Bikalyo
Bikalyo (Bq'alio in its own language) is an a priori conlang created by William Ellison.
| Bikalyo Bq'alio | |
| Spoken in: | (N/A) |
| Timeline/Universe: | (N/A) |
| Total speakers: | (N/A) |
| Genealogical classification: | Constructed languages Artistic languages |
| Basic word order: | VSO |
| Morphological type: | Agglutinative |
| Morphosyntactic alignment: | Nominative/Accusative |
| Created by: | |
| William Ellison | 2006 |
In creating the language, Ellison wanted to create something at once human and yet alien, something that might seem like a language created by a society, but one also something that might seem to be created by an alien civilization light-years away.
Phonology
Main article: Bikalyo phonology
Orthography
Main article: Bikalyo orthography
Writing
Ellison elected to use the Roman alphabet, albeit with some modifications, to represent the sounds of his language. Some letterforms used in Bikalyo are quite common in Eastern European languages, such as "š," but others stem from Scandinavian languages, such as "þ." Here is the complete alphabet:
Aa Bb Dd Ee Əə Ff Gg GH/Gh Hh Ii Jj Kk Ll Mm Nn Oo Pp Qq Rr Ss Šš Tt Þþ Ww Uu Yy Zz
Grammar
Main article: Bikalyo grammar
Bikalyo is a VSO language in most uses, but the occasional rhetorical usage might be accomplished in SOV, and some grammatical constructions are more easily expressed in SOV.
Postpositions
Postpositions can indicate the functions of some words, if such a distinction is needed. These postpositions can indicate certain senses of the word being modified, or they can indicate what might be indicated by prepositions in English. An example:
Ql'myren qil' ghal'lad gh'qat'igh ig elilisiþ'yuq. That is my seafood in the refrigerator.
Verbs
All Bikalyo verbs end in -am. They head the sentence and conjugate for mood, tense, and positive/negative, rather like some aspects of the Japanese verb.
Sample texts
Sample texts will be added later.
