siblaime’s conlangs

and even more maps

The largest country of the region is Nesyania, with a population of [TBD] people, about 75% of them being native speakers of Nesyanian. Other ethnic groups include various Desanian peoples (mainly Kasewayans and Keranians), Tazulans and the Chilut people; their languages are recognised as minority languages or have a regionally official status. Nesyania is a federal republic divided into 10 states and 3 city-states, one of them being Tinkara (Tinkarė), the capital. Shenrem is the state religion; it plays an important role both in the country’s politics and the daily life of its people. The country’s climate is subtropical and humid, but gets much drier and a bit colder in the northern and western parts towards the Zemaimayan mountains.

Through the Zemaimayan mountains the border between Nesyania and Kasewaya is marked. Kasewaya has over [TBD] inhabitants. Ethnic Kasewayans make up over 80% of the country’s population, the rest being mainly other Desanians. The official language is Kasewayan and, in three southernmost provinces, Keranian. The country is named after the Kaseyu River which has played a key role in the history of the Desanian civilization. Most of the Kasewayan population are adherents of the Shenrem faith, however, a significant percentage follows traditional regional beliefs. Kasewaya is a republic divided into 11 provinces and its capital city is Hosaydot (Həsaýdot). It maintains a close economic and cultural connection with neighboring Inwez, which was once a vassal state of the Kaseyu Kingdom. The climate of the region is continental; dry in the south, more humid in the north.

Both Nesyania and Kasewaya border Tazul to the west. It is a much smaller and less populated country – about [TBD] inhabitants – but has served as an important trade hub of the region since ancient times. The population is divided into two main ethnic groups, Southern Tazuro (Tezulaw) and Northern Tazuro (Tazurá). Their languages are related and mutually intelligible to some extent. Regionally, Desanian languages are spoken. Over a half of the population adheres to Beyan, the native Tazulan polytheistic religion. Aquaculture and animal husbandry (cattle, camels) are the most important part of Tazulan culture and economy. The Republic of Tazul is divided into 4 district and 1 district-level city (Zánare, the capital, and surrounding settlements). The climate is warm and quite humid, getting much drier near the ocean coast.

That’s all for now. Sorry for all the “[TBD]” parts, determining that stuff to make it reasonable is much more difficult than one might think, hah. Anyway, I think it’s a good introduction to my conworld for now.

the prompts: “Literature”, “Things heavier than 10 kg”, “Spirits and the unseen folk”, themeless, and “A toast to...”

the end. A month and a half after completion, but it’s done. The conlang is Rannyei once again.

ConWorkShop Lexember days #22, #23, #24, #25 and #26

the prompts: “Edges, corners, vertices, and boundaries”, “Adjectives that describe personality and character”, “Beetles, insects, and spiders”, “Along the river”, and “Along the road”

All Rannyei again. From what I can see, the remaining unshared 5 words are in the same conlang too. Ahaha I haven’t added them to the CWS dictionary yet, whoops

ConWorkShop Lexember days #17, #18, #19, #20 and #21

the prompts: “Feeling under the weather”, “Objects you could not explain to someone from 200 years ago”, “Things that are or can be red”, themeless, and “Things you’ve googled this week”

Anyway, the words in dark green are in Rannyei again, but the rest are in Nesyanian, one of my most developed conlangs.

Initially (like, back in 2019) I was trying to make it an analytical language with almost no declension, but my attempts failed miserably, so I ended up creating an agglutinative abomination. (Translating that from jargon: lots of long words created by adding affixes and/or sticking several words together). CWS has a tool where you can check what is the longest word existing in the dictionary of a conlang. In this case, it’s hinjerantuhinazėi [çin.d͡ʒe.ɾan.tuç.na.zəɪ̯] ‘archeologist’, but the complex verb conjugation system allows to create much longer words, like ladeitėuzhembedwayaxouya [la.deɪ.təʊs.hem.be.dwa.ja.xoʊ.ja] ‘if only they could not make me very happy’.

Besides that, Nesyanian has ejective consonants and a bunch of other interesting things. It’s also my most upvoted project on CWS (48 upvotes. Bruh, almost 50 people telling me they like my conlang. Now that’s heart-warming), and in June 2023 it won the Language of the Month community contest.

ConWorkShop Lexember days #12, #13, #14, #15 and #16

the prompts: “Midwinter words”, “Midsummer words”, “Things you would not want to receive for your birthday”, “Logical relations”, and “Things that explorers/adventurers carry”

Rannyei again

the prompts, respectedly: “Words that contain /o/ in your native language”, “Doubt, uncertainty, and hesitation”, “It's all fun and games”, promptless, and “Things found between cushions”

the prompts, respectedly: “Jewellery and other accessories”, “Homemaking verbs”, “Parasites and symbiosis”, “Verbs and nouns that can make you fall asleep”, “Things found in Jamaica”

the conlang in orange is Rannyei again, the dark greenish is Keranian

and since I don’t want to throw just random conlang names at whoever comes to this blog, here are some details:

both of these conlangs belong to the same language family (the Desanian languages), deriving from Old Desani. The family itself has two branches, Northern and Southern Desanian; both Rannyei and Keranian belong to the latter. They form a dialect continuum to some degree, but the standard varieties are rather mutually unintelligible. Both have been heavily influenced by an unrelated language, Nesyanian, simply because of it being a language of higher prestige in the country where they are spoken.

lol diachronic linguistics in conlanging is so fun

technically Keranian is much more developed (I created it in mid-2019, so quite a long time ago, and at the moment it has over 6,000 words in its dictionary on ConWorkShop), Rannyei is one of my newer conlangs.

hopefully soon I will find some time and motivation to post a few maps of my concountries and yap about them too (I have a lot to explain haha)

the prompt was “Baking ingredients”

The conlang is called Rannyei [ˈɾɑ.ɲːəj] and is one of my newer conlangs (registered it in July 2023. Time flies, eh). Worldbuilding-wise, it’s a language spoken by semi-nomads living in the steppes. (I will yap a bit more about my concultures soon :D)