idea of it and it sat around until I started again. I had a much harder time going back to this one because  the idea was just more nebulous and more difficult, but I do want to eventually fix up and flesh it out more. Now it is important for worldbuilding, but it itself is still very underdeveloped.

Status: In-development. I work on it sometimes but it usually gets shelved (because it is hard and its verbal system is a mess)
What I'm doing with it and why: Sitting on it mostly :p . One day I'll figure out more uses for it. It's weird romanization (and eventually orthography) has proved useful in justifying decisions for Papualang though.
CALS link:
Other Notes:This is probably one of my least impressionistic conlangs (so most unique :p ). I feel like it's really hard to pin the inspirations and stuff on it. Which is cool I guess.

9/2/17- Probably enough for now. One day I'll get a CALS page and other stuff on it

Language Profile: Toúījāb Kīkxot

Name: Toúījāb Kīkxot
Alternative Names: The Holy Language
Family: The Eastern Group of the West Plains family, though it is quite far from the rest of the West Plains family
Location: Along the western coast of the bay (it makes sense if you've seen the map), along the rivers, up to the mountains and extending out into the plains, plus as a lingua franca around the whole bay area. Also is used as a liturgical language in Kikxo worshiping communities.
History: Some 2000 years prior, nomads from the west swept in the the fertile plains and river valleys near the bay, overtaking the languages that used to be there.  Roughly 1000 years ago, with writing of their scriptures and the spread of Kikxoism, TbKt began dominating its neighbors. Presently it has split into a variety of dialects that all claim to be the same language, even when not mutually intelligible. As an important trade and liturgical language, it is widely spoken and a frequent contributor of loan words to its neighbors. There are also various pidgins and creoles based on it, especially in the Bay Islands
Writing System: Self made logography with some syllabic elements
Typological information:

• Word order: SVO
• Alignment: Nom-Acc, technically, but it is pretty irrelevant to the language, seeing as neither verbs nor nouns are marked like that
• Morphological: Agglutinative

Notable Features:

• Triconsonantal roots. Like really a really pervasive system
• Reduplication- lots and lots of it
• Full reduplication
• Very productive imitative reduplication
• Partial reduplication
• No person marking on verbs, no plural marking on nouns
• Registers and dialects
• Complicated politeness based pronoun system
• 4 basic categories of Pronouns
• Polite/honorific/superior
• Neutral
• Familiar
• Pejorative
• Fairly open, allowing for names, nouns and other things to act as a pronoun if desired
• Symmetrical voice system and applicative suffixes on verbs
• Marked Transitivity
• Xenophobia and extreme resistance to loan words and foreign influence (in the standard language)

Some morphological markings:

• Verbs
• Mood (prefix)
• Aspect (prefix)
• Valency (transfix)
• Voice (infix)
• Role of patient/theme (suffix)
• Compounding/serial verb markers (suffix)
• Nouns
• Possessed "case" (suffix)
• Animacy/Gender on certain nouns (suffix)
• Compounding markers (suffix)
• Ensuring a strong split between heads, modifiers and adjectives

Introducing Language Profiles

So after having this blog for like half a year, I am finally getting around to creating language profiles. How will this work? Each language will have some in-universe information, followed by out of universe stuff. I'll probably update them as needed and if I do lots of update or it takes a long time, do a new profile. And I'll keep a list of profiles here so that there's something central.  Or something like that.

Mythos wyrm universe:

• Ǩüttǩarrą Roś 
• Osogkum
• L'ip'ò

Kixot universe

• Bay area
• Toúījāb Kīkxot
• Neaso Uxlotsuz
• Towwu Pũ Saho
• Knǝnʔtǝǝʔ
• Unnamed-Papualang
•   South Continent
• Ākoṇṭemāṟuttōm
• Kélojùù 
•  Way far away continent 
  
  Edit 9/22: Added some more hyperlinks and also Papualang